Just been out for dinner...

[pottersusan]

Just been out for dinner at a rather nice restaurant, the Guildhall Tavern, in Poole with some (early dining) friends. Having ordered, gave myself my insulin about 15 mins before the food arrived. Had monkfish with a crayfish tail sauce, a largish new potato and some chips and carrots. Normally that amount of potato and carrot would send me into overdrive, unless I had the insulin at least 45 mins before. Having looked at the dessert menu, decided to abstain. Then, with the benefit of my cgm I could see things going floorwards so ordered a sweet, and gave myself a little insulin. The sweet was rather spectacular - a dark chocolate sphere filled with pear and ginger sorbet which on arrival at the table (about 5 mins after insulin) had hot chocolate sauce poured over it. Result: a slow climb to about 11mmol and am now 7.1 and still going down.
I realise it must have been very good quality chocolate - but there was quite a lot of it! The ginger and pear must have contained quite a lot of sugar. Apart from the chips and chocolate there was very little fat. I must have totally overestimated the carbs, I suppose, but you do generally get quite good at guessing.
I expected to be hyper after eating out, but that's definitely not the case. In fact I think I'll be eating jelly babies soon - which will spoil the aftertaste of that luscious pudding.
I think I'll have to force myself to go there again and have the pudding again to see if the same thing happens.
Diabetes... logical? predictable?

 

[Northerner]

Further research definitely required, you can't base any decisions on one experience 😉 Sounds like a lovely meal, hope you can get your levels stabilised 🙂

 

[pottersusan]

I should add - it's quite an event for me to eat two courses these days, not having the advantage of that storage area called a stomach! Now 5.1!
I don't often get it so spectacularly wrong! JBs here I come🙄

 

[Carolg]

Sounds like a lovely meal