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<blockquote data-quote="HSSS" data-source="post: 2578832" data-attributes="member: 480869"><p>A couple of things to consider. First is 120g a day might be enough to lower your blood glucose. It might not. A fair number of us need noticeably lower amounts to get where we want to go. The best way is to test to know what your body is doing and how it is responding. Second each time you eat any carbs (and to a much lesser extent protein) it raises blood glucose to some degree or another and thus causes an insulin response. If like most type 2 you already have an excess of insulin even more of the same this will keep adding to insulin resistance. So in that sense fewer larger meals are better as they allow levels to drop back to baseline between feeds rather than keep topping them up. That’s also why intermittent fasting/time restricted eating helps. </p><p></p><p>Doing either cutting carbs or restricting eating windows means lowering blood glucose (and insulin). It does not need to mean weight loss or hunger. Add more healthy naturally occurring fats (and proteins) to counter both issues rather than carbs.</p><p></p><p>Is the being unable to eat larger meals a fixed thing or something that could change? If you really can’t do bigger meals I’d try at least to bunch the carbs together into just a few occasions and keep the in between top ups to fat/protein alone to minimise the insulin peaks as much as possible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HSSS, post: 2578832, member: 480869"] A couple of things to consider. First is 120g a day might be enough to lower your blood glucose. It might not. A fair number of us need noticeably lower amounts to get where we want to go. The best way is to test to know what your body is doing and how it is responding. Second each time you eat any carbs (and to a much lesser extent protein) it raises blood glucose to some degree or another and thus causes an insulin response. If like most type 2 you already have an excess of insulin even more of the same this will keep adding to insulin resistance. So in that sense fewer larger meals are better as they allow levels to drop back to baseline between feeds rather than keep topping them up. That’s also why intermittent fasting/time restricted eating helps. Doing either cutting carbs or restricting eating windows means lowering blood glucose (and insulin). It does not need to mean weight loss or hunger. Add more healthy naturally occurring fats (and proteins) to counter both issues rather than carbs. Is the being unable to eat larger meals a fixed thing or something that could change? If you really can’t do bigger meals I’d try at least to bunch the carbs together into just a few occasions and keep the in between top ups to fat/protein alone to minimise the insulin peaks as much as possible. [/QUOTE]
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