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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HSSS" data-source="post: 2291265" data-attributes="member: 480869">My point was alcohol temporarily lowers bgl as the liver is busy dealing with the alcohol first. The rise from the carbs in the food and alcohol comes later once the booze is dealt with. So the alcohol “masks” the carbs for a while and unless you test later you won’t see that.  Alcohol, also contributes to fatty liver which makes processing carbs less efficient.  30 g of carbs in 3 cans of otherwise nutrient empty liquid is still 30g of carbs. Fast Carbs means you reach higher levels, although maybe for a shorter time.  This means more potential for damage by those high levels. Slow means not so high levels although perhaps for longer, reducing damage potential. Our insulin isn’t very effective so it will have a better chance of dealing with the drip feed of slow carbs better than rush of fast ones. This is the basis of being told to eat complex carbs. Yes better than fast. Even better is not to stress the body with eating/drinking an excess either way and not raise levels too much for any length of time. If you’ve temporarily been eating extra carbs and are not diabetic then your body would process them and hb1ac would remain unaffected. It has risen because you failed to process them. Denial is strong in most of us at diagnosis.  I had a million reasons why I became diabetic. Some may indeed have been contributing factors but the result was the same. I was diabetic.  That all said maybe you are able to cope with higher carb amounts than some of us can. We are indeed individual in that regards.</blockquote>

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