Most days, I eat 48 grams of carbs – 16 for each meal. Every 4th day, I am eating 65. I eat the same things every day and am trying to change things out a little.
When I first started a paleo/bernstein style diet, I was eating 3 square meals a day - usually a salad for lunch made up of last night’s dinner leftovers. There was nothing wrong with eating 3 meals per day, but I eventually just increased my breakfast portions (I have a big appetite when I wake up), and downgraded my full salad lunch to just an afternoon snack of a small portion of meat & fat. Today, I’ll have leftover taco meat and glass of coconut milk to snack on around 2pm. Often I have a landjaeger and an ounce of cheese. Just a little something is all I need to keep full and have good energy.
I do crossfit workouts an average of 3 days per week, and walk my dogs every morning. Days after I workout, I do increase my meal sizes by a bit. So I might have one more egg with breakfast, or a larger portion of veggies with dinner based on my increased hunger.
My carb ratio is 1:15, so I usually give a .5 unit dose for my dinners with veggies. My morning dose of lantus does a good job of covering my protein, fat, etc. throughout the day.
I aim for 30-40 a day. My pump log says I’ve averaged 35 a day for the last quarter.
I eat about 160 carbs a day not couting snacks to treat lows, non-starchy vegetables or fiber. Breakfast is about 65 g, lunch about 55g and dinner about 50g.
These levels tend to provide me with the best bg control.
Maurie
135g, according to my pump, which gives an average. I would say some days I eat 50g or less and other days a lot more. I am trying to do better, since I do think eating extra carbs (and taking extra insulin) contributes to weight gain. Overall, I agree that you should eat whatever works for you.
Normally around 150-60, sometimes a bit more, sometimes less.
This doesn’t include carbs that I eat without insulin before and during exercise. ( I used about 90g in a marathon a few weeks ago) or those for hypos.
Thank you for your reply joey nicole…do you just adjust your basal when you workout?Did you lose weight by eating this way?Sorry about all the questions but your answers are useful to me!xxx
I usually eat about 20 in the morning, 40 at lunch and 60 at dinner. So about 120. Some days, obviously, more or less. I don’t pay much attention to the carb type, except when I have my weekly bagel. I go for pumpernickle (with nova, capers, tomatoes, and onions, yummmm.), which I find doesn’t spike me as much as a white flour bagel.
150-230 grams of carbs a day, depending on how much I exercise. Carbs come mostly from milk and yogurt, fruit and whole-grain stuff… (and ice-cream :-))
I actually give a bolus of 1.5 units of novolog before I work out - my blood sugar rises even if I’m just doing slow, heavy lifting.
The more often that I workout, I do need to adjust my basal (lantus) as my insulin sensitivity changes. If I’m working out a lot, I can take as little as 11 units/day. Right now I’m taking 13 and that’s going well.
I lost weight as well as a nice list of other improvements by eating this way! You can read all about the good changes I’ve experienced by eating this way here:
http://paleogirls.com/about/
Thank you so much for replying and keep up the great work!
Average around 45 per day 15 per meal.
It is different for everybody ,but it seems most or on the lower end of the carbs . Thanks
Hi Tyler , I used to eat an av. of 177 healthy grams daily , when I was doing more exercise , incl training for full M., halves and shorter walks …recently an av. of 160 , healthy carbs …less active …blame it on my age : 71 years …my largest amount is for breakfast : 77 grams, then and now , eat a little less for lunch and supper now …stable weight then and now .
Wow, Natalie that makes so much sense, I can’t believe we hadn’t heard that before, if your’e stuffed your stomach empties slower. That happened to us last night. Dinner at 7pm was big shredded beef burritos that I brought home after errands. Had son bolus for the full carbs then extended 20% more over 2 hours. Before bed at 3 hours later he went from flat to starting to climb fast. We did a little more than conservative correction. I stuck in at around midnight he was 178 straight arrow. No correction. Unfortunately he stayed high and woke with BS @ 222, Talk about a delayed breakfast! Now if he had more insulin extended and/or longer he may have gone low after dinner, so I don’t know else you would cover correctly except in a stronger correction when it started to climb fast. I would have corrected more if it was during the day. Nothing like learning from mistakes! 
I can’t give you any hard and fast rules, but if I eat a lot, my insulin has run out by 3 hours, but the food may last 6-8 hours, so I do a square wave for 6 hours. I haven’t got the technique mastered, but it does seem to help. And I never heard it from anywhere else, either, but figured it out from experimentation. The other option is to give another bolus after 3 hours. Because I KNOW there is still food in my stomach, because I can feel it, and I know that it’s going to keep my BG up.
I have never heard anyone else discuss this, and, as with all things diabetes, if you decide to try it, proceed with caution – it’s much easier to correct a somewhat high BG than to struggle with lows!
Got ya, no big correcting or added bolus so late either. Next time that stuff feeling and high protein/fat might be better suited for a lunch, on occasion, of course. LOL That way we can test more and dose when necessary. Hey, what are we doing up sooo late. Nite Nite.
Hey Natalie & Emily this jo Tylers mom . Tyler is on shots not the pump so it isa little harder to control those big bad meals like pizza (teen food ) . We try to save those for lunch or if we do supper it is a early supper . Because when he eats alot of the fat protein & carb food his sugar is crazy he may go low in 2-3 hours but in 5-6 hours he is very high . And will almost always wake high .
He just in the last few months seem to not be able to handle the (what everybody else eats food ) sugar just goes crazy . I told him it has to be a once a week thing and he has to deci.de if the up & down BS is worth it . Thanks for all your info I know that it is so much easier to control when he eats lower carb meals
I read a thing in “Fitness” magazine with a sample pre-race “carb-loading” diet of 513G of carbs/ day! I have read a number of running books but glommed onto Jeff Galloway’s (2:16:35 is his marathon p/r I think?) book that pretty much suggest skipping the “pasta load” the night before the race, as who wants to deal with GI issues and portapotties during the race? I have followed that advice in all the races I’ve run and pretty much eat a huge lunch and skip dinner, tiding myself over with a couple of higher carb beers so I don’t starve to death. i eat a bit more the week before a race, adding in carbs here and there but I don’t think much more than that is necessary. I have run on scrambled eggs, no toast a bunch of times and done fine. I maintain my BG while I’m running w/ short acting carbs, pretty much exclusively, as they seem to work ok. Whenever I think I should eat Gu or granola bars, they don’t hit me fast enough and my BG goes up more than usual after I run so, while I have a couple in the pantry, they may stay there for a while? I will probably revisit the Gu for the 20 mile runs though, as I hope those will take around 4 hours?
I have had type 1 since I was 10 years old (32 now). I used to eat pizza, burritos, etc. and have used both injections and the pump. I am now on injections & eliminated all grains/sugars/legumes from my diet. After eating this way the past 2.5 years, I will never go back. The high blood sugars just aren’t worth it, and I feel so much better in general. I posted a cauliflower-crust pizza recipe on my blog recently & it really is delicious - might be worth checking out 
http://paleogirls.com/2011/06/17/date-night-pizza/