We're not discussing what it was that I actually ate (my father was picking up dinner for me after my class that ended at a quarter to eight...and I was good the rest of the day...and he doesn't understand the meaning of the word "healthy"). Suffice to say that it had a fair number of carbs, a TON of protein, and a fair amount of fat. I expected to be high.
I watched and watched. Nothing happened at the one hour peak. Nothing happened at the two hour number--not even a 130. I really thought it was going to be fine.
Because I've been in a terrible mood all night, I kept testing (I'm usually either high for a long time or verging towards low when I'm like this). I was SHOCKED to see that I was 158 at three hours. I would've been much less surprised if I'd been high for hours and then was 158, but it's very unlikely that I had two inaccurate fingersticks in a row...especially with no high symptoms.
Any ideas for what happened? My usual reaction to fat (and there has to be LOTS of it, which there wasn't here) is to spike and then sit there for hours. I've never had such a delayed spike before.
(Maybe it was the hot chocolate I was dreaming of but didn't make myself?)
I'm sorry, guitarnut, but the idea of being "shocked" at a 158 kind of amuses me. But seriously if it was both high carb and high fat the spike is usually delayed till three hours or even much longer.
I agree, I don't even consider 158 to be a spike, really ... But then, I'm currently sitting at 308 after forgetting to bolus for my 35g dinner (so annoyed at myself!), so I'm sure it's all relative.
I have seen delayed spikes with foods like pizza or restaurant food or something else high in fat. I think, "Wow, I'm doing great!" at two hours, only to have a massive spike at three or four. I find it most annoying at parties, where I think I'm doing great and can eat more junk food, only to regret it when I'm fighting hours and hours of highs later on.
This happens to me every time I eat something like a burger, or other heavy dinner. It’s sooo frustrating - I’ll sit pretty at 105 for two, three hours. Then, just when I think I managed it, at 5 or even 6 hours, my BG will shoot up to 300. I have to assume its the fat and protein. I’m trying to use the combo blous option on my ping pump for such times, still working out the kinks, though.
That's what happens to me when I eat an Al Pastor marinated barbeque pork burrito with whole beans and a flour tortilla from the local taqueria. It's got something like 90+ carbs, lots of fat and protein. Everything's fine BG-wise until about the three hour mark. Then it's off to the races with my BG. It takes about 6-8 hours and many corrections to reel that one in. I'm surprised I didn't get pulled over for a "stacking violation!" That's not even a once per year indulgence these days.
Since I started eating low carb last year, I usually dose for protein/fat as an extended bolus over a 2-6 hour period. I dose for the carbs immediately. I've used that combination successfully for low carb, medium protein, and high fat. It doesn't work so well if the carbs are more than 20 grams or so.
I eat a high fat, high fiber, moderate (you'd call it very high) carb diet and my normal pattern is to tend low through hour two and to go higher hours three and four.
Congratulations on hardly touching 150 this week. Maybe having such well controlled blood sugar for an extended period of time made you grouchy :-)
