Someone has said that

Someone recently gave this advice:

“Please note for those who are trying to eat the occasional potato, bread, or things you shouldn’t, that whether you see a spike or not is only a very small portion of the story. Once someone has been low carb for a while, sure you might get away without a spike today, but that doesn’t mean you have done yourself any good.

“You may see a much higher fasting the next morning because that is your most important basal rate and will change anytime you eat more carbs than necessary the day before.

“It also will influence your A1C, which is a cumulative average measured by the sugar and starch molecules in your bloodstream that will stick to the hemoglobin of your red blood cells. (Why you can’t get away with cheating or lying to your physician).

“If those are not bad enough, remember, every time you cheat you are INCREASING your insulin resistance, which is a way of saying, making your diabetes worse. The higher your insulin resistance, the harder it will be to keep blood sugars down in your future, the more likely you are in time to need increases in diabetic meds or new ones, the more likely you will end up suffering from numerous diabetic complications in the future, the more likely you will stop your pancreas from working anymore, as eventually those pancreatic beta cells (which cannot be replaced) will burn out and we all have a lifetime limit of them. This is a progressive disease.

“Little cheats today, lead to problems tomorrow, long past those little spikes. Diabetics are more prone than any other groups to have an autoimmune disease, blindness from 4 major eye problems (which can even occur with A1Cs below 5 if diabetic), kidney disease, heart disease, and, yes, even cancer as cancer is a disease of the mitochondria and feeds on sugar.

“So think of all these things the next time you think, ‘Aah, little cheats don’t hurt.'”

Then they added:

“If you think bread isn’t spiking you, test every 30 minutes after you eat it for up to 6 hours. Bread, since it is a grain, can spike you long after you eat it. Also, eating bread will increase insulin resistance and that means you will need more and more meds as time goes on to keep bs low.”

Finally, someone else said this:

“After 9 months of this WOE [way of eating], I find that for things I love that there just aren’t low carb subs for, I can get as much pleasure out of a single, savored bite as I used to get out of a double helping. I already intend to slowly enjoy one bite of beautiful stuffing at my family’s thanksgiving dinner, and will make sure that there’s room in my daily carbs for that choice.”

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