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I've been noticing a weird effect that seems to be repeatable. I do _NOT_ know it is healthy to do, however. I've found that if I eat an amount of carbohydrates that would take my blood sugar to 180 (a microwavable bag of steamed rice, or four Butterfinger bars, for example) but I eat a...

Use those test strips. A lot. You'll eventually get to know exactly how much you can get away with of any given thing. (The downside is that the cleverer you get at keeping your sugar within limits, the easier it is to put on weight!)

There's nothing like blood sugar testing to show you that it really doesn't matter what a carbohydrate is like - doesn't matter how "complex" it's supposed to be. Flour, sugar, same difference. The pastry and chips were two big ticket items.

I should just comment that so far my experience is that I have two different digestive systems, which seem unrelated to each other. If I eat a full pound of hamburger, plus most of a package of cheese, or a full pound (minus shells) of pistachio nuts, my blood glucose doesn't even GO up. It...

Let's put it this way: eating a full pound of hamburger, plus most of a package of sharp cheddar cheese, recently brought my blood sugar DOWN from 105 to 80 after 45 minutes. Which is actually typical. (I get higher readings 6-9 a.m. the next morning from doing stuff like that, but usually...

I'm afraid I had another such incident, up to 220 by adding just four slices (260 calories) of bread to a meal of homemade cheeseburgers that otherwise is more likely to LOWER my blood sugar than raise it, and I fairly well convinced myself that the numbness was actually in my scalp, nowhere...

Has anyone tried berberine? I'm noticing that there's a theory of action by which it might actually help the pancreas beta-cells to grow. Namely: * Berberine inhibits DPP IV (IC 13 micromolar) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19640223 * DPP IV breaks down GLP-1; see...

After getting rid of about 15 pounds, I let myself be bad for two days... the second day, in part by way of experiment (apparently NOT TO BE RECOMMENDED) I indulged in something like 1200-1400 calories of chocolate and watched the readings. I thought that because it was the evening, and my...

If someone wants to make a decent tax to improve the public diet, he could increase the tax on the wealthy to provide subsidies for berry farmers to hire (your own citizens, perhaps) to increase production...

Well, to give an example, I'm afraid I was bad last night and polished off a pound of pistachio nuts, among some other stuff. A little after an hour after eating, glucose was 105 mg/dl. This morning I wake up right at the beginning of the Three Hour Tour with all the usual feelings I'm prone...

Such taxes have the immense political advantage of charging just as much to the poor, who are unrepresented in government, as to the wealthiest. All governments need to do to make a serious upward redistribution of wealth is to come up with enough excuses.

+1 for the Dawn Phenomenon here. I have about the same blood sugar fasting in the morning than I do right after eating in the evening. For me it goes up at 6 a.m. local time and stays up until about 9 a.m. The amount it goes up depends on how much I've eaten the past two days - one day...

I've been monitoring my blood sugar since last November, and I think I've started to figure out a few rules to sense certain concentrations. Namely: * If I hold my arms out with elbows bent about 90 degrees, thumbs up, and pay attention to how the lower end of my bicep muscle feels, about two...

I won't call it a cure, and it's not as effective as dieting (in the morning I have 100s from 1500 calorie diet, 120s from 2500-3000, and 130s-150s if I'm bad and start actually gaining weight), but I've noticed that one can (~400 calories) of jack mackerel drops my blood sugar by 10 points for...

I caught diabetes II sometime last summer or fall; since then I've lost about 60 pounds, though I haven't been at all good about exercise. I've been taking metformin, and at the beginning it acted as a sort of laxative. Now, well... for all I can tell it might as well be a sugar pill - doesn't...