My experiment

[Midgie]

So, a month after diagnosis, I’ve been testing pre and post meals (2 hours after) and my levels are within normal range but I’m really missing a treat so I bought a low sugar, low calorie cereal bar today it was minuscule!
I was 9.2 one hour after and 7.6 two hours after.
If I hadn’t done the test at one hour I would have been whooping. The saying ignorance is bliss comes to mind.

 

[Jenny65]

But isnt the point that 1 hour after eating even normal non diabetics would see a raise, the main number is 2 hours after which shows your insulin was working and getting it down. I may be wrong but thats what I have read before. I asked on google about how high levels should be after a high carb meal and it said after an hour it could be up to 11 as long as after 2 hours it was back down to normal levels, this shows your body is releasing insulin and working correctly

 

[Midgie]

But isnt the point that 1 hour after eating even normal non diabetics would see a raise, the main number is 2 hours after which shows your insulin was working and getting it down. I may be wrong but thats what I have read before. I asked on google about how high levels should be after a high carb meal and it said after an hour it could be up to 11 as long as after 2 hours it was back down to normal levels, this shows your body is releasing insulin and working correctly

Well, that’s cheered me up! Thanks
(Your bio is inspiring)

 

[harbottle]

I’ve seen a few sites that have shown results of non- diabetics using CGM sensors. The results do indeed occasionally go over 10, but don’t stay there long.

 

[Leadinglights]

Just be careful of the cereal bars as even though they say low sugar, low calorie they can be quite high in carbohydrate.
The Nature Valley protein bars, or KIND or some of the shop own are less than 10g carb per bar.
I liked the Morrisons ones but they seemed to have stopped making them as they were only 6g carb per bar.

 

[Midgie]

Just be careful of the cereal bars as even though they say low sugar, low calorie they can be quite high in carbohydrate.
The Nature Valley protein bars, or KIND or some of the shop own are less than 10g carb per bar.
I liked the Morrisons ones but they seemed to have stopped making them as they were only 6g carb per bar.

Thanks, it was 10 but hardly any eating in it!

 

[Leadinglights]

Thanks, it was 10 but hardly any eating in it!

Those I mentioned are 40g or 30g bars.

 

[Midgie]

Those I mentioned are 40g or 30g bars.

Oooo I’ll look for them, thanks.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

But isnt the point that 1 hour after eating even normal non diabetics would see a raise, the main number is 2 hours after which shows your insulin was working and getting it down. I may be wrong but thats what I have read before. I asked on google about how high levels should be after a high carb meal and it said after an hour it could be up to 11 as long as after 2 hours it was back down to normal levels, this shows your body is releasing insulin and working correctly

You are correct.
Sadly, a lot of scaremongering has been played around the internet to sell books and many sold them on "keeping BG flat"

 

[Eddy Edson]

So, a month after diagnosis, I’ve been testing pre and post meals (2 hours after) and my levels are within normal range but I’m really missing a treat so I bought a low sugar, low calorie cereal bar today it was minuscule!
I was 9.2 one hour after and 7.6 two hours after.
If I hadn’t done the test at one hour I would have been whooping. The saying ignorance is bliss comes to mind.

9.2 one hour eating is well within the range of what non-diabetics commonly see.

Should note also that if you've been keeping carbs low and then eat more of them in a meal, you'll expect to see very temporary BG elevations after eating. If you regularly eat the higher carb levels it's very likely the BG elevations will be a lot lower.

That's my personal experience and it's backed up by studies.

Along the same lines, it's not generally the case that BG rises proportionally to carb intake. Again, personal experience, backed up by studies: if you have at least moderately well-controlled BG there generally won't be a huge difference in post-eating BG levels with higher carb levels (modulo the temporary effect noted above), once you get above very low, keto-level carb amounts. This is just glucose regulation at work, and it works (if sometimes a bit creakily) even for T2D's so long as things are at least moderately well controlled.

Bottom line: Once you get to a certain point, there are far more important things to worry about than carbs.

 

[harbottle]

There are a few online blogs where non-diabetics have used sensors to see what happens and the results are quite interesting. I remember one guy had a MacDonalds and ended up with two massive spikes, well over 10. When one finished, the other one started (I've seen that as well when I've used sensors.)


Here's one, but the person is already low carb:

CGM Experiment: What I learned as a non-diabetic from wearing a continuous glucose monitor - Lily Nichols RDN

Many non diabetics are wearing CGMs to better understand their blood sugar patterns. Here's what I learned from wearing a continuous glucose monitor.

lilynicholsrdn.com

The 'oat' bit is interesting - up to almost 10 (Which is pretty much what I saw when using a libre and a similar amount of oats.)