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B: 1/4 cup nuts & the last 2 spritz cookies. L: Buffalo chicken dip over miracle noodles - my new favorite lunch. D: I will have a large garden salad - and maybe some asparagus.

I'm nowhere near maintenance yet (about halfway there), but I'm dreading maintenance - because I've got a carb cap and a protein target. The only thing I can increase is fats - which (1) I find mostly unpalatable - except when paired with bread or sugar (I'm having trouble eating up to the...

Hey, it works on my spritz cookies - as long as I limit the number I'm eating. I just finished off the Christmas supply - I've been eating 2/day since early December with no adverse effects.

5.0 a tad higher than yesterday, but as long as it's under 5.6 I'm happy.

It's available for both mobile and desktop, it's free, and the two sync with each other so you can go back and forth.

Lower carbs + glicizide is likely the culprit. Your new carb level may be to low for the insulin level the glicizide causes. Make sure you talk to your doctor about your diet, as well. A number of people drop glicizide (no longer need it - or find the hypos too risky/frequent), or...

4.72 :happy:

I don't know what app you are referring to, but I use MyFitnessPal.com (there is an app, but I use the web based version).

My experience is the opposite. I'm now down 17% of my body weight - and no one else noticed it until last week (others who know I am working on losing weight have noticed it - but no one noticed it independently for over 3 months & 34 lbs) o_O

Are you limiting calories? LCHF isn't a magic weight/inches loss tool - if your caloric intake is not below what you burn you will not lose weight/inches.

In the US, if 7.6 was a second FBG that high - or a confirmation that the first test was accurate, it would create a diagnosis of diabetes. (There are multiple criteria - one of which is two FBG tests equal to or greater than 7 (126 mg/dl) - even if the A1C isn't above 6.5% (the US standard...

What you are experiencing sounds like "dawn phenomenon." Your liver dumps glucose into your bloodstream around dawn to help you have enough energy to wake up and get out of bed. As you get your blood sugar under control, that is usually the last thing to fall back in the normal ranges. It...

I do odd-left, even-right. Start with both sides of the pinkie, then both sides of thumb, and no particular order after that. But the odd/even means that all I have to do is check a calendar to know which hand I'm on. My left hand gets a bit of an extra workout when the month ends in an odd...

B: Habanero bbq almonds & 2 small spritz cookies (about 3 days left before they're gone!) L: Large romaine/iceburg salad with green pepper and cauliflower D: Red chili thai curry with shrimp, chicken, and cauliflower Snack: mixed nuts.

I didn't take it as criticism - It was just an entirely different reaction than the last discussion I was involved in about Thai curries. I had posted my surprise that I could actually eat it - since most sauces tend to be thickened with starch. At least a dozen other low carb folks responded...

Those are higher numbers than I would like to see. I'm not familiary with lucozade - but it appears to be high carb, but not outrageously high. In additon, liquids are generally fast acting carbs so a more likely pattern would be a quick spike and then a decline to around 5.6 or below. There...

Yup. That's the disclaimer - if you don't have an underlying hypoglycemic condition. :) (I have friends with hypoglycemia - so I know that throws things off in the other direction, even with out throwing more insulin into the mix.)

Sorry for being convoluted - that is precisely what I meant by a drug that makes your pancreas secrete more insulin without regard to glucose. If you have relatively fixed quantity of insulin circulating at all times AND you aren't consuming enough glucose to keep up with the insulin, you will...

None of the recipes I have include sugar (or only include a very small amount - a maximum of 8.4 grams per serving). The very large curry I had the last time I ate out barely budged my blood glucose. It was 6 at one hour after eating & 5.9 at 2 hours. For comparison, starting at around 5.6...

It shouldn't be a hypo unless you are on insulin - it is the basal insulin (or a drug that makes your pancreas secrete more insulin without regard to glucose) that creates hypos. (I.e. adding a basal insulin would make it more likely you will have hypos if you are eating low carb.)