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Testing my glucose

pleinster said:
Hello again, @snookie09. Really, the wee jab from the needle is not going to get in your way at all. Glad you found the info helpful. This is a great site...never hesitate to ask anything. Once you have tested a couple of times, find your numbers on the excellent chart @chris5428 posted above. Note that your meter readings will correspond to those in the mmol/L rows. It really helps you get your head around the figures, so you can see what your progress means and to get comfortable with the comment other make. While waking and bedtime numbers are useful, you will learn more from the pre and post meal readings. Have fun.
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Just took my first reading after chicken ingredients out few times it was 12.3 which has really worried me now as it's always been about 7.4 I got a code free meter
 
snookie09 said:
Just took my first reading after chicken ingredients out few times it was 12.3 which has really worried me now as it's always been about 7.4 I got a code free meter
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Meant to say chickening out a few times was very nervous doing it lol
 
When did you take that reading? Was it before or after eating, and if it was after, what did you eat?
Did you wash your hands, rinse and dry them properly first?
If you get an unexpected number it is always worth a re-test in case it was a rogue reading.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
When did you take that reading? Was it before or after eating, and if it was after, what did you eat?
Did you wash your hands, rinse and dry them properly first?
If you get an unexpected number it is always worth a re-test in case it was a rogue reading.
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I took it about 2 hours after food as I was working late and not that hungry I had a brown bread roll with onion peppers and bit cherself in it my hands were clean
 
snookie09 said:
I took it about 2 hours after food as I was working late and not that hungry I had a brown bread roll with onion peppers and bit cherself in it my hands were clean
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I would also have been in double figures. I'm afraid to say the bread roll did you no favours at all. I hope you can chalk that down as a lesson learnt - bread (of any colour), especially a roll, is very carb heavy. Bread is one of the main culprits in raising blood sugar levels, but now you have plucked up courage to test you have discovered that for yourself. Keep testing, and keep learning.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I would also have been in double figures. I'm afraid to say the bread roll did you no favours at all. I hope you can chalk that down as a lesson learnt - bread (of any colour), especially a roll, is very carb heavy. Bread is one of the main culprits in raising blood sugar levels, but now you have plucked up courage to test you have discovered that for yourself. Keep testing, and keep learning.
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I have toast and thin covering of olive oil spread for breakfast in mornings as I get up early can't face anything to heavy not big cereal fan and dont like porridge tried it didnt like it at all is there anything that you could suggest to avoid bread for at least one of my meals
 
snookie09 said:
I have toast and thin covering of olive oil spread for breakfast in mornings as I get up early can't face anything to heavy not big cereal fan and dont like porridge tried it didnt like it at all is there anything that you could suggest to avoid bread for at least one of my meals
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There are some very low carb breads. Burgen is one, and Lidl do a high protein roll that is very low carb. However, I suggest you try eggs for breakfast - cooked any way you like. Omelette, fried, poached, boiled. Alternatively, a full fat plain yogurt with a couple of strawberries or a few raspberries works for some people. Personally I just have a coffee with double cream. That lasts me all morning.

It's a good job you don't like cereals or porridge - these are also high in carbs and not always a wise choice.
 
Thanks will look for those breads and will try the yougart I'm off on holidays next week so that will be testing time I do drink a lot of water through the day coz of the heat and we do a lot of walking so hopefully that will help with levels
 
snookie09 said:
I have toast and thin covering of olive oil spread for breakfast in mornings as I get up early can't face anything to heavy not big cereal fan and dont like porridge tried it didnt like it at all is there anything that you could suggest to avoid bread for at least one of my meals
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Hi, Snookie. Good advice from @Bluetit1802. Your 12.3 is undoubtedly down to the roll. You really should avoid bread altogether.I can maybe get a reading of about 9mmols 2 hours after a standard roll or toast...and that is only because my level before eating it would be under 6mmols. So, I don't really risk it. When I was first diagnosed, before I learned about low carbs, a roll or a bit of toast would have given me a reading of anything from 15-18mmols. I have had very little bother finding dinners that have very low carbs but I did struggle with breakfasts as I was a cereal/toast/croissant junkie. Now I know that if you take the sugar out of most "healthy" cereal, it has the same nutritional value as a bit of cardboard (seriously)..and that toast is lethal!. The Lidl rolls mentioned are great..they are low enough in carbs to make a decent toasted breakfast. I buy about a dozen at a time and freeze them. I generally cut one in half and toast it for breakfast. They're cheap...I think it's 3 or 4 for a quid...last well and they taste good. other options for breakfast..apart from eggs and bacon etc...try slices of smoked cheese (the stuff I get is from Sainsbury's and has zero carbs)..or dried bacon strips (again no carbs).
 
Rachox said:
My hubby is joining me with healthy eating in the week and is eating the same meals as me, then at the weekend he says he's having the weekend off! No days off for us Type 2s unfortunately!
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Haha Rachox, mine is the same but as I am vegetarian we eat different meals anyway. He says veggie meals don't fill him up, he needs a slab of meat on top! And the sweetest thing we eat is yogurt, so no 'naughty' things to snack on!
 
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