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- Location
- Suffolk, UK
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
Using a Libre 2 to track BG changes can show some interesting things.
I was experimenting with Aldi Xmas cake (bought in a period of weakness) which didn't seem to raise my BG significantly when microwaved and mixed with a little brandy, some butter and some double cream.
However I had a low reading Libre 2 at the time.
Reading went up a bit but never out of the green, which seemed an interesting result.
I now have a new, remarkably accurate for once, Libre 2.
I repeated the experiment with some Lidl Xmas pudding,
Only a small piece, but again microwaved and with brandy, butter, cream.
My BG showed the tiniest of blips then just flat.
Well in the green.
Overnight, however, my BG crept up and the line was more or less flat but just in the yellow.
I checked the package, and it said (for 100g) carbohydrates 62.2g of which sugars 40.1g.
In theory that should have sent my BG through the roof.
I am now wondering if the majority of sugars were fructose, and so didn't show up directly in the blood but were snaffled by the liver and then slowly converted to glucose and released over time.
Fairly intensive finger prick testing wouldn't have shown this, apart from no spike and BG same before and 2 hours after eating.
I'm now wondering if this is an acceptable occasional treat, especially after strenuous exercise which seems to empty out the glucose from my system (assuming liver store).
I was experimenting with Aldi Xmas cake (bought in a period of weakness) which didn't seem to raise my BG significantly when microwaved and mixed with a little brandy, some butter and some double cream.
However I had a low reading Libre 2 at the time.
Reading went up a bit but never out of the green, which seemed an interesting result.
I now have a new, remarkably accurate for once, Libre 2.
I repeated the experiment with some Lidl Xmas pudding,
Only a small piece, but again microwaved and with brandy, butter, cream.
My BG showed the tiniest of blips then just flat.
Well in the green.
Overnight, however, my BG crept up and the line was more or less flat but just in the yellow.
I checked the package, and it said (for 100g) carbohydrates 62.2g of which sugars 40.1g.
In theory that should have sent my BG through the roof.
I am now wondering if the majority of sugars were fructose, and so didn't show up directly in the blood but were snaffled by the liver and then slowly converted to glucose and released over time.
Fairly intensive finger prick testing wouldn't have shown this, apart from no spike and BG same before and 2 hours after eating.
I'm now wondering if this is an acceptable occasional treat, especially after strenuous exercise which seems to empty out the glucose from my system (assuming liver store).