"Becca" > wrote in message
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> l, not -l wrote:
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>> My meter taught me that I can eat a cup of hash browns, but
>> can't eat mashed potatoes. Rye and sourdough breads have much less
>> effect
>> on MY "numbers" than most other bread.
>
> Hash browns have more fat than mashed potatoes. Doesn't the amount of
> fat, change your body's rate of absorption?

Yes. Fat delays the absorption of carbs. We have what has been known as
the dreaded pizza effect. Pizza being notorious because it tend to be high
in fat and carbs. You can test your BG at 2 hours and have it be fine.
Then maybe 3-5 hours later you get a big spike. Or worse yet, you test at 2
hours, are low, then eat more carbs and then *wham* all the carbs from the
pizza hit your system and you get a big spike.

This used to happen to me all the time when we went to the Presidio to shop
at the commissary. We'd stop first for lunch. The only options there were
pizza and some other things I didn't eat. I'd have a piece of pizza and
maybe the toppings from another slice.

I'd do the shopping, and while waiting in line would go hypo. I'd barely
make it back to the car to eat the bag of M & M's I always bought. I'd
finally start to feel better, then around dinner time I could hardly eat
anything because it was spike city.