Carbohydrates

[DaPa]

I am fully aware of the consequences of consuming too many for T2.

My question is:
if you ate something with 10g Carbs but included added sugar or something with 15g Carbs but no added sugar.

Which one would be more detrimental to the effect of BG?

Regards
DaPa

 

[helli]

I believe it varies on what you tolerate.
Sugar is digested faster which could put higher pressure on your pancreas to produce insulin.
However, a higher level of total carbs could have a bigger, longer impact

 

[Drummer]

In my experience using a meter to test after eating, carbs are carbs - starch or sugar, high or low fibre - makes very little, if any difference.

 

[AFLago]

In my experience, it's the total carbs dosage per serving which counts. I just ate 2 little biscuits (4.5g carb each, which includes "less than 0.5 sugars") an hour ago, and by the meter it went 37 mmol/mol, from 32. But I still remember a month ago eating a full-length squid sandwich (white bread, about 300g)...102 one hour after eating it!

 

[trophywench]

Here in middle England squid sandwiches are as rare as hen's teeth. In fact, I've never been offered one anywhere. And what on earth is a full length sandwich - an entire 3ft baguette halved horizontally? Or more like a 12inch Subway sandwich?

Anyway whatever, 300g of carbohydrate would increase my BG by 90, so if I measured 5 on my meter before, I'd measure 95 after - and thats in mmol/ml, not mg/dl - except of course meters don't measure that high, usually stop about 33, so it would just so 'HI' ! (No way Pedro could I possibly eat 300g carb anyway.)

 

[AFLago]

Here in middle England squid sandwiches are as rare as hen's teeth. In fact, I've never been offered one anywhere. And what on earth is a full length sandwich - an entire 3ft baguette halved horizontally? Or more like a 12inch Subway sandwich?

Anyway whatever, 300g of carbohydrate would increase my BG by 90, so if I measured 5 on my meter before, I'd measure 95 after - and thats in mmol/ml, not mg/dl - except of course meters don't measure that high, usually stop about 33, so it would just so 'HI' ! (No way Pedro could I possibly eat 300g carb anyway.)

Hi Jenny

...it was (precisely, I'm seeing it on my meter's memory) 306 mg/dl (so, about 108 or a little more in mmol/mol units, not 102 as I said!. previously (on that day, 15/March) I was on 120 mg/dl of fasting glucose).

The "baguette" was about 30cm long...let me send one photo of it (a sample photo , which I think it pretty accurately depicts it, not the actual one):

 

[Leadinglights]

There seems to be some confusion about the units in the above posts. Here in the UK we use mmol/l for readings from a blood glucose monitor and mmol/mol for Hba1C tests results.
Elsewhere mg/dl is used for blood glucose monitor results which I believe if divided by 18 equate to mmol/l.

 

[AFLago]

There seems to be some confusion about the units in the above posts. Here in the UK we use mmol/l for readings from a blood glucose monitor and mmol/mol for Hba1C tests results.
Elsewhere mg/dl is used for blood glucose monitor results which I believe if divided by 18 equate to mmol/l.

ok, then it was (my "squid spike") 17 mmol/l, yes.

 

[trophywench]

Well you'd have expected anything in batter to increase your BG, cos of the flour, but by 17 is rather more than I would have thought.

 

[trophywench]

Anyway - have you crossed the squid sandwich off your menu now?

 

[AFLago]

Anyway - have you crossed the squid sandwich off your menu now?

of course! no bread, no rice & no floured....I eat very few carbohydrates/day as of now (turnip greens, spinachs, broad beans, lentils, red peeper, asparagus, etc...some 2 pieces of small fruit (strawberry and bluberries), 3 pieces of peeled nuts. And frankly I feel much better. My waking FBG is being now in the range 4.6 -5.2 (mmol/l). Before starting the diet one month ago, was > 7 (7.6).