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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cocosilk" data-source="post: 2077105" data-attributes="member: 501623">SO I had a pretty Keto day yesterday and a kind of extended fast, 14 hours from last main meal (which was liver, raw garlic and yoghurt) but 9 hours from a small bowl of semi-fermented cabbage (sauerkraut), so really only a 9 hour fast.)  I breastfed my 6 week old several times during this period and when I finally got up to start the day I checked for what had recently been a higher dawn phenomenon reading of  between 5.1 and 5.6, this morning I got 3.6 mmol.  I checked again and it was 3.8, which I think is just the low end of completely normal and healthy fasting blood glucose.  Checked ketones and they were around 1.0 - 1.5 mmol (small).So, just to be on the safe side, I ate some sweet potato and a mandarin, tested within 10 mins, still 3.7 mmol.  So I ate a bit of honey, checked again within 15 mins and was 4.1mmol,  then went on with my usual eggs, cheese and avocado for breakfast.  One hour later I was 6.0 mmol.  Two hours later, back to 4.1 mmol.My question is, does this sound just like fine and normal blood glucose (maybe slightly low because I'm breastfeeding while eating keto) but really what you expect when you are in nutritional ketosis, or should my blood glucose really stay between 4.0 and 5.5mmol ideally?And this is different from the 3.4 mmol I once had while gestationally diabetic and had eaten a carby meal that took me to 8 or 9 mmol in the peak but landed me back in the 3s as a kind of hypo crash.Do I have anything to worry about and was eating honey the right thing to do?</blockquote>

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