Biggest spike yet.

[Browser]

Knowing that I was in for a big spike but as a learning exercise, I had some shepherds pie, not an awful lot of mash, and then a small piece of birthday cake with a topping of fairly sweet icing. I was 6.2 before and a whopping 14.6 two hours later. After a wee glass of red wine to chew over the result, I was back down to 5.6 an hour later. What was the main culprit here, mash or cake? Or a lethal cocktail?

 

[Martin Canty]

Difficult to say, but for my money probably the cake, an awful lot of refined carbs (including sugar).

 

[grovesy]

Mash tends to push me up .

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I struggle with mashed potato too (more significantly than cake). But I suspect it was the combination and it all added together. Glad you were back into better numbers so promptly.

 

[Dollypolly]

I'd say both myself for the mash and cake.

My biggest spike was with weetabix and milk went from a 7.0 to a whopping 20.9

 

[Sprogladite]

Weirdly I tend to hypo with mash, I have no idea why. Cake makes me go off the scale. You came down really quickly though which was great! I had a spike of 22 at the weekend, I skipped breakfast (woops!). I once had a BG of 33 and my monitor just said HI (I went to the hospital and they did a "proper" blood test to get the actual figure). It seems like an inappropriately cheerful response for an unreadable BG level LOL

 

[Wirrallass]

Not sure there - possibly the lot - if not then I'd say the iced cake would have been the main culprit - as for myself mash potatoes and cake will see a bgl rise. Good experiment though Browser. x
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