By adjusting your mealtime insulin accordingly to “cover” the carb, you can essentially eat the amount of carb that you want. For example, you can eat a relatively low-carb meal one night for dinner, such as a piece of grilled chicken and a salad the next night, your meal might be high in carb, like a pasta dish with garlic bread on the side. You can determine how much (or how little) carb you’d like to eat. People who take mealtime (fast-acting) insulin may choose to move to the next “level” of carb counting, which is often called “advanced carb counting.” With this approach, you’re pretty much in the driver’s seat. This approach can work well whether you manage your diabetes with healthy eating and exercise alone, with diabetes pills, or with insulin.
For example, you might aim for three carb choices at lunch, which translates into 45 grams of carb. Nevertheless, with practice and perseverance, carb counting is a meal-planning approach that works well.īasic carb counting, which we covered last week, involves using either carb choices or counting grams of carb. Very few people carefully weigh and measure their foods on a regular basis over time, portion sizes become larger, and knowing how much carb one is consuming isn’t always easy. For accuracy, you need to know how much food you’re eating and how much carb is in that food. If you’re currently using carb counting as a meal-planning method, you’ve probably learned that a little bit of skill is involved.
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