[Diabetes-talk] High sugars in the wake of skipping a snack?

[Michael Park]

Hi there.

During the course of the last week, I made an extremely interesting 
observation, and I must stress three very important things here before 
waxing eloquently about my discovery.

The first is that what I have observed, stems from the fact that I test 
my sugars on a regular basis.

The second fact that I must point out is that I do not guarantee that 
this observation is true of every diabetic, but it is definitely 
something I am going to use a lot in my counselling of diabetics.

The third thing that might also be a factor in this discovery is the 
fact that I am not only diabetic, but I also have to manage the problem 
of diabetes-related depression which occurs when my sugars go all over 
the place. The result is that I am not just on a diabetic diet but my 
diabetes counsellor has also put me on a particularly stringent diet to 
help me manage that problem. The object here is to keep blood sugar 
levels within an acceptable range, but also to try and keep them as 
stable as possible.

In terms of this diet, my snacks that I have between breakfast and lunch 
and between lunch and supper, must be fruit only, while my late night 
snack is more flexible, and I usually have apples which, thanks to 
technology, are now available twelve months in the year. Apples have a 
low GI value.

In short, my diabetes counsellor explained to me that Fructose has more 
of a stabilising effect on blood sugar levels, because of absorbing more 
slowly and because of being a complex sugar.

Normally, my sugar levels fluctuate somewhere between 85 and 135 during 
the course of a day.

I lead a very hectic life which has caused me this week, to forget to 
have my fruit snacks on two different occasions. The result was that in 
one instance, my sugar rose to 144 and in the other instance, it went up 
to 151.

I wondered if anyone else on this list had the same experience?

-- 
Michael Park
"I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness." (psalm 84:10 NKJV).

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