Dear Dani, Grace and Jude,
Note: This page is advice for Grace, Jude and John. For any other reader, it’s information only. No therapeutic relationship is formed – read this.
This page teaches you how to minimise the glucose spike after a high carbohydrate meal with little fat.
Meals such as; breakfast cereals, jacket potato with baked beans, toast and jam, waffles with spaghetti hoops.
Snacks such as; Cereal bars, biscuits and rice crackers.
Remember Grace and Jude, at least 80% of meals should be well balanced.
This page is not a free pass to start hammering the Coco Pops, Pop-Tarts, Supernoodles, sweets and all sorts of processed crap.
Here’s a quick recap of what happens after eating this type of meal.
![](https://theglucoseneverlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/High-Carb-1.png)
Why is there a spike?
Lack of insulin in the portal vein,
![](https://theglucoseneverlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/No-Portal-Vien-with-diabtes-low-portal-insulin.png)
and the slow absorption of insulin from injections or a pump.
![](https://theglucoseneverlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Absorption-of-insulin-pancreas-vs-injections.png)
How do you knock the top off a glucose spike?
There are lots of food based options, such as:
- Choose whole-food carbohydrate options rather than processed ones.
- Add vegetables to slows the digestion process.
- Add fat to the meal to keep it in the stomach for longer.
- Add protein to the meal and eat that part first.
- Add vinegar to slow digestion.
There are two other options guaranteed to help:
- Give the insulin a head start using S from SET
- Use T from SET and do 10-15 minutes of moderate activity after the meal, such as walking, playing or gardening
![](https://theglucoseneverlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SET-SLIM.png)
This graphic shows how these tactics knock the top off a spike.
![](https://theglucoseneverlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/High-Carb-wityh-activity-1024x954.png)
This guide pulls everything together.
![](https://theglucoseneverlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/High-carb-info.png)
This does not mean its ok the eat high carb meals all the time.
If you follow the typical western diet. This is what you can expect.
![](https://theglucoseneverlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Western-diet-1.jpg)
If you follow the totally crappy advice of;
“Eat what you like, sit on the couch, just keep whacking in the insulin”
Grace and Jude, you will have a shorter and more miserable life!
![](https://theglucoseneverlies.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Eat-what-you-like-when-you-like-2-scaled.jpg)
I have these two mantras engrained in my mind, you should to:
“It’s important to respect I have low levels of insulin in my portal vein.”
“You cannot out run a high carb processed diet with type 1 diabetes”
Time to show how you can get near flat CGM lines after well-balanced meals.
Next step. Balanced meals
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