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Pork causing High Glucose?

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Mud Island Dweller

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New about 5 weeks diagnosed l know everyone is different but wondered. I like pork but l think pork steaks grilled is giving me a high compared to my normal readings which seems crazy l mean it isn't fatty and doesn't strike me as a high glucose type item.

Tonight l tried 100g grilled pork steak with lot garlic chopped, a bit of cabbage and 50g basmati brown rice (first time with the rice) and was 7.2 @ 2hrs post.

When l have had pork steak with veg* and sweet spud* ( *2 things l know don't make me go hight) l have gone into the mid 6 range from low 5.

I am experimenting tomorrow with the basmati brown (cabbage/plain fish -- 2 safe items) to see what happens.

Thank goodness for advice from folks here about exercise, 30mins hard exercise have just dropped me to 5.1 but l am still confused over the pork. :cry:
 
Beachbag said:
Maybe a very obvious question but...... Why not blame the rice instead of the pork? :)
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it cant be the carbs!! lol mid 6 from mid 5 is hardly a spike and the sweet potatoe? oh no wait thats a carb it cant be that
 
I was believing what the op said, if you reckon he's wrong and the sweet potato must be it, fair enough, I still reckon he knows himself better than we do, so I'm going with him tbh.
 
What's wrong with going to mid 6's or 7 ? Even non-diabetics see a rise after eating and these figures are well within desired range. Don't really understand the problem. More likely the rice putting you slightly higher. ( not much though ). To test your theory, try a lunch one time of purely the pork, nothing else, then test before & after. That way, you'll know if it's the pork or something else.
Mo


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douglas99 said:
I was believing what the op said, if you reckon he's wrong and the sweet potato must be it, fair enough, I still reckon he knows himself better than we do, so I'm going with him tbh.
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its not that i know anyone better than themselves but if someone tells you they ate pork and rice and think the pork put there bg up? your going with that? i really dont get you matey, but hey what do i know, im not looking for an argument, it just makes me smile sometimes

:crazy: <<<<thats me smiling lol
 
Andy12345 said:
douglas99 said:
I was believing what the op said, if you reckon he's wrong and the sweet potato must be it, fair enough, I still reckon he knows himself better than we do, so I'm going with him tbh.
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its not that i know anyone better than themselves but if someone tells you they ate pork and rice and think the pork put there bg up? your going with that? i really dont get you matey, but hey what do i know, im not looking for an argument, it just makes me smile sometimes

:crazy: <<<<thats me smiling lol
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Pork causes an insulin spike. Your body then dumps glucose to bring the bs back up, diabetics often overshoot.
 
douglas99 said:
Andy12345 said:
douglas99 said:
I was believing what the op said, if you reckon he's wrong and the sweet potato must be it, fair enough, I still reckon he knows himself better than we do, so I'm going with him tbh.
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its not that i know anyone better than themselves but if someone tells you they ate pork and rice and think the pork put there bg up? your going with that? i really dont get you matey, but hey what do i know, im not looking for an argument, it just makes me smile sometimes

:crazy: <<<<thats me smiling lol
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Pork causes an insulin spike. Your body then dumps glucose to bring the bs back up, diabetics often overshoot.
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ok i stand corrected, it was the pork, my advice in that case is avoid meat, eat more rice :thumbup:
 
Probably cause a bigger spike, I'd stick to the pork, and be happy with the figures there.
 
But there are zero carbs in pork and therefore would not inject for it. How can we "overshoot" ? I've never heard anybody say pork causes a spike ! The OP hasn't mentioned a spike. Highest reading was in the 7's ! I would make a fairly large wager it was the rice or sweet potato.


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Why are we talking about injecting? The OP is type 2 no?

It's the rice. 50g of rice is a lot! But for such a low "spike" I'd have been ok with it probably!
 
I agree Hale, injecting insulin was off topic but Douglas mentioned " overshooting" so it was sort of a response to that. However, my original reply was that the rice would cause the higher reading, not the pork.
Mo


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I would have said rice as well, but the op had two meals, only one with rice.

Meds are only listed as metformin, so I would assume they are only insulin resistant, and still produce it. Insulin is released in response to lean protein, as well as carbs, so it can happen that the body will dump glucose as well if the insulin spike starts to make bs go low, then the overshoot happens.
It's not unheard of.

As to the figures, I would be happy with either result, but that's not what the op asked.
 
OP - what was your pre-meal reading for the pork? That really affects your post meal reading obviously too
 
Hale, why do you keep saying things twice, twice lol !
 
douglas99 said:
I would have said rice as well, but the op had two meals, only one with rice.

Meds are only listed as metformin, so I would assume they are only insulin resistant, and still produce it. Insulin is released in response to lean protein, as well as carbs, so it can happen that the body will dump glucose as well if the insulin spike starts to make bs go low, then the overshoot happens.
It's not unheard of.

As to the figures, I would be happy with either result, but that's not what the op asked.
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Apologies, that makes more sense. I think easiest way to resolve this is for OP to try a meal of pork only, test before and after.
Mo
 
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