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marvkat

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I'm a little confused, I tested my blood before lunch, 5.6 had lunch of low carb sausages and coliflower mash, +1 hour bg was 4.6 all good. I've just done my bg now about 3 hours after lunch and nothing else to eat and it's 6.9! Is it possible that my bg dropped too low and my liver dumped? If so how can I stop that happening without eating carbs? I have been doing stuff in the 2 hours in between but only housework type things :crazy:
 
What were te sausages? It could be something in thm that is slowly released in your system?
 
They were from lidl but only 0.5g of carb per sausage and i had 3 so only 1.5g of carb for the whole meal. I wonder if as im new to low carb it was a bit too drastic and my liver had a little panic ha ha
 
Were they high in protein?
If I eat protein with virtually no carbs my levels go up at 3 and 4 hours and take ages to come down as protein takes longer to process into glucose.

Regards
Angie
 
I've thrown the package away but I assume that as they were low in carbs and ok on fat then they were quite high protien.

This makes things even more confusing, if carbs spike you quickly, and protien spikes you a bit later what am I supposed to eat??!

I may get shouted down here but is this not a case for have moderate amounts of both protien and carbs together?
 
marvkat said:
This makes things even more confusing, if carbs spike you quickly, and protien spikes you a bit later what am I supposed to eat??!
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Fat with a little bit of protein, and even less carbohydrate.

Protein spiking isn't a huge concern - it's really quite difficult to eat too much or too little. I'd just worry about the carbs if I was you.
 
I'm not concerned about eating too much protien overall really, I'm more concerned about the make up of individual meals.
I get the feeling (and correct me if I'm wrong) that if a carb based meal had taken me from 4.6 to 6.9 I might well be advised to reduce the carbs in that meal?
I still have a serious mental block about uping the fat content too much and would really like to try to avoid that for now. I just wonder if adding a very small amout of carbs, e.g. one new potato, might have helped to even things out over time.
I realise it is all a bit academic and 6.9 is still not too bad, just trying to work out the best way to eat for me.
 
marvkat said:
I'm not concerned about eating too much protien overall really, I'm more concerned about the make up of individual meals.
I get the feeling (and correct me if I'm wrong) that if a carb based meal had taken me from 4.6 to 6.9 I might well be advised to reduce the carbs in that meal?
I still have a serious mental block about uping the fat content too much and would really like to try to avoid that for now. I just wonder if adding a very small amout of carbs, e.g. one new potato, might have helped to even things out over time.
I realise it is all a bit academic and 6.9 is still not too bad, just trying to work out the best way to eat for me.
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6.9mmol/l is just fine. Don't sweat it.

The only way to do "low-carb" and "low-fat" is if you cut out both, and therefore eat a very small amount of calories.

There is no evidence that eating fat is bad for your health, especially on a low-carb diet. You just need to get past that mental block, because in the end you're going to have to choose between carbs and fat.
 
Agree with the above, but I do also think we can try to expect too much in way of correlation between what we eat and the BGs we get, particularly in the early days of lowering carbs and getting BGs under control. We tend to put things down to "liver dump" too readily to explain it. From what I've read, the liver only intervenes defensively at levels we're unlikely to get to without great exercise levels. But the whole time, the body is making corrections between insulin and glucagon releases to try and stabilise Bgs. (Different to a major liver dump) I have a pet theory (probably wrong!) that our body is initially used to higher levels when we're diagnosed, so tries to stabilise at higher levels than we need. This gives us odd readings after food which don't make sense, because we eat a good low carb meal, get a sensible BG, then it goes up for no apparent reason. I had a lot of this, then it settled down and I believe my body started to say "OK, you want to regulate at that level do you?" and stopped responding to my lower Bgs with little adjustments. I'd say stop worrying about blips like you had too much and stick with what you're doing; you're getting great results.
 
Thanks, I know I need to keep going to work it all out, just suprised me when I got a jump after being 'good'!

I'll stop worrying and give it some time, and give some thought to fat :shifty:

Thanks again for the advice.
 
Thanks Marvcat for posing this question. I like Grazer's reply - it goes along with what I felt my body was doing, particularly after exercise. I guess it's just a matter of time until our bodies adjust to new lower average BGs.
 
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