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@KK123 these are recent readings and meals would appreciate your thoughts. The coloured numbers are pre-meal readings, the black are 2 hours post meal. Phew just taken reading 2 hours after breakfast and its back down to 5.9. The fasting levels always seem to be high.

@KK123 thanks. I don't have a sweet tooth so carbs before were from homemade bread, pasta, rice etc, nothing sweet. I've removed even more carbs from diet now but still getting high readings, had pre-breakfast reading of 9.7 this morning (!) and all I had last night was a home made burger ( no...

By the way, what I would like to do, if possible, is to reduce my H1BAC so that it is below the prediabetic range to try and avoid diabetes ( its in my family ), with the levels of blood sugar I am at, I am not sure how hard I should push myself with carb intake to lower this...

Thanks for all the info. It's only the last two readings that were using the new test strips ( hence the original question ) - was happy with the readings before that, but I now suspect they are invalid because of the increase in readings on the new strips. Its odd though, because I checked one...

Thanks, what is the recommended allowance per day?

It says on the box that the carb content is 3.4g/100ml, ie 3.4%, I read somewhere else about trying to limit to 5%, is that wrong? What can I drink other than water?

Hi, I am very confused about which foods are OK to eat. I have a book that shows GI and GL values for different foods but the info in that sometimes seems to contradict what people are saying here, For example, apples are showing low GI and low GL, small portion of wholemeal brown bread ( 1 thin...

Hi, I have been recording here, the last 2 readings were with the new test strips....

Hi all I have recently had a health check at the GP and told my H1BAC level is 47. A couple of years ago my level was 46 and reduced my carbs, but with lockdown things lapsed. I purchased a TEE2 blood glucose monitor back then and have been using the test strips over the last week to test the...