Your meal is served and within 1 minute you are presented with a pretty accurate carb count for the food you are about to consume.
Just wondering what would this mean for others, as it would SUCH A BLESSING for me!
This would be really amazing! I wish it were the case because I would be more likely to eat out more often and have some meals which go outside my lo carb diet once in a while too. Due to my insulin sensitivity, bouncing around a lot at times and not knowing what will happen with higher doses I feel it's too risky to do that when I have no idea what the result will be. I usually wait 20 minutes to eat so if the meal just arrives when they say it will that would be fantastic too :)
I think this could be life changing for anyone who counts carbs. It would be super useful to know if a high was due to an inaccurate count count or something else like a setting that needs changing.
if im gonna dream, im dreamin big. like i dont have this stupid diabetes AND that i win the lottery. but yeah, would be nice not to have to guess.
My endos have two diet assistants in their team. For their educational courses they are using big food cards. They have a complete stack of them. In front of the card is the image of a meal. Patients are asked to guestimate the carbs. At the back are points to illustrate the distribution of the carb load for this meal. For beginners this is really helpful. The real problem is that meals are prepared by people not by machines. People do things differently and chefs are no exception to this rule. For fast food it can work but this food choice is questionable. Meals are also rearranged with time or due to financial limitations of the company. At the end it is our capability to guestimate as good as possible. Eating the same food repetitively does help to get more knowledgeable about it. No fancy carb counting app and no "just scan the barcode" solution will help with that.
Our mantra: eat, fail, learn, adjust (restart at eat) ;-)
I've ended up in a place where the "carb count" as defined by the gurus means little to me as an individual. I count anything wheat as double. I count protein as half carb. What I would really like is an app that lets me take a picture of my food and tells me how much glucose load that will generate in my body. Everyone is so different, even knowing the "carb count" exactly would still leave many of us with a bolus calculation with a huge error.
I've been using "Lose It!" (the app didn't *find* w/o the exclamation point) and a scale for a while now, working to lose some stray pounds I found but it seems to help the carb counting. It takes time and there's a learning curve for the app but, once you have what you eat loaded in ater the first time you eat it, it works pretty well.