Just in case anyone’s interested in trying some vegan recipes!
It Doesn’t Taste Like Chicken is one of my favorite sites for lots of free vegan recipes. Most of the recipes are very easy with easy to use ingredients
A few of my favorites, Baked Tofu Bites to snack on or throw onto salads, Parmegan, a blend of macadamia (or I also really like brazil nuts in it too) cashews and nutritional yeast for over veggie bowls. Vegan Ranch Dressing
This is a great page for lists of substitutions, it sometimes makes it easier when you can still cook something you really enjoyed, you can substitute a vegan item for it. A lot of the time it’s really about the flavors in a meal. Of course there is a lot more out there not on the lists. Beyond Meat Sausages and Patties are delicious for one!
Just had another A1c and still staying at 5.1.
I honestly thought it might have gone up some which would have been okay if it had. I have been getting DP a few days here and a few days there and I was climbing after snorkeling twice a week. This last 3 hour snorkel I didn’t climb, I actually dropped so maybe I am getting used to the long swims. Another adjustment coming.
Just an update!
For anyone that is interested in whether being a vegan works well with being a type 1. It does! I eat what I want as long as it’s strictly vegan. Generally I eat a healthy diet but I do have my treats too. So whether it be pizza, cookies, pasta, it’s okay as long as it’s vegan. I include plenty of veggies, fruits, whole grains and beans in my diet!
70-180
70-140
This is awesome. Thanks for sharing. I’m not and will probably never be vegan as I love Soul and Korean food too much to give them up, but I do about the same but with a different diet. My last a1c was 0.1 from “normal”.
This post inspired me to tighten my time in range goal numbers to 80% a week from 70%, which will be easy as my average is now 90%. Then I’ll up it to 90% when/if my a1c drops into the “normal” range.
I wasn’t exercising much because this pandemic scared me, and I stopped going out for walks because I just got a bad case of anthropophobia. Mentally, it was hard for me, so my fitness dropped off. I’m pretty much in the worst shape of my adult life now, so I consume more insulin. However, I’m back to exercising using VR (don’t have to go to the gym or even outside) and am eating less. I’ll get there. I’m also going to join gym soon just to get resistance training back in. I’ve got to push myself a bit out of this fear. I’m vaccinated and mask up; I’ll be fine.
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Thanks for the inspiration!!!
@Regina I think your numbers are wonderful! The only thing I might suggest is adjusting your high alert to 150. It sometimes goes off more but it allows you to respond to it with exercise or? a little sooner. I slowly lowered mine and my high alert is now 130. I only say that because you have already said you do that at 160. You might try to lower it a little more to see what happens. It really helped me to do so.
That’s next on my list! I need to tighten it up a bit more. That should push me down to “normal” range without being dangerous!
I’m trying to change one variable at a time, so getting back to exercise is the current one. Then I’ll drop my that 160 high alert down to 150.
I have my high alert at 120 on my android phone which is as low as the Decom CGM app will allow. I hope someday they allow us to set a lower high. This works fine for me for my daily routine but if I have the occasional evening dinner meeting or other related events I know that keeping a high of 120 will drive me and others nuts with alarms. To mitigate this, Dexcom in settings>alerts>Alert Schedule allows you to schedule and customize a second group of alarms. I set up a second set of alarms that I name party. In those settings, I turn off the high settings so I don’t become a nuisance to my guests but keep the Rise and fall rates. That keeps the alarms to a minimum as they only go off if I miscalculated my insulin enough to set off the rise and fall rates. Before my event, I set party alert schedule to on, and then after the event, I turn party alert back off. This is just another tool in our toolkit for better diabetic management.
I’m still working my way back to my beloved veggies.
I’ve been all leafy greens since I was diagnosed Type 1 last September. But, it’s summer now and that means fresh tomatoes.
I’m having the hardest time with bolusing for them.
I went up to 350+ (Dexcom 6) the first time.
Second time I tried I over bolused and I ended down at 48 chomping on jelly beans.
Now, my third time, I’m watching my numbers explode up again on a double rise.
I know it’s a learning process… but, it’s definitely a challenge.
Veggies are very hard to bolus for accurately. I usually do use 25% of the total carbs to calculate the bolus for green veggies and cauliflower
with no sauce. Usually, I use frozen. I usually do not bolus for onions
or mushrooms. Will bolus for carrots and minimally for a big salad with tomatoes and cabbage.in coleslaw. You will learn your style. Everyone is different
I changed my high alert to 150, I am seeing a difference. After my labs I will see if I want to go to 140.
Gosh, veggies are easy for me but I dose for them every day so I am used to them?
I guess it depends on how many tomatoes too. They are a fruit so they are quicker but not high carb. A lot of us have problems with specific foods? Mine is rice, maybe yours is tomatoes? But if I am eating a bowl of tomatoes, I would prebolus for them 30-40 minutes before I ate them? Depending what Bg number I started at and what was on them?. A salad with wedges or cherry tomatoes only about 20 minutes before I eat it. A bowl of veggies 20-30 minutes before I eat them.
I do an estimate of half my carbs in the prebolus and the other half when I eat. That way I can adjust for what I actually ate.
YDMV !!!
