I've always been able to eat one slice of toast for breakfast - even with one teaspoon of marmalade (hardly any carbs in a teaspoon) with a spike of between 1 to 1.5 max. The ginger cake isn't "proper" sugar - it is coconut palm sugar which is low GI/GL hence my reason for trying it. If we don't try and test we don't know what effect foods have on us and may be cutting out foods we could eat and therefore limiting ourselves unnecessarily ). My general carb intake hasn't changed much at all either - I just didn't know about the "what have you eaten today" thread and wasn't recording my foods there until recently. If anything, what has increased is my fat intake as so many people on this and other threads advocate that eating more fat has helped foods not to spike their bs - butter or cream in coffee, fat bombs and the like (neither of which I'd ever consider knowing their calorie content) the nut butters were also mentioned so thought I would try those as they are at least high in nutrients other than fat. I've already cut back on them seeing their impact
Yes, I have, and doing by doing the same as I am now. Of course losing more weight would be good but I have lost over a stone and a half already - doing exactly as I am now....eating and testing and avoiding anything that gives me unacceptable spikes.
I am quite aware that newly diagnosed come onto this thread, as I did. And I am sure you are quite aware that I also make the point about testing "your own" carb tolerance in many of my posts.....
I too have learned much but many of the newbies reading some of the posts of those who are so very strictly controlled with their diets may fear that it will all be too hard for them to do. They may feel a slip up is catastrophe and give up on themselves before they start. I'm one of the people who does slip up from time to time, I say so, I admit to others and myself. I "record it and move on". I'm sure you mean well but your post actually felt like a direct attack for daring to try foods, to test them, to learn from the test results. I'm pleased that you can manage such strict control of your intake of carbs but I am someone who finds some days easy and some days really difficult. If anything helps newbies it is someones admission of this.
I posted in the interest of your and others' wellbeing; not to pick an argument.
Of course, you can eat whatever you choose, in whatever quantities you choose. In the same spirit, I would ask you to think about the proportions of carbs/protein/fat you are eating. Of course, I have no idea what those are, and it isn't any of my business, but carbs + fat is associated with weight gain. Often those consuming fat bombs and the like are following a ketogenic diet, with significantly high proportions of their calories from fat, and correspondingly low levels of carbs.
Coconut palm sugar is an interesting one. I'm not a great believer in GI, as I believe the benefits are marginal, relating to the bigger picture for many carb sensitive individuals, but palm cane sugar is a natural sugar, which still contains sucrose and fructose. A very quick Google returns the usual plethora of supporting and conflicting articles and sources. It does contain more desirable micronutrients, but your have to eat a lot of the stuff to actually gain any benefit, and coupled with coconut palm sugar containing the same number of calories per gramme as cane sugar, that seems like white noise.
I wish you well, and I genuinely hope when you get around to a controlled test of the ginger cake it is as benign as your initial feelings.
Like you, I have days when I find dietary control a bit overwhelming, but I just have to steel myself to get on with it. This new way of being is my lifestyle choice now. Having returned several non-diabetic range HbA1cs, and got skinny, I do now consume more carbs that I did initially, without too much trouble to my meter, but I try not to push the envelope too far. I'm not that bold. Perhaps I'm just a big wuuuussss. I'll live with that prospect, for now.
. Despite the last few days my 2-week fasting average has been 5.7 and pre-dinner average 5.3, only up a tad, with dinner +2 at 6.0. Last time I had an HbA1c they were 5.9, 5.9 and 6.4 although they had also been lower previously, so still going in the right direction long term and we'll see what tomorrow's tests bring. I've not put on any weight over the holiday despite the lack of exercise and more wine 
Hope to be back in 4 something territory again soon.
