i've been low carbing all week cut out pasta, rice, noodles, before that, it was the same kind of food, but with rice, chips (slimming world ones) pasta etc
these are my readings for the week!
thanks for taking the time out of your day to give advice, it is very much appreciated! have a good sleep
Thanks Paul, that is looking better than I thought, from just that screen shot of the 20!
And if you have only been low carbing for a week or so, then I would stick with it. The numbers will drop. Some people drop quickly, others it can take several weeks of gentle decline.
You may also find it very useful to test before food as well as 2 hrs after. That gives you a way of gauging the rise for each meal.
The ideal is to only rise by 2 at 2 hours (so for example, if you eat at 7pm with a bg of 9mmol/l before food, then you shouldn't be higher than 11mmol/l at 9pm)
This can be quite challenging.
but it really helps to work out where the hidden baddies are...
Since we are all diffferent, please don't compare yourself to others, particularly at this stage. I have higher readings in the morning. You don't. My bg drops after breakfast, yours rises... I get lower before evening meal, doesn't look like you do. But things will change a lot over the next few weeks, so just roll with it, and you will find those numbers go down.
The other thing to bear in mind is that if you have had raised blood glucose for a while, your body is used to living with it, and it has become 'normal'. So when you dip lower, your body will draw on its reserves of glucose (glycogen stored in the liver and big muscles) and dump that into the bloodstream to get back up to 'normal'. The longer you low carb, the lower your glycogen reserves go, and the less you liver dump. So your blood glucose baseline drifts lower.
