I love the egg ones! If I wasn’t trying my hardest to be reformed in way dietary ways, I’d be getting a cgm and mainlining things in the name of science!
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The eggs are the best - the perfect ratio of pb to chocolate.
I’m pretty intrigued by the idea of a CGM, too.
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Yesterday we went out to eat for our Valentine’s Day dinner.
I had salmon, full order which included 2 pieces, green beans and sweet potato mash that was sweetened with brown sugar.
For desert I had bread pudding with ice cream.
First bump was the sweet potatoes and meal which took me up to 115, then dropped back down to normal. I thought this might be the dessert, but it took longer to digest and would hit me later. That took me up to 120, still not as high as those grapes I ate.
Average glucose through the night and even this morning has stayed elevated 5 to 10 points higher. I suspect if I had walked or exercised early this morning that would bring in down quicker.
Went to get a coffee and asked for 3 stevia to sweeten at my local Starbucks. That’s the other big bump in the day. They must have used sugar in place of stevia. That one coffee brought me up damn near as high as my dessert.
That concludes my experiment. The monitor still has 4 days worth of tracking on it but going low carb the rest of the week and there will be not much worth reporting.
I will use the second monitor when I go back to eating more carbs. I will report back then.
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This was cool. Thanks for doing it
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No problem. I enjoyed it. The next time around should be a lot more interesting since I will be eating more carbs. I will be curious how oatmeal, potatoes, rice, etc. impacts it.
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Actually, artificial sweeteners and even caffeine can cause a blood sugar bump. So, you may not have gotten real sugar. It’s kinda crazy.
Echoing @TrainForPain, thanks so much for logging this. It’s super cool and interesting and everyone’s body is so different.
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