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Default Ellen's breakfast vis-à-vis morning readings


"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
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> On 9/3/2010 4:39 PM, Ellen K. wrote:
>>
>> "Nicky" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:25:42 -0700, "Ellen K."
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> It needs CARBS to turn it off in the morning?
>>>
>>> Yes, the mechanism is to turn off the release of glucose from the
>>> liver, by having just the right amount of carbs coming in from the
>>> digestion.
>>>

>>
>> Today instead of my usual romaine lettuce, I tried a whole raw green
>> pepper with my cheese, i.e. about 5 gm net carbs instead of 2. Here are
>> my numbers:
>> 5:58 98 This is shortly after getting up, and incidentally my lowest FBG
>> so far.
>> 6:33 104 Right before breakfast. Finished the food at 7:08.
>> 7:53 137 45 minutes after finishing the food, missed testing at what I
>> now think is my peak of 35 minutes because I was in the middle of
>> something for work.
>> 8:18 133 70 minutes
>> After this didn't test again till 11:08, four hours after the food,
>> which was 104.
>>
>> So while 137 is under the magic 140, it's still 33 points up from the
>> pre-breakfast value, and was probably not even the peak, although
>> considering that the next 25 minutes resulted in a reduction of only 4
>> points, maybe the peak wasn't much higher than the 137.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>

>
> My only thought is that cheese and a green pepper should not spike you
> like that. My suggestion is that you may need professional intervention.
>


I don't think the food spiked me, I think the dawn phenomenon just keeps
going up.

> You might want to stop that "net carb" stuff and just count all the carbs.
> Though I have never heard of "net carbs" with cheese and a green pepper.


The cheese doesn't have any carbs, I'm counting net carbs (total carbs minus
fiber carbs) for the green pepper only.

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> Janet Wilder
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