Well the eggs or yoghurt wouldn't affect my BG or yours (cos when the body gets enough from other foods it doesn't start converting any protein or fat into glucose usually and you're eating enough carbs to keep it happy) - but I just couldn't eat that much food. However have to say on UK 'B&B' holidays if I get up at a reasonable hour and go out to taste the air for a bit before returning to the guest house etc - I can then tuck in to a lovely full English cooked and presented attractively by someone else and if I decide Hang it and have the toast and marmalade 'dessert' well fine - just don't expect me to be able to eat lunch! LOL
Every 10g of carb wherever it's from - chips or tomatoes, or cake or carrots - will see a rise in my BG of 3.0 on my meter. So one large slice of medium cut bread whether it's white or brown or yellow cum pink with blue spots, will increase it from 4.5 to nearly 6.0. Obviously I'm T1 so that's without me taking any insulin to cover the food. You have insulin, but no-one knows how much, or when, or how much your body resists that insulin, if it even does that at all. It really isn't simple - and there honestly is no way of telling what X food or Y food or what amount of it does what, to anyone's BG without them testing their blood.
A periodic HbA1c blood test will never tell any of us what damage spiking or plummeting BGs there has been in between those tests or, what they have done to us. I went through nearly two years when my meter kept showing me swings between HI (over 33.3) and LOL (under 1.8) on a daily basis. Of course there were all sorts of numbers in between those but they did happen at least once a day, often more times. I kept saying this isn't right and asking for help - and my stupid GP told me because my A1c was 7.5% (59) 'You only need to try a little bit harder'. Pillock.
The spikes and plummets are more responsible for starting the rot - and aggravating it once it's started - eg retinopathy bleeds, kidney and nerve damage - than having a slightly high HbA1c over a length of time. Years ago Helen - ALL diabetics were instructed to test, same as all diabetics MUST watch their carb intake and take plenty of exercise. That only lasted until approx late 1980s. Since then diabetic care for T2s has taken an absolute nose-dive and whilst £££billions has been spent on developing new drugs for T2 FAR less money per head has been spent on education plus all medical treatment and advice, prior to the complications setting in because successive governments have progressively invested far less cash in the NHS - and it's all about saving dosh in this year's budget/in this term of government than it is about any person's future prospects or any extra expenditure under a future different regime. We saved £££ is what they want - not We saved XXX more people's lives/saved the NHS.
Especially since yesterday, and what we're now stuck with for the next 5 years, please, please Helen - don't just 'not worry' about it - when you are in a position to treat yourself better than the NHS will. Invest in a Codefree meter and strips and get testing when you need to, to learn what your body can tolerate and what it can't. And proceed accordingly with getting on with your life !
