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For me your number is very good. The spike after carb meal always happens. I know a guy who are perfectly healthy who once did this banana test. His blood sugar after eating five large bananas was 5.5 at 1 hour mark. After that it went down to 4.8 (after two hours). Curious, he did the same...

Hello. I know frequent urination problem can be frustrating to say the least. To find the underlying problem is not easy, but since you've done several tests, I guess you know already which suspected causes to be ruled out. Like Mr Spock once said, “When you eliminate the impossible, whatever...

Low carb high fat diet is certainly a solution. My BS test is always acceptable on the LCHF diet, but there are times when carbs are too tempting to avoid :shy:. They say OMAD can restore insulin sensitivity. Doing it for two and a half months and then tried my insulin sensitivity with high...

I usually test at 2 hours and 3 hours to make sure it is going down at three hours. I really expect I can bring down my BS at 2 hours without having too restrict my carb even further. I'm already a bit too skinny :(

I've been prediabetic for a couple of years now. My target is pretty 'standard' which is below 140mg/dl (7.7mmol/l) after two hours. I usually don't eat much carb but when I do, the BG spike worries me :(

I have been testing a lot these days and whenever I tested at precisely one hour, it always wasn't the peak. I would peak, at the fastest, one and a half hours after meal and mostly 2 hours. Knowing the trend, I stopped testing at one hour and started testing only at two hours. I don't know why...

I agree with you on the importance of knowing what meals spike at which point. I think that's key to better diet management. My peak BG is mostly at two hour and down after that. Why I always peak at two hour mark confuses me actually :( Sorry to hear about your cousin. But diabetes medication...

For me monitoring BG every 30 minutes is not really useful (although it is a curious thing to experiment). The two-hour mark after meal is the most important. If I can have my glucose level back to normal within 2 hours, I'll be satisfied. If after 2 hours I still see a high number, I'd be...

Good point, @Mbaker! Most of the time I forgot the patience and consistency factors :facepalm:

Hi @Mbaker, thanks for getting back to me with your interesting method. Btw, have you ever taken notes on how your blood sugar reacts to every step of the exercises and how your BG reacts hourly after that? Also, do you exercise AFTER or BEFORE meal?

@helensaramay thanks for pointing that out. I hope you are referring to the same study that @ert and I were discussing. I was just thinking that the study here (http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/36/3/537) might have still left out some contributing factors important to the experimentation...

I certainly will.

Yup, that's why I like OMAD or long fasting. It drops off the body's insulin level which I know for a fact is healthy for my body. I have no other concerns except for the spikes. Other than that, I feel much healthier with OMAD now that I've been doing it for months. As for the BG spikes, I...

Thank you for your reply. As I wrote above, I have been doing OMAD (which as you know, a stricter version of IF). I have no problem doing OMAD, but my concern is, my blood sugar spikes very high after meal. (High blood sugar spikes do not happen if take three meals a day). The spike is worsened...

The study seems interesting although for me, reading it in a glance, is not absolutely conclusive yet, particularly considering that the test participants were T1 diabetics who took insulin injections. The amount of basal and bolus injections for them, I believe, varied. Also, even if by any...

Thanks for your suggestion. I will definitely try to exercise a couple hours or more AFTER meal instead of BEFORE. It may work for me. Yes please. I'm very interested :happy:

Mbaker, thanks for your references, I will look into them. Btw, regarding the blood sugar spikes, my GP actually suggested I take metformin, which he said is relatively safe. Metformin does lower the spike a bit, but I can't stand the side effect of it which is from upset stomach to diarrhea...

Thanks @NicholeC1971! I think I will pay more attention to adding more protein and fat to my diet.

Thanks for your reply and suggestion. Yes I exercise with weights (not necessarily heavylifting tho). My problem with exercise is, it spikes my blood sugar very high, especially since someone told me to exercise in fasted state just before meal (which makes sense for me). And I couldn't think...

Hello all. This is my first post here and please correct me if the way I post is not in line with the forum guideline. Please kindly note that english is not my first language. The measurement I'd be using will be in mg/dl (I'm not so familiar with the unit used in UK, but maybe later I will...