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Splurged and paid the price

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#1 ·
So I had to fast this morning in order to get my ultrasound of my upper right quadrant abdomen. She took TONS of photos and even scanned my left side and of course she couldn't say if everything looked OK or not, but of course my mind raced with all the possible horrible things it could be.

Anyway, I was SO hungry after leaving around noon that I went across the street and got a Jack In The Box Pastrimi burger, fries with ketchup, and iced tea. I decided if I was going to splurge, I may as well use it as a BG test to see how I react over time. Mind you, I haven't been over 140 in over a month.

20 minutes 160
40 minutes 177
45 minutes 180
1 hour 167 (thinking WOW already going down OK ok)
1.5 hours 142 (thinking this ain't so bad)
2 hours 170 (uh oh going up again)

I think the ketchup spiked my BG initially since it was liquid, then my BG settled down until the french fries and buns kicked in.

I'll test at the three hour mark, but clearly this was NOT good for me and I won't feel the need to splurge again.
 
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#2 ·
I did Jack just the other day, myself. Double cheese bacon burger, protein style, with ketchup, mayo, and an iced tea.

Once again I was reminded that I don't actually like ketchup, just forgot to ask them to keep it off. And being the cheap stuff, it's chock full of HFCS, which is as hard on your liver as booze, gram for gram.

And a few hours later, I was reminded that frankenburgers really don't taste or process like the real ones.

Now, watch over the next few days, your cravings might increase, and your numbers might be another battle to get back down. (The cruelty of cheat meals is astounding it it's repercussions.)
 
#7 ·
Ah, the old 'feeling stress, fall back into the old carbs-comfort me ways. (Many of us have to do it to learn the lessons).

The lessons?

Lesson 1 - BG spikes.

Probably:
Lesson 2 - acid reflux intensified

Lesson 3 - three days or so of hunger/carb-cravings

Lesson 4 - a week or more of whacky BG readings

Betcha next time you feel stressed, you hit the gym and work it off with excise!

PS, I am praying the test results show the pain is a non-event!!!
 
#8 ·
Most of us have learned those lessons. Some of us (OK, I mean me) have had to re-take the course a time or few.

We're humans. We live in a carb-happy world. Fortunately, the proverbial wagon always waits for us. As long as we can leap back on it -- and learn to stay on it -- we can pass our lessons, then go on to live long, healthy lives.
 
#9 ·
My pecan splurge the other night, hmmm. Oh no, I didn't fall from the wagon. I only did it to prove to the rest of you what can happen if you eat too many carbs. I am willing to be sacrificial on occasion. Someone has got to be the "Learn from others mistakes" guy.

Now, which way did you say that wagon went?
 
#12 ·
I am sometimes also the guy that responds to the "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" by repaying their request of how they want to be treated. Usually doesn't help, other than a little satisfaction from "Touché, MF"
 
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#14 ·
Yep. Sounds about right. That's why I cheat with fruit. I get some of the over-carb symptoms, but not the DAYS of too-many-and-too-much-over-goal. Wheat and I cannot be friends.

If it makes you feel any better, when I got home last night I looked at my pill case and realized I had completely forgotten to take all of my AM meds. Which suddenly made sense why my readings had been higher all day. I thought I was eating hidden carbs.
 
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