Hi Stemar.. Are you low-carbing to keep your numbers low? If you are, sugar, pumpkin, peas, rye bread and sweet potato is not the way forward my dear...Hi Everyone,
I hope your all doing well and keeping your BGL's in check, as this is the main task of our day by day life, yeah!!!
BGL's @ 06:30 hrs 11.3
Breakfast 2 Poached Eggs and a slice of Lite Rye Toast, a cup of Coffee with 1 teaspoon of White Sugar.
BGL's @ 09:45 hrs 10:2
Lunch just a cup of coffee with 1 teaspoon of white sugar, Didn't take my BGL's
BGL's @ 18:30 hrs 13.7
Dinner Steamed Fish with Sweat Potato Chips and Mashed Pumkin and Peas, with a cup of coffee with 1 teaspoon of sugar.
BGL"s @ 20:35 hrs 13.5
Stemar, (Downunder)
That all sounds lovely to me... but I wouldn't dare eat potato still... I made a wonderful chicken, mushroom and pancetta pie with puff pastry for my husband yesterday, and, for the first time in 8 months, ate pastry... couldn't resist and decided to test myself... I so enjoyed it, but never again... I cannot do it, my numbers went from an average 6.5 after eating, to 172... couldn't believe it...B: new batch of chia seed coffee cocoa peanut butter and rasps
11's: black coffee, cheese and olives
L: 3 egg omelet with left over curry, truly good.
Before: 5.0
D: Spatchcock chicken, some potato salad(!) coleslaw, cabbage and baked garlic, rasps and sour cream.
2 hrs after: 5.6
A weekend with no wine.... never done this and not sure why I did this weekend as it does not appear to affect my BG's...
That all sounds lovely to me... but I wouldn't dare eat potato still... I made a wonderful chicken, mushroom and pancetta pie with puff pastry for my husband yesterday, and, for the first time in 8 months, ate pastry... couldn't resist and decided to test myself... I so enjoyed it, but never again... I cannot do it, my numbers went from an average 6.5 after eating, to 172... couldn't believe it...Back to my lovely almond flour pastry then... I'll have a glass of red with it...
Ahhh, sorry AB - I live in the ME so have meters that read the American system... yep, 9.6 indeed... I have never had a reading that high since I started low-carbing... I never cheat though, so maybe that's why! Thanks for that - I never stop researching and always learn something new every time... How are you? I haven't logged on for ages, my life is manic...Is the 172 mg/dL figure, meaning 9.6mmol/L? That could potentially improve, if "last meal effect" is in play. If you haven't encountered that before, consult with Dr Google, who will happily explain it to you.
@Susikav good to hear from you, hope all is well.That all sounds lovely to me... but I wouldn't dare eat potato still... I made a wonderful chicken, mushroom and pancetta pie with puff pastry for my husband yesterday, and, for the first time in 8 months, ate pastry... couldn't resist and decided to test myself... I so enjoyed it, but never again... I cannot do it, my numbers went from an average 6.5 after eating, to 172... couldn't believe it...Back to my lovely almond flour pastry then... I'll have a glass of red with it...
Thanks for that! I feel a bit better now@Susikav good to hear from you, hope all is well.
Agree with Potato, didn't know why I did it as it was pretty out of character, can't remember the last time I ate potato....
And for your Pastry I cooked sourdough pizza for wife and son and had one myself.... BG +10 2 hours after, highest ever.... and never again unless I try a cauliflower base.
Red wine does seem to help my BG.
pip pip.
Hj
Got the Wiki page up but not read it.... really should be doing some work.....Thanks for that! I feel a bit better nowAll is well, just have a stupidly mad life at the moment .. And Breathe says look up the 'last meal effect' and see why it makes your numbers so high.. I have just, literally, started reading about it... I'll condense it for you if I ever understand it... Or, you could condense it for me...
Ahhh, sorry AB - I live in the ME so have meters that read the American system... yep, 9.6 indeed... I have never had a reading that high since I started low-carbing... I never cheat though, so maybe that's why! Thanks for that - I never stop researching and always learn something new every time... How are you? I haven't logged on for ages, my life is manic...
Me too... if I don't I won't be able to watch the Ashes...Got the Wiki page up but not read it.... really should be doing some work.....
arrghhh..
I can't seem to take much comfort from the last meal effect...What was interesting was the idea that if you eat any carbs last, it lessens the effect of them? We ate mid-afternoon and had buttered cabbage, green beans and cauliflower with it... I watched the tennis instead of pottering around or walking on my treadmill - maybe that didn't help?Is the 172 mg/dL figure, meaning 9.6mmol/L? That could potentially improve, if "last meal effect" is in play. If you haven't encountered that before, consult with Dr Google, who will happily explain it to you.
I can't seem to take much comfort from the last meal effect...What was interesting was the idea that if you eat any carbs last, it lessens the effect of them? We ate mid-afternoon and had buttered cabbage, green beans and cauliflower with it... I watched the tennis instead of pottering around or walking on my treadmill - maybe that didn't help?
That makes a lot more sense... I remember your posts on enzyme-lag now... much better term for it... My problem is that I hardly have a routine... I just get used to being up at 5, feeding and watering everything, then I'm off on another plane to live in a hotel - 4* usually, happily, but still it's difficult to keep to any kind of routine... still up at 4 to be out on-site at 5.30 usually though... I'm always in bed early... I am going to be less strict with myself now for a while - it makes sense to introduce a small amount at a time and allow the system to get used to it, if it can... Thank you AB... Glad you're well... are you home for the summer?Probably inactivity didn't help, but the main thrust of last meal effect is something I would express differently.
As simply as I can manage, our bodies work on a routine. It gets used to when we get up, when we eat, sleep, work and whatever. As a part of that our digestions are similar. You know how it is, we probably get hungry about the same time each day, and so on. In the background, our digestive systems are geared up for food that mimics what we have been eating recently, and as such the required hormones and digestive enzymes are around and about. Where we then lump in something new, in any quantity, as you did with the pastry (but it could be fat, protein or anything really), our systems can be rather caught short and not able to digest it efficiently. Think (old life) Christmas dinner feasting, or the opposite of what happens with carb flu. With carb flu, the body is objecting to the reductions. With last meal effect, or as I call it in my head, "enzyme-lag", our bodies are caught short, and deal with it best they can, which can include increased blood readings.
If you were to repeat the same pattern today, you might find your score improved a bit, because your pastry wouldn't be a complete shock to your system, and repeated again, it could be better again. How much improvement any individual can expect ir really down to their own bodies, and the level of change they are imposing on their systems at any given time.
So, that's why you may observe folks on here advising not to count out or in and reintroduced food, based on on iteration.
It's completely up to you how you choose to handle your most recent "experiment" and the results, but please do bear in mind the concept, or you could find yourself repeated discounting foods when agreeing a window for modification with yourself might be kinder, physically and psychologically.
Good luck with it all.
That makes a lot more sense... I remember your posts on enzyme-lag now... much better term for it... My problem is that I hardly have a routine... I just get used to being up at 5, feeding and watering everything, then I'm off on another plane to live in a hotel - 4* usually, happily, but still it's difficult to keep to any kind of routine... still up at 4 to be out on-site at 5.30 usually though... I'm always in bed early... I am going to be less strict with myself now for a while - it makes sense to introduce a small amount at a time and allow the system to get used to it, if it can... Thank you AB... Glad you're well... are you home for the summer?
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