Blood sugar reading--85
9:15AM
4 local farm pastured eggs cooked in butter with Colby Jack cheese and bacon
Diet Rite
9:45AM
Blood sugar reading--92
10:15AM
Blood sugar reading--97
10:45AM
Blood sugar reading--81
11:15AM
Blood sugar reading--81
3:00PM
Blood sugar reading--84
3:30PM
Big bowl of salad greens with chopped tomatoes, fresh goat cheese, and Ranch dressing
Baked meatballs, mozzarella cheese, all-natural tomato sauce, and freshly-grated Parmesan cheese
Diet Coke with Lime
4:00PM
Blood sugar reading--93
4:30PM
Blood sugar reading--88
5:00PM
Blood sugar reading--77
5:30PM
Blood sugar reading--80
7:00PM
150-minute competitive volleyball
9:45PM
Blood sugar reading--92
9:45PM
4 meatballs with provolone cheese, all-natural tomato sauce, and freshly-grated Parmesan cheese
2 slices of Carb One Garlic Bread (eggs, almond flour, flax seed, carrots, garlic, salt) with butter
Carbsmart vanilla ice cream with cashews and whipped cream
Diet Rite
10:15PM
Blood sugar reading--88
10:45PM
Blood sugar reading--87
11:15PM
Blood sugar reading--100
11:45PM
Blood sugar reading--102
NOTE: Today was no fun pricking myself a total of 15 times to do this, but I was curious what my pre-meal blood sugar reading was as well as my readings at 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes. Although the pain of that lancet was a challenge, I'm glad I did this to see what was happening to my blood sugar levels in the moments after finishing my meals. I wanted to see what I was missing in the two hours between eating and checking my blood sugar at that 2-hour reading.
The breakfast reading showed a typical increase following a meal, but then at the 90-minute mark my blood sugar dropped 16 points in 30 minutes to below the baseline of 85. Even still, I went from 85 fasting blood sugar to 81 in two hours--pretty good control. Then at lunch, the same thing happened, although the drop started happening within an hour of eating hitting a low of 77 after 90 minutes before returning to 80 after two hours--just four points off of the reading prior to the meal.
Well, after injuring my right ankle playing volleyball last Monday night when I landed awkwardly on someone's foot and hyperextended it, I thought it had healed well enough to play on it again. I thought wrong! Here's a photo I took of my right ankle AFTER icing it down for 15 minutes:
I know, I'm a dope! My competitive juices make me want to get out on that court and play if I am able to walk, even if I start to feel pain like I did tonight. I'll be taking at least the next week off to see if this injury can heal completely. Lesson learned.
After 2 1/2 hours of volleyball, I was hungry and wanted to eat, so I had my meatballs with garlic bread meal along with my dessert. After a slight dip in my blood sugar within the first 30-60 minutes, it went up about 10 points above baseline by the end of the two hours and I went to bed--the highest readings of the day. Perhaps I am seeing some kind of a negative response from something I ate during that meal. We'll do more testing in the coming days to see what we can find out.
Tomorrow I'll be sharing the results of my blood sugar readings after consuming a diet soda. I'll be doing the test first thing in the morning on an empty stomach so the results will be based solely on the beverage. My plan is to test every 15 minutes for two hours after consuming a diet soda to see what kind of blood sugar response I am having after just one diet soda. Should be interesting!
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Someone told me, that logically, if you ate only 100 calories daily, all of them pure sugar, you would still never lose weight because the insulin response would keep you in check.
How can that be? (I ask) How much more so can it be with a "diet drink" that has NO calories? (I query)
Someone please enlighten me. Just a teenie bit?
Someone told me, that logically, if you ate only 100 calories daily, all of them pure sugar, you would still never lose weight because the insulin response would keep you in check. How can that be? (I ask)
100 calories of sugar is the equivalent of 25 grams of carbs. If you ate them all at once, they would digest quickly, be taken up into the circulation, and insulin would be released to put them into storage. An hour or two later, you would be back where you started, with insulin at normal levels.
The rest of the day you would be operating under starvation conditions. Insulin would be low because insulin is a storage hormone and there is nothing to store. You would mobilize glycogen from your liver, amino acids from your muscles and organs, and fat from your fat cells. After a couple of days of that, your body would drop your core temperature and make you very sluggish to preserve stored glycogen, muscle and fat. But you would continue to lose weight. The calories that keep you alive have to come from somewhere.
How much more so can it be with a "diet drink" that has NO calories? (I query)
A diet drink with no calories is just like drinking water for most people. Didirina and I discussed that the other day and eventually found several journal articles that show it's true. But for super-tasters like Jimmy, it's possible that they respond abnormally to the taste of sweet. According to my current theory (and it's only a theory) their taste buds detect the sweet taste and their pancreas shoots out insulin even if no calories are there. If only the diet soda is consumed, the insulin release will cause blood glucose to drop. Glucagon and adrenaline will eventually be released to get the blood sugar back up, but while the insulin level is elevated, body fat remains trapped inside the fat cells.
Clear as mud?
But you would still be alive, like in the first example. And needing your calories to remain alive.
Unless you are a super-taster. Then all the bets are off!
Thanks Stargazey for your excellent comment!
That lunch of yours sounds really yumm-E!
Wicked swelling on the ankle there Jimmy, hope you stay off it for a few days to let it heel (hee hee, get it? HEEL??)
:p
Yes, I "get it" Sadekat. LOL! I propped it up most of the afternoon. This isn't helping me finish my new book. :(
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