I would like your thoughts on a little experiment I did on myself. A little bit on what I've been doing first. My last A1C was 6.1 mmol/l in May. Before summer (once every two weeks)I would have 1 maybe 2 pints (typically 1)of beer/ale with a steak or chicken wings. After checking my blood 2 hours later my BG would rise maybe 1.5 to 2 points higher and my morning BG would be good (low 6s mid 5s). Summer arrives and I'm golfing lots , beer goes well after a game, for the most I've had 1 beer a day 2 maybe 3 times in a week and it didn't appear to do any harm. Then I did a week of 1 beer and up to 3 beers a day. This resulted in a higher morning BG reading. Another thing I noticed was my BG during the day (8 am to 6 pm) took a longer time to come down. For example after my morning meal my BG would read 7.5 and at around 4 pm it might read 6.5 i would check an hour later and it would read 6.3. I'm puzzled, why isn't my BG going down faster? So I stop the beer for 3 days and I see the morning BG is getting better each day, My mid day BG is still taking a long to get into the 5s. So I had this idea, what if I have 1 oz of whisky straight?My BG is 6.7, one hour later it's 5.3, two hours later 5.5. another hour an I'm at 4.9. My conclusion with this is a small amount of alcohol with zero carbs can be helpful in speeding up the lowing of your BG. Not that I think it's good to do this constantly but maybe now and again is okay. I have two meals a day that are LCHF average 20 carbs never more than 50 even with the one beer.
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