Sunday 16th May 2010

Well, it's not even 10am and yet I've been rushing around!!

I set my alarm to wake me up at 7:55am so I could do my blood sugar, Levemir and have breakfast. But when I woke up at saw it was 8:55am I realised I'd been a bit of an idiot and set the alarm for 7:55PM!

So, after swearing loudly, I rush to get the blood sugar done (a disappointing 12.5mmol) and take my Levemir and went to find some breakfast. Not a wide choice but Asda are coming today with a whole shop so there might be something better tomorrow :)

But anyway, I though I'd try and carb count according to the packaging!

I had some weird cereal from Devon with cranberries and raisins in and looked at the box.

30g of cereal had 21.6g of carb so I rounded it up to 22g

Next I got the milk. I use whole milk as I hear it's got fewer carbs. 4.7g per 100ml. I decided 100ml didn't look much so poured out 200ml which adds up to 9.4g of carb and I added this up to 10g.

I then added the carb values to give myself 32g of carbohydrate and as my insulin to carb ratio is 1:10, it should have been 3u of Novorapid but as I also want to get my levels back down, I gave myself 5u and will be checking blood sugar again in a couple of hours.

I also thought I'd investigate into the carb values of milk :)

Whole milk---- 4.7g per 100ml
Semi Skimmed milk--- 5g per 100ml
Semi Skimmed but with reduced fat (purple bottle)--- 4.6g per 100ml

I spoke to my Mum about it and she said to try the purple milk. Especially as it's got less than 1% fat aswell. So I'll give it a go tomorrow :)