"Ellen K." > wrote in message
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>
> "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.

Perhaps then you need more carbs still. I have to eat some form of carby
food in the morning or my BG just goes higher. But how much? Well there's
the rub. Back when I could eat cheese on a regular basis, I bought these
little tiny cheese crackers. I think they were Cheezits. I could eat 7.
Exactly 7.