What Tools Do You Use?

Treatment
1

I use my handy-dandy calculation, my tag form, and Dana Carpenter’s carb counter.

Gerri mentioned the EatSmart scale.

Grace mentioned CalorieKing.com

What do you use?

2

These are the tools I use everyday to do TAG square boluses:

  • A TAG worksheet on a handy pad of paper
  • Nutrition labels
  • Calorieking.com/tools/diary to teach me about protein and fats in my meals
  • Calorie King’s iPhone website for when I’m eating out
  • Continuous Glucose Monitor to see the resulting blood sugar “curve” after a meal
  • Minimed Carelink’s “Sensor Overlay by Meal” report to spot trends
  • EatSmart Nutrition Scale

This means I start each meal at a computer. It’s not a great way to live, but I’ll keep it up until I know the fat and protein content of most foods as well as I know the carb content already. Its also a tricky way to get me to do meal planning at least 15 minutes in advance :wink:

3

Wow! I gotta get me one of those!

4

My insulin pump is minimed so I’ve programed the bolus wizzard for 1/2 the correction factor due to using symulin. Then I use nutrition labels and/or the portion control training I got from nutrasystem years ago to make the carb/fat/protein estimates to plug into the wizzard after my BG meter updates the wizzard with my BG reading. For high carb or high amounts of simple sugars in my meals I’ll bolus now or over 1/2 to 1 hour. For high fat/protein I’ll extend the bolus over 2-3 hours. I test pre and post meals in one hour increments so I can plug that data into my daily spreadsheet. I test 10-12 times a day. I’m going to try the tag form out also!

5

I am working on a TAG bolus calculator app for the Android. If anyone here has an android and wants to test it out, let me know.

6

Yes this would be cool.

I never have the time to even begin looking at creating my own app.

7

A little late ilana, but just found your post! Is there an app yet?

8

I’d love to see an iPhone app for it!

9

I did find an app called CalcMadeEasyFree and am giving it a try

Still not sure about what I’m doing, but I’m working on it :slight_smile:

Here is a shot of what I’m playing around with. I wrote out the info but the calculator automatically put in all the equations that you see. I figure I can save that note and use it any time he eats this item, provided it has the correct I:C ratio for him. He ranges from 1:8 to 1:10 so it probably wouldn’t make a lot of difference

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This is a tool that I've developed to help with my own insulin and carbohydrate calculations. I created a version that anyone can use because so many people wanted to know where I got it and wanted to know if they could use it too. I designed it to run on my iPhone but it should work on any device with internet access.




Free Insulin & Carbohydrate Calculator



It is hosted on a free web server so there are a couple of adds at the top and bottom of the page and a small popup window that can be a little annoying when the page is loaded for the first time but it is a great little app that I use every day.

:D