N=1 Non-D Experiment

I've been doing an N=1 experiment for the past 2 days that may be of interest to my T1D friends. The twist is that this experiment is on me... a Non-D with an A1c of 4.9 on a very low carb diet. I wanted to see how much my blood sugar is impacted by low carb foods.

A few things...
1) the first time you see listed in each picture below was right before I started eating.
2) I only have coffee for breakfast, so I didn't do a morning test.
3) this was all the food I had for 2 days... no snacking between meals to skew results.
4) when I refer to carbs, I'm referring to net carbs (deducting fiber, erythritol/birch xylitol) because extensive testing shows me I don't have to give Samuel insulin for them.
5) these are common, everyday meals for us.

🔹Wed Lunch = homemade tuna salad on a Smartbun with fried "apples" (zucchini), and coffee with cream.
This was my lowest carb meal, yet gave me the highest spike. I can only deduce this was from the Smartbun. This is so interesting because I am certain these buns don't spike Samuel. I VERY carefully tested these on Samuel when we first tried them and he needs no insulin for them.

🔹Wed Dinner = no-bean chili, stuffed peppers, cauliflower rice, 2 pork rinds with dip, and diet root beer.

🔹Thurs Lunch = sausage with light marinara sauce, parmesan cheese, cauliflower rice, green beans, and coffee with cream.

🔹Thurs Dinner = this was a Grilled Chicken Salad with ranch dressing and a side of bacon, and diet Pepsi from Huddle House. Per their website this is 11 carbs. I expected this to be my highest spiking meal due to the carbs and because its sometimes hard to trust restaurant ingredients (starches in cheese, sugar in bacon, chicken brined in sugar, etc). I was pleasantly surprised to see this was my lowest spike meal. GO HUDDLE HOUSE!!! One small note though is that my spike remained longer on this meal than any other.

🤔 MY TAKE-AWAY'S 🤔

1) I was a bit surprised to see my blood sugar spiked on average about 20 mg/dL on such a LC diet.
2) this information helps give myself more grace when it comes to Samuel. If my blood sugar spiked a bit on these meals, I shouldn't expect BETTER results (ie "completely flat lines") for Samuel when his dad and I are acting as his human pancreas.

So that's it. I thought this was interesting to see. And I will definitely do more testing on Smartbuns because I really like them (more for myself than the kids) because they're low calorie.