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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2754959" data-attributes="member: 517579">Stop thinking about "spikes".  A rise in blood glucose is perfectly natural and to be expected after eating some carb.  That's what you have to manage. And your blood glucose will also go up and down in response to stress, illness, and a host of other things.  You have only limited control over it in the short term - your liver is actually in charge, and livers are slow learners. What you are aiming for is control in the longer term. That means an overall reduction in BG levels, so that your +2hr reading is returning closer and closer to the baseline reading, and the baseline reading itself is reducing.  I often give this example - one small latte (thanks to the lactose in the milk) took (and will take) me from 5.1 to 9.6 in 30 minutes (CGM readings) and I was back to 5.2 or so by 60 minutes.  The 9.6 isn't actually an issue for me - the peak lasted only a few minutes as my system dealt with the incoming glucose efficiently.   There's very little I can do further to affect that - apart from not having the latte. When you say "healthy food" - what do you mean by that?</blockquote>

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