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I got home nice and early from my Monday morning run (interval training at the track \u2013 fun). I took the boys to school, did some shopping and tried to figure out what to eat for breakfast. Feeling lazy and not in the mood to cook, I decided to have some of the leftover tomato soup<\/a> I made last night.<\/p>\n

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I ate two bowls of soup and went to work. I didn\u2019t bolus at all thinking that I hadn\u2019t really had any carbs, and I was still under the effect of my run. An hour after eating I checked my blood sugar and was surprised to see it was 189. How could that be? I hadn’t eaten any carbs, or at least so I thought.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about carbohydrates lately. I don\u2019t mean the counting of carbs and trying to avoid most of them. I\u2019ve been reading Gary Taube\u2019s latest book, Why We Get Fat<\/a>, and I\u2019ve been trying to understand why, after eliminating almost all the carbs from my diet I still haven\u2019t become lean.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry I know I\u2019m not fat (162.5 pounds), and technically not even overweight.\u00a0 But I used to think that running 50+ miles a week alone would make me look more like a marathoner (bone thin).\u00a0 I\u2019ve found, however, that even after cutting most carbohydrates from my diet I still have some extra pounds in all the wrong places (belly fat is associated with higher risk for heart disease).\u00a0<\/p>\n

To most readers of Gary Taube\u2019s books (Good Calories Bad\u00a0Calories<\/a>\u00a0and Why We Get Fat<\/a>), carbs are mostly a weight loss and general health question. \u00a0But to me, like all type 1 diabetics, carbs are a much greater issue. We don\u2019t all have to cut them out completely, or reduce the amount we consume (although I do believe it is the right thing to do), but we do all need to learn to identify them.\u00a0 We have to find out where they are and how quickly they affect our blood sugars. Some are easy. We all know that bread is high and fast. But what about tomato soup or just fresh tomatoes?\u00a0 I had never given that much thought.<\/p>\n

So after my morning surprise I looked it up and here is the truth about that so-called vegetable (which my children informed me is actually a fruit):<\/p>\n

One medium tomato has 6.3g of carbohydrate of which 4.9g are sugar (fructose) and 80% of the calories come from carbohydrate. One cup of tomato juice, the base for my soup, has 10g of carb in it of which 9 are sugars.<\/p>\n

No, I\u2019m not giving up my tomato soup. \u00a0I’ll just bolus for it next time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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