The Two Most Important Things You Need to Know About Controlling Your Blood Sugar

Posted on May 23, 2019 Topic : Men's Christian Living, Women's Christian Living
Posted by : Dennis Pollock

I need to give you both a spoiler and a warning. The spoiler is this: If you are serious about getting your blood sugar under control, you are almost certainly going to need to reduce your carbohydrate intake.

Could it be any plainer? The foods we eat possess three essential types of macronutrients: protein, carbohydrates, and fats. Fats do not raise blood sugar at all. Proteins can raise blood sugar, but for most of us, it is a very slight, almost imperceptible rise.

But carbohydrates are an entirely different matter. Raising blood sugar is what they do; it is their specialty, their unique domain. And for people with diabetes or prediabetes, the more carbs you eat, the higher your blood sugar will soar (especially when those carbs are refined and processed).

It comes down to a very simple formula: Eat a small amount of carbs, get a small blood sugar rise. Eat a medium amount of carbs, get a bigger blood sugar rise. Eat a meal with a large amount of carbs, get a whopping rise in blood sugar.

And, sadly, we must also add: Build a lifestyle on eating refined, processed carbs, carbs, and more carbs, and you will have an excellent chance of becoming diabetic and destroying your health, spoiling your latter days, and shortening your life.

But when carbs are restricted, blood sugars will drop. Dr. Sarah Hallberg, medical director of Virta Health (a successful diabetes center) says in her YouTube lecture, which has garnered millions of views: “Low-carb intervention works so fast that we can literally pull people off hundreds of units of insulin in days to weeks.”

Let me give you one more quote that was incredibly powerful in getting my attention when I was first looking for answers to runaway blood sugar. The late Dr. Robert Atkins wrote, “Your blood-glucose level doesn’t sharply rise and fall when you sit down to eat a Cobb salad. But it does just that when you chow down a slice of pie.”

Now, that’s not profound, it’s not deep, it’s not rocket science…but it is unquestionably, indisputably, and incontrovertibly true. We could insert all kinds of substitutions into that equation. Your blood sugar won’t sharply rise and fall when you eat an avocado, but it will when you eat a doughnut. It won’t rise and fall when you eat eggs and ham, but it will when you gobble up a bunch of pancakes drenched in syrup. And on and on we could go.

And the warning is this: If you do change your diet and you are on medication for diabetes or taking insulin, you’re going to need to carefully monitor your blood sugar levels and work with a good diabetes doctor.

Making major changes in your diet, especially in the carbohydrates you eat daily, will very likely require you to alter the dosage of your medication or the insulin you’re taking. In most cases you will have to reduce your dosages, but your doctor will help you decide this.

Diabetes is not unbeatable! It may be a monster, but with nearly all type 2 diabetics, it is a monster with a chink in its armor. Many of us who have known its ferocity have beaten it.

No, we cannot go back to eating huge bowls of ice cream and guzzling down super-sized sodas, but as long as we behave ourselves, diabetes must forever lurk in the shadows, like some rabid wolf, fearful of the bonfire that we have created for our own protection.

Begin the process of finding your own path to healing and deliverance. And pray for God’s wisdom.