Insulin carbs

[rturk]

If I'm pinning 5-10ius of insulin an hour before my workout do I need to eat real food or can a mass shake with about 70gs of carbs and 40 protein do the trick. The carbs in my shake are from oats in quinoa. I just want to be 100% sure with the insulin stuff. Thanks guys.

 

[GreenTLB6]

Dose your insulin to correlate with the amount of carbs you take in pre workout. Don't dose your carbs to your insulin. If that makes sense. Just have your normal preworkout carbs and dose insulin to it.

 

[sammy555]

Dose your insulin to correlate with the amount of carbs you take in pre workout. Don't dose your carbs to your insulin. If that makes sense. Just have your normal preworkout carbs and dose insulin to it.

This is completely true. I've always taken in 250 g carbs post workout so use 20iu log if I use slin as it's already covered in my diet. It's not the slin that makes people fat. It's the exes calories people take in to cover the higher doses

 

[cm]

I would say the nature of the question leads me to believe youre not ready to use the insulin

"not sure with this insulin stuff"

...oh my.

 

[Flexpack215]

From your actual question, no you can use solid carbs or fast carbs and protein shake. Just make sure your carbs are right for the slin taken. I use both and switch it up but I've also assessed a tolerance level between how many carbs per iu and how fast a certain amount hits so the GI on different types of carbs needs to be taken into effect depending on when your going to eat next.
To play it safe, use dextrose or Karbolyn after slin shot.
I agree with what Green has said here also and think it correlates to you. He is saying, Keep your diet normal to what your used to pre workout. So if you take in 50 grams of protein and 100 carbs then your safe zone is to take 10iu.