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i can eat grapes

licklemoose

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swindon
Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Tablets (oral)
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the heat
i won slimmer of the week at slimming world and there were 2 small tubs of grapes one green one red
so i chopped up some cheese and ate both tubs of grapes (i love grapes)
measured my glucose an hour later 6.9
another hour later it was 5
obviously i wont have them everyday but at least i have the option for a snack
 
licklemoose...Can't eat grapes makes my BG go loopy. My nurse said freeze some grapes to curb my desire for sweeties. Two or three in the evening and WHOOPS. That wont happen to everybody thou.
 
Very nice - possibly the fat in the cheese slowed down the spike - just be careful eating same amount of grapes on their own it might be a different story - but test and see or you'll never know- well done on winning slimmer of the week
 
In 120g of black grapes there are 16g of sugar (4 teaspoons)
You were very lucky to get away with your grapes, but as said above, it was probably the cheese that slowed digestion down.
 
I can eat the large seeded grapes Lidl were selling - but not the smaller sweeter seedless ones.
I do chew the seeds and apparently that can be good - and I do have only a few at a time, after meals and I do plan for them so don't have so many carbs with my meal.
It is all a balancing act - but all the more satisfying if you achieve a good result.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
In 120g of black grapes there are 16g of sugar (4 teaspoons)
You were very lucky to get away with your grapes, but as said above, it was probably the cheese that slowed digestion down.
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yikes
ill try them again and test and see if it was just a fluke
they are so nice cold on a hot day
 
lovinglife said:
Very nice - possibly the fat in the cheese slowed down the spike - just be careful eating same amount of grapes on their own it might be a different story - but test and see or you'll never know- well done on winning slimmer of the week
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im going to try a few on their own and test if it raises ill try again with the cheese and test and if its ok ill limit them as a weekly treat
ive done so bad at slimming world been going over a year almost reached 2 1/2 stone then started piling it back on again, had a breakdown one night and rejoined the following week and that started off badly too its been one step forward and 20 back
im not sure i the metformin has anything to do with it or the furusomide but last week i lost 9lb and this week 6lb got my 1/2 stone and need 5lb more for my 1 stone
but i must have been carrying lots of water as today i kind of have feet and ankles, still swollen but nowhere near as bad as they used too when its hot
 
The risk is that you fill up most of the space in your liver with "solid BG", so your meter shows you are OK eating them, but doing so will result in other meals days later making you peak.

The meter not showing a large peak tell you very little once you have your BG under control, the meter just says "don't do this again" but it does not say what is OK. Its like a child thinking they can cross a road without looking because a car did not kit them when they did so.....

Until we can measure the insulin response to what we eat, we can't tell how hard a meal is making our body work, unless it pushed our body past what it can cope with. But every time we make our body work hard processing a meal, we reduce what it can cope with and when we give our body low curb meals we slowly increase what it can cope with.
 
If you can eat 1 or 3 then yes, I would go for it. If you like me tend to want more then possibly do not lead yourself into temptation.
 
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