Blood sugar

[Emz89]

Hi
I am a bit confused about eating snacks with meals. I read on this that it may be better to have a chocolate bar separate from a meal as it will go high sugar to low and if you eat it with a meal blood sugar will stay high longer? Just confused about this as know we should try and skip snacks to keep blood sugar low

[foxtrotmama]

What seems to help is prolonged periods, not overall time higher vs lower. In addition, we know that not snacking *is* working, even if it's for another reason.

Who were the patients in the blood sugar study? For example, if you aren't diabetic, studies done on diabetics don't mean much for you.

I think you might be letting yourself get a bit too detail oriented right now. Obsessing over small details like this does not help you sway, and may undermine it. (I couldn't let go of worrying about small details).

[atomic sagebrush]

That was meant as an explanation of why candy can lower blood sugar, not an endorsement of eating candy between meals.

If you follow the basic guidelines of the LE Diet you do not have to worry about or even think about blood sugar at all. The entire point of the diet is to help with blood sugar in a pink-friendly way. I already did all that thinking and figuring so you guys don't have to!

For most people LE Diet will look like this:

1500-1800 cals
40-50 g protein
30-60 g fat
Avoid multivitamins and highly fortified foods
Low carb veg are free and unlimited, higher carb veg and fruits count only cals, not pro or fat
2-3 meals a day, no snacking, try to push breakfast back a few hours if you can.

That's IT. That's all you have to do. If you do that, you do not need to do ANYTHING to lower blood sugar.

[Emz89]

Ok thanks very much