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<blockquote data-quote="Bluetit1802" data-source="post: 1934662" data-attributes="member: 94045"><p>Yes, 4 days is unrealistic to expect much change. Fasting numbers will always be the last to come down.</p><p></p><p>If I were you I would forget the fasting numbers for now and concentrate on the numbers before eating and 2 hours after first bite. Keeping a food diary and recording the levels alongside will help enormously. It will show you instantly how your body has reacted to that meal and give you chance to tweak things. Even doing that it isn't the levels that matter as much as the amount of difference there is between the before and after tests. This should be under 2mmol/l and preferably less. More than that and there were too many carbs on your plate. Once you have this sorted (and it takes a while. It won't happen in 4 days) then you could go back to testing your fasting in addition to testing meals - and then you may see a drop. Numbers do not drop in a linear fashion. They drop more like steps - gradually over time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluetit1802, post: 1934662, member: 94045"] Yes, 4 days is unrealistic to expect much change. Fasting numbers will always be the last to come down. If I were you I would forget the fasting numbers for now and concentrate on the numbers before eating and 2 hours after first bite. Keeping a food diary and recording the levels alongside will help enormously. It will show you instantly how your body has reacted to that meal and give you chance to tweak things. Even doing that it isn't the levels that matter as much as the amount of difference there is between the before and after tests. This should be under 2mmol/l and preferably less. More than that and there were too many carbs on your plate. Once you have this sorted (and it takes a while. It won't happen in 4 days) then you could go back to testing your fasting in addition to testing meals - and then you may see a drop. Numbers do not drop in a linear fashion. They drop more like steps - gradually over time. [/QUOTE]
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