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- Type of diabetes
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My recent Low carbing with weight loss & exercise had given me a HbA1c of 34 so I was well pleased.
I fancied doing a OGTT to see how I was getting on but didn't fancy drinking 800ml of Lucozade.
Shreddies ceral were to hand & handily 70g of carbs per 100g.
So I weighed out 110g of Shreddies, almost filled the bowl.
Took my fasting, then gorged them into me is 3 minutes then set the clock.
Now I did this during my work commute to minimise movement.
Results:
Fasting 4.7 (85)
30 mins 9 (162)
60 mins 13.3 (239)
90 mins 11.1 (200)
120 mins 8.7 (156)
150 mins 6.4 (115)
Now I wasn't surprised that that breakfast cereal spiked so hard after reading about the 57 Stanford students wearing CGM's after eating cornflakes.
https://www.futurity.org/blood-sugar-levels-glucose-1823122/
These are the actual glycemic profiles from that study.
I was slightly miffed I didn't get back below 7.8 (140) as I've eaten far bigger meals with 100+ carbs & been at 110 at the 2 hour mark.
I'm only 5 months since diagnosis so still early days, I reckon I was caught early & my HbA1c was 52 at the time.
I'm still obese & could move my fat ass far more.
Scary as it is to see those crazy high figures my body could still suppress them in a short time.
I would compare favorably enough to the poorer responders in this gastric banded cohort tested 3 years post remission.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4411432/
I wonder how representative of the test the cereal was & would pure glucose respond differently.
Obviously a more complex meal would flatten out the spikes as I've observed in my own readings.
Anyway, feedback welcome.
I fancied doing a OGTT to see how I was getting on but didn't fancy drinking 800ml of Lucozade.
Shreddies ceral were to hand & handily 70g of carbs per 100g.
So I weighed out 110g of Shreddies, almost filled the bowl.
Took my fasting, then gorged them into me is 3 minutes then set the clock.
Now I did this during my work commute to minimise movement.
Results:
Fasting 4.7 (85)
30 mins 9 (162)
60 mins 13.3 (239)
90 mins 11.1 (200)
120 mins 8.7 (156)
150 mins 6.4 (115)
Now I wasn't surprised that that breakfast cereal spiked so hard after reading about the 57 Stanford students wearing CGM's after eating cornflakes.
https://www.futurity.org/blood-sugar-levels-glucose-1823122/
These are the actual glycemic profiles from that study.
I was slightly miffed I didn't get back below 7.8 (140) as I've eaten far bigger meals with 100+ carbs & been at 110 at the 2 hour mark.
I'm only 5 months since diagnosis so still early days, I reckon I was caught early & my HbA1c was 52 at the time.
I'm still obese & could move my fat ass far more.
Scary as it is to see those crazy high figures my body could still suppress them in a short time.
I would compare favorably enough to the poorer responders in this gastric banded cohort tested 3 years post remission.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4411432/
I wonder how representative of the test the cereal was & would pure glucose respond differently.
Obviously a more complex meal would flatten out the spikes as I've observed in my own readings.
Anyway, feedback welcome.
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