You may have got very lucky and find you really are an examples of a metabolic body clock reset, but one day of extraordinary events, actions and consumption isn't the best way to drraw too many conclusions.
Made Christmas Eve and consumed Christmas Day, the occasional survivor consumed on Boxing Day, I have no idea how long they could last in theory - none have ever lasted long enough to go stale. Mine have never matched hers although I have tried. She can not share a recipe either because she cooks by 'feel'.Do you think your mother would be willing to send me a couple of mince pies? After reading your post I do not want just any old mince pie to mess with my sugars and be my first mince pie, but I want your mothers! They sound just wonderful, the way you describe it! Do they keep for a few days until they arrive here or will they go stale? Can I revive them in the oven?
I've just, for political reasons, clicked 'agree' under some recent posts, both those strongly against diabetics eating this sort of food and those in favour within reason.
I do agree with both, and I think both; that's the problem with being human, you can intellectually know for sure that you shouldn't be doing something, but also think that you may get away with it occasionally and it makes the experience of being human more enjoyable while you're doing it.
For me the problem, as so many people on this forum have realised, is that nice-tasting food that's high in carbs seems to be much more addictive than nice tasting LCHF food. I've been on a mince pie bender for 3-4 days now. I have lost 3 stone in 3 months and the overall picture in that time is that my calorie intake, carb intake and exercise levels are all in a radically better place than they were just a few months ago. In 3 months I've had a few lapses of discipline and I always will.
The most guaranteed way for any lapse of discipline to last for more than a day for me seems to be the combination of eating nice-tasting carbs, plus having more of those nice-tasting carbs in the house and easily accessible.
While, as I've posted earlier, I had a surprising result yesterday and found that in spite of about 250g of carbs from mince pies, all it took was about an hour of exercise and my postprandial 2hr readings were surprisingly "okay", the fact is that I've been waking up in the mornings over the last few days with bgs at about 7, instead of around 5 which I'd been managing to achieve before the mince pie fest.
So they have had a measurably negative effect on my overall goals. And they were delicious.
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I'd been having about 300g of carbs and 4,000 calories a day during the mince pie fest, so rather than switching right down to low-carb, I had about 140g of carbs and 1,800 calories. 80g of the carbs was just before a fairly big walk up a hill at night.
why the silly amounts.
I have a suspiscion that my / the bodys reaction to carbs isnt always linear
A week or so back I was experimenting over a few days with a few foods to see how / if my BM responses had changed over the yeears. I found a strange reaction in that brown rice, sharon fruit and kiwi fruit all had much less impact on my sugars in the pre to post prandial BM test and the resulting near doubling of daily carb intake to around 70g seemed to have little effect either. What I did find tho was that for 4 or 5 days afterwards, my sugars were running an average of 1.5 mmol higher than they had been pre test period, even though I was back to my normal lower carb intake. (They are back to normal now)
Could be coincidence but Ive found a similar pattern previously so I wonder if it takes a few days for higher carbs to impact on overall control and then again for that impact to fade
Lest anyone is disgusted by this thread, being, as it is, a very bad example of what diabetics should be concerning themselves with, I would like to report that I've just got back from the doctor's and my HbA1c has gone down from 92 to 40 in 6 months, and that's after stopping Metformin 3 months ago.
I am taking this business seriously most of the time, honestly.
Now, how to celebrate? I think I'd like a.... Nooooooooooooo!
I refuse to sit half nudey to eat mineI read an article once that suggested taking the top off to reduce the carbs x
thats very odd. i think it needs discussing with your consultant. on 4k of calories your going to be gaining weight if you were to do it daily not that you would. the carbs should be shooting your bg very high. try it without the walking and see what your readings are. have you had your thyroid tested recently. and you know without saying it cant goon. you will need to switch to hot cross buns post christmas.Various reasons, mainly addiction and lack of discipline. It started because I've noticed that my ability to keep bgs low by exercising straight after eating seems to have increased markedly. E.g. I could have 4 full-size mince pies, do a 50-minute very fast walk, and my 2 hour postprandial could be firmly in the non-diabetic range. I think that may still be true because it has been for weeks, and I'm hoping it is unrelated to my miserably failed carb tolerance test this morning, in which I didn't move.
I've been trying various "ways of life" for three months; vlcd, low-carb, ultra low carb, and this most recent one started as "eating normally but doing a lot of exercise, targeting most exercise after carbs". It started off pretty good, but I think the lesson is: carbs are addictive.
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thats very odd. i think it needs discussing with your consultant. on 4k of calories your going to be gaining weight if you were to do it daily not that you would. the carbs should be shooting your bg very high. try it without the walking and see what your readings are. have you had your thyroid tested recently. and you know without saying it cant goon. you will need to switch to hot cross buns post christmas.
I would say it's ok for me, someone with type 1 diabetes, to eat a mince pie if I bolus for it. I haven't had, or even been offered, any mince pies yet. But I will be eating one after a 10k run on the beach next Sunday because it's a Christmas run and you get given a mince pie at the finish lineI might have to buy some mince pies for work tomorrow (I couldn't possibly inflict my baking on them and if I get the mini mince pies I saw in the supermarket earlier the carb content is totally managable).
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