Carbs and tiredness

[Sarah69]

I've read many times on here that carbs make some people sleepy. As it doesn't effect me I don't understand that at all. I'd like to know if carbs effected people like that before they were diabetic?

 

[lessci]

Not so much in the evenings, but if I had a carb heavy lunch(pasta/rice etc) I always felt like an afternoon nap!

 

[sanguine]

Before I was diagnosed, i.e. when I was prediabetic and then unknowingly in T2-land, I ate a lot of carbs - bread, potatoes, pasta etc. My increasing lethargy and constant tiredness was what caused me to contact my GP, I didn't have any of the other symptoms such as extreme thirst or needing to pee a lot.

 

[Brunneria]

It is as if eating carbs leaches out all my pep, vim and vigour. My limbs get heavy, I need more sleep (but it is less satisfying), by concentration and memory deteriorate. The thought of walking down to the corner shop is so off putting that I change the evening's menu rather than go out and buy a single ingredient...

On the other hand, when eating low carb (after the initial adjustment phase), I feel great! I potter about finding things to do, add an extra loop to the dog walk, do extra housework, keep focused for hours. It is like being a different person.

 

[Beshlie]

It was feeling tired all the time that led me to go to see my dr in the first place, and after multi blood tests I had my diagnosis. The need to sleep after eating had been affecting me for nearly a year, especially following my early evening meal. Now I have my BG levels mainly in the non diabetic range I'm not so bad unless I eat something I shouldn't and then it's zzzzzzz! I am still experimenting and trying and testing different foods and if my BG goes above 8 I feel it.

 

[Bluetit1802]

I can't say they have ever affected me, or not so I noticed. I ate mounds of bread and potatoes, Yorkshire puddings and battered stuff, but don't have a sweet tooth so rarely had puddings or cakes or sugary stuff. I can't remember ever falling asleep after eating. Weird how we are all different.