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Not diagnosed diabetic but advice please

Hi hope everyone is ok today. I managed to get some test strips and started testing again this morning, just ate my normal foods, not low carb. These are my readings, morning fasting 6.1, 1 hour after breakfast 11.5, but by 2 hours it was down to 6.9.
Dinner - 1 hour later was 6.4, after 2 hours it was 7.5. I don’t think they seem too bad but I definitely could have fallen asleep straight after dinner lol so maybe ate too much! Leigh
 
Also I forgot to ask the other day, if i should think about telling my GP about me wanting to start a low carb high fat diet? Thank you for the advice so far.
 
LeiLei said:
Hi hope everyone is ok today. I managed to get some test strips and started testing again this morning, just ate my normal foods, not low carb. These are my readings, morning fasting 6.1, 1 hour after breakfast 11.5, but by 2 hours it was down to 6.9.
Dinner - 1 hour later was 6.4, after 2 hours it was 7.5. I don’t think they seem too bad but I definitely could have fallen asleep straight after dinner lol so maybe ate too much! Leigh
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LeiLei said:
Also I forgot to ask the other day, if i should think about telling my GP about me wanting to start a low carb high fat diet? Thank you for the advice so far.
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Everyone will spike after about an hour, including non-diabetics, but your 11.5 would frighten me to death, even though it dropped back by 2 hours. I don't know what you ate, but I would consider changing it.

As for your dinner it is difficult to analyse because you haven't said what you were before you ate. It is the amount by which you rise from before to after that matters, and this should always be less than 2mmol/l and preferably a lot less than that.

As for telling your GP this is entirely up to you. He doesn't need to know but no harm in telling him. You may find some resistance on his part, especially the high fat element. He may be one of those that sticks rigidly to the NHS advice to eat low fat. Perhaps forget the high fat part for now and simply tell him you are trying low carb.
 
Thank you for replying, yes I was a tad taken aback by the 11.5! I had a very small amount of crunchy nut cornflakes so not the best of cereals but didn’t have much else in, hate to think what it would have been after a big bowl full. I will see what it’s like after eating a less sugary breakfast. I seem to remember when I had GD I tried all sorts for breakfast but it would always spike by about 4 or 5 mmol so I had insulin just for breakfast time. I will test pre dinner this time also.
 
One of my consultants was telling me that it wasn't until they stuck CGMs on 'normal' people that they realised quite how much BG spiked after certain foods.
 
Circuspony said:
One of my consultants was telling me that it wasn't until they stuck CGMs on 'normal' people that they realised quite how much BG spiked after certain foods.
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I bet it was quite useful but bet they got some scary readings at times. I eat far too much sugar but I’ve cut out chocolate so far as I found that it was a trigger for my migraines.
 
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