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<blockquote data-quote="Lamont D" data-source="post: 2158491" data-attributes="member: 85785"><p>Totally agree about education of what happens and how to use the glucometer to get the best out of results and more importantly interpretation of those results.</p><p>A food diary is a simple tool to record the results and how those foods that you are intolerant to will show up. Seeing over time how your blood sugar levels will alter because of going low carb, hopefully down. Seeing trends in your results.</p><p>In my own personal experience, I was given a glucometer but no education about it, just test every now again, no food diary! No real reason behind the advice!</p><p>So I stopped!</p><p>There was no reason to, because I had no idea, what to look for and achieve, no goals set, no target to aim for and why monitoring blood sugar levels were important to control.</p><p>According to my endocrinologist, I had been going hypo years before diagnosis, but because I didn't have a clue, I never used my glucometer to find out!</p><p> I was eating healthy according to all my doctors, dsns, dieticians and even one endocrinologist fifteen years ago!</p><p>But this so called healthy foods were slowly killing me, it was porridge, potatoes, wheat, multi-grains, and cooking with vegetable oils that I found by testing were really bad for me!</p><p>I was dragged up in my childhood in real poverty, unless you have been there, you cannot understand what it is really like, to have nothing! No hope, no money, no food, no heating, and trying to get by, but you can't! It's scandalous in this modern era, in one of the richest countries, that there are so many, (millions!) That have to do without and go to food banks and most of them are from working families!</p><p>A Tory lead assault on the poorest and weakest of those in our communities!</p><p>A disgrace!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lamont D, post: 2158491, member: 85785"] Totally agree about education of what happens and how to use the glucometer to get the best out of results and more importantly interpretation of those results. A food diary is a simple tool to record the results and how those foods that you are intolerant to will show up. Seeing over time how your blood sugar levels will alter because of going low carb, hopefully down. Seeing trends in your results. In my own personal experience, I was given a glucometer but no education about it, just test every now again, no food diary! No real reason behind the advice! So I stopped! There was no reason to, because I had no idea, what to look for and achieve, no goals set, no target to aim for and why monitoring blood sugar levels were important to control. According to my endocrinologist, I had been going hypo years before diagnosis, but because I didn't have a clue, I never used my glucometer to find out! I was eating healthy according to all my doctors, dsns, dieticians and even one endocrinologist fifteen years ago! But this so called healthy foods were slowly killing me, it was porridge, potatoes, wheat, multi-grains, and cooking with vegetable oils that I found by testing were really bad for me! I was dragged up in my childhood in real poverty, unless you have been there, you cannot understand what it is really like, to have nothing! No hope, no money, no food, no heating, and trying to get by, but you can't! It's scandalous in this modern era, in one of the richest countries, that there are so many, (millions!) That have to do without and go to food banks and most of them are from working families! A Tory lead assault on the poorest and weakest of those in our communities! A disgrace! [/QUOTE]
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