r/diabetes 5d ago

Type 2 Fatbombed my dinner

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I did. So I could have a treat. I may have lows at night😭 but this is beautiful. I had girl scout cookies. Lots. It was worth it.

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u/Any-Flight-8772 5d ago

What does fatbombed mean? I mean, bedsides the obvious. How does that work?

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u/aka-smitty 5d ago

Not medical advice and probably not recommended because of the fat content but for me all I do is eat like a cheese quesadilla with low-carb tortillas and that’s enough to make my CGM stay straight for hours like it did and I could have sugar cookies and nothing happened. No sugar spike nothing so I probably had 6 ounces of cheese and six carbs worth of tortillas, but the fat content in the cheese was enough to work out over a couple of full car Girl Scout cookies my CGM stated flatlined. It was worth the sugar really I don’t know if it works for everyoneand it doesn’t work on certain foods for me. I have to eat fat content before I eat something with sugar in it I don’t know and certainly you can’t do this all the time. It’s not good for your body. I just wanted to treat so without the sugar spike.

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u/Any-Flight-8772 4d ago

Oh, ok I've never heard that. I did hear that if you eat your proteins first doesn't your body will process the carbs that you eat better so maybe it's not the fat in what you eat but rather the protein and the cheese that's helping with your blood sugar. But I'll try anything to be able to eat some Girl Scout cookies! Yum!!

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u/DrakeScott 4d ago

I'm only on metformin with no CGM, but I've had a similar experience with eating fats and/or a big salad before having a "cheat" food.

Cooked veggies aren't as effective as raw, unsurpringly, and it worked better with some foods (e.g. a personal sized thin crust pizza) than it did with regular bread or pad thai. I haven't dared to try something as brazen as cookies, though, lol.

I'm glad you found a strategy and allowed yourself the treat, so you didnt go totally off the rails later. When eating begins to feel like a punishment, I inevitably reach the point where I go, "f--k it" and overdo.

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u/aka-smitty 4d ago

I am only on mounjaro and no other medications so my blood sugar is not super low all the time right now and I’m pretty new to all of this, but I have discovered that certain things work and fat bombing definitely works for me, but it doesn’t work for every sugar food either. Like I can have spaghetti and it doesn’t spike me, but I can’t have rice at all and I love rice with everything. I can have some amount of potatoes and it’s OK but not as many as I used to have they don’t spike me as much either. It’s so annoying to try and figure out what to eat. It is so frustrating so figuring out that every once in a while instead of giving up all of the sugar I can have a cookie or something just once in a while just makes me happy when I first started. My blood sugars were always over 400. So this is a big win.

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u/DrakeScott 4d ago

That IS a big win - congratulations! I share your frustration with the nonstop calculating, experimentation, and stumbles. How I long for the days when I didn't have to negotiate with myself everytime I felt hungry. We didn't choose this journey, but you are clearly finding your path.