Beth & Atlas
Member Since 2010
Good Morning Lantus Land!!!!
Sorry for my absence lately, but life and business have been a bit crazy.
Attie is doing fine and just being a stinker about eating his fuds. Oh...he has an appetite, just not for what he should be eating. :lol: Last week he even snubbed some kibble on a low evening. He has been on a Nature's Variety Beef kick for about 2 weeks. NV beef is 13% carb. The duck and venison are lower in carbs., but higher in fat content and well honestly...he won't eat those two. :roll: >... Although in a last ditch of desperation I did "Taste of the Wild" which he loved...way high carb. I think that was day he even snubbed the kibble...which was an offering of EVO or Meow Mix.
So between all these carbs. and food standoffs we're riding a bit of a rollercoaster in the BG numbers area. Carbs, spiking things up a bit. The NV beef seems to get him to ride in the upper yellows (which honestly ain't too bad when you've been a busy as me), and the food refusals half way through the cycle to drop the numbers excessively low. Somewhere in all my reading and research I recall the German forum using a modest amount of kibble in these situations. Although the EVO, even with the company claiming the carb.% is now at 6%(called & confirmed in early July), pushed Attie into the 300's. It seems the NV Beef accomplishes pretty close to the desired results I am looking for, just a weee bit higher than I'd like if we're going to bounce between raw rabbit and canned.
Whew...which is interesting as it brings me full circle back to anecdotal evidence that too much variance in carbs. also affects regulation difficulties on the tight protocol. Just as a drop or two up or down the insulin dosing scale, carb %'s up or down at a too wide of a variance(ECID in this regard), cause a distortion to BG results and a hinderence to consistent regulation.
So on busy days like mine today we'll be loading the auto-feeder with a beef & bunny blend(B&B) in order to maintain safe numbers up and numbers not too high at the end of the cycle.
Sorry for my absence lately, but life and business have been a bit crazy.
Attie is doing fine and just being a stinker about eating his fuds. Oh...he has an appetite, just not for what he should be eating. :lol: Last week he even snubbed some kibble on a low evening. He has been on a Nature's Variety Beef kick for about 2 weeks. NV beef is 13% carb. The duck and venison are lower in carbs., but higher in fat content and well honestly...he won't eat those two. :roll: >... Although in a last ditch of desperation I did "Taste of the Wild" which he loved...way high carb. I think that was day he even snubbed the kibble...which was an offering of EVO or Meow Mix.
So between all these carbs. and food standoffs we're riding a bit of a rollercoaster in the BG numbers area. Carbs, spiking things up a bit. The NV beef seems to get him to ride in the upper yellows (which honestly ain't too bad when you've been a busy as me), and the food refusals half way through the cycle to drop the numbers excessively low. Somewhere in all my reading and research I recall the German forum using a modest amount of kibble in these situations. Although the EVO, even with the company claiming the carb.% is now at 6%(called & confirmed in early July), pushed Attie into the 300's. It seems the NV Beef accomplishes pretty close to the desired results I am looking for, just a weee bit higher than I'd like if we're going to bounce between raw rabbit and canned.
Whew...which is interesting as it brings me full circle back to anecdotal evidence that too much variance in carbs. also affects regulation difficulties on the tight protocol. Just as a drop or two up or down the insulin dosing scale, carb %'s up or down at a too wide of a variance(ECID in this regard), cause a distortion to BG results and a hinderence to consistent regulation.
So on busy days like mine today we'll be loading the auto-feeder with a beef & bunny blend(B&B) in order to maintain safe numbers up and numbers not too high at the end of the cycle.
