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gewatts

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Hi

I'm a bit confused. Why is it that people say pizza sends your bloods high? I thought fatty foods were meant to release sugar slowly.
 
Hi

I'm a bit confused. Why is it that people say pizza sends your bloods high? I thought fatty foods were meant to release sugar slowly.

Hi,
What happens is that when you inject for the pizza there is a 'peak' of insulin after approx 2 hours - but the pizza is still trying to be digested and is very slow because of the fat and so the pizza carries on digesting for 5 or 6 hours after you have injected - so it has missed the peak and there isnt enough insulin in the body to sort it out 5 or 6 hours later - so you will get high levels as they have 'missed' each other. So, what you can do on injections is give 2 injections. The first at the beginning of the meal (usually half the amount) and then wait for either the 2 or 3 hour mark depending on what levels your finding and then give the rest of the insulin - this helps to spread it out over the 5 or 6 hours that it takes to digest the pizza. This is even easier to do on a pump as you can give very small increments over whatever hours you like and there is a constant drip of insulin going in - the trick is to have the right amount trickling in - so you have to play with dual waves etc - hence the 'big nights in' experiments!

I hope i havent confused you - i find it hard to explain!:DBev
 
It's a good explanation Bev. I split my injections and got good results. I think that we also found that supermarket pizzas digested somewhat quicker than takeaway - possibly less fat involved?
 
think ill delete my post then , sorry for butting in .
 
It's a good explanation Bev. I split my injections and got good results. I think that we also found that supermarket pizzas digested somewhat quicker than takeaway - possibly less fat involved?

Thanks Northey,
I suspect the reason for the difference is that takeaway pizzas are normally very thick bases as its such a cheap ingredient and the shop bought ones are normally a thinner type base. I may be wrong of course!🙂Bev
 
Thanks guys. We were at Pizza Hut. Decided to give some insulin part way through the meal and some at the end as we were there quite a long time. Unfortunately she had 3 hypos yesterday ( inc at bedtime after meal) and was feeling sick. Bloods shot up a lot in the night but woke up at 13.2. Still feeling sick so must have a bug.
 
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