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Originally Posted by dyna mo
300 is up there, do you know where your ketone spill level is?
does pizza hit you harder than other foods? it does me. an equivalent meal of say, bread, meat, salad and potato doesn't fry my readings anywhere near what pizza does. pizza's good though...........  |
I don't ketone test, my glucose averages are low enough that I guess it's just not indicated. My doctors have never brought it up and according to what I've read it's useful if your glucose is higher than 250 more than 2 consecutive readings, a 6.0 A1c puts me at a 135 +/- average.
250s rarely happen to me anymore and depends entirely on what I eat.
Pizza hits me the hardest of all foods, it's mostly bread. Which is why I can only indulge once a year at most, sometimes life just plain sucks
Carbs in general jack me up so I keep them to a minimum, I try to avoid (mostly) anything made with refined flour or starchy foods, even whole-wheat bread will cause a significant increase.
A couple nights ago I had a big bowl home made chicken soup with no noodles or bread and 2 hours later I was at 92, with noodles or some bread I would have been 160+
Where you eat bread, meat, salad and potato I eat salad, meat and vegetable. A diabetic nutritionist once told me that while sugar makes a huge spike in the blood it is gone pretty quickly, but carbs will build glucose slower and to a somewhat lower level but they keep it up for a far, far longer period of time, and that's when the damage happens.
But I still need some work on that portion control
