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- Type of diabetes
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I've been eating low carb for a number of months now but have had the odd days with a few extra carbs. I haven't had any alcohol much until we opened a bottle of red wine a few days ago for my husband's birthday and then I had a couple of glasses two nights in a row.
I also made a hazelnut meal cake with a bit of sugar and melted chocolate and cream topping and strawberries for my family and I had a small piece, which, at the one hour mark, had me around 6.2mmol. I didn't test before or at the 2h mark though.
Later in the evening after eating roast chicken, lamb and pork (small amounts) and also a few roasted brussel sprouts, I was around 5.0 around 90 mins later.
Then I thought I could finish off my salad of lightly steamed green beans, broccoli, walnuts and bocconcini cheese with lemon juice and olive oil, and have a bit of red wine.
I didn't check my bs before bed.
I was up at 4am with baby so I thought I would do a random bs check to see what's happening overnight.
It was 5.7mmol, which is the highest reading I've ever had. (I'd had 5.6 mmol at the end of pregnancy with gestational diabetes).
Not quite an hour later after breastfeeding I checked again: 5.6mmol.
Then around 8am it was 5.4mmol. Which I guess is not terrible but still higher than it was last week when I was getting 4.8 or 4.9mmol.
So I'm wondering, of all the naughty things I ate yesterday, is the likely cause a combination of these things, perhaps a little overeating?
It is accumulative, that even though after eating the cake the spike seemed not to be too high (although it could have gone higher at the 2 hours and I wouldn't have known) but it still adds up to a bigger liver dump though the night?
Or are green beans and broccoli late at night after having brussel sprouts earlier in the evening enough that the liver had extra stores again and dumped them out through the night when insulin efficiency was perhaps affected by alcohol consumption?
Obviously the combination ain't great. Alcohol though is the main recent addition to my diet after a long stretch without any so I'm curious if that's the main culprit here.
Any idea?
I also made a hazelnut meal cake with a bit of sugar and melted chocolate and cream topping and strawberries for my family and I had a small piece, which, at the one hour mark, had me around 6.2mmol. I didn't test before or at the 2h mark though.
Later in the evening after eating roast chicken, lamb and pork (small amounts) and also a few roasted brussel sprouts, I was around 5.0 around 90 mins later.
Then I thought I could finish off my salad of lightly steamed green beans, broccoli, walnuts and bocconcini cheese with lemon juice and olive oil, and have a bit of red wine.
I didn't check my bs before bed.
I was up at 4am with baby so I thought I would do a random bs check to see what's happening overnight.
It was 5.7mmol, which is the highest reading I've ever had. (I'd had 5.6 mmol at the end of pregnancy with gestational diabetes).
Not quite an hour later after breastfeeding I checked again: 5.6mmol.
Then around 8am it was 5.4mmol. Which I guess is not terrible but still higher than it was last week when I was getting 4.8 or 4.9mmol.
So I'm wondering, of all the naughty things I ate yesterday, is the likely cause a combination of these things, perhaps a little overeating?
It is accumulative, that even though after eating the cake the spike seemed not to be too high (although it could have gone higher at the 2 hours and I wouldn't have known) but it still adds up to a bigger liver dump though the night?
Or are green beans and broccoli late at night after having brussel sprouts earlier in the evening enough that the liver had extra stores again and dumped them out through the night when insulin efficiency was perhaps affected by alcohol consumption?
Obviously the combination ain't great. Alcohol though is the main recent addition to my diet after a long stretch without any so I'm curious if that's the main culprit here.
Any idea?
