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    Type 2 Exact timing of blood sugar tests

    Hi JB - so sorry you didn't get a reply - try starting a new topic. Existing topics are a long way down the list that people see when they enter the app! I am a relative newbie, but a couple of things I’ve discovered are worth thinking about if you aren’t already doing them? Exercise! A brisk...
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    Fasting blood sugar is not the most reliable measure, as everyone says. If you want to know more about blood sugar, I highly recommend the bloodsugar101.com website - and the book of the same name. This author specialises in collecting all the latest research in a well-written form. The research...
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    Type 2 Exact timing of blood sugar tests

    Good point - I appreciate that slow carbs can have as much of an impact on average blood sugar as short sharp spikes. I hadn’t thought of buying a Libre purely as an investigative tool. I’ve assumed I’ll transition onto an intuitive diet - once I’ve educated my intuition! Might have to rethink that.
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    Type 2 Exact timing of blood sugar tests

    Interesting - thanks for the info @Bluetit1802. Glucose is probably the fastest ingestion of carbs possible, so start and end would be close (but takeup would be also very fast). Whereas when eating a low carb meal I imagine it would take longer for the first sugars to hit the bloodstream. I...
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    Type 2 Exact timing of blood sugar tests

    Thanks. It just seems to me that given how blood sugar testing is often used in research, testing is always described as so many minutes ‘after a meal’ rather than ‘after starting’/‘after completing’ a meal - since the two can differ markedly. Assuming a quick meal, there’s 30 minutes...
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    Type 2 Exact timing of blood sugar tests

    Hi, I am a T2 diabetic controlling my diabetes with a low carb diet. I am in the process of testing to see what impact different foods have on me - so at 30 mins, 1 hour, 2 hours. I’ve managed to get my HbA1c down to 42, yay! But it’s nearly a year since diagnosis, so I might not get testing...
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    Carb treat: on its own or with a meal?

    Wow, thank you. This is the original, it comes from my childhood in New Zealand - written down by my mum. 4oz butter 4 oz sugar 1 egg 6oz flour 1 tsp baking powder 2 dessertspoonfuls cocoa powder 8 oz salted roasted peanuts Cream butter and sugar. Add egg and beat. Add dry ingredients. Lastly...
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    Carb treat: on its own or with a meal?

    @Ribbet. Those charts you linked were really useful, I learned stuff. Especially happy that pecans are the lowest carb nut - I'd thought from the sweet taste that they'd be high! And whiskey has ZERO carbs. Yay!
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    Carb treat: on its own or with a meal?

    @Ribbet I think we have a similar approach! I actually dislike the taste of most sweeteners, I don't notice at first but then over time my body has a negative reaction like "this is not good stuff! Stop eating it!" And I get sensitised to the taste. Erythritol was the one I tried to use in...
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    Carb treat: on its own or with a meal?

    @bulkbiker - wonderful link. I am throwing my statins away with joy!
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    Carb treat: on its own or with a meal?

    @bulkbiker - also as a 65 year old female i discovered from one of the videos you linked that high cholesterol may actually be helpful!
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    Carb treat: on its own or with a meal?

    @bulkbiker. If I get bad results because I can’t keep the fibre up, you’re right, I will just switch to LCHF early and have a slower weight loss. I wish there was data showing it does what the Newcastle diet is said to do and ‘reverse diabetes’. I’m not actually sure that this means anything...
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    Carb treat: on its own or with a meal?

    @Ribbet. It’s good to get your encouragement (and recipe - got to love hot cross buns!). I’m hoping that my body will adapt and seeing the diabetes diagnosis as no bad thing in that the way to deal with it is to eat healthy and know that you now have no choice but to do the stuff you swore you...