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<blockquote data-quote="NoCrbs4Me" data-source="post: 711527" data-attributes="member: 113206"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">[USER=22572]@pavlosn[/USER] - Of course, you'd be wrong. I managed to obtain a Freestyle Libre and am planning on quite a few experiments over the next couple of weeks. My first experiment was Thursday when I ate my normal LCHF regime. Now I'm on day 2 of a 3 day fast. Very interesting results so far. I may try frozen/thawed pasta versus regular pasta. A little bit of gluten won't kill me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">[USER=11441]@catherinecherub[/USER] - thanks, I've looked at that site before. I confess I'm skeptical, but would like to try to get something out of the low GI idea. I don't really understand the "low GI load" part of it. I can certainly test myself after different carbs, but I was hoping that the GI index might help me choose carbs that don't spike my BG rather than lots of experiments. My thought was that if I could figure out what GI level or GL level causes too high a rise in my BG, then I could go through the list of foods with equal or lower GI/GL and be confident that my BG would not go too high. On the other hand, being gluten free and fructose free kind of limits what low GI carbs I can eat. And of course, they have to be palatable. I'm thinking steel cut oats and blueberries might be a palatable low GI breakfast.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NoCrbs4Me, post: 711527, member: 113206"] [SIZE=4][USER=22572]@pavlosn[/USER] - Of course, you'd be wrong. I managed to obtain a Freestyle Libre and am planning on quite a few experiments over the next couple of weeks. My first experiment was Thursday when I ate my normal LCHF regime. Now I'm on day 2 of a 3 day fast. Very interesting results so far. I may try frozen/thawed pasta versus regular pasta. A little bit of gluten won't kill me. [USER=11441]@catherinecherub[/USER] - thanks, I've looked at that site before. I confess I'm skeptical, but would like to try to get something out of the low GI idea. I don't really understand the "low GI load" part of it. I can certainly test myself after different carbs, but I was hoping that the GI index might help me choose carbs that don't spike my BG rather than lots of experiments. My thought was that if I could figure out what GI level or GL level causes too high a rise in my BG, then I could go through the list of foods with equal or lower GI/GL and be confident that my BG would not go too high. On the other hand, being gluten free and fructose free kind of limits what low GI carbs I can eat. And of course, they have to be palatable. I'm thinking steel cut oats and blueberries might be a palatable low GI breakfast.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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