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Ardbeg

Ardbeg

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I don't visit the forum as regularly as I used to as I appear to have my BG pretty much under control now.

Pre diagnosis I used to "nod off" after a big meal; which I now know was to due to a large carb intake. I'm more or less a good boy now, only occassionally having some chocolate or junk food.

Today I ate a total of 5 M&S soft white rolls. Two in the morning (bacon rolls) and 3 in the late afternoon (sliced beef). This evening I went out with friends for a meal and had chicken curry, garlic nan, popadoms and 4 pints of lager and one pint of beer over the duration of the evening.

I come home, walk the dog then check my BG for the first time today and it's 6.5. How can that be? Why am I able to keep it under 7 when I'm straying from my previously healthy eating regime fairly regularly these days? :?
 
Funny thing diabetes, there are never two days the same! :?

I would have had to been on a insulin drip to eat the amount of carbs you had eaten yesterday! :lol:

Nigel
 
i have found that once alcahol has been taken the next 24 hours or so is a free for all in the carbs department. however after 24 hours the numbers start to creep up and i have to be strict to bring it all back to healthy balance. i use the alcahol when i go out to eat to get away with chips pasta etc and to help me put on weight which seems to work ok at the mo
 
I think bedshaped has got the answer here Ardbeg, had you tested 2 hours after your two white rolls you may have got a very different reading but after filling your liver with alcohol, your bg levels drop.

Perhaps we should all be prescribed a couple of bottles of wine a day :lol:
 
Thanks for the responses guys.

Tested myself again this morning and was a respectable 7.1. Had two bacon rolls for breakfast and tested a few hours later and was 8.6

Back onto my healthy regime from now on which, incidently bedshaped, includes a mandatory 2 glasses of red wine every evening.

just what the doctor ordered. :wink:
 
Cumulative effect? If you've been a good boy for a while, you can probably stray once or twice a week without major spikes. But if you stray 2 days on the trot the carbs would hit you harder.
 
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