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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Diamattic" data-source="post: 694687" data-attributes="member: 138639">I have started noticing things like this as well, certain foods which have typically returned normal numbers 4 hours aftering eating, tend to give me acceptable numbers 2 hours after eating, but very high spikes 1 hours after eating.My favorite cereal acts this way.. I will typically eat it with normal BS at 5, then testing at 2 hours gives me 7.5, and 4 hours gives me around 5 again. However the few times i have tested around 1 hours i found i got levels of 11!I really think this has a lot to do with the glycemic index of the food, in this case my food seemed to be on the higher end digesting very quickly shooting my levels up and then the insulin slowly brought it back down.Controlling spikes would really depend on when you took your insulin before eating, proper ratios and also the GI of the food so you can adjust the time you inject prior to the meal to account for those large spikes.  This might mean either injecting 30-40 minutes before eating certain meals, or changing the meal to include more fats and high GI foods..In a lot of cases when i see those 1 hour spikes i try to avoid that food in large quantities again (ie - no more large bowls of cereal lol only small ones, and maybe some toast and PB or eggs if I am still hungry)Also i have found that caffeine really tends to keep my numbers high for some reason. Like i eat breakfast with a cup of coffee rather then having coffee a couple hours afterwards. Not sure why, but i try to avoid having caffeine around the same time as an injection.</blockquote>

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