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Old 07-04-2009, 11:26 PM
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I say don't wait

Absolutely not.

Everything in your stomach gets mixed up into one mass, so mixing GI's is DEFINITELY a way to slip some desert into your diet. If you had a big *ss salad, with chick peas, and some grilled chicken, and generally, 75% if your meal has a GI of 35, squeezing in a bowl of ice cream will modify the GI of your entire meal, and because you ate a low carb-high fiber meal, it'll digest slower, not spike your BG levels.

Throw in that ice cream and let your meal grow to a GI of 60, rather than waiting for your stomach to empty then throwing in a big bowl of carbs, with a GI of 85, and giving yourself a second spike.

Not suggesting people eat a handfull of peanuts to compensate for eating unnecessary calories, but if you're gonna do it, mixing a low GI food with a high GI one is DEFINITELY an approved way to to it without ruining your night.

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DX: Dec 21 07 @ 12.4%

NPH 18u PM, 18u AM
Humalog (sometimes)
Crestor 10mg (hey, it works)
Met 1000mg twice daily

Vitamins n Supplements:
B100, D (4000iu daily) , E, CoQ10 (for the Crestor), Cranberry, Chromium (500mcg daily), omega 3 poisson caps (3g daily, spread out as I see fit), multivitamin

Latest A1c
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Cholesterol
Total: 3.7 (144)
LDL: 2.2 (86)
HDL: 1.0 (39)
Trigs: 1.2(107)
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