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Even I don't understand it

I can get away with a slice of New York Cheese cake , probably because of the fat in it. however today I made the BIG mistake of having my favourite farm shop sausage on a ciabttata . My BS were 12.7 two hours later, I won't be having that again​
 
I din an experiment if I had a bag of crisps my blood went high if I had a donut it was normal 7.8 or 8.8 now I went for a curry with friends my blood went way too high bout 15 I think but when I had a Chinese it was 10 ...... Sooooo I think the fat contents is the key I never go for high fibre diet due to a dogy belly but as I find if I have loads of potatoes or eggs it's high goes down off course but I think it's realy a case of just figuring out what food is bad for you not what you read xxxxxx hope I've helped waffled on abit. Sorry lol


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Why are you sorry? It's a forum so everyone is allowed to give their opinion! Go for it!
 
whats best for fibre ? ....@ scandichick
 
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Yep! The fat would have slowed the uptake of carbs and testing at 1 hour , 1.5 hours and 2 hours would have shown it!
 
Scandichic said:
Not sure I understand? Follow LCHF. Ergo no potatoes, rice, pasta or bread.
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Not so sure that telling someone not to eat potatoes, rice, pasta or bread is really helping them to know how to get fibre in their diet. That said, as Paul said, it might be best if Shane started a new thread on the fibre issue - otherwise things get confusing.

Regards

Doug
 
I was unsure about the question hence "not sure I understand" "follow LCHF " relates to my own experience. I would not tell anyone what they must do. I believe people should do what works best for them! I can see I should have stuck "I" infront of follow.
 
Safe to say diabetes can be an unpredictable beast at times and can throw up a few surprises along the way, your bg readings look fine Douglas so don't beat yourself up about letting slip in your diet
 
Douglas - I would be interested to know what your bloods did over the 24 hours since your amazing result yesterday morning.

I conducted a similar experiment, just before Christmas, with pizza. I knew it was "left field", Whilst my postprandial reading was under 6 a couple of hours later, my waking and subsequent numbers were just a a little raised, on my usual averages, for a couple of days thereafter. By a little raised, I mean 0.5-0.75 mmol/L. As I was experimenting, I deliberately stuck with food I can predict my results, and not moderated on exercise - before and after the indulgence.

I appreciate I am trying to run my numbers very tightly, but whilst I'm still trimming up and getting the old cholesterol and BP reined, it seems eminently sensible. The experiment was only two months post-diagnosis, so I may try something similar again soon.

I must say, your experiment is encouraging, for the odd indulgence on high days and holidays.
 
I find my bgs react better to sugar than starch so I cope with fruits, pure orange juice, and the occasional bit of birthday cake far better than rice or pasta etc. My worst bg readings recently have come from pizza which overall held my bgs higher than the pure glucose in an ogtt test.

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Interesting xyzzy. I haven't experimented with the sugary stuff yet.

The pizza was "capitalising" on a meal out with friends to a pizza place. Part experiment/part expedient. I'm ambivalent about repeating that specific foodstuff.
 

I can't really say, as I went to the Dive show in London all Saturday.
Drove down with my daughter in the morning, stopped for a Mcdonalds bacon roll and a hash brown, took the tube across London, had a Lebanese street food lamb wrap at the show, and a greggs steak bake on the way home.

It was still 5.6. when I tested at around 10.00pm when I got back.
Don't know how it was in the 15 hours in between, but I'm good with those figures.

And, I found a sweatshirt I had from one of my first jobs over 25 years ago, and it fits again!
 
Funny you should bring this up. A couple of days ago, I noticed an old tin of syrup at the back of the kitchen cupboard as I was making my breakfast porridge.

Fed up with eating the porridge plain, I gave into the temptation to put some syrup on it - as I'd have done in the good old days. What a treat!

An hour later, I sheepishly took a BG reading. 7.2? Tried another strip, 7.3, then another, 7.4. The levels at 2 hrs had gone down to 5.8.

I'll not make a habit of it, because logic suggests it isn't the most sensible thing to do and it'd no doubt lead to other lapses, but it is a strange old game, isn't it?
 


I think the biggest issue with type 2 is that there's no instruction manual ! I'm guessing that we've all seen reasonable results because the cells in our pancreas decided that today would be a good day to work. The same meal tomorrow might create mega highs when the cells go back to their usual lazy ways.
It doesn't make it easy to gauge what is the right course of action, does it?
 
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