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r-marie wrote:Jeff, I was wondering if you had any information on this.
In order to keep from being hungry and not lose any more weight I tend to eat something every hour or two between breakfast, lunch and dinner. I love sweet potatoes, and often snack on one throughout the day - especially if it is freshly baked - along with a handfull of cherry tomatoes, or half a mango, or maybe a Wasa sandwich with a smidgeon of peanut butter and a few banana slices....later in the evening, after dinner, I will often eat 2-3 cups of air-popped popcorn - one of my favorites.
Dr. McDougall says eat till you're full and eat as much and as often as you want. But since I'm insulin resistant. This constant supply of food never allows my BS to return to its base. Maybe it's better to have a slightly elevated BS throughout the day instead of BS spikes??? But how will this impact my A1c reading (coming up in August)
Sometimes my fasting BS is 130 in the morning (6am) presumably from the popcorn I ate at 8pm the night before. I'm pleasantly surprised though that snacking on sweet potato tends to keep my BS at 130 during the day with occasional spikes to 160 from other foods. (My fasting BS still clings to between 110-120 without the popcorn)
I'm looking forward to your comments.
geoffreylevens wrote:Blood sugar is a complicated beast!
geoffreylevens wrote:I get some kind of sweet potato that is pale yellow inside, also not so sweet and a bit "dryer" texture. Maybe the same but a different name I can't recall but I love those. I use the sweeter, orange ones, baked, in my raw kale smoothies.
geoffreylevens wrote:Jeff, I know I have an unusual metabolism and my blood sugar from one of my kale/sweet potato smoothies (large ones) only goes up 10-15 points . A fairly small baked potato however will shoot it up 50 or 60 points or more. (This is all one hour after consuming). Grains, whole, cooked by boiling in water the same as potato actually more as I get a lot more calories in same volume of food!
r-marie wrote: My body fat is 19.5%. I suppose that's not too bad for someone as active as I am, but not good either.
Clairembart wrote:"While I am not sure how tall you are, a body fat of 19.5% is not exceptionally low or dangerous. I would be curious how this was tested. "
How does one measure body fat??
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