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Low Carb do less damage

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Some times nothing very much to be honest. I can have just as much BG upheaval from a meal with 15-30g vs 120g depending on whether or not I get my dose right. Of course many T2 members here would have a different experience, but for me personally 'low carb' doesn't always work out, and I much prefer 'generally moderate' everything to 'punitively low' anything personally.

Moderating carb intake can certainly help some people, but 'low carb' doesn't have an agreed definition so what is 'low carb' for one person would be 'high' for another.

I'd prefer 'low spike' as something to aim for.
 
So what makes your blood sugar rise & go high ? Carbs & what makes diabetics eyes, feet & heart problems ? Over-all Low carbs do less damage do they not. Everything you touch in the supermarket has a bag of sugar in it.
 
Out of curiosity, what happens if you eat high carb goods @HOBIE? Or do you eat a certain diet with no carbs?
I often eat chocolate on a nightshift and stay within range, no spike.
 
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HOBIE said:
So what makes your blood sugar rise & go high ?
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Anything from stress to the weather to the way the winds blowing not just carbs! Timing and dosage if right carbs can be handled so why not?
HOBIE said:
what makes diabetics eyes, feet & heart problems ?
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Not looking after themselves properly OR not being diagnosed until they have other problems not carbs!
Lucy Honeychurch said:
I often eat chocolate on a nightshift and stay within range, no spike
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Tut tut you terrible person 😉 (oh yeah sorry but we're all saints and not human at all)
Carbs are not BAD and IMO if this was what I first read when I was diagnosed I would have been much more terrified!
 
I guess it all depends how active you will be after consuming high carbs, if you were doing say a bike ride for 50 miles, you could probably do with a few carbs as you will burn them off.
Only way to know would be to test your levels pre high carb meal, test maybe an hour later, then go out on the bike, ride your 50 miles, test again when you get back, you might want to test mid way through the ride, to see where you are at & if you need to eat anything or not on the ride.
 
Derek Stubbs said:
I guess it all depends how active you will be after consuming high carbs, if you were doing say a bike ride for 50 miles, you could probably do with a few carbs as you will burn them off.
Only way to know would be to test your levels pre high carb meal, test maybe an hour later, then go out on the bike, ride your 50 miles, test again when you get back, you might want to test mid way through the ride, to see where you are at & if you need to eat anything or not on the ride.
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Agree Derek, if you ran a marathon you need carbs but if you sat down all day carbs are not so important. BG goes up & a few years later ?
 
I get bigger spikes eating a sandwich than I do from chocolate cake. I think that may be a fat issue.
 
I have been cutting out all obvious carbs apart from 1x sliceof toast for brekfast and with the increase in meds my Hba1c has gone from 10.4 in march to 6.8 🙂 it was werid at first but now I dont crave them at all !
 
For the spikes it depends also how the food is made and of some extra ingredients. I've seen that if I eat "old school" wholegrain bread (with only stone-milled flour, water, yeast, salt and malt) I have almost no spike. If I eat a wholegrain baguette from the big mall supermarket I have big spikes.
By the way old school bread tastes better.
 
If I eat pure Seafood it does not go up at all(no carbs). If I ate cake (high carbs) I can guarantee it will go up. T1 is different to T2. 😱
 
HOBIE said:
If I eat pure Seafood it does not go up at all(no carbs). If I ate cake (high carbs) I can guarantee it will go up. T1 is different to T2. 😱
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How much carbs do you actually eat in a day? x
 
am64 said:
I have been cutting out all obvious carbs apart from 1x sliceof toast for brekfast and with the increase in meds my Hba1c has gone from 10.4 in march to 6.8 🙂 it was werid at first but now I dont crave them at all !
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Well done Am64
 
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