Twizzlers are the al-Qaeda of blood sugar

[pseydtonne]

I learned something fascinating this morning about two hours after I ate breakfast. I had my normal short bowl of bran flakes and a soy pattie. I also had two rainbow Twizzlers from a bag I had picked up at the supermarket.

Before I eat breakfast, I run my blood sugar reading. This morning my pre-prandial (before-meal) was 120, only slightly above the desired 110 but still lower than my usual morning line of 125.

Then I ran my numbers two hours after breakfast. My post-prandial came up 223. The desired number is 140, so this is crazy high. I did a second test about five minutes later and it was down to 204, still crazy high.

Come to think of it, I do not recall whether I took my glucophage this morning. This may explain a lot. Still, Twizzlers are bad for me and they're evil and they are gone. Never trust a food more ductile than the stomach that processes it.

-make your mouth happy? My ass.

P.S.: Two hours later I ran my numbers before lunch, as I was gettign hungry fast. My pre-prandial was 122, so it all dropped fast. I still do not know whether I took my pill at breakfast, so I took one with lunch. Lunch will be a chicken salad and a banana. I'll let you know what goes down.

Comments

[graciana.livejournal.com]

Reading how Twizzlers effects blood sugar reminds me about the time Baskin Robbins had that promotional X2 sundae with sweet-tart swizzle sticks. That sundae had a special topping that turned your poop blue. Crazy.

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

My girlfriend worked at a Baskin-Robbins in Houston back in 1980 when Caddyshack came out. The chain was making a big hype internally about their $30k sponsorship of the movie for product placement.

About a couple weeks before the movie came out, all the hype stopped. It turned out theyhadn't sent the tougher lawyers to their negotiations with Harold Ramis and friends because the product placement was a bug crawling out of a spent cup with a Baskin-Robbins logo on it (I think it's during the pool scene). Sometime B-R gives us weird-color shit and sometimes they got the favor returned.

By the way, when is the big date? Sicily is off so my autumn is open.