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Fasting And 2 Hour Reading

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KMPMBA

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Hi,

I started off with 5.9 fasting (this has been my everyday fasting range generally)

Breakfast was low carb (scrambled eggs with cheese + a cup of tea with milk and sweetener with 1 carb).

2 hours later I was at 7.4.

What could cause this kind of a rise? I would have expected to stay in the 5.x to 6.x based on Carb content.

Thoughts and advises to go lower pls.
 
KMPMBA said:
Hi,

I started off with 5.9 fasting (this has been my everyday fasting range generally)

Breakfast was low carb (scrambled eggs with cheese + a cup of tea with milk and sweetener with 1 carb).

2 hours later I was at 7.4.

What could cause this kind of a rise? I would have expected to stay in the 5.x to 6.x based on Carb content.

Thoughts and advises to go lower pls.
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Proteine gets converted to glucose too, just doesn't spike like carbs do. A rise to 7.4 is excellent, well below 2.0 mmol/l.
 
There was possibly a little liver dump involved.
 
KMPMBA said:
Hi,

I started off with 5.9 fasting (this has been my everyday fasting range generally)

Breakfast was low carb (scrambled eggs with cheese + a cup of tea with milk and sweetener with 1 carb).

2 hours later I was at 7.4.

What could cause this kind of a rise? I would have expected to stay in the 5.x to 6.x based on Carb content.

Thoughts and advises to go lower pls.
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You may be reacting to the sweetener as well which probably won't have helped..
 
Thanks guys, what worries me is that if I would eat twice the quantity with veggies and chicken included for lunch the wouldn't have spiked as much infact would be near 6.0-6.2 after 2 hours
 
KMPMBA said:
Thanks guys, what worries me is that if I would eat twice the quantity with veggies and chicken included for lunch the wouldn't have spiked as much infact would be near 6.0-6.2 after 2 hours
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You could try eating exactly the same meal at lunchtime and record the results... then you'd know if was what you had eaten or the time of day that you ate it making the difference.
My guess would be the time of day. But sweeteners in some have been known to cause excessive rises no matter how many carbs so if you could drop that it certainly wouldn't do any harm.
 
Thanks, I think it has more to do with the time of the day, as I stated earlier, for lunch I had a hearty mixed salad with avocado, half a cup of mixed lentil soup, some chicken and a can of diet 7up. 2 hours later I was at 6.0. I did not check pre-meal but I am quite sure it wouldn't have been lower than 5.3-5.5.

Will surely have to rule.out that sachet of sweet-n-low in my morning tea.
 
KMPMBA said:
Thanks, I think it has more to do with the time of the day, as I stated earlier, for lunch I had a hearty mixed salad with avocado, half a cup of mixed lentil soup, some chicken and a can of diet 7up. 2 hours later I was at 6.0. I did not check pre-meal but I am quite sure it wouldn't have been lower than 5.3-5.5.

Will surely have to rule.out that sachet of sweet-n-low in my morning tea.
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Wouldn't do any harm to miss it out for a week and note any difference in levels.
 
Same meal same time - I skipped the sweet-n-low today - started at 5.9 and 2 hours later was at 7.4, has to be the time of the day / liver dumps.
 
Skipped breakfast, 2 hrs later I was at 6.7, so the eggs, cheese and tea have the minimal effect as I guessed. It's the time of the day Liver Dumps .

One more thing I am itching to try is easy around 10-15 carbs for breakfast, a brown toast or tortilla or Oats to check if liver dump is due to body not getting carbs when it think it needs it, I read an experience where someone improved his morning sugar by including some carbs for breakfast.

Atleast this time around I have, with all your suggestions and experience, been able to do a structured evaluation of the situation.
 
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