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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NoCrbs4Me" data-source="post: 737634" data-attributes="member: 113206">Eating massive a massive amount of carbs/sugar at one sitting will cause a blood glucose spike even someone without diabetes, especially if they are on a low carb diet.  What's more indicative of diabetes is what happens after it goes up.  Does it stay up for hours?  That's bad and shows the diabetes has not been reversed.  Does it fairly rapidly go down after it peaks?  That's a good indication the diabetes has been reversed. No meds, normal A1c, normal fasting blood glucose - that's a good indication that it's been reversed.  It would also be helpful to have normal insulin levels, but the government isn't going to pay for that testing.Here's what happened recently when, as a little scientific experiment, I ate porridge (steel cut oats), a banana, a slice of whole meal toasted bread with margarine (shudder), and a glass of 1% fat milk - an example of a low fat "healthy" breakfast recommended during my diabetes course (carbs: 78g, fat 12g, protein 23g). This is more carbs at one sitting than I generally eat over 3 days. [ATTACH=full]10927[/ATTACH] Interesting graph, isn't it?  I woke up at 6 am on this day - you can see my blood glucose rise moderately after that as I prepared my horrific breakfast.  Then the massive rise in blood glucose after eating breakfast, followed by a fairly rapid drop to normal levels.  My normal breakfast of eggs, bacon, and coffee is about 47 g fat, <2 g carbs, and 28 g protein.  It does not do a lot to my blood glucose levels - actually about the same as if I only had a coffee.Am I cured?  Have I reversed my diabetes?  I believe so.If I went back on the low fat high carb diet that caused my diabetes in the first place would I get diabetes again?  Most assuredly!!   Does this mean my diabetes has not been reversed or cured?  Of course not!!I've also reversed or cured my obesity with a LCHF diet.   If I ate the supposedly "healthy" way I used to, I'd get fat again, yet right now nobody would currently attempt to claim that my obesity has not been reversed.  I think it's fairly simple logic.</blockquote>

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