Full fat milk has less sugar than reduced fatYup I get it, hence why i wont have it, just wondering if anyone else uses Huel
One last silly question, I used to have a flat white semi skimmed milk daily from Costa coffee, its going to be once a week treat now. Best to have with Oat Milk/Dairy or Almond to minimise any spikes?
Well, for me it meant reducing my carb intakes consistently. The fasting (morning) reading stayed in the high sixes for some months (6? 8?) after my A1c was normal and pre and post meals more than acceptable. I'm three and a half years into low carb now, and did a week of fasting tests last month as a check. Results clustered around 5.2 with very little variation.6.4 on fasting today, what do people on this thread get on their fasting? How to I nudge this into the 5s
Thnaks Kenny, I apreciate your input. So morning one is last to move. Kenny do you excercise much or would you say yours is all diet controlled?Well, for me it meant reducing my carb intakes consistently. The fasting (morning) reading stayed in the high sixes for some months (6? 8?) after my A1c was normal and pre and post meals more than acceptable. I'm three and a half years into low carb now, and did a week of fasting tests last month as a check. Results clustered around 5.2 with very little variation.
It's about your system slowly learning and adapting to less glucose, so your liver doesn't feel the need to try to maintain you at the higher glucose level it had become used to. The more you feed it carbs the longer it will take to adjust to less glucose. I was on about 20g carb/day and it still took a while.
So - on my experience this isn't "nudgeable" - it's a longer term thing. It will happen if you keep the low carb intake going and it could take a bit of time - it might respond sooner, who knows.
I did not exercise at all for my first two years of low-carbing. Reason was partly lockdown, and partly the same reason I had given up some years back - I was too heavy and was constantly injuring myself in new and interesting ways. In the last year I've been playing football once or twice a week plus a pilates session as well as the odd stroll around and gardening.Thnaks Kenny, I apreciate your input. So morning one is last to move. Kenny do you excercise much or would you say yours is all diet controlled?
Do you ever allow yourself an occasional treat? wine, whisky, choclate maybe some rice or bread?I did not exercise at all for my first two years of low-carbing. Reason was partly lockdown, and partly the same reason I had given up some years back - I was too heavy and was constantly injuring myself in new and interesting ways. In the last year I've been playing football once or twice a week plus a pilates session as well as the odd stroll around and gardening.
My weight loss has stalled in the last year, although I'm getting steadily smaller: eg from >36 waist this time in 2022 to <34 now. I'm building muscle again and that's offsetting the fat loss. In my case exercise had/has precisely nothing to do with getting my blood glucose levels under control - I do it because I enjoy doing it.
I was about to type that I drink wine and whisky all the time - it isn't strictly true. I have however pretty much stopped drinking beer other than Salute zero carb.Do you ever allow yourself an occasional treat? wine, whisky, choclate maybe some rice or bread?
Very nice post, thank you. U use to drink whisky twice a week, although last 3-4 weeks I have been scared and just gettign my head around it. So knowing whiskey is zero carb is great news, I drink the single malt stuff with water only no mixers.I was about to type that I drink wine and whisky all the time - it isn't strictly true. I have however pretty much stopped drinking beer other than Salute zero carb.
Whisky is zero carb (as are all spirits) - it's certain mixers that would cause a carb problem. Wine (red) you can expect in the region of 20g carb a bottle, so a glass or two when I've had next to no carbs from other sources isn't a problem in this context. Neither therefore have any impact on my low carb pattern.
I have never been a chocolate eater so it wouldn't be a treat for me. I very occasionally will have some bread but only if it's worth it - the last time was on holiday in Italy September 2022, with a lunch in Greve. Had pasta at the same time. Yes, right off the wagon for that meal. The pasta was going to blow my glucose anyway, so bread was neither here nor there. Took me out of ketosis for three days and +2 hr post-meal reading went to 8.6.
I set myself my treat day well in advance - so I will again go off the wagon once or twice on holiday in late June, and we have a planned special event meal out in May where I will still be carb conscious but not to my usual degree. The real problem with the "treat" thinking to my mind is the temptation to treat yourself more and more often - a bad day, some good news, a day with a "Y" in it - it can creep up.
On the 8.6 - no, not as a one-off in the big scheme of things. Up from 4.7 before the meal. So getting on for a doubling in blood glucose level after a lunch.Very nice post, thank you. U use to drink whisky twice a week, although last 3-4 weeks I have been scared and just gettign my head around it. So knowing whiskey is zero carb is great news, I drink the single malt stuff with water only no mixers.
When you had bread and pasta on holiday your +2 hr post-meal reading went to 8.6, is that really a disaster?
So whisky once a week not going to cause great harm, I'm not talking bottles I mean 3-4 doubles with water?On the 8.6 - no, not as a one-off in the big scheme of things. Up from 4.7 before the meal. So getting on for a doubling in blood glucose level after a lunch.
It's a clear sign that if I ate that sort of food more frequently I would not see my usual fours and fives again.
Couple of things on alcohol: if you're low carbing it seems to pack a bigger punch, so watch out for that: you can make bad decisions under the influence - such as deciding chips are a good thing; processing alcohol will tie up your liver for a while so you may see artificially deflated BG readings.
I read recently that instant oatmeal is not good for blood sugar and that old-fashioned oats is better. I wondered what type of porridge you had eaten. I've never done the comparison myself.After talking to the doctor I started shaking, little confused and I did a quick test and sugar was 10. From 7.1 this morning after a skinny flat white. I had to have some porridge with semi skimmed milk. Why is it fluctuating so much? I sit because I am newly diagnosed and making to many changes at once?
Speaking strictly in terms of carbs, whisky with water is zero carbs and won't hit your BG.So whisky once a week not going to cause great harm, I'm not talking bottles I mean 3-4 doubles with water?
Instant oatmeal is bad, old fashioned oats are slightly less bad, they both have carbs which when digested release glucose. For your blood sugar, no oats or cereal of any sort is betterI read recently that instant oatmeal is not good for blood sugar and that old-fashioned oats is better
How about Weetabix? Limiting it to one biscuit or two maxInstant oatmeal is bad, old fashioned oats are slightly less bad, they both have carbs which when digested release glucose. For your blood sugar, no oats or cereal of any sort is better
Well if you were to eat the Weetabix dry 2 biscuits would be 26g of carbs, I would think they are impossible eat like that so you would need to add the carbs in the milk. So depending on how much milk, you would be looking at over 30g of carbs.How about Weetabix? Limiting it to one biscuit or two max
We all get spiked on fruit, it's full of sugar(nature's candy) that's why it tastes so sweet.Anyone get spiked on fruit, had one pear loads of cashew nuts and a few Quorn sausages for dinner abit mix and match. 2 hours latter 8.5 from a pre dinner test of 5.5
Oatmeal and weetabix are both carb-rich. Fruit has fructose, but pears are probably not as bad sugars-wise as (eg) pineapples. I don't eat fruit very much, only a few berries now and then.Anyone get spiked on fruit, had one pear loads of cashew nuts and a few Quorn sausages for dinner abit mix and match. 2 hours latter 8.5 from a pre dinner test of 5.5
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