That's why I always send the desserts and other sweets home with guests,
or have my husband take it to work in the a.m.

I have a big supply of dark chocolate on hand, but I can control that
temptation and have small bits.

That's good, though not as low as I'd expect for someone with no glucose
issues.  I keep under that at one hour on low carb, much under.

That's not going to satisfy for long; how about some protein with it?

Susan

You're deluding yourself. You didn't  go "off program for 20 minutes tops,"
you went off it for the entire day and maybe longer. Why? Because it takes
time for your body to "get into position" to respond to a low carb way of
eating. After your binge, you have to start all over again. This "LOL" stuff
is probably why you got overweight in the first place---you are
rationalizing your food choices and making excuses and making yourself feel
better by saying "I could at least use it as a learning experience."  No you
can't. You've done that before--lots of times, haven't you?

Pat in TX

I'm new at this too and still learning, but my understanding is that a
person with healthy insulin response *may* go as high as 120 after the
first hour, but will always be back down under 100 after two hours.
Anything above 140 will begin to cause organ damage, including damage
to the beta cells in your pancreas, further harming your insulin
function, so it's a vicious circle.  (Corrections on all this from the
veterans are most welcome.)  Ignore the numbers for diabetics in your
booklet; for some reason the ADA refuses to acknowledge any of the
progress that's being made in this area over the last few decades, and
insists on sticking with danger numbers that are way too high.

So, what those numbers are telling you is that serious quantities of
carbs are poison for you.  Whether you're officially diabetic or
insulin resistant or whatever is beside the point now; you know that
you can't eat that stuff if you want to stay healthy.  

You probably also discovered how hard it is to say "I'll just have a
taste" and then stick to it.  When your blood sugar isn't well
controlled, that's like a recovering alcoholic saying, "Oh, I'll just
have one shot and then stop."  It's not gonna happen, is it?  Once you
get started, you'll rationalize like crazy until you convince yourself
that you *should* eat three pieces of that birthday cake.  (I did the
same thing this weekend, but I don't have time to chronicle it now, so
later....)  It just doesn't pay to even flirt with it.

Today's a new day though; time to learn from it, start over, and move
forward.