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No, no Bramley apple ones. I think we need to get WJ to do the catering, she is so good at all the low carb yummies. Tomorrow will be an indicator as to how alcohol effects me, so I can't argue for or against at this juncture. All the posts I have read say it is lower in the morning, watch me be the odd one out! :cry:
 
2 hour reading 5.9, so I can certainly see my BG getting less. From 9.4 to 5.9 in two hours. Seems clear enough to me, but as with any great scientific study, the results must be checked and rechecked to ensure accuracy :lol:
 
Defren said:
2 hour reading 5.9, so I can certainly see my BG getting less. From 9.4 to 5.9 in two hours. Seems clear enough to me, but as with any great scientific study, the results must be checked and rechecked to ensure accuracy :lol:

That is some drop!

Are you singing and telling everyone you love them :wink:
 

I don't want to get in a fight with Dr Grazer, the world's leading expert on alcohol-led diabetic control, but I thought that your liver "buffered" the carbs by turning them into fat in your liver for later processing. This is why alcoholics often suffer from liver cirrhosis.

My liver sure buffered one hell of a lot of carbohydrate in Holland a couple of weeks ago. That's why I'm never drinking again (again) :sick:
 

Sadly not. Perhaps I need to get out more :lol: I remember I used to do some rather embarrassing things, I also remember a friend and a Porsche, perhaps the least said about that the better :lol:
 
BeccaJaneStClair said:
I'm not a big drinker, but my SIL introduced me to Weight Watcher's wine and it's actually quite good, and according to the bottle has 2.2g/sugar per 125mil.


Ahhh, but gin has no sugar at all, not even by the gallon - hic!
 
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Sadly not. Perhaps I need to get out more :lol: I remember I used to do some rather embarrassing things, I also remember a friend and a Porsche, perhaps the least said about that the better :lol:[/quote]

Some things are best kept to ourselves. Not that I have ever got up to anything unsavoury
 

Sometimes unsavory is good, all things in moderation :thumbup: :shh:
 

You're probably right. But if it buffeted it by turning them to fat for later processing, maybe the later processing from fat when it takes place is less efficient and thus slower, so still less effect on BGs?
And if you feel like "never again", it means you don't get enough practice! So man up!
 
Final BG update today, after 3 hours I am 5.4. Pretty conclusive I would say. Now for tomorrows FBG, that should be very interesting. I am so pleased I made a mistake with those sausages today, and not yesterday.
 
We had a sausage issue the other day, I wonder if there was 'sugars' in? I think that was the night with the ginger beer too though, so far too much sugar in one go!

We had good readings last night, I wonder if it was the G&T?

Not a great LC'ing evening tonight so will see what 9:30 brings :?
 
Mrs grazer is starting to get seriously worried about this party! :lol:
Always room for you Choco!
 
Well I did say Gin was the best and as Defren says no sugar :twisted:

On the buffering thing. On the small number of occasions I have seriously "buffered" a large dose of carbs using gin it works a treat. It has never failed me. Looking back at my spreadsheet though I can see for a couple of days afterwards BG's are marginally elevated certainly less than 1.0mmol but to me the effect is there. So maybe there's something to be said for both Grazers and Borofergies theories.
 
Can I come to the party and be the designated driver as I don't drink alcohol pretty please?
 
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