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    Weekend blood glucose spikes

    I can't be sure what the 2 hour levels were (it had come down into the 8s not long after the hour mark (still high for a non-diabetic), but then I went for a walk and didn't take a reading for a while afterwards. The strange thing is it is just those weekend mornings where I'm seeing these big...
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    Weekend blood glucose spikes

    I'm not diabetic, but have been monitoring my blood glucose of late in an effort to understand my present state of health. Overall, things seem pretty good, save perhaps for a strange pattern I've noticed with my blood glucose during the morning at weekends. I exercise every weekday morning...
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    Concerns about SD Codefree

    I had a fasting BG test done recently so I decided to use this opportunity to do a very unscientific test of the SD. The lab result came back with 4.3, but my SD reading (taken just after the blood sample was taken) was 5.2, with the Freestyle reading 4.5. As I said, not exactly the most...
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    Concerns about SD Codefree

    I've had the chance to do a few comparisons between my SD and new Freestyle Lite now. In every case so far the SD has come out higher, always being at least 0.5 above the Freestyle. Of the tests this morning for example, my fasting was 4.8 with Freestyle, 5.4 with SD. 40 minutes after a...
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    Concerns about SD Codefree

    Hi, I was wondering what the consensus seems to be over the accuracy of the SD Codefree? I'm a non-diabetic who has been monitoring my blood glucose due to concerns I have had about my health. A few months ago my fasting levels were in the mid to low 4s, but since improving my diet and exercise...
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    Carbohydrate saturation

    I think some people underestimate BG changes among non-diabetics, and most will experience a noticeable increase, just not to the high levels associated with diabetes. In answer to the first reply, I have been testing because a close relative was recently diagnosed with Type 2, and I was...
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    Carbohydrate saturation

    Although I'm not diabetic, I recently cut the vast majority of added sugars from my diet, as well as many starchy foods. As such, I have ended up with a diet that is relatively low-carb compared to most people, with no more than 150g on most days, with most of those from fruit & veg, lentils...
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    Glycemic and Insulin Response

    Hi, Sorry, not sure why it said that - I'm just a concerned non-diabetic.
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    Glycemic and Insulin Response

    I've read quite a bit about both the glycemic and insulin responses observed when certain types of food are eaten. My question concerns which should be the priority when trying to prevent the onset of diabetes? Is the aim to reduce the glycemic response as much as possible or to reduce the...
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    Blood glucose plateaus

    I'm non-diabetic (so far as I know), but I have been monitoring my levels and just have a few questions. My BG tends to peak anywhere from the high 6s to the high 7s, even after relatively low carb meals, normally at around 45 mins. Sometimes it comes back down to the low 5s within 2 hours, but...
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    Diabetes prevention - diet & exercise

    No, I don't think I've put on weight. My weight is one of the things I haven't tracked properly, but if anything I'd say I have lost a bit in recent weeks, as my low calorie intake would suggest. If my insulin resistance has increased (and I can't see why it should) I'm still puzzled as to why...
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    Diabetes prevention - diet & exercise

    The starving was never intentional; I was simply overestimating how much I was actually eating until I actually started recording it and saw I wasn't getting nearly enough. The problem is I'm now developing something of a phobia of eating more because I don't want to make my BG worse than I...
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    Diabetes prevention - diet & exercise

    I used to eat a lot of carbs up until a few months ago (e.g. I wouldn't have thought twice about having a tin of baked beans and several slices of white bread as a meal, and I ate a lot of cakes, biscuits, chocolate, sugar-sweetened drinks etc.). But I'd cut most of those out for a while before...
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    Diabetes prevention - diet & exercise

    Hi, please excuse me if what follows appears to be the ravings of a paranoid person. However, with the recent diagnosis of a close family member with type 2 diabetes, I have basically decided to give myself a lifestyle MOT. In the last few months I've made significant changes to my diet (I was...
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    Blood sugar in the evening

    Well, yes :D I actually started recording my food intake in recent days (I'm basically giving myself a health MOT at the moment, hence the BG monitoring too, after several years of eating rubbish). I found that I'm not eating nearly enough calories. On most days I'm only hitting around 1500...
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    Blood sugar in the evening

    Sorry for the delay in responding, but having done more tests over recent days I'm getting slightly concerned about my blood sugar levels, particularly in the evening. My levels are certainly not going into diabetic levels, but overall my blood sugars appear to have gone up in recent weeks, and...
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    Blood sugar in the evening

    Hi, I don't have diabetes but I have been monitoring my blood sugar and I have some questions about what I've seen. I have noticed that my blood sugar seems to spike after dinner, often going between 7 & 8, and then it seems to level-off in the low to mid 6s for much of the remainder of the...
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    Exercise and blood sugar control

    Hi, I don't have diabetes, but since a close family member was diagnosed with type 2 I decided it was about time I changed my own lifestyle. As such, I've drastically improved my diet and exercise over the last few months (and I've never felt better!), and I also did some monitoring of my own...
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    First-phase insulin response

    Hi! While I haven't been diagnosed with diabetes, given my horrendous diet up until a few months ago I wanted to check my glucose levels. While my fasting and 2hr postprandial levels seem pretty good, I have noticed that even with relatively low carb meals I seem to be experiencing notable...