I can’t drink alcohol anymore, if I have half a glass of wine or beer I feel quite unwell
I was staying at friends and to be sociable had half and half of wine with sparkling water. I left 2/3rds as even that made me feel iffy, it’s a strange feeling and can’t quite describe it.Yeah you might be right there. I just looked at my tin of tomatoes they're 9g of carbs (4.5 sugars) per 100g. I doubt I'd eat 100g (they're in a 250g tin though, so maybe I could). That said, it's not a huge amountI can only comment for me, but depending on the quantities of carb based items in the curry itself (nothing jumps out as a big offender from what you posted), generally I'd always look at the rice first. Unfortunately, rice seems to be like dynamite for my blood glucose levels, it's one of the highest impact solid foods from my testing to date. As @plantae said, cauliflower rice isn't quite the same, but mix it all in with the curry and it works for me.
Tesco (other supermarkets are available) do a pouch of Fullgreen cauliflower rice if you want convenience. 4g of carbs per 100g versus 27g for basmati. On offer at the moment too, £1.50 a pouch. It's not as good as homemade, but very good for convenience and has way better shelf life too.
I've bought their frozen pouches of cauliflower rice previously, but I'll look into the FullGreen pouches. I've got some Konjac rice too, but I've tried Konjac noodles, and they weren't great!Tesco (other supermarkets are available
Beer makes me feel sick as well, probably because I drop so low. But I do it anyway. I am a naughty boyI can’t drink alcohol anymore, if I have half a glass of wine or beer I feel quite unwell
Yeah I've tried the konjac stuff too. Tried everything over a few attempts, all the recommendations on making it less offensive, but none work in my opinion. For me, it's slimy, it stinks and it's just a terrible product all round. It brings sadness to any meal it touches!
Other places do refer to the importance of minimising spikes after meals. Such as this one:
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From my understanding spikes are more damaging than having a more balanced BG (even if it's high). So yeah I agree with thatOther places do refer to the importance of minimising spikes after meals. Such as this one:
The Best Time to Check Blood Glucose After a Meal
Test blood glucose 1 to 2 hours after you start eating. This is when your food is almost digested, so you can capture the peak level of blood glucose.www.eatingwell.com
I’m currently doing a Prevent Diabetes cause run by the NHS, they don’t mention numbers but to stress the importance of minimising spikes. Saying it’s far better to have a more balanced line to your BG throughout the day than having high spikes that can likely lead to larger dips after, neither of which are good for overall health and wellbeing.
Whether consumed clothed or unclothed (it's a free country, no?), cauliflower rice is likely to be kinder to your system!
It comes from the post prandial levels in non diabetics. Typically at that 2hr reading a non diabetic is back or close to at pre prandial levels. So type 2 tend to try and mimic that response to achieve normal health, just we do it by adjusting the food rather than our bodies doing it for themselves regardless. Kind of how you can eat carbs but need to do the insulin bit exogenously. Cgm in type 2 is a newish thing and still not widespread.
Depends on how much I liked it.
In this case I likely wouldn't, I don't care much for rice so I'd just have the curry, possibly with some extra veggies thrown in. (And the beer. I like beer a lot more than I like rice.
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I found some stuff close to it here.
https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/blood-and-lymph/hyperglycaemia-high-blood-sugar/Thank you for explaining. I've been trying for a long time now to work out where the +2 comes from and have had no luck at all. Let's forget about the hypo correction comment, I'm not even sure why I brought that up, it's not generally an issue for T2s as far as I know. But what I'm saying is a rise of +2 mmol/L within 30-60 minutes after a meal seems like nothing. What are we meant to eat? Water? Do T2s really only rise 2 mmol/L after a meal? I find that hard to believe, although I guess it's possible on a very carb restricted diet. Even then that doesn't make sense because protein and fat raise BGL as well, it just takes longer. Are we talking about 2 hours post prandial? If so then I agree
Well there's the problemI found some stuff close to it here.
That's a rise of between 4.5 and 2 mmol/L 2 hours after eating. Not a total rise of 2 mmol/L. If 2 hours after eating a rise of 4.5 is acceptable (as that link says) then I can assure you that your BSL rose a lot more than 4.5 between those 2 hours
As I mentioned. “Close to it.” If one happens to be 7mmol (pre meal target range.) & peaks 2 hours at 9???
That's not the normal target, that's the general target for diabetics, according to the article, not non diabetics.
The graph shows that they were about 8.0 2 hours after their meal unless I'm blind (which I could be). The OP is not a non-diabetic
Nothing wrong with diabetics aiming for non diabetic numbers, right?
The rice is very likely responsible for the spike. To be honest I think everybody has different ideas as to what a "spike" is and also different ideas as to how it should be reacted to. For me personally I am happy to stay about 6.5 with some foods possibly raising my levels to 9 or 10. It's not the number I worry about, but how quickly it goes back to the original level. I wouldn't eat anything that shot up my BG quickly, but more to the point if my number stayed up in that bracket for more than an hour I'd not eat it again. Anybody that just tests randomly, can't possibly have a true figure to base food on.
