Do you consider oats to be low carb?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are (pre)diabetic/IR, oats are just a bad option, even in moderation. They're a glucose spike bomb.

No it isnt. Maybe instant flavored oatmeal..

But steel cut oats and even rolled oats are good for most people. They have a low glycemic index and actually have been shown when consumed regularly, to reduce fasting glucose levels, provide some blood sugar stability, and improve lipid panels. You just have to be careful you are eating good quality oats and aren’t adding refined sugar to them

[Anonymous]

Also, OP, try Chia seed overnight oats with rolled oats.

[Anonymous]

just sprinkle them on top of some scrambled eggs and you get the protein

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You should tell that to almost every successful endurance athlete on earth that eats oats for breakfast all the time. I’m sure they would love to hear your TikTok educated opinion on how oats are poison.

Standard nutritional advice doesn't really apply to successful endurance athletes. Anyone who is undertaking intense physical exertion for multiple hours each day can probably remain quite metabolically healthy while centering complex carbohydrates at mealtime.

For the rest of us, you'd be disappointed to see what a continuous glucose monitor showed after you ate a big bowl of steel-cut oatmeal. Now, make it half a cup of oats topped with nut butter, eaten in the morning rather than evening, and if you are indeed a metabolically healthy average (not professional athlete) adult, you'll probably only see your blood sugar go up twenty points or so. Not bad!

But most people eating steel cut oats aren't having a half cup with nut butter. They're having closer to a whole cup with maybe some milk and brown sugar or maple syrup. Hello, spike to 170 mg/dL!

[Anonymous]

I think eating less than 100 grams of carbs is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:just sprinkle them on top of some scrambled eggs and you get the protein

That's gross, but what's actually good is mixing in one egg white with your oatmeal. It makes it fluffy and really delicious, but I've only done it in the stove, not the microwave.