Breakfast this morning ouch

[Andrew]

Hi

When I got up with my nice new shiny meter I tested my blood this morning 7.30 7.1 ? given the talk about porridge from yesterday I used my old breakfast - as posted ? 60 g porridge ? 40 g sultanas 250 ml milk 7.30 9.30 test 17.6 ouch. I assume that this is very bad.

 

[RSVP]

40g in weight of sultanas is a lot in my opinion.

Might be time to try less of everything and or a different breakie.

We have Tesco muesli (90g weight), natural yog (150g weight) and a sprinkle of blueberries Totals 72 ish g carb 🙂


Sarah

For info : Approx 70g carb per 100g weight Most of which is sugar & not to mention the hydrogenated fat content.

 

[Andy HB]

Yep, that's not good. If you like your porridge, then you are going to have to reduce the quantity of oats and probably ditch the sultanas all together (try something else which won't spike you so much. Maybe a small unripe banana which I have cooked with the porridge in the past if it is too unripe).

Just keep altering the combinations until you find one which works. You need to aim for nothing >9mmol/L 2hrs post meal.

Good luck!

Andy 🙂

 

[Mark T]

Wow! I'm usually targeting less then 20g of Carb for breakfast

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Firstly - great that you are experimenting. You could look at it that there are no 'bad' results only data to help inform your choices.

So yes... 17.6 is higher than you wanted. It could be food type. It could be portion size. It could be both...

As others have said the sultanas are a likely candidate for a rapid rise (being 60-70% sugar themselves). So you could either reduce them and runa few more tests, or drop them entirely and use berries instead (of all the fruits these seem to be least-worst for most people). There are frozen ones in supermarkets if you worry about getting through them.

Incidentally it might be worth trying just oats on their own. GI is an averaged figure, so while many people might find them slow release and spike-free, you may not (I don't). After some trials I gave up on all cereals as I always ended up in or near the teens.

Good luck with your experiments, and keep us posted.

 

[Andrew]

4 hrs post porridge

Hi 4 hours post porridge down to 9.1 I have had to set the lance to 4 the max on this device in order to get any blood out at all!
I have a load of frozen raspberries which I have picked - I may try them

 

[Andrew]

thanks

Hi
Experimenting is great ---- interpretation is my problem I have nothing to compare with or know what to look for.
There was a comment about sultanas that they may as well be sugar lumps, I thought that I may as well find out what one of my long time breakfast combinations would do!! Not what I wanted.

as for portion size when I tried 40g porridge by 11am I was fit to snack anything I could get my hands on. so I am concerned about avoiding creating a snack habit --
I am going to look at the berries as I have loads of raspberries form the garden in the freezer,

Tomorrow it will be weetabix and a banana.

Firstly - great that you are experimenting. You could look at it that there are no 'bad' results only data to help inform your choices.

So yes... 17.6 is higher than you wanted. It could be food type. It could be portion size. It could be both...

As others have said the sultanas are a likely candidate for a rapid rise (being 60-70% sugar themselves). So you could either reduce them and runa few more tests, or drop them entirely and use berries instead (of all the fruits these seem to be least-worst for most people). There are frozen ones in supermarkets if you worry about getting through them.

Incidentally it might be worth trying just oats on their own. GI is an averaged figure, so while many people might find them slow release and spike-free, you may not (I don't). After some trials I gave up on all cereals as I always ended up in or near the teens.

Good luck with your experiments, and keep us posted.