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Originally posted by WiseWords
My advice, no candy bars, whatsoever,
until you have your diabetes under control. |
Ok, just to clarify, when I said chocolate, I didn't mean Chocolate bars as in Snickers or Mars bars, etc. I was talking about pure dark chocolate. Which would probably contain far less sugar.
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Originally posted by WiseWords
Then, you can experiment, by testing your BG
with your meter, before and after eating a candy bar.
You can also check to see if extra exercise helps to
lower your BG after having a candy bar.
It may turn out that you need to run about ten miles
to burn up the carbs, and you might decide that the
chocolate is not worth it. |
I actually tried this a bit yesterday, I tested my BG, then ate a small bit of chocolate, 15 min later I tested it again. It had gone from 5.5 to 6.7. So I jumped on the stationary bike, and rode for 15 min. (turned out to be about 4 miles) and then checked my BG again and it was 5.2. So the little bit of biking brought it down again.
I don't mind doing this, I like excercising, and can only see benefits from it, so I think this might be ok, but I'll ask my doctor about it.
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Originally posted by WiseWords
Some Type 2's prefer to follow a low carb diet,
along with lots of exercise, in order to avoid the meds for
as long as possible. If you can do that, it may help. |
This is what I would like to do, and have been doing for about a week now, and it seems to be working quite nicely.
Thank you for the informative post, I learned a lot.
David
