What are the foods that you know will wreak havoc on your Blood Glucose? I have a few I posted. But what are some of yours.
My Top Ten List of Forbidden Food
Do you avoid them or do you indulge? If so how do you manage it?
Trev
My top 3 are Cold Cereals, Popcorn, and Pizza, not much of a surprise. But no matter what I try, I only sporadically get it right.
Bread, Bread, Bread 
I just don’t eat it
Bread, pizza, and popcorn.
Since I’m type 2 that mean avoiding them, which I have a hard time doing. =(
Bread, pizza.
Cannot have: read, bagels, white rice, cereal and milk, pancakes, hard candy.
I cried when I realized that, though I love jelly beans, the were not worth the crappy blood sugars. They are the one candy that I can’t seem to stop munching on. I hate the grocery displays this time of year…
Chinese food! It makes my blood sugars sky rocket. (When I lived in China, my blood sugars would go between 20 and 600 and back to 20 within a few hours.) I love the stuff, but I know I have to almost double my lantus if I don’t want to wake up with next day with blood sugars in the 400 range. Even then, I still almost always run high the next day. (I just looked on Trev’s list and saw he had it posted pretty high on the list, but none of the other things he has listed affect me. Just Chinese food.)
Pizza & hard candy.
Brownies…Run don’t walk.
Rice and Pizza are my killers
LOL! Terrie
Cereal - of ANY kind.
I haven’t eaten sugar for 17 years for other reasons, so have no idea what it would do to my blood sugar (nothing good, I’m sure).
I’ve given up totally on rice and cereal. Pasta I have only when I go out and it’s the only thing on the menu that’s vegetarian (sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t). Other things such as potatoes, bread and even pizza I can eat in modest amounts. Btw I actually go low from Chinese Food. My suggestion? If you love it, trying making stir fries at home; there are probably have hidden ingredients such as cornstarch and sugar in your average Chinese restaurant.
mmmmm - pho, pizza, mashed potatoes and gravy, cheerios, fresh-baked bread, macaroni and cheese. I have to admit that I have usually indulged in the past, and gotten by (not very successfully) with heavy bolusing and extra bolusing a couple hours post-meal if need be. However, really trying to stay away from carbs these days, having a total of ~20 g carbs/day the past week. They say the cravings go away after awhile and I think there is definitely something to that. So maybe just staying away entirely rather than having cheat days or cheat meals is a good idea. My standby diabetic-friendly indulgence? almond butter! I eat it by the spoonful.
Me too, Jessbos! My favorites, though are cashew, macadamia and hazlenut with almond butter. Any of them beat peanut butter imho! I do need to be careful, though, as I’m a lot older than you and gain weight way too easily! Sigh.
Chinese restaurants use some form of starch in their sauces, I think it is often potato starch. I hadn’t thought of that, thought it was just the rice that did for me. Bread, pasta, rice, peanuts, pulses, beans, etc. all are on the forbidden list.
What are pulses?
Item? As in one? Mine is quite a list, but definitely worth it. I don’t miss them either! So, I avoid anything made of any kind of grain (wheat, corn, rice, potatoes), beans, and sugars.
ALL carbs. Including milk, which is my favorite comfort food. But I don’t avoid them completely, just limit them. I’m lucky, because I can indulge one day, and go back to low-carb eating the next with no regrets or cravings.
When I plan to indulge, I make sure to bolus enough and soon enough before the meal, and then watch my BGs like a hawk afterwards. I have a CGM, which really helps – the number may not be exactly accurate, but the trends usually are. And I definitely peak higher than I would on low-carb – usually into the 180 - 200 range. Which I’m willing to accept on occasion.
That said, there is still no way I can handle carbs alone without protein and fat to moderate the rise. So no breakfast cereal with milk (used to be my standard breakfast) and no angel-food cake (another favorite) without a good helping of ice cream with it (and it all lands on my belly, so this indulgence is rare).
When I eat Chinese food, I skip the rice, and order something with meat and vegetables. No noodles. There is certainly starch in the sauce, and I don’t know exactly how much, so I under-guesstimate and correct later.
I’m usually stuck in Italian restaurants – they are SO pasta-heavy. And I really can’t tolerate pasta, so I try not to go to Italian.
For sushi, I take a monster bolus – the protein in the fish and the vinegar in the rice help moderate BG rises, but rice still hits you fast. Still, I don’t do it very often.
So, I totally DON’T eat like a “normal” person, but am happy enough with what I do eat, and the results show.