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<blockquote data-quote="sno0opy" data-source="post: 2255630" data-attributes="member: 513948"><p>Blood glucose levels are affected by food and activity, so taking one item in isolation is not a good idea or it can send you down a very restrictive path.</p><p></p><p>Pasta contains allot of carbs, in fact pasta compared to ice creme has more carbs say ~30g of carbs in 100g of cooked pasta. In a full sized Magnum ice creme (so ice creme coated on chocolate) there are 22g of carbs.</p><p></p><p>A "portion" of pasta could be anything upto 150g to 200g so all of those carbs are being broken down into glucose and can affect your bloods. </p><p></p><p>I can eat pasta again now having lost allot of weight and increased activity, but when i first started even small portions sent my bloods rocketing. but even now i have only a say 50 to 100g portion with salad rather then a big bowl of pasta on its own, and i never double up on carbs by having pasta and garlic bread for example. I also skip desert if im having carbs in the main, but if im having a low carb main i will have some yogurt and fruit or pudding (or what ever)</p><p></p><p>The other thing to consider is that activity has a big affect, how much exercise/movement you have had just before or after your meal will affect how you process the carbs - so a bowl of pasta sitting on the sofa for a few hours after will have a different reading to the same bowl of pasta where you washed up after and put the bins out, went upstairs a few times to fetch things. It would be different again if you went for a run.</p><p></p><p>Best to keep testing, measure your portions and work out what you can and cant eat. if you let your self get too obsessed with the numbers you can end up cutting things out on one attempt which are perfectly acceptable given the right balance. This is inportent because many people go too strict too quickly and end up burning out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sno0opy, post: 2255630, member: 513948"] Blood glucose levels are affected by food and activity, so taking one item in isolation is not a good idea or it can send you down a very restrictive path. Pasta contains allot of carbs, in fact pasta compared to ice creme has more carbs say ~30g of carbs in 100g of cooked pasta. In a full sized Magnum ice creme (so ice creme coated on chocolate) there are 22g of carbs. A "portion" of pasta could be anything upto 150g to 200g so all of those carbs are being broken down into glucose and can affect your bloods. I can eat pasta again now having lost allot of weight and increased activity, but when i first started even small portions sent my bloods rocketing. but even now i have only a say 50 to 100g portion with salad rather then a big bowl of pasta on its own, and i never double up on carbs by having pasta and garlic bread for example. I also skip desert if im having carbs in the main, but if im having a low carb main i will have some yogurt and fruit or pudding (or what ever) The other thing to consider is that activity has a big affect, how much exercise/movement you have had just before or after your meal will affect how you process the carbs - so a bowl of pasta sitting on the sofa for a few hours after will have a different reading to the same bowl of pasta where you washed up after and put the bins out, went upstairs a few times to fetch things. It would be different again if you went for a run. Best to keep testing, measure your portions and work out what you can and cant eat. if you let your self get too obsessed with the numbers you can end up cutting things out on one attempt which are perfectly acceptable given the right balance. This is inportent because many people go too strict too quickly and end up burning out. [/QUOTE]
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