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<blockquote data-quote="Bluetit1802" data-source="post: 617573" data-attributes="member: 94045"><p>The different results you got after testing the same meals is possibly down to different portion sizes. Unless you weigh everything, portion sizes are hit and miss. Even with identical portion sizes there will sometimes be differences depending on what you do in that 2 hour gap. I agree there is little point in testing out meals that you know will not spike you over and above the spike limit you set yourself. The idea is for people new to testing and starting a new diet to discover which foods do spike them and thus able to avoid them in future. I could not have arrived at my present sustainable diet without this. I didn't want to live without potatoes and bread, so by methodical testing I was able to discover I can manage 1 slice of bread with a meal, but not 2 slices. I can manage 2 small potatoes, but not 4. I am happy.</p><p></p><p>With certain meals I also test at 1 hour plus 2 hours and if necessary at 2.5hours. Initially my spikes were anywhere within this, quite randomly, but now are almost always at 1 hour, back to low 6's at 2 hours, which is what should happen with non-diabetics.</p><p></p><p>I expect my 2 hour reading to drop back to 4's or low 5's before the next meal, and normally they do, but this can depend on the amount of fat eaten with that meal, and also the amount of protein eaten at previous meals, plus of course the amount of exercise done in that period.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluetit1802, post: 617573, member: 94045"] The different results you got after testing the same meals is possibly down to different portion sizes. Unless you weigh everything, portion sizes are hit and miss. Even with identical portion sizes there will sometimes be differences depending on what you do in that 2 hour gap. I agree there is little point in testing out meals that you know will not spike you over and above the spike limit you set yourself. The idea is for people new to testing and starting a new diet to discover which foods do spike them and thus able to avoid them in future. I could not have arrived at my present sustainable diet without this. I didn't want to live without potatoes and bread, so by methodical testing I was able to discover I can manage 1 slice of bread with a meal, but not 2 slices. I can manage 2 small potatoes, but not 4. I am happy. With certain meals I also test at 1 hour plus 2 hours and if necessary at 2.5hours. Initially my spikes were anywhere within this, quite randomly, but now are almost always at 1 hour, back to low 6's at 2 hours, which is what should happen with non-diabetics. I expect my 2 hour reading to drop back to 4's or low 5's before the next meal, and normally they do, but this can depend on the amount of fat eaten with that meal, and also the amount of protein eaten at previous meals, plus of course the amount of exercise done in that period. [/QUOTE]
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