Diabetes Blog Week Day 4 – To Carb or Not to Carb

Posted by Chris on May 13, 2010 in Diabetes Blog Week | 0 comments

To Carb or not to carb? Well I am a firm believer that you need carbs, bottom line. I don’t eat too many carbs, but I wouldn’t consider myself to eat a low carb diet either. It is just a little lower than what a normal person would eat. Right now I am not very active in the physical aspect of my life, but I normally am. When I am working out and playing basketball and tennis, I NEED a lot of carbs or else I am exhausted and get tired so quickly when I try to work out.

If I wanted to go out and eat 100 grams of carbs, oh well. That is what I have insulin for. 1 lb = 3,000 calories, bottom line. When I want to lose weight, I just need to eliminate 3,000 calories out of my life some how. Whether I do that with a high carb count or a low carb count does no make a difference. And there is nobody out there that is going to tell me otherwise because I have personally lost 30 pounds by a strictly low calorie diet.

Some things that I try not to eat very often is ice cream and pizza. Pizza is the devil. I have never had a good blood sugar after eating pizza. I get an extreme high, usually in the high 300′s right after I eat and then an extreme low, usually 50-60′s depending on when I catch it, after the high comes. I have tried plenty of different ways to figure out how to bolus for pizza and nothing works. So I have cut it out of my diet, I only eat it once in a while.

Ice cream is in the same boat as pizza. I don’t eat it very often. One thing that I do eat a lot of is salad. Salad and veggies are the success to my good blood sugars. When I am eating healthy, I eat an extra bowl of salad instead of more rice or pasta or meat and then snack on veggies later on in the night.

Well, Diabetes Blog Week is almost over, but it sure was a great idea!