Okay, I don’t hate them but I avoid them.<\/p>\n
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Here’s a typical day eating carbs:<\/p>\n
I wake up and blood sugar is in 120’s. I ate breakfast with suggested number of carbs, say 2 servings. I feel loggy and check blood sugar two hours after eating. It’s in the 190’s. So I take some insulin to bring it down.<\/p>\n
Then I eat lunch. Two more servings, feel loggy, blood sugar two hours after eating, still in 190’s. Bring it down.<\/p>\n
Go exercise, blood sugar is still high afterwards.
\nDay keeps going that way. I’m no fun to anyone, and I keep giving injections.<\/p>\n
Yes, and I’ve increased my insulin enough to cover the carbs, but I still feel like I’m chasing the high and lows and on a rollar coaster. See Dr. Bernstein’s book. Any chemist, engineer type will tell you, changing things a small amount is easier to keep stable than changing large things.<\/p>\n
Typical day that works for me:<\/p>\n
Get up, eat a low carb breakfast. Blood sugar stays under 150, and I can think. Eat low carb lunch (probably < 2 servings today), blood sugar goes up a touch, to the 150-170's. Go to gym, walk the sugar off, go home, take insulin, eat dinner, and blood sugar stays low all day.<\/p>\n
Increase it up to around 150 in the evening and wake up with 100-110 in the morning — that’s to prevent dawn syndrome.<\/p>\n
Works for me.<\/p>\n
And it’s the day to day effects that affect me more, than the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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