What is the one food that spikes your blood sugar the worst?
Which you have learnt will bring your level down if you omitted it from your diet entirely.
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Rice…. In an world class burrito is my kryptonite.
For me, rice used to cause BG spikes and lows like a bitcoin price chart until I discovered through trial and error Basmati rice (check our nearby Indian grocery store). Basmati rise does raise my BG but very much manageable (approx ~ 30 points) and then BG backs down in an hour.
So, now I can have my rice and eat it too.
I am not a doctor and your result may vary. I am also on Metformin ER 500 mg dose.
I don't know where you're located but all our local grocery stores, local and chain stores, sell Basmati rice without needing to go to a specialty store unless you're looking for a special brand or variety.
Redditors live outside your area too where Basmati rice may not be readily available.
Yes, that's the part where I said at the start "I don't know where you're located..." but thank you for your lovely response.
Thanks. I'm going to try this. I love biryani chicken rice which uses basmati rice.
helpful advise and i also like quinoa as a sub :)
have you tried jasmine rice? i’m curious how it compares to basmati because they’re both long-grain.
prediabetic and jasmine rice spikes me p significantly still
I prefer jasmine, and it usually puts me around 250 after I eat it.
Basmati ricemis delicious! My husband usually uses a bunch of broth and butter when making it .
I literally had 2 tablespoons of rice the other day thinking it would be fine since I've got everything under control atm. I woke up with a morning blood sugar of 131 when I'm usually around 100-110, I even ate vegetables first. It kind of puts into perspective how bad it was for me in the past when I was not taking my morning blood sugars and I thought a small amount would be fine.
SAME! Sushi's my favorite food, so this was a devastating realization. I've brought my sushi consumption down from weekly to monthly.
There’s a Japanese restaurant I often go to. Most of the time I have their “salads”, which are big sprout-filled affairs with lots of avocado, cucumber, and either chicken or salmon (they add a sugar free homemade steak sauce and hot sauce combo that’s incredible). Occasionally, though, I ask for the chef’s special, which is the same - with salmon and tuna - but with a small core of sushi rice. I always request half the rice and extra veggies. Even so, and with eating much of the protein first, that little bit of sushi rice will spike me to high heaven. I always go for a long walk afterwards. That takes care of it.
it is a treat now for me2
Sashimi is great just avoid rice!
Rice, yes -- super high glycemic index. Definitely worse than any wheat-based foods.
Yet so delicious.
Same, short grain Japanese rice especially.
I need to try basmati and compare! But if Indian buffets are any indication no go ;(
Rice is also up there with me. Unfortunately I didn't realize this until my Korean boyfriend moved in and started cooking more often 🙃
I wonder if sweet rice is worse or not?
Freeze it it turns some of the sugars into fibre (basically) doesnt become undone after reheating so this works well Also this works with any starch
Pizza, just because I can usually resist eating stuff that spikes me, but put some pizza near me and I forget I am diabetic.
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I can get away with thin crust, especially with extra protein. Not much, but i will take what I can get.
When I get thin crust I end up eating the whole thing. But now I now the bolus for it! Lol
I discovered cauliflower thin crust pizza, it's delicious and doesn't do me wrong like wheat based crust.
Gonna have to give it a try! Which one do you like?
It takes a lot of restraint but now days I eat half a pizza and just load it with carb-free toppings. The midnight spike just became too uncomfortable before this.
Rice. Insulin before and after ain’t curbing that high that stubbornly holds on
Rice reminds me of the Sponge Bob time lapse gag... 4 hours later. Rice is patient.
I’ve noticed with rice I’ll spike, drop, spike, drop, spike. It’s like it comes back to haunt me 2-3 times til it’s finally fully digested lol
Yup
Seconding this
Im gonna have to remember this because Ive been having crazy lows now that Im on ozempic. My a1c is just plummeting quick. I think Ill have to stop the metformin pretty soon. Im not used to having to eat this much again.
Frosting messes me up. If coworkers bring cookies, I can eat half a cookie and be okay. If they bring anything frosted? Can't do it, I can physically feel the spike.
That’s me with lemon bars. They get me all tingly and flushed lol.
This Christmas I made sugar cookies with frosting for my husband…oh my big mistake icing is for sure a no go. I froze the rest of the cookies for him.
Pancakes, even WITHOUT any syrup of any kind. I could give myself 20u before, during, AND after and I’ll still end up over 300.
Not technically a food, but coffee will spike my sugar. I use decaf coffee, coffeemate powdered creamer, and Splenda. My blood sugar can be perfect, but after I've had half a cup it rises quickly and can go all the way from 100 to 250. I had to quit coffee. The sugar spike for coffee with 6 grams of carbs is crazy to me.
> The sugar spike for coffee with 6 grams of carbs is crazy to me
Which is why I prefer my coffee like my soul. Black and bitter, and without any sweetness.
We have the same soul😎🖤🖤
I won’t give up coffee. I make espresso, add some lactaid free milk in the blue bottles, put cinnamon and cocoa on top, with a sprinkle of Splenda. I go up a little, but not much.
Use heavy cream- it's so much richer and really makes the coffee lovely.
It’s the coffeemate creamer. That’s practically liquid sugar. My endocrinologist told me.
It's not liquid creamer I'm using. It's 4 teaspoons of non sweetened powdered creamer. There is 1 carb in 3/4 of a teaspoon.
try drinking it black. it will take some time, but black is the best way to drink it. One of my kids put a sugar cube in my cup and I couldn’t figure out what the horrible taste was _
I’m not in medicine but wonder if it is the Splenda. Eg https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4940893/
Oh wow, I never researched that or thought it could be the culprit. Thank you for sending that article!
Yw!
Heavy cream and monk fruit drops for the win! It's delicious and doesn't budge me at all!
I use ultra protein milk for a creamer, no sweetener, and no spike! My condolences my friend. Coffee is one of my joys.
They would have to pry that coffee out of my cold dead hands! I use Jordan's skinny zero-sugar syrups and heavy whipping cream. It's delicious. It's the one thing I wouldn't change if by some miracle I woke up without diabetes..
Does the Jordan’s syrups have a funny aftertaste? Most syrups or sugar free products to me have an aftertaste? Thank you. Happy you found a combo that works for you!
They don't to me. My husband usually feels the same as you and even he said they are pretty good.
Does it also make you feel hungry afterwards too?
I do a small spike but it makes me very hungry even if I just ate. I think it’s the cortisol being released.
It takes about an hour after I've drank some coffee for me to feel hungry. At that point I don't want to eat and spike my sugar further. I never thought about it being cortisol, I'll have to look into that.
I recall a dietician discussing how some people can become caffeine sensitive as they get older and one theory is that the cortisol being released sets off a spike in some. I do get a spike, but it’s not worrisome as I do return to baseline quickly. I just hate the false sense of hunger which makes me feel like I need to eat again.
See my comment above!! Caffeine activates your sympathetic nervous system (the one that gets you ready for fight or flight) so it can spike your sugar AND also tell your body you need MORE food. Not until you calm down (and parasympathetic nervous system kicks in) does your body release the “time to chill and digest” enzymes.
For some people, coffee is an appetite suppressant but for others (especially us diabetics, whose bodies aren’t so good at the digestive enzyme regulation thing anyway) it can do the opposite.
Bodies are wild!
Wow! This makes complete sense. I definitely get hungry after coffee. Even a false sense of hypoglycemia (which I am not, but it feels like it). I use to not get hungry after drinking coffee—-but once my metabolic issues cropped up I have never been the same with caffeine.
I could do with some extra cortisol. Too bad coffee doesn’t do anything for me.
Starbucks zero sugar caramel macchiato never spikes me.. sorry to hear you had to give up coffee.
Coffee gets me too! In your case it could be the creamer playing a big part but…
PSA: Even just black coffee can spike your sugar! Remember, coffee/any stimulant releases adrenaline and activates your sympathetic nervous system (the fight-or-flight part) which raises your sugar. If we had working pancreases, we’d want that rush of sugar (that we could quickly utilize with insulin available) for an energy burst to fight and/or run away.
Yes you are right. My doctor had told me it could be the caffeine so I switched to decaf. Also measured my powdered creamer so I knew the amount of carbs.
Interesting. Coffee does almost nothing to me. Thankfully.
Coffeemate powdered creamer has corn syrup solids in it, which the FDA doesn’t consider an “added sugar” even though it’s literally corn syrup. It’s criminal dude. I had the same issue when I made tea. I was thinking how tf did black tea and cream bring me up to 200? No honey, no sugar, JUST tea and creamer. Then I saw the ingredients. It’s not you, it’s the powdered creamer
Coffee mate powdered creamer is basically pure glucose as it’s corn syrup solids. It has a 100 on the GI scale. That’s the spike. You’d do better with plain heavy cream.
I switched to agave as my sweetener from honey and it is Night. And. Day. Difference!
Pizza. But it's my favorite food so it makes me sad.
I'm in a similar boat. I have a strategy for eating it though:
- Thin crust
- Easy on the sauce
- Extra cheese
- Only on the day after doing a strength workout
- Do aerobics workout afterward
lol yes thin cracker crust pizza actually doesn’t spike me too bad! My hack is workout while fasting, then eat a huge salad with chicken first, then go for the pizza. I’ve had like 5 slices of pizza after doing this and my sugar was at like 98 2 hrs post meal.
My strategy for pizza is to eat the topping off the pizza accompanied by mini-pieces of the uber-crispy, topping-free edge of the crust. That gives me the crunch I want without going too crazy on the carbs. This of course means there are a couple of triangular pieces of baked pizza base afterwards, scraped free of their topping. Sometimes my husband eats them XD
Even so I may spike a little, but it’s a moderate spike and easily resolved with a post-meal walk.
I can do Greek pizza, but domino's and pizza hut will screw me up. Have you tried thin crust?
These responses really show how individual diabetes is! I can have white rice, bread, and potatoes just fine (with portion control and balanced with protein/fiber/fat ofc) but drinks always spike me.
Lattes, matcha, etc. even if I get sugar free syrup will keep me elevated for many hours. Something about the combo of caffeine and milk maybe?
Likely the caffeine!! See my commentabout caffeine’s effect on nervous system and blood sugar
It really is! I’m so glad/lucky because for me, pasta doesn’t spike my sugars, but if I have barley or rice it will! (Lucky because I’m a pasta girl lol)
Bread!! Any type. Potatoes, any form. Bread, is the devil!!
Diabetes is strange and so true that everyone is different! I can do one slice of whole wheat bread (15g) but rice?? Even 2tbsps and my glucose levels spike.
Yeah it’s crazy. I’m opposite, rice has barely any effect on me but bread spikes me like crazy.
So lucky!
Do you freeze your bread? That has helped me a great deal.
Wait, freezing it changes its glycemic effect?
Yes, becomes resistant starch
Crazy. I buy keto bread in 2pks, freeze one, eat on the other. This may explain why some bread is less predictable. It's resistant anyway, but I wonder if it doesn't change outcomes.
Bread has really not been fucking me up, either.
Diabetes is the devil. Bread is what it takes away for punishment.
😂😂😂
Was just recently diagnosed about a week and a half ago. Found keto bread, 10g (9g are fiber, net 1). It’s not amazing but a good alternative, especially toasted :)
I can eat true sourdough bread with little issue, and the thing for seed breads but any others, including even whole grain wheat breads practically make my BG spike just looking at them. 🫤
I am lucky, because freezing bread helps me a lot. Half a small raisen bran muffin is heaven!
I can eat a toasted English muffin with some peanut butter with negligible rise in BG but other than real sourdough or seed breads, bread just isn't my friend. 😟
I think freezing helps some folks. I freeze high fiber tortillas and pasta, beans, even croissant and it helps me. I consider myself lucky
I've heard that but have never tried it since I don't care for the texture of most previously frozen baked goods or pastas. Thankfully, I tend to eat beans without issue and consider them essential to our meals. 😊
I was diagnosed last year. After several months of eating nothing but eggs and cheese (I was veg, now I eat fish. Protein keeps me from spiking,) I am grateful to eat anything!
Always a work in progress! Happy new year!
And just when you think you have things figured out something changes.
Peace in the New Year.
Me too! I have a very consistent 2 units to 10g carbs that works on everything....... not bread though 😆
Pizza absolutely destroys my levels but its so damn hard to resist eating it. I have to be very strategic about when I eat it.
Rice, Pho and those sesame caramel crackers things.
I ask my favorite pho place to swap udon for the traditional rice noodles and increase the protein (eg extra rare beef) and I do much better with it.
Pho and Vietnamese are brutal for me because they traditionally add sugar to the broth. I love it, just can’t handle it all the time. Great idea on the noodles!
Curious why the udon is better than pho noodles? I thought they would be the same since they’re both rice noodles but udon is a lot thicker.
Udon is normally wheat, not rice, which seems to be metabolized more slowly.
Ohhh I always assumed it was rice flour. Great tip.
Waffles with sugar free syrup
Have you tried any of the protein waffles? I'm able to eat 2 Kodiak dark chocolate protein waffles with a little butter, some sugarless syrup and not spike at all.
I live in Scotland, we have a traditional sandwich style biscuit (cookie) called an “empire biscuit”. It’s 2 shortcake biscuits sandwiched together with jam and topped with royal icing. It’s the worst possible thing for my blood sugars, but I do eat one every now and again as a treat if I’ve been to the gym or something!
I live in Canada, they're called Imperial cookies here. I simply cannot be trusted with them in the house. It doesn't help that they're made the size of the palm of my hand. How does one have half a cookie? I might have to make tiny ones and stop ogling the baker's case.
When I was little we called them princess cookies 🥹
I used to get to eat these when I was little. My aunts mom used to make them. They are the best cookies ever but I can see why they spike the blood sugar.
The hidden enemy here is the jam. So much sugar hidden in it…
Funnily enough I’m okay with a small amount of jam. It’s the combo of everything that makes these biscuits so bad for my sugars, but the biscuit is the main culprit. The flour AND the sugar is a combo my body cannot handle!
Grapes.
I treated a low bg (<74mcg) with ONE grape once. After 5 minutes, the bg rebounded to 135. I sometimes wonder if the liquid juice combined with the sweetness is the culprit. Hydrating in general has made sensor values fluctuate for me... anyone else?
I miss grapes so much! Had a couple on Christmas as a treat. Amazing how the term “treat” has changed…!
I thought grapes were fairly healthy so I got a 2 or 3 pound bag and was snacking on them as I was driving and couldn’t figure out why sugar jumped to about 350 took me a 2nd day of doing that before I figured out why I now eat them very sparingly
Oatmeal
I put a lot of walnuts in mine, and do OK, but everyone is different.
Oatmeal-rice equally does not matter how it’s cooked or what kind it is. Can’t have any. Although I do eat it about once a year. I don’t often eat anything besides eggs and lean meat in the morning anyway. Nooo toast. My ozempic dictates what I cannot have ever. Used to be diabetes but ozempic seems to clean up any messy habits I had such as greasy meats. Buttered popcorn.
White rice. Cereal (even the high protein stuff like Kashi crunch, sadly). Bagels.
Ketchup is bad for me. Luckily I mever cared for it much.
It's the sugar many add to it. Like you, I've never been particularly enamored of ketchup though I occasionally have a taste of it.
Pop tarts. My kid had one and I thought, oh, just eating a few bites won’t hurt. How wrong I was.
they are extremely sugary, even a couple of bites will spike very high
My kids grab these on way out the door for school. Happily I don’t like them at all.
Pancakes and Chinese food are two that get me every time.
We have an all you can eat Chinese buffet that i can go crazy at (still avoiding there fried foods, noodles,rice, bread and dessert) every other time I have eaten Chinese food anywhere be it buffet, upscale, takeout, panda express... I spike like crazy. The buffet has always been a family favorite but is now one of the few restaurants we can eat at.
Yaki-imo (barbecued sweet potato), it was hard to quit this food.
Bread products (including flour tortillas and pizza crust) and potatoes are foods I have to be most careful with. I don’t have to completely eliminate them from my diet.
Use mission keto 0-carb tortillas.
Coffee with creamer
Cornbread. A 1 inch square is enough to make me take a nap on the couch.
Weetbix. And Korean deep fried mozzarella cheese balls. Hehe.
Bagels!
Not one food, just every food i absolutely love. 🤬🤬
Shortbread cookies with frosting sends my blood sugar up like a skyrocket
Rice crispies. I had 2 spoonfuls and went up to 230s
Yes! So far, Rice Krispies has made me spike the highest!
Rice>pizza>potatoes
Pizza works for me because I get it with cauliflower crust and lots of veggies.
Isn’t diabetes strange; I can’t have cauliflower cruse cause of the rice stuff they use to keep it together but can eat thin crust pizza all day long.
Citrus juice of any kind. Even just a little yuzu added to my coffee sends it up over 200 for a quick spike.
RICE is diabolical. Tamarind and sweet Thai food that combines rice and sugary sauces is the ultimate combo for spiking my blood sugar
Tortillas. I live in a state that has amazing Mexican food and anytime I eat a tortilla my blood sugar spikes a lot. I still let myself indulge once in a while, but I definitely have to take extra insulin.
White rice
Bread
White rice
Coconut cake...
Rice. Omg
I know right?! And I’ve tried refrigerating it, freezing it! Damn it I’ve even had cold rice without heating it but nope! But wondering if you are on medication. I want to start Meformin just so I can tolerate a little more carbs.
Cinnamon sugar toast.
Any kind of cereal. Any. kind.
Poptarts and bagels are just as bad. I can handle rice ok luckily.
Nature valley high protein granola (even chocolate!) Is very good for me. I freeze small portions with ultra protein milk, and it is heavenly! I missed cereal so much... haven't been brave enough to try bagels.
Cereal. All that sugar with milk is a spike bomb.
Oatmeal, rice, bread (any bread even keto bread), chips, pasta. These were all part of my diet before T2.
i don’t think any one food spikes me the worst because no matter what i consume, it spikes. water even spikes me
Food is supposed to spike! Water should not.
well it does. sometimes worst than food does.
Ant, I asked my husband who is a smart physician/scientist if plain water, alone, can spike you. He said that it absolutely should not. You may want to check in with your doc.
well it does. and my doctor is well aware of it. he’s more concerned with the fact that i don’t get enough fluids to begin with. i drink maybe half a cup every three or four days
I had sushi the other day. Spike held for hours. I’m only on long lasting so I could do nothing but walk around.
No more rice for me.
Ice cream
Am i the only one who has no problems with rice? But pizza.. damn
Nerds gummies and I will not deprive myself of them lol
Oatmeal <sad noises>
Jasmine rice. Little grains of death
When I want to absolutely nuke a low, a bowl of cinnamon life cereal rockets me to the moon.
Potatoes 😢
Grapes
Lucky charms. 0-bazillion in 10 minutes
Rice
MSG at the local Chinese restaurant. :(
It's chinese food for me too 😁 and cinnamon rolls 😅
Porridge Oats 🙂
Rice for me.
Ice Cream, pea or squash soup.
Sushi rice. Spikes like no other. We found a sushi restaurant that does veggie wrapped sushi without rice = awesomeness.
Rice!
Crossaint and danish specially if had in mornings
Rice for me as well.
White flour. Feels like it's same as eating straight up glucose. Bakeries goods are the devil
oatmeal! i avoid it at all costs
homemade cookies
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I am sure there are plenty obvious food that will spike me badly but I am not willing to test it out.
A slice of keto bread that is supposedly 30 calories and 1 net carb spikes me to infinity so I have stay away from all products made with resistant starch.
Rice.. oatmeal, even steel cut which is what all the diabetic sites recommend. I just don’t eat it ever now in any form lol
Sushi rice
Pasta and pizza.
Potatoes are of the devil.
Nothing spikes me more than oatmeal.
cereal
Rice & Ramen. I can avoid both completely. But every now and then I get a craving for a ramen bowl.
Why is rice the worst? I would say Mines is Fruit Loops
Chinese take out. The worst!
Pretzels, pizza
Some breads don't do much to my blood sugar but croissants? I LOOK at a croissant and easily jump 50-60 points.
Donuts. Obviously. I still eat them. Also pizza and chinese.
Bananas, give me raw sugar over them every time, it's bizarre.
Anything with wheat. Cereal is the absolute worst which makes me sad
I’m not holier than thou, I’m going to have cookies and milk in a few minutes. But I haven’t had a bowl of cereal in the 18 months since my diagnosis.
Let’s gooo!! That’s awesome.. dude magic spoon has a pretty good peanut butter cereal that’s low carb (no wheat) decent ingredients and it’s fire.. buuuut $8 a box, bought once to try and never again lol
Rice. Pizza. And a nice bowl of cereal with milk. I miss being able to eat a giant bowl of cereal but no matter what cereal it is, my sugars shoot straight up 😩
Strawberries.
Authentic Pecan Danish Kringle as I recently found out! Wowzer!
If you count drinks too, Energy drinks, but no wonder with 75 Gram of sugar per bottle. If we are only talking food, stuff with breading like meat with breading. Because I don't think about the crust and then the sugar levels spikes crazy
Oatmeal
Cereal or pasta. A near instant rise.
I eat one slice, not the end crust. The second piece, I usually eat just the topping. It still tastes good!
Rice and white bread. I just avoid these now.
White rice followed closely by tortilla chips.
Short answer: I don't know. I don't just eat one food. I usually eat meals.
I prepare meals with low to medium glycemic loads, so there is a mix of high and low glycemic index ingredients that I balance for both flavor and overall glycemic load.
So, I don't omit anything from my diet entirely except beets 'cause I think they taste nasty. I will eat anything I want and simply figure out how to make it work to support my health goals.
Coffee, but not espresso.
Rice and cereal. I’ve pretty much given them up. Coffee does too but it comes down pretty fast
Apples
Depends on the day, the weather, and 10,000 other calculation we have to constantly make and then sometimes it still fucks up.
E.G. Had an item that normally makes me skyrocket (potatoes) for breakfast, knew it was going to spike me to I took a bit of extra insulin, and now I am sitting eating glucose tabs because I over dosed. FML
Bananas
General Tso’s chicken is my all time high score.
I'll check it out. I've heard of Dave's Crazy Bread as well. I am strict Keto 25g carbs daily. I have lost a bunch of weight. My CGM was a game changer
Watermelon
I don't have a problem with rice... so long as i measure it out.
Pasta is another issue
Some fruit will cause a spike but it depends on the GI.
rice
Bagels.
Potatoes, alas!
T2 and celiac, so many of the usual suspects are untestable for me, bur rice is like injecting glucose straight into my veins. Inmediate spike followed by a persistent high, and that was just 2 tablespoons of frozen day-old rice.
Nothing else has that effect. And I LOVE rice.
Rice and its derivatives like noodles, flour and wrappers.
Hard being Asian (Filipino/Chinese) and not eating rice because a lot of food go along with it. I only keep it to 2-3x a month.
Flour tortillas
Basically anything with high carbs and high fat. Burgers, pizza, steak and potatoes, etc.
Breakfast cereal. Formerly my favorite food, is now entirely poison. I can have a half cup of plain cheerios or bran and my body thinks I polished off a whole box of doughnuts, which actually behave better in my body than cornflakes do.
Dairy. I don’t understand why but it shots me through the roof.
Flour. Specifically pancakes. In 4 years I’ve had pancakes twice. Breakfast was Mount Everest. As a dessert after dinner was ok.And low quality treats. I can eat half a slice of bougie cake n have a moderate spice. Can do the same with grocery store cake and spike high.
My glucometer tells me, ingredients matter.
Any kind of rice, pasta, or pizza. And of course, the infamous cold cereals. I gotta hand on the oatmeal now
Pop tarts and cereal are the worst. Ice cream doesn’t spike it at all.
Specifically? Anything white ! White food is the devil. ie: Bread, Potatoes, Rice, pasta, sugar ……
Rice. Worse than anything else, even soda, pasta, cake. 😭
Pineapple
Pho. I think it's the rice noodles plus the sugar they add to the broth.
Rice for me it spikes like crazy. I can usually have oatmeal burritos with beans but rice is my killer
Chinese food
Rice, cereals, sweet potatoes (but not regular potatoes!), gummy candies. I’ve noticed processed things like supermarket cookies will spike me more than freshly baked cookies from a bakery… even though the latter might be richer.
Rice, for me, is worse than chocolate.
Cereal
That I know of - cereal! Specifically shreddies 😭
Rice, pasta (unless the only ingredient is durum wheat semolina), and glaze on any dessert.
Rice if there's no protein with it.
Ramen regardless of protein.
Mashed potatoes
Pineapple for me
Chinese food
sweets, sugary drinks, white bread/rice, and pastries tend to spike blood sugar the most.
Oatmeal and cereal. It is always a rollercoaster for me. I have just omitted it entirely.
Cereal of any type…
Right!!?? Bread, in any form, especially bagels, pizza --crush me.
Crown royal and fireball 😭
Pasta and bread!
Tortillas
I eat cauliflower rice instead.
Does the meet and cheese not help Blut the dough for pizza ?
Rice and pasta. Mostly because these are trigger foods for me and my portions and too large. I completely avoid these foods
Rice and pasta. Very seldom eat it anymore.
Pizza, chips and crepes with mapple syrup 😭
Fries, but really any kind of potatoes :( I really love potatoes but I don't let myself have them very often. Usually just on holidays when my numbers are a mess anyway.
The one I eat in the morning; anything. If I don't eat in the morning then I don't spike. Sometimes I can head if off in the pass with a Big Bolus of insulin, but that's hit or miss; a possible low.
Cereal and bagels
Other than something like a butter tart. bread and pasta are the worst for me. Even the keto versions spike me like a touchdown. Rice seems to be manageable and if I cook and cool then reheat potatoes I can handle them ok (portions matter)
Rice and oatmeal. They are equals. I can take 8 units of fast acting and eat oatmeal and my sugars will go to 240+ same as rice.
I love rice and pizza
Rice and pizza, love both but they don’t love me. To workaround the issue, I’ll eat a small amount of brown rice with hefty portion of protein. For pizza, thin crust that is heavy with cheese and sausage. Portion control, but that’s hard to do because who doesn’t love pizza!
Bread for me. I can eat an ice cream and have a much smaller spike than a single fucking slice of bread.
I eat half the bread and can manage a small sub.