Slow acting carbs rock my world

Last night I was craving something sweet and yummy but didn’t want my already shaky BG levels to go nuts. So I tried an Atkins snack bar…. no added sugars and no sugar alcohol being the biggest selling point. I ate my regular dinner (30 carbs) beef fajitas and then followed it by a chocolate caramel brownie which according to the label had a “net Atkins count of 2g”. I was expecting to see a number somewhere in the 110 range but when I tested before my one hour walk my BG was 95….cool…..two hours after my one hour walk again 95….right before bed three hours later…96. By that time I was giggling like a schoolgirl. I wasn’t hungry….I didn’t have my bedtime snack and this morning when I woke up I had a FBG of 90. That’s the BEST FBG I’ve had since I was diagnosed.

So in keeping with this little experiment I went out and bought some more of those wonder bars. ;)

Breakfast this morning jumped my BG to 130 but by 10:30am I was down to 67 (oops) lower then I aim for. Ate my yogurt and half a Atkins bar and up I went to 97….ate lunch at noon (sandwich and the other half of the Atkins bar) and right now I’m at 82. This is kind of cool….

Each bar is 160 calories so I have to add that into my overall intake but those slooooow carbs sure are making my control good and since I’m not following an Atkins diet (which isn’t the best for diabetics….so my CDE says) I’m planning on letting this experiment ride for awhile. Then if this really does work and isn’t just a diabetes gremlin ‘fluke’ I’m going to use this approach during ACL to try to keep myself level.

Off to find a glycemic index book… and yes I know I’m a little show….but frankly I think I’m doing pretty well for only having been diagnosed four months ago….before then there really wasn’t any reason for me to pay attention to all this ‘stuff’.