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<blockquote data-quote="BooJewels" data-source="post: 851223" data-attributes="member: 181094"><p>You can't <em>change </em>it, other than potentially not making it worse, by eating other spike-inducing foods at the next meal. Alternatively, use that data to learn from in future - it's an on-going learning process for all of us. </p><p></p><p>I'm on insulin now and recently started my version of LCHF and am now finding that my wildly erratic readings are much more consistent - my app produces an assortment of graphs of my readings and this makes it easy to see overall trends when presented visually like that. Obviously on a graph BG readings largely zig zag as they go along when they're a mix of before and after food readings - so together they produce a band, to which you can see individual movement between readings, but also the width of the band varies between minimum and maximum readings, as does its general direction. </p><p></p><p>So the point I was brewing up to making was that as you get better control and work on a routine that works for you - over time - the spikes should be minimal - and if you get one, you'll probably know why. If you are genuinely sticking to a good eating regimen, you shouldn't really get much in the way of 'spikes'. In almost every case over the last month, my before and after meal readings only change by about 2 - 2.5 - most are around 1.8 difference. A few months ago this was wildly different for me until I started on insulin. I obviously now have much better control over my BG than I did.</p><p></p><p>So if you're getting spikes in readings, that would suggest that either you're not eating as well as you think and introducing more hidden carbs than you realise - or if you are being strict (and honest with yourself too) it would suggest that some foods just don't sit as well with you as others. So in that case, it might be an idea to repeat that meal - or the suspect ingredients - and testing again another time to gradually form a picture of what works for you and what doesn't. </p><p></p><p>You'll find reading here that some people can - for example - eat rice without problem, but not potato and another might be fine with pasta, but not carby veggies like parsnip and carrot. If you do get 'spikes', then make a note of what you ate before it. You can't do anything about a spike, other than using it as a learning process - and over time you'll form a picture of what will work for you and you'll gradually hone your eating plan.</p><p></p><p><strong>ETA: </strong> Apologies, Robbity obviously answered a bit faster than me and already has it covered.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BooJewels, post: 851223, member: 181094"] You can't [I]change [/I]it, other than potentially not making it worse, by eating other spike-inducing foods at the next meal. Alternatively, use that data to learn from in future - it's an on-going learning process for all of us. I'm on insulin now and recently started my version of LCHF and am now finding that my wildly erratic readings are much more consistent - my app produces an assortment of graphs of my readings and this makes it easy to see overall trends when presented visually like that. Obviously on a graph BG readings largely zig zag as they go along when they're a mix of before and after food readings - so together they produce a band, to which you can see individual movement between readings, but also the width of the band varies between minimum and maximum readings, as does its general direction. So the point I was brewing up to making was that as you get better control and work on a routine that works for you - over time - the spikes should be minimal - and if you get one, you'll probably know why. If you are genuinely sticking to a good eating regimen, you shouldn't really get much in the way of 'spikes'. In almost every case over the last month, my before and after meal readings only change by about 2 - 2.5 - most are around 1.8 difference. A few months ago this was wildly different for me until I started on insulin. I obviously now have much better control over my BG than I did. So if you're getting spikes in readings, that would suggest that either you're not eating as well as you think and introducing more hidden carbs than you realise - or if you are being strict (and honest with yourself too) it would suggest that some foods just don't sit as well with you as others. So in that case, it might be an idea to repeat that meal - or the suspect ingredients - and testing again another time to gradually form a picture of what works for you and what doesn't. You'll find reading here that some people can - for example - eat rice without problem, but not potato and another might be fine with pasta, but not carby veggies like parsnip and carrot. If you do get 'spikes', then make a note of what you ate before it. You can't do anything about a spike, other than using it as a learning process - and over time you'll form a picture of what will work for you and you'll gradually hone your eating plan. [B]ETA: [/B] Apologies, Robbity obviously answered a bit faster than me and already has it covered. [/QUOTE]
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