I have T2 diabetes and am overweight. An hour BEFORE lunchtime I feel
great-high energy. I crash every afternoon an hour AFTER my high carb
lunch-I can't keep my eyelids open and I can literally yawn 10 times in
5 minutes.

Oddly enough, I then stuff a supposedly sugar-free stick of gum in my
mouth and 1minute later all signs of the crash disappear.

My mother on the other hand is hypoglycemic and she is skinny. An hour
BEFORE lunch she gets irritable hyperactive and shaky-if food is delayed
she can literally go into a fugue state. An hour AFTER lunch she is
ready to climb mountains. She was advised and does eat multiple times
thruout the day to avoid her lows.

Very odd to have an 80yr old mother who can run rings around you :-)

I recognize that healthy/young people do not need to watch carbs, but it
is the carbs that cause me to crash and Mom to soar.

I still love and eat carbs, but I do remember CRAVING them before my
diabetes "began" and I don't crave them now-I actually crave fats.

Mom seems to CRAVE carbs-she doesn't eat any fat.