sally and james
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Hi everyone,
This is my first post here, but I have been lurking since last summer, when my husband of several decades, James, was diagnosed T2, with BS of 24mmol. Thanks to many of you on here, and to “Blood Sugar 101”, I very quickly realised that the way forward was low carb and frequent testing. This has lead to James dropping his BMI from 30 to 23.9 and now having HbA1c’s in the “normal” range (ie 38 and most recently 35). Although initially put on Metformin, he has gradually discontinued this, to a chorus of dreadful warnings from the GP and DN.
Now, flushed with our low carb diet based success, we are trying to re-introduce a few more food items, in particular some fruit. We have worked on the basis that a one hour reading should be no more than 7mmol/L and by two hours, blood sugars should have dropped to 6mmol or below. By the next meal, I would expect a return to readings of 5 or under. Before our evening meal, levels in the 3's are not uncommon.
We are now testing raspberries/blueberries, served with nuts and seeds and full fat, unsweetened Greek yoghurt, but I am puzzled by results:
Pre-meal: 4.5.
1 hour: 5.4, which looks great.
2 hours: 6.0, which is just about OK, but surprising that it has gone up.
3 hours: 6.1, which is beginning to look bad as I would have expected levels to be falling by now.
4 hours: 5.8, which is too high to start the next meal.
This same pattern has occurred on a number of occasions.
Has anyone else followed through their sugar levels beyond a couple of hours? Is what we are seeing a sign of eating a low GI food with fatty yoghurt? Is it a bad idea to eat foods which, though not "spiking", take a long time to clear through the system? (Is a short spike better or worse than a long, slightly raised period?)
Any advice would be appreciated.
Sally
This is my first post here, but I have been lurking since last summer, when my husband of several decades, James, was diagnosed T2, with BS of 24mmol. Thanks to many of you on here, and to “Blood Sugar 101”, I very quickly realised that the way forward was low carb and frequent testing. This has lead to James dropping his BMI from 30 to 23.9 and now having HbA1c’s in the “normal” range (ie 38 and most recently 35). Although initially put on Metformin, he has gradually discontinued this, to a chorus of dreadful warnings from the GP and DN.
Now, flushed with our low carb diet based success, we are trying to re-introduce a few more food items, in particular some fruit. We have worked on the basis that a one hour reading should be no more than 7mmol/L and by two hours, blood sugars should have dropped to 6mmol or below. By the next meal, I would expect a return to readings of 5 or under. Before our evening meal, levels in the 3's are not uncommon.
We are now testing raspberries/blueberries, served with nuts and seeds and full fat, unsweetened Greek yoghurt, but I am puzzled by results:
Pre-meal: 4.5.
1 hour: 5.4, which looks great.
2 hours: 6.0, which is just about OK, but surprising that it has gone up.
3 hours: 6.1, which is beginning to look bad as I would have expected levels to be falling by now.
4 hours: 5.8, which is too high to start the next meal.
This same pattern has occurred on a number of occasions.
Has anyone else followed through their sugar levels beyond a couple of hours? Is what we are seeing a sign of eating a low GI food with fatty yoghurt? Is it a bad idea to eat foods which, though not "spiking", take a long time to clear through the system? (Is a short spike better or worse than a long, slightly raised period?)
Any advice would be appreciated.
Sally
i have that exact thing for brekkie so tomorrow ill test to see what happens and if i get the same results, we have such a similar story it may be useful