Wow well done then I wish mine would return to normal....Good luck with that and i shall struve on to try and eat more healthier
Patsy - For me, I think the answer was not to do anything too extreme. When I've tried to go too hard core, my numbers have actually degraded a bit. It seems like my body likes a consistent approach, with modest increases and decreases. I'm lucky that I haven't had a strong enough urge to drive me to eat the contents of the fridge, and I haven't yet fallen off the wagon at all. It'll happen one day, I'm sure, but hopefully I'll be able to remember how to get back on.
To stabilise your levels, the usual wisdom would be to:
- if you don't already, introduce an accurate food diary, including portion sizes
- spread your carbs over the day; as opposed to having one carbier meal than the others
- choose lower GI options for the carbs you have
- reduce carb levels further, although you may have increase your fat a bit to make up the calories, if you are not trying to lose weight
- modify your protein levels, as when protein is metabolises around half of it becomes sugar. This is why if we have a huge steak, with salad, our levels later in the day can be higher than we might expect from purely counting the carbs we've eaten.
Clearly it makes sense to do those things (or the ones you choose to try) systematically, as doing them all at once would be a bit of a nightmare, and you'd never know which, if any, made a difference.
It's all a bit of a puzzle, but I learned more from reading these forums than I did from my medics. I do do a fair bit of reading, and I love data, so I found unexpected readings a challenge, rather than a signal of failure. (That said, I have had grumpy days when I just haven't been able to "get it", and just wanted the whole, flippin' thing to go away!!
As you have changed your drug regime, your puzzle has changed, so it's fair to expect that some of the parts you may have thought you understood might have modified too.
Keep going Patsy. The only way is forward.