Comments on: Why Did God Make Carbs So Yummy?

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:42:38 +0000

hey amy,

wouldn’t it be interesting if there was a device that can tell you exactly how many carbs your body is actually absorbing? one can only dream.

also, you might want to delete those spam comments before this post gets tagged as spam as well.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:05:04 +0000

Carbs aren’t so yummy to me anymore, I guess. Not when I consider them in full context. They used to be yummy, when I was blissfully ignorant about what they were doing to my health.

I can keep my BG in normal range 80-120, 5.5% A1c with diet only & no meds or insulin, so I have to view carbs as the dangerous dynamite that they are. It doesn’t even feel like a sacrifice anymore, it feels empowering.

Over time, I think my other taste receptors have woken up and foods that I hadn’t enjoyed as much before, taste much better now, like all kinds of non-starchy vegetables, and even liver. So there is just less room in my food choices for dangerous foods. Even if I control the portions, commercial sweet foods and the supersweet modern fruit hybrids are often just too sweet tasting. Starch just gives me gas and heartburn so that isn’t attractive anymore at all. It is much more enjoyable to have a very slightly sweet, but rich and creamy food that won’t mess with my BG control. Like very dark chocolate pot de creme.

Now if you had said, why did God make chocolate so good…

By: c. scully

c. scully — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:57:16 +0000

Sorry Amy, i posted the item ABOVE Anne – who seems to be superwoman!

By: Jules

Jules — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:23:38 +0000

c.scully: 75g would require about 5 units of insulin to cover it right? Could you share with us your TDD of insulin? It’s so hard to believe that you can eat that many carbs in a single meal and still maintain such a low AIC.

By: AmyT

AmyT — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:02:05 +0000

Franka,
It’s not that I don’t eat carbs, it’s just that I (hello!) struggle to keep my BG under control. And the more carbs, the more struggle.

By: Franka

Franka — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:23:41 +0000

With my experience of more than 20 years of Type 1, I do not get why you keep yourself from carbs that rigorously. Probably it frustrates you more and more until a complete lost of control, kind of a burnout etc. And I don’t see the sense in it either. On the pictures I saw you shouldn’t need to eat lowcarb, so whay should you having diabetes?!
I can only recommend you to try to see food as something good, not as an enemy having carbs or calories to fight. Otherwise you end up frustrated, binge-eating etc.
All the best,
Franka

By: AmyT

AmyT — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:48:06 +0000

Thanks, Connie. I’ve been tagged for a number of these “memes” before. See
http://www.diabetesmine.com/2007/03/tagged_for_seve.html
and
http://www.diabetesmine.com/2006/01/tagged_the_rand.html

That may be about all the personal tidbits anybody cares to know about me at the moment

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:13:28 +0000

I’m an agnostic and I still think that same thing. Why oh why must there be so much carb-filled goodness?

By: Connie

Connie — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:09:10 +0000

Amy, what an absolutely clever and compelling blog entry — poignant and penetrating, too. Good for you for owning up to your frustrations. As someone who’s not a type 1 or 2 diabetic, you’re opening my eyes.

Your blog is such a fabulous resource for the diabetic community.

By the way, I’ve now officially “tagged” you from my blog to yours.

I hope you’ll enjoy this. It’s a phenomenon that’s capturing the attention of bloggers everywhere.

http://www.sugarshockblog.com/2007/08/playing-tag-on-.html

Please take this in the spirit of fun and adventure in which it’s intended. We get to know each other, too.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:22:36 +0000

I only eat small amounts of carbohydrates with meals. I follow Dr. Richard Bernstein’s methods of managing my type 1 diabetes. My last A1c was 4.8%
Once in awhile I’ll crave something I don’t eat–for example, PapaJohns pizza or a bag of cheese curls Most of the time, though, I don’t miss carbs. I do eat carbs in the form of dextrose tablets, but only as needed to remedy and avert hypoglycemia.