Hello,
Hooty links can be posted as long as they comply with the forum rules. Specifically:
Thank you, hopefully this is ok and of interest to @Cocosilk . https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/food-experiments-bevs-big-night-in.7311/
How do you measure all-body glucose and how is it different from blood glucose? It is all of the stored fat that can be turned back into glucose?
Mmm. A good try. However I just clicked on the jacket potato one. I only scrolled a little way. It wasn’t just jackets but all sorts of other items eaten at the same time. And all of the first lot were insulin based diabetics. So unfortunately it had no reliance or usefulness to me. Perhaps the other experiments were mor beneficial but I doubt it looking at the titles.
I never meant for anyone to do that actually. If you don't or can't eat fruit, please don't! I think newbies probably still do until they realise how high the spikes are how much is just stored in the liver. I meant for anyone who still eats fruit to try this so they could also compare how much less eggs will affect their bs.
Yes it’s not very controlled as there is so much variation in the meals, and it does seem to be more Type 1’s taking part. I was reminded of it by the OP’s suggestion though, so thought she might like to see it.
Thanks Hooty, I'm sure I'll find it interesting!
Ironically, I think everyone's reaction to my thread suggestion is far more interesting than the results of eating a banana would have been. So my thread hasn't gone to waste afterall.
I cn see you are trying to be helpful and maybe find a way for us to avoid the trial and error part of all this. However, we are all different. Our food absorption rates, metabolism, quantities, even ingredients may be different. Foods have different effects at different times of the year as they can have more or less starch in them. But thanks for the idea.
Bananas are what got me onto taking Metformin with raised HBA1C levels, it has took over two and half years to get off of the Metformin not to be confused getting off of Bananas.
thats a heck of a lot of bananas and a huge addiction. Well done on overcoming your banana issues. You are the first person I have come across who took such a long time to be able to stop eating them.
I did not have a banana addiction, once I dropped my hba1c down into the high thirties, I worked from there on reducing it further. This I did with a string of 34 mmol/mol readings before I discussed with my GP to stop taking Metformin.
But you said it took you two and a half years to get off them...............I am confused : (
I have edited that post so it does not confuse you any more...
Don't ever be discouraged from posting, spikes are very personal and not everyone has the time (or the fingers) to test 6 times after eating but nothing stops you going ahead and discovering what spikes you. I find if I'm not well or stressed that food that doesn't usually make much of a spike do. At the moment I'm trying to move house, have broken my big toe, am encased in a horrible black orthopaedic boot and told me to stay in bed with it elevated not to use my crutches for more than 5 steps. Everything seems to be spiking me including the fracture clinic consultant who seemed to suggest I was heading for dementia as I had no idea how or when I'd broken my toe. When I told him I had diabetic neuropathy and couldn't actually feel my feet he seemed to think I was definitely headed for dementia. With another six weeks in this boot I think I will be demented by the time I go back!Ironically, I think everyone's reaction to my thread suggestion is far more interesting than the results of eating a banana would have been. So my thread hasn't gone to waste afterall.
