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Failing Safe: Sugar Surfing Lesson #9
Failure is the Sugar Surfer’s best friend. By failure, I mean blood sugar results or trends which don’t comply with the Surfer’s initial wishes or desires. Chaos is an accepted part of any system. And the more complex a system becomes, the more opportunity for chaos to randomly appear. Success at Sugar Surfing™ has little meaning without some failures or setbacks along the way. Sugar Surfers must learn to fail safely and succeed cautiously. Since control of one’s diabetes tru


Sugar Surfing Lesson #8: micro-dosing
Pivoting is one of the first Dynamic Diabetes methods used by new Sugar Surfers. How far can self-directed blood sugar trending be taken? In my opinion: all the way to maintaining normal blood sugar trends. As long as you glance and keep your head in the game, Sugar Surfing has NO limits. Advanced Sugar Surfing invokes the art of micro-dosing. Here is an example of micro-carbing. Notice the small amount of rapid acting carbs used by a 70 kg adult type 1 to nudge the BG trend


Sugar Surfing Lesson #7: Charting a course through time
Sailing across oceans has always been a potentially treacherous and risky endeavor. Before the days of engines, radio, radar, sonar and satellites, captains relied on a form of navigation called “dead reckoning”. Periodically, they would take sightings of the stars and constellations using devices like this sextant. With careful tracking of prior readings, a reasonable course could be followed which would result in a safe arrival hopefully near their destination. Stormy weath


Sugar Surfing Lesson #6: The Basic Pivot
The pivot is to the Sugar Surfer as the forehand or backhand is to the tennis player. In this lesson I will review the basic insulin pivot. All the basic anatomical structures are displayed or highlighted in the images below. Units of measure in the upper picture are expressed in mg/dL and in the bottom image the units are mmol/L. From left to right, the following six core Sugar Surfing™ structures are visible: a delta wave, pivot, lag time, drop, inflection and shelf. The ef