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Easter

lotuslight said:
So I will admit I indulged slightly on Easter, and my readings agree lol.

How long do you reckon it takes to get back reading to before the chocolate lots of walking & salads for me now!
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Taken a while for stuff to get out my system recently about a week or so with exercise pepped up, (an hour) 3 times a week. Its paid off now and I am back in the 5s during the day. Everyone is different so just take it as it comes - that's my mantra anyway!
 
I’m willing to bet a lot of people on here did as well, I don’t think it’s going to take very long but just don’t add to it because I think that when we’ve been naughty we push it further than we should because we think oh well we’ve broke the rules so why not and then before you know it your like Allan partridge when he had his breakdown and gorged himself on Toblerone
 
@Resurgam Where are you buying your 95% from. I used to get one from Lidls but it hasn’t been on the shelf for about a year. Now buying Montezumas 100% with orange niblets which I love, but is a little expensive. Mind you it lasts me about 10 days.
 
I had an off piste Easter with relatives. I was the only remaining omnivore, so the meals were all high carb. On Saturday we had party snack food, commercial quality comprising stuff in pastry or otherwise coated in what looked like sawdust. My post prandial bgl was over 15 mmol/l which was not a good omen for the rest of the holiday. The next day I managed to drop to just above 13 mmol/l PP. On the Monday normal service ressumed, and my levels were around 9 mmol/ at the start of the day and my evening PP was peaking at 8. On the Tuesday I started at 9, but dropped it to 6 PP by the evening so getting warmer. Have not tested yet today.
 
lotuslight said:
So I will admit I indulged slightly on Easter, and my readings agree lol.

How long do you reckon it takes to get back reading to before the chocolate lots of walking & salads for me now!
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You'll probably be back to good within a week's time, though your fasting blood sugars may be a tad higher than you're used to. Don't worry about it. And next time, over Easter... Try to find extra dark chocolate eggs and bunnies. They're more expensive, but they're out there at the chocolatiers, and so good! For me, Easter went a little different from what's usual for us, but while it was just me and my husband this year, I didn't have to do much more than make a killer egg salad, which is low carb. ;) And we shared an extra dark bunny. :)
 
becca59 said:
@Resurgam Where are you buying your 95% from. I used to get one from Lidls but it hasn’t been on the shelf for about a year. Now buying Montezumas 100% with orange niblets which I love, but is a little expensive. Mind you it lasts me about 10 days.
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Try a different Lidl perhaps. It did vanish off the shelves for a while, but it reappeared after a few weeks.
 
I really appreciate these post high-carb-treat-festivities threads - so thank you @lotuslight.

Yeah, I also see it as a spotlight on the pull and delight of sugary treats and the comfort in traditonal and processed wheat and sugar based foods, and why, oh why, it is a big deal not to have them in our lives at all, or outside of these festivities - lest we forget! I choose to partake on a year by year basis, depending on emotions and my blood glucose levels. This year was a green light. And I reallly enjoyed it.

I have come to the conclusion that short and intense sugar and wheat at Xmas is too much and I get mood disordered, so I have to be really careful with amounts. So spreading smaller amounts of sugar and wheat over four days worked well and I only got a bit tanty once, and I was able to control it. (Sugar highs are not good for me and those around me, as a rule.)

And how did I deal with my fasting blood glucose levels over the sugar and wheat Easter? I didn't take them! It would be too too shocking, lol. But today, I took my fasting blood glucose, weighed myself, and measured my waist and hips, which is my usual tracking routine. Six days later - and took stock of the damage. Which is a belly increase of a few centimetres, as I get belly bloat from wheat, and interesting to see how much and for how long it lasts. No extra fat storage around the waist though - so thank goodness for some mercy.

Metformin is part of the mercy for me these days, I believe. Does not affect my fasting bloods much, as no dramatic improvements, but it does help me not eat of an evening, which is part of my current treatment plan.

Just a note - dark chocolate just doesn't do it for me. I can and do intersperse it with milk chocolate that is stevia sweetened, so I can tolerate it like that.

My conclusion post festivitiy treat eating - it is a hugely personal decision whether or not one does this with type two. I factor in my age (ie how much longer I probably have to live) and my need for the delight of sugar and wheat at that time. I know some type twos in their 80s who make that decision on a daily basis, to eat high-carb food regularly, and I do understand it, but I am 20 years off being in that decision-making decision. I would love to get to their age with my feet, and my eyesight largely intact. My kidneys functioning.

And the short answer - it takes me about two to three days post last high-carb treat to get back to my blood glucose normal. Now I'm off for a wee hike in a fasted state! (Um, my tummy is rumbling and I feel a bit faint - so I think I will have a lovely keto bun slathered in butter before I leap off for a wee hike in a breakfasted state!)
 
AloeSvea said:
I really appreciate these post high-carb-treat-festivities threads - so thank you @lotuslight.

Yeah, I also see it as a spotlight on the pull and delight of sugary treats and the comfort in traditonal and processed wheat and sugar based foods, and why, oh why, it is a big deal not to have them in our lives at all, or outside of these festivities - lest we forget! I choose to partake on a year by year basis, depending on emotions and my blood glucose levels. This year was a green light. And I reallly enjoyed it.

I have come to the conclusion that short and intense sugar and wheat at Xmas is too much and I get mood disordered, so I have to be really careful with amounts. So spreading smaller amounts of sugar and wheat over four days worked well and I only got a bit tanty once, and I was able to control it. (Sugar highs are not good for me and those around me, as a rule.)

And how did I deal with my fasting blood glucose levels over the sugar and wheat Easter? I didn't take them! It would be too too shocking, lol. But today, I took my fasting blood glucose, weighed myself, and measured my waist and hips, which is my usual tracking routine. Six days later - and took stock of the damage. Which is a belly increase of a few centimetres, as I get belly bloat from wheat, and interesting to see how much and for how long it lasts. No extra fat storage around the waist though - so thank goodness for some mercy.

Metformin is part of the mercy for me these days, I believe. Does not affect my fasting bloods much, as no dramatic improvements, but it does help me not eat of an evening, which is part of my current treatment plan.

Just a note - dark chocolate just doesn't do it for me. I can and do intersperse it with milk chocolate that is stevia sweetened, so I can tolerate it like that.

My conclusion post festivitiy treat eating - it is a hugely personal decision whether or not one does this with type two. I factor in my age (ie how much longer I probably have to live) and my need for the delight of sugar and wheat at that time. I know some type twos in their 80s who make that decision on a daily basis, to eat high-carb food regularly, and I do understand it, but I am 20 years off being in that decision-making decision. I would love to get to their age with my feet, and my eyesight largely intact. My kidneys functioning.

And the short answer - it takes me about two to three days post last high-carb treat to get back to my blood glucose normal. Now I'm off for a wee hike in a fasted state! (Um, my tummy is rumbling and I feel a bit faint - so I think I will have a lovely keto bun slathered in butter before I leap off for a wee hike in a breakfasted state!)
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When you reach my age a "wee hike" has a different meaning. Especially when on a water tablet and in my case a ralcaltricant prostate. LOL.
 
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