4.6 to 9.9 after a handful of chips! Shocked …is it possible?

[Lamont D]

Just looked at my food diary from around a decade ago when I was in full experimenting mode.
Ten chips cooked in veg oil......... From 5.3mmols - 16.1 after an hour.
Ten chips cooked in dripping.......From 5.7 - 13.4 after an hour.
Medium sized spud boiled...........From 5.9 - 14.9 after an hour.
Oven cooked jacket spud.............From 5.1 - 13.0 after an hour.
Three spoons of mash..................From 5.7 - 14.1 after an hour. (Just spud, nowt else)
Repeated a few times with very similar results.
The worst was a croquet potato, potato with rubbish, suppose to be herbs etc. In a coating that resembled and tasted like toasted cardboard on steroids. After an hour from normal levels to 18 mmols. Thought it was gonna put me in hospital!

It's the starch in spuds which is just another name for carbohydrates.
Starch is bad for us in so many ways (IMHO) and adding more carbs in many forms, is how we got here, many of us.
The science is there.

 

[Lamont D]

Thanks, yes bonus!

Really glad to hear you can eat fruit again. Fruit is great!

I know what @Melgar means, fruit in small quantities throughout the day, does very little to my BG levels.
But hey, we are all different.

 

[Melgar]

I know what @Melgar means, fruit in small quantities throughout the day, does very little to my BG levels.
But hey, we are all different.

As long as I don't eat a bag of grapes, those little balls of sugar, i'm good.

 

[Lainie71]

I agree with everything said above. In passing, I have also found that if I don't have anything carby, ie less than 35 g, for several days then I have something carby there is a much greater rise in my blood sugars. It's like my body is caught off guard.

I am the same so I try and steer clear of anything that's going to spike me as I will be in higher numbers for days.