Blood sugar reading--77
6:15AM
4 local farm free-range eggs cooked in butter with bacon and Colby Jack cheese
Fresh homegrown garden tomato slices (4)
Coke Zero
8:00AM
Blood sugar reading--66
12:00PM
Blood sugar reading--88
12:00PM
1/3 pound grass-fed beef burger with 1 ounces of cheddar cheese and 1 Tbs mayo
Fresh homegrown garden tomato slices (4)
Coke Zero
Fresh, locally-grown blueberries and blackberries with Truvia and whipped cream
2:00PM
Blood sugar reading--92
5:00PM
Blood sugar reading--80
5:15PM
4 slices of Julian Bakery low-carb bread cooked in butter with Colby Jack cheese, bacon, and mayo
Coke Zero
7:30PM
Blood sugar reading--94
NOTE: My blood sugar reading this morning was again down in a more normal range at 77 which was encouraging to see as a baseline. I was up early today in part because I didn't sleep very well and I had to be at church a little early today since Christine and I are singing on the praise team this month. Just before leaving for the worship services, I checked my blood sugar again a couple of hours after eating the eggs breakfast and it had dropped to 66--not really surprising in light of what we've seen lately.
After we got home, I checked my blood sugar again and it was at 88--a 22-point rise from my reading just four hours prior. I had a purposely smaller meal with only one burger with tomatoes today, but I added the berries to the mix so I would have fat and protein with my carbohydrates rather than eat the carbs alone. The result two hours later was a blood sugar reading of 92. Three hours after that and five hours after eating, I was ready to eat again and check my blood sugar--80, which was almost baseline from the beginning of my day. I decided to eat that low-carb bread with lots of butter, some cheese, bacon, and mayo. My blood sugar was 94 two hours later.
Interestingly, I checked my ketone levels at 10:00PM just out of curiosity since a few people have expressed concerns over the Julian Bakery bread. When I measured, my stick turned purple indicating moderate amounts of ketone bodies present--that wouldn't happen if the bread wasn't what it claimed to be. And the blood sugar rise was not astronomical as you would expect from what people are claiming is a "high-carb" food. Very clearly it is not like eating Wonder bread!
The ongoing Stargazey experiment continues...
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Jimmy, I am telling you for a fact that those strips have a build up inaccuracies to them. Lots of factors might swing a blood sugar readings from that glucometer. I will not go into them. Once I was experiencing hypogglycemic symptoms, that was prior to lo wcarb. My mother's glucometer showed 56 and I started freaking out. I measured it again on my grandmother's glucometer and it showed 77. I releaxed and went to measure it at my doctor's office and it showed 90. All those reading were pre-prandial, meaning on empty stomack. Then my doctor had enouph and just too a blood test. it came back showing 88. So all your readings are within absolutely normal range. A reading of 66 could actuall be around 70's and even 90 could be a bit higher but all of them are fine. Especially in a light of Ac being 5.1. But it is definitely an intresting experiment.
THANKS Vadim. I'm not letting what I see on those test strips effect my attitude about what I'm doing. I just find it quite fascinating.
I remember you had done a Glucoes intolerance test in the past but I dont remember if it was traditional glucose load or was it low carb, high fat meal? It would definitely be intresting to see the insulin release response making you load on hihg fat steak with butter along with some low carb treat like blueberries or low carb ice cream?
My 5-hour GTT in 2008 was after a low-carb meal of chicken, eggs, and cheese.
Jimmy,
Nice job on the consistent testing. Just wondering if the breakfast meal at 6:15am was eaten due to hunger or more as part of the experiment? I know you generally don't eat that early, so I am just curious.
I almost always wake up hungry, but I agree that you shouldn't eat just because it's a certain time of the day. I think it's interesting to see how your BG results can fluctuate, but, as you said, I wouldn't be concerned since they are all in the normal range and your A1C is fine. The human body is an amazing, dynamic creation, isn't it?
Thanks
Excellent question, Robert! I usually eat breakfast on Sunday mornings before church so I'm not stuck being hungry during the services. Plus, they had "red, white, and blue" pancakes for the congregation today, so eating kept me from being tempted by the carb-laden food. :)
I know the feeling of being hungry and the stomach growling just when everything is quite! Kudos on planning ahead prior to the tempting pancakes.
Hi Jimmy! I'm not sure the BG and ketostick results exonerate the Julian bread. After your meal with the berries your BG went from 88 to 92, but after the bread meal they went from 80 to 94. I too have been monitoring BG levels and find mine to be relatively constant. Even after an HC meal (100+ g carbs), my BG's don't spike much more than after an LC meal, so I'm not sure what to make of that other than having a mostly LC metabolism keeps the BG's more consistent even with the occasional carb load. I'm not saying the Julian is higher carb than advertised, but it could be a source of hidden carbs.
I'm also curious if your use of Xylitol is relatively new. I've found citations of caloric content of 2.6 cal/g which is about half that of sucrose. Is there a reason to use this sweetener over Splenda? Even if there's a gram of carb in a packet, that is far less than the carbs you're getting from the Xylitol.
IMHO, subtracting out sugar alcohols on a gram-for-gram basis for net carb counts borders on outright fraud.
The sugar alcohols may be something to look at avoiding to get back down to your low weight.
I read one study that showed that low carb diets lower the BMR by about 2-300 cal/day. Whatever the process by which LC'ers lose weight faster (at least initially) I believe our bodies adapt to eventually. Certainly after 5 years your's may have fully adapted.
I love the menus (although I'm not big on the taste of grass fed eat)! THANKS for sharing :)
THANKS LCC! Congratulations on your blood sugar control. Keep up the great work.
As for Xylitol, I've been consuming it as well as Splenda, stevia, erythritol, inulin and all kinds of other calorie-free sugar alternatives over the years. Sometimes I like to mix up the sweeteners.
I agree sugar alcohols should not be subtracted one-for-one, but probably count as .5 per gram. But if you'll look at my menus, they are not fraught with sugar alcohols. No doubt my body is adapted to this way of eating which is why I've tried to change things up to work on it. :)
THANKS for your comments!
Hey again Jimmy, TTBOMK I don't have any diabetic related issues, but I decided to check it out (and for the hubby where diabetes runs in the genes) for my own knowledge. Truth is, most folks don't have a clue about what their BG's are. Surely there has to be a difference between a higher average level than a wildly swinging level as well. LC certainly is the way for everyone to have a more balanced level, however. I was relieved to discover the hubby is doing AOK on the BG's too despite him being the high carber of the group.
Y'know, with weight stall/gain, I'm reminded of the Eades' blog posts about LC'ing a second time around, etc. You posted somewhere that you didn't know why your metabolism should need a "kickstart". Well, Eades' reason #1 might just be the answer -- one none of us can escape. AGE!!! I know that after 35 I started to feel the effects with each year. You are 6 years older than you were in 2004. As much as we try to find easy answers to complex problems, this may just be it! Keep switching it up, I'm sure you'll find something that will work again for you.
Thanks for all you do with LLVLC!!
Thanks for reminding me I'm getting old, LCC. LOL! :D But you're right which is why I keep plugging away at it. It may be harder for me now than when I was 32 losing 180 pounds, but that doesn't mean I should ever give up on the pursuit. ;)
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