Keeping it real basal.
I’ve blogged about…I dunno maybe a thousand times about how I need to do basal testing. And then I never do it because you have to:
Eat early, and bolus precisely.
Have a low fat and low carb meal.
Not consume any alcohol.
Not work out super hard the hours before you start the test.
Need a full 8 -hour night of sleep (for an overnight basal test anyways)
And all of those things happening right now feel more unlikely than the planets aligning but lo and behold, Sunday night found me chilling at home, caught up on life, and sans husband (who would prefer something a little more exciting for dinner most nights than plain chicken breast, mushrooms and green beans - can’t blame the guy), so I threw caution to the wind and said “hey self, let’s get a little crazy tonight and ACTUALLY DO SOME BASAL TESTING.”
So, I pulled out my copy of Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner (great book, and a great dude, AADE Educator of the Year last year and a fellow member of the T1 Tribe), and set myself up for a proper overnight basal test: Low carb, low fat meal, precision bolusing, no wine, workout done hours and hours ago. And only a few episodes of the Real Housewives of Whatever City We’re On Now standing between me and a 10pm bedtime.
Finally, I’ll get some unbiased insight to some of those pesky overnight highs and early morning lows that I struggle with, and I can do some basal tweaking based on, you know, actual data, instead random assumptions driven by morning-low crankiness. That’s a win right there! Results to follow later this week!
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