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Lo-carb confusion.

Patch

Patch

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My god I'm confused! I've been at this lo-carb thing a while and I'm happy with my results. Been checking my fasting blood every morning and getting readings between 7 and 8mmol (not great, but better tan it's been in a while). I've also been checking when I get home from work (about 5.30pm - around 4.5hrs after eating lunch) and getting similar results.

Here's the thing. Yesterday I slipped up big time. I ate my lunch (some sliced chicken, ham, and some tabasco olives) and then at around 1pm, I had a custard doghnut. Then another at about 1.30pm. Then another at around 3pm.

I felt guilty as hell, but did not feel any of the effects that I used to after pigging out on carbs (no tiredness, etc...)

Checked my blood when I got home...

6.5mmol!!! That's the best reading I've had for at least a month! I then had salt and pepper squid with a little curry sauce and fried onion for supper (around 8pm) measured my blood, and got a reading of 8.2mmol.

I don't know what to make of that. Could it be that I sould eat some carbs? ( I usually aim for ZERO carbs (except that in veg)) to give me some margin for error. Can dawn phenomenon be attributed to my fasting readings. Should I try introducing some carbs? It seems downright stupid that I can eat 3 doghnuts without a high reading, but that a sandwich of wholemeal bread sends my sugars up...

I thought I was pretty up to speed on lo-carbing. Seems I was wrong! :x
 
Patch .... Burn in hell and 3 hail marys !!

I have no idea why but if its good enough for the pope :D

Dave P
 
Odd tihings do happen. I had cake without consequences a week ago. Just don't make a habit of it, you might not get away with it next time.
 
Cool. I can live with that! For a minute there I thought I'd stumbled up on "the 3-doughnut-a-day-Type-2-diabetes-cure". :lol:

Thanks folks...
 
Patch

Doughnuts tend in my experience to adsorb slowly unless they heavy on the sugar coating which can give a double hit.. As doughnuts are fried so the oil actually can slow the asorbtion down..

As for your morning readings this could be the dread dawn phenomenon... If I remeber rightly your're a T2 so I have to leave this to the others T2's to advice about any tacktics that you can use to try to prevent this from happening

P.S

Doughnuts are around 50g in total give or take a couple of grams
 
Jopar no tactics or advice needed ........... Just let him rot :lol: :lol:

Next year the flowers will be fantastic
Dave P
 
sixfoot

Thats mean.. heheh

Even I don't do doughnuts, might try with my pump though now I can do a multi-wave bolus, so I might be able to nab the sugar hit, then catch the slow carbs later... but heck its such a long time since I had one, I don't think that I can be bothered lol
 
I'll be around long after you've popped off, sixfoot. Then I'll take some of those flowers and put 'em on your grave.

Then I'll dance on it. :twisted:
 
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