A bit of a glycemic loading test.

[Somedudeguy]

Since I went moderate low carb(90-130g), started exercising and lost weight, my fasting glucose has been below 5 mmol/l every test. After meal tests have mostly been below 6. Feeling like I'm having my T2 decently under control, I decided to challenge things a bit today. The Sundays before christmas around here means fika, sweet breads and coffee while lighting candles. I took a reading before this, which incidently was 2h after lunch, and my glucose was at 5.

Then I ate all in all 130g of sweet breads, containing between 60-70g of total carbs, of which 40-50g was sugar, rest was from wheat flour. To this I drank coffee.

After 1h my glucose was spiking at 7.7. After 2h it was at 6.7, this was shortly before dinner. I ate dinner and took my usual brisk evening walk for around 30 minutes. When testing 2h after dinner my glucose was at 4.5, which is around my usual fasting reading! I'm so incredibly luck how well my my body is responding to the changes I've made, though I still have quite a few kilos to lose to get out of obesity.

Anyway, now I'm wondering how close figures like this is to non.diabetic readings under similar conditions? Does anyone else in remission have experiences with trying "loading" like this? Also, how big is the effect of that walk to bring glucose down? Both personal experiences and pointers to science exploring this in detail would be appreciated!

 

[Mr_Pot]

I would say those are non diabetic numbers so congratulations! I would also say to exercise caution, you have a tendency to diabetes and being overweight so it could easily happen again if you relax your diet too much. If you can keep to a moderately low carb diet it will pay dividends in the long run.

 

[Listlad]

Since I went moderate low carb(90-130g), started exercising and lost weight, my fasting glucose has been below 5 mmol/l every test. After meal tests have mostly been below 6. Feeling like I'm having my T2 decently under control, I decided to challenge things a bit today. The Sundays before christmas around here means fika, sweet breads and coffee while lighting candles. I took a reading before this, which incidently was 2h after lunch, and my glucose was at 5.

Then I ate all in all 130g of sweet breads, containing between 60-70g of total carbs, of which 40-50g was sugar, rest was from wheat flour. To this I drank coffee.

After 1h my glucose was spiking at 7.7. After 2h it was at 6.7, this was shortly before dinner. I ate dinner and took my usual brisk evening walk for around 30 minutes. When testing 2h after dinner my glucose was at 4.5, which is around my usual fasting reading! I'm so incredibly luck how well my my body is responding to the changes I've made, though I still have quite a few kilos to lose to get out of obesity.

Anyway, now I'm wondering how close figures like this is to non.diabetic readings under similar conditions? Does anyone else in remission have experiences with trying "loading" like this? Also, how big is the effect of that walk to bring glucose down? Both personal experiences and pointers to science exploring this in detail would be appreciated!

Good stuff. I stick to 100 to 130 grams of carbs per day pretty rigidly. Interesting question at the end of your post.

 

[ianf0ster]

Hi,
I don't think that non diabetics test their Blood Glucose much - LOL !
The numbers you report are certainly better than anything I could achieve right now and my HbA1C is now down into the 'pre-diabetic' range. Though I'm a TOFI, so rather different to your case.

How high was your last HbA1C - it sound like you next one will be either non-diabetic or at worst the low end of pre-diabetic, so long as you don't keep experimenting with Carb -Loading,

I hope this helps.

 

[Somedudeguy]

Hi,
I don't think that non diabetics test their Blood Glucose much - LOL !
The numbers you report are certainly better than anything I could achieve right now and my HbA1C is now down into the 'pre-diabetic' range. Though I'm a TOFI, so rather different to your case.

How high was your last HbA1C - it sound like you next one will be either non-diabetic or at worst the low end of pre-diabetic, so long as you don't keep experimenting with Carb -Loading,

I hope this helps.

My last HbA1C was 38, it was hard work but also quite a bit of luck in seemingly being very receptive to the changes I made. And yeah, I certainly wont make it a habit, next Sunday I will probably only do a single bun and a single cookie lol. Great going getting down into pre-diabetic range!