Hi,
I am a new member to this forum, but have been a Type 1 diabetic for almost 40 years. Recently, I decided to try to eat a low carb diet as my blood sugars have been erratic and I am now suffering the side effects of too many highs and lows, despite following all the dosage and dietry advice given by my doctors.
I eat no more than two slices of toast for breakfast each day (usually no more than 30 CHO) then I try to wait until dinner time before I have a low carb dinner, typically no more than 50 CHO. As a result, I am ALWAYS hungry, so to fill me up and not affect my blood sugars, I started eating roasted chicken as a snack. However, I have now found out that as little as 100g of pure protein can cause a delayed effect on blood sugars (3-5 hrs afterwards) the same as drinking 20 CHO of glucose!
Does anyone have any knowledge of how I can factor in this delayed reaction to the protein without having to do even more blood tests each day? Also, how many carbs are there in roast chicken anyway? Every website I have checked has said nil carbs, nil sugars, so I am now stuck - and very hungry!
Any help or advice is much appreciated - I do manual blood tests approx. 15 times per day and just use the prefilled pens for my insulin (Lantus Solostar and Humalog).
Thank you in advance!
I am a new member to this forum, but have been a Type 1 diabetic for almost 40 years. Recently, I decided to try to eat a low carb diet as my blood sugars have been erratic and I am now suffering the side effects of too many highs and lows, despite following all the dosage and dietry advice given by my doctors.
I eat no more than two slices of toast for breakfast each day (usually no more than 30 CHO) then I try to wait until dinner time before I have a low carb dinner, typically no more than 50 CHO. As a result, I am ALWAYS hungry, so to fill me up and not affect my blood sugars, I started eating roasted chicken as a snack. However, I have now found out that as little as 100g of pure protein can cause a delayed effect on blood sugars (3-5 hrs afterwards) the same as drinking 20 CHO of glucose!
Does anyone have any knowledge of how I can factor in this delayed reaction to the protein without having to do even more blood tests each day? Also, how many carbs are there in roast chicken anyway? Every website I have checked has said nil carbs, nil sugars, so I am now stuck - and very hungry!
Any help or advice is much appreciated - I do manual blood tests approx. 15 times per day and just use the prefilled pens for my insulin (Lantus Solostar and Humalog).
Thank you in advance!