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Is a single spike dangerous?

A single spike dangerous?

How do you feel after your body has done what its suppose to? Distributed your glucose and disperse it to get your 6.4 2hrs later @Inchindown .
Liver (muscles and other organs) are suppose to uptake glucose to store for an emergency.

Some peoples bodies starve their body so the uptake is more just in case. Shock, stress and starvation affects glucose uptake!
 
ickihun said:
A single spike dangerous?

How do you feel after your body has done what its suppose to? Distributed your glucose and disperse it to get your 6.4 2hrs later @Inchindown .
Liver (muscles and other organs) are suppose to uptake glucose to store for an emergency.

Some peoples bodies starve their body so the uptake is more just in case. Shock, stress and starvation affects glucose uptake!
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I felt entirely normal before, during and after the meal in question.

Today my food intake and BG numbers are back in my normal range.
 
BrianTheElder said:
I agree that most people are not interested in whether you are diabetic. But it is always less complicated to be open. Why not just say "I have to be careful what I eat because I am diabetic".
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I find it's far more polite to tell people.
Even though I seem to have reversed my diabetes, I am still 'careful' over what I eat.
Two reasons, I calorie count, (but that can be a bit relaxed one day, and make up on the next), and also I have lost my taste for sweet stuff, and bland carbs when I was losing weight, so I do pick and choose the calories I overeat on, and friends can accommodate this.
So, I don't want my host to waste hours preparing food I won't enjoy, when they can waste hours preparing food I do.
It's even down to getting a cup of tea, it's surprising how many people offer tea and biscuits, I tell them I don't eat them, and why, and then I just get a cup of tea next time, and the biscuits aren't left out to be soft.
(although a few people I know make homemade biscuits, those I do tell, and then eat the biscuits anyway!)

I'm not even slightly embarrassed to be diabetic, ok, I believe I ate my way to it, but I also dieted my way out of it, and I've had many a conversation on the best way to diet, and reverse diabetes.
It's amazing how many people are type 2, or have type 2 in the family, and if we can help, it's worth passing on, and I'm not uncomfortable looking back, and admitting how obese I was, how it crept on slowly without me really noticing, and how dieting helped me with diabetes.
 
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douglas99 said:
I find it's far more polite to tell people.
Even though I seem to have reversed my diabetes, I am still 'careful' over what I eat.
Two reasons, I calorie count, (but that can be a bit relaxed one day, and make up on the next), and also I have lost my taste for sweet stuff, and bland carbs when I was losing weight, so I do pick and choose the calories I overeat on, and friends can accommodate this.
So, I don't want my host to waste hours preparing food I won't enjoy, when they can waste hours preparing food I do.
It's even down to getting a cup of tea, it's surprising how many people offer tea and biscuits, I tell them I don't eat them, and why, and then I just get a cup of tea next time, and the biscuits aren't left out to be soft.
(although a few people I know make homemade biscuits, those I do tell, and then eat the biscuits anyway!)

I'm not even slightly embarrassed to be diabetic, ok, I believe I ate my way to it, but I also dieted my way out of it, and I've had many a conversation on the best way to diet, and reverse diabetes.
It's amazing how many people are type 2, or have type 2 in the family, and if we can help, it's worth passing on, and I'm not uncomfortable looking back, and admitting how obese I was, how it crept on slowly without me really noticing, and how dieting helped me with diabetes.
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Calories are not the only thing that can be relaxed one day, to be balanced the next.

Is it more polite to just go light/leave the potatoes, in favour of the gorgeous cauli cheese, for example? That's rhetorical, so no need to respond. I leave more carbs for others who love them. Those of us who just love veggies don't seem to be in the majority, in my experience. I would never hoover up all the veggies, without everyone else having their fill. I just don't expect my hosts to accommodate my proclivities. I'd prefer to manage them for myself.

In my world, not too many folks ave biscuits with every cup of tea/coffee, so I find they aren't always even offered, but then, I would have refused them pre-diagnosis anyway.
 
AndBreathe said:
Calories are not the only thing that can be relaxed one day, to be balanced the next.

Is it more polite to just go light/leave the potatoes, in favour of the gorgeous cauli cheese, for example? That's rhetorical, so no need to respond. I leave more carbs for others who love them. Those of us who just love veggies don't seem to be in the majority, in my experience. I would never hoover up all the veggies, without everyone else having their fill. I just don't expect my hosts to accommodate my proclivities. I'd prefer to manage them for myself.

In my world, not too many folks ave biscuits with every cup of tea/coffee, so I find they aren't always even offered, but then, I would have refused them pre-diagnosis anyway.
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I find rhetorical is often misrepresented.
I find my social group tends to eat healthily, so yes, they eat veggies, maybe grabbing the spuds is a generation thing?
But I do find it more polite to let my host know what I eat, as I say, I find it's quite rude to waste their efforts, and I'd hate to think I don't know them well enough to not feel comfortable telling them.
I'd also hate to think they in someway see it a problem as well to be honest.
I hope they invite me for a reason, not merely to have a circle around the table, and they seem to cope with that.

Otherwise why bother?

As to tea and biscuits, maybe cucumber sandwiches at a push, but again, white bread?
Then again, when needs must, I have managed them.
 
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in answer to the original question -- is a single spike dangerous , the answer is no.......... but being diabetic leaves us all prone to unacceptable spikes on a daily basis , that in turn can lead to complications if not remedied either by diet , or medication
vigilance is a key word in the fight against the D
 
douglas99 said:
I find rhetorical is often misrepresented.
I find my social group tends to eat healthily, so yes, they eat veggies, maybe grabbing the spuds is a generation thing?
But I do find it more polite to let my host know what I eat, as I say, I find it's quite rude to waste their efforts, and I'd hate to think I don't know them well enough to not feel comfortable telling them.
I'd also hate to think they in someway see it a problem as well to be honest.
I hope they invite me for a reason, not merely to have a circle around the table, and they seem to cope with that.

Otherwise why bother?

As to tea and biscuits, maybe cucumber sandwiches at a push, but again, white bread?
Then again, when needs must, I have managed them.
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I'm finished on this, but please don't put words in others mouths, please, when the source of them is your own.
 
AndBreathe said:
I'm finished on this, but please don't put words in others mouths, please, when the source of them is your own.
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I'm sure you can find your own words for every occasion.
But I'm sure I've only ever spoken for myself, indeed, the post you quote may well have only used the first person. On re-reading, it may indeed be my failing. Far too many 'I's' for modesty.
But then again, who can speak for others in this world?
We can just relate our own experiences, and let others judge them based on their own.
 
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