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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris24Main" data-source="post: 2723011" data-attributes="member: 585131">Fascinating discussion, and of course, the answer is that it depends on you...as [USER=85785]@Lamont D[/USER] points out - we look at glucose, but it's the insulin that counts - your level of insulin sensitivity / resistance will affect everything, and the long term goal (at least as far as I see it) is about allowing your body to use this incredibly powerful hormone sparingly, so in that sense, for most people; going off the rails occasionally is totally fine.If you are on a Keto diet, then it's much more about the glucose spike creating a corresponding insulin spike that will knock you out of Ketosis..  that would be why I would avoid all and any spikes, but that's me...  I don't think that the odd spike is inherently dangerous, but you can say that about a cigarette, or a whiskey, or a joint ... if you have any concerns about the likelihood of falling off the wagon, you need to think about that, and recognise the addictiveness of sugar. and everything you do will be part of a feedback loop, the more fruit you eat, the more your gut will be loaded with bacteria aimed at digesting the fibre from that fruit, etc.. and the reverse, someone on a long term low carb regime will have a much more significant reaction to the sugars in the same fruit.On fibre - there is a lot of discussion about whether we need it at all - why would we have evolved to need something we cannot digest... but my sense is that, in a high carb diet it will help slow the absorption (and reduce overall absorption of sugars) but that in a low-carb regime it's not so clear. I like my rocket and cauliflower, so I'm not ready (at least not yet) to go full carnivore myself.In the end  - all of us are in this for life; and whatever we plan to do has to be something we can do for the whole of that life - blowing out on your birthday sounds like part of a good plan to me... The very worst thing  we can do is turn eating into a dull points-based system that provides no pleasure...</blockquote>

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