alt Hacker NewsI have been diabetic for 20 years. I have tried every method, app, plan, and tool, including systems falsely marketed as "smart." No method works or delivers decent results except for using a scale and weighing ALL the ingredients. For a diabetic, eating "out" is always a roll of the dice. The "fun" feedback from post-meal blood sugar is always a reminder of how "eyeballing a plate" is utterly useless.
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I worked at Noom and the most successful users weighed the ingredients. Many users were frustrated about not losing weight even with calorie deficit, but the issue was they weren't logging accurately or skipped logging snacks and meals that were clearly not good.
What works well is to measure the same food multiple times in a container (every time same volume ).
after a while you can estimate carbs by visually inspecting the contents without scale.
Add to that automatic bolus by a semi closed loop system to correct for errors, you can achieve good results with minimal effort.
I’m rather unknowledgeable on diabetes, so here’s a question that may seem basic:
does choosing healthier meal, a salad instead of sweet ribs, not suffice for a good blood sugar?
That sounds really hard. Is the purpose of determining the amount of food so you can adjust the amount of insulin? Sorry, I don't know about the day to day of living with diabetes.
It doesn't help that food manufacturers intentionally make it hard to measure nutrition from most of their foods. They play around with serving sizes to hide carbohydrates making you have to do math just to keep up.
Sometimes they will round down on grams of macros after setting the serving size so they can claim it has zero sugar when it does in fact have tons of sugar. Tic-tacs are the worst about this. They claim they have zero everything despite just being sugar tablets.