Confused by my BG levels after bread

Hi alll you diabeters,

I've been sticking pretty well to a low carb diet for a week now. I'm not being really strict i.e. measuring my daily carb intake but I've tried to ensure that I don't eat anything that is more than 5% carb. It's been working well and I've been keeping an eye on my BG levels which seem to be resonably stable.

This morning I my fella made himself bananas on (white bread) toast which used to be one of my favourite brekkies. The smell of the toast was so enticing that I decided to treat myself to a single slice of wholemeal to go with my bacon and eggs this morning. I was expecting a big spike in my BG but for it to return almost as low as my fasting after 2 hours.

My fasting BG was 7.3 and 1 hr after I'd eaten brekkie it was 8.3 and 2 hours after it was 5.6! which is my lowest BG 2 hourly reading since I started recording.

Does this mean that it's ok for me to now start eating a slice of wholemeal bread or am I missing something here?

Jen

EDIT: To add that there were 17g of carbs in the slice of wholemeal I had.

Patch said:

You need to realise that the carbs you'd eaten were the probably the first significant carbs that you'd eaten for a while. Your body CAN deal with one off's like that pretty well if you're lo-carbing.

BUT - I believe the effects of carbohydrates are cumulative. So the carbs you ate then will continue to effect your BG for a couple of days to come.

Again, a one off can be dealt with, but taking it everyday will likely cause your BG's to steadily rise.

Don't forget - it takes 2 days to deplete your carb stores, so if you had a slice every 3 days, your BG levels shouldn't take such a hit.

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I think you're onto something here Patch. I have been keeping to my one slice of wholemeal bread a day and have found a slow but stead rise in my BG. I'm stopped eating it now and will just keep it for one offs when there is little alternative.