On 01/29/2013 10:37 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> I may be the atypical diabetic. But eating low carb simply does not work
> for me. If I don't eat enough carbs, my BG will shoot up over 300 and this
> was true even when I was on no meds or insulin. But for me, it's a fine
> line. Must eat some carbs but not too many. On the flip side, I can at
> times just as easily go hypo. So I have to be really careful. But beans
> never spike me, provided I don't eat too many of them.


Julie,

By chance, are you not eating enough fat? If I don't
get enough fat, I get really cold (shiver a lot) and
I start to hyperventilate. (GB normal, but I start to
spill a moderate amount of ketones.)

We are not designed to burn carbs as fuel. Only
small temporary spurts. Our preferred fuel is fat.
Here is a great article on the subject:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/a-met...dy-metabolism/

(Grok is my hero.)

Hyperventilating is what sent me to the ER, where I got
diagnosed with T2.

-T