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<blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2661567" data-attributes="member: 517579"><p>Numbers don't seem too bad at all. The other factor is that othings other than food will affect your Bg. The main one is your liver trickle feeding glucose when it thinks you need it: this is usually very evident in the morning. But things like stress, adrenaline, illness, or outside temperature can all affect your BG largely because the liver responds to these by releasing nore glucose. If you have a look on the internet, there are plenty of examples of CGM graphs generated by non-diabetics. Their blood glucose is very far from stable and rises and falls as you wouild expect. The only difference in most is that the non-D rises are not quite so high and the falls are maybe a bit quicker.</p><p></p><p>I needed to reduce carbs mainly to get my BG under control, and 20g/day worked very quickly for me. That level also over the last four years has produced weight loss of around 30kg. If someone did want to reduce BG, but not lose weight, they would have to be eating enough fats and proteins so that the body doesn't use its fat stores. This isn't an exact science and we each seem to have different experiences: so it might be a case of try things for a few weeks and see what happens. </p><p></p><p>If you have a glucometer you can monitor your levels before and at +2hrs after eating. You are looking for the second reading to be within 2mmol/l of the first, and not to be above 7.8 - this shows you how well you cope with the carb/glucose load in what you ate. It is definitely not about "how high you go" - it is about how efficiently your body deals with the normal rise in blood glucose after a (with-carb) meal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KennyA, post: 2661567, member: 517579"] Numbers don't seem too bad at all. The other factor is that othings other than food will affect your Bg. The main one is your liver trickle feeding glucose when it thinks you need it: this is usually very evident in the morning. But things like stress, adrenaline, illness, or outside temperature can all affect your BG largely because the liver responds to these by releasing nore glucose. If you have a look on the internet, there are plenty of examples of CGM graphs generated by non-diabetics. Their blood glucose is very far from stable and rises and falls as you wouild expect. The only difference in most is that the non-D rises are not quite so high and the falls are maybe a bit quicker. I needed to reduce carbs mainly to get my BG under control, and 20g/day worked very quickly for me. That level also over the last four years has produced weight loss of around 30kg. If someone did want to reduce BG, but not lose weight, they would have to be eating enough fats and proteins so that the body doesn't use its fat stores. This isn't an exact science and we each seem to have different experiences: so it might be a case of try things for a few weeks and see what happens. If you have a glucometer you can monitor your levels before and at +2hrs after eating. You are looking for the second reading to be within 2mmol/l of the first, and not to be above 7.8 - this shows you how well you cope with the carb/glucose load in what you ate. It is definitely not about "how high you go" - it is about how efficiently your body deals with the normal rise in blood glucose after a (with-carb) meal. [/QUOTE]
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