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<blockquote data-quote="Dougie22" data-source="post: 234441" data-attributes="member: 34509"><p>The story so far.</p><p></p><p>Diagnosed at Easter and reasonably successful so far at getting HbA1c under control. have been on this forum since diagnosis, read a couple of books and been on DESMOND course. Frequently self testing but paying for my own strips. Happy that my understanding is growing and I now have quite a long list of breakfast and lunch food combinations that I can tolerate. Generally, I'm following a reduced carbs, calorie controlled, low GI style diet and going to the gym three times a week. Lost about 2.5 stones to date, mostly in the early months. Fall off the wagon once in a while.</p><p></p><p>Having followed the "Fasting level this morning" debate and experienced big differences in readings seemingly more dependent on when I get up than what I've eaten the day before, I've decided to reduce the frequency of fasting testing and concentrate on post dinner readings for a while.</p><p></p><p>Two weeks ago, I started using an on-line calorie and carb tracker (Myfitness.com) and I've been religiously recording absolutely everything I'm eating.</p><p></p><p>Although my testing has been patchy (so, for example, I may have tested 2 hours after dinner but not had a pre dinner reading for comparison), the results haven't been as predictable as I thought they'd be.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps optimistically, and all things (GI especially) being equal, I'd expected my 2 hour readings to vary more in less in line with the grams of carbs consumed. Results so far don't seem to show this happening and readings seem to range from around 8.5 to around 10 with similar carb loads?</p><p></p><p>I'm now going to start a more rigourous before and after set of tests and I'll report back the results in more detail when I get them.</p><p></p><p>I'd be interested in what the more experience carb watchers/self testers think.</p><p></p><p>Is their a direct (linear) relationship between carbs consumed and BG level?</p><p></p><p>(Sorry for the long post)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dougie22, post: 234441, member: 34509"] The story so far. Diagnosed at Easter and reasonably successful so far at getting HbA1c under control. have been on this forum since diagnosis, read a couple of books and been on DESMOND course. Frequently self testing but paying for my own strips. Happy that my understanding is growing and I now have quite a long list of breakfast and lunch food combinations that I can tolerate. Generally, I'm following a reduced carbs, calorie controlled, low GI style diet and going to the gym three times a week. Lost about 2.5 stones to date, mostly in the early months. Fall off the wagon once in a while. Having followed the "Fasting level this morning" debate and experienced big differences in readings seemingly more dependent on when I get up than what I've eaten the day before, I've decided to reduce the frequency of fasting testing and concentrate on post dinner readings for a while. Two weeks ago, I started using an on-line calorie and carb tracker (Myfitness.com) and I've been religiously recording absolutely everything I'm eating. Although my testing has been patchy (so, for example, I may have tested 2 hours after dinner but not had a pre dinner reading for comparison), the results haven't been as predictable as I thought they'd be. Perhaps optimistically, and all things (GI especially) being equal, I'd expected my 2 hour readings to vary more in less in line with the grams of carbs consumed. Results so far don't seem to show this happening and readings seem to range from around 8.5 to around 10 with similar carb loads? I'm now going to start a more rigourous before and after set of tests and I'll report back the results in more detail when I get them. I'd be interested in what the more experience carb watchers/self testers think. Is their a direct (linear) relationship between carbs consumed and BG level? (Sorry for the long post) [/QUOTE]
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