I have got my bg down from between 10 and 20's during the last 2 months, with diet and exercise (a little exercise) to between 6.8 and 10 bg readings and have also lost 21 pounds. although i am pleased with this, i seem to have stopped now making any progress and cant seem to break through the magic 4-7 level which is really frustrating. i have a lot more weight to loose probably at least 5 stone more which i am doing. I am having low carb i have 25 breakfast 30 at lunch and about 25 evening meal. i make sure my evening meal is about 5pm and not later. I tried missing meals out and that didnt actually help and made me feel ill and also i tried just having extra protien in the evening meal and that also didnt help. my morning reading is usually about 8 then by midday about 7 then after lunch to 9.5 droping back to about 8, but it seems to be the evening meal it then goes up to 10 after food and then i really seem to struggle throughout the evening for it to go down again, sometimes 3 hours after food at 8pm it is still 8.5 or 9. I am willing to try anything if anyone has some suggestions thankyou
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any advice to bring down evening BG
- Thread starter red
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Hi red, you're going in the right direction anyway.
Bg's still too high, so you might want to reduce the carbs a little more. 80g per day isn't too bad, but you might find you make progress if you drop it a little more.
Another useful technique is to try and include a little exercise after a meal. If post-dinner bg is such a problem, go for a walk afterwards. It will wake up your insulin receptors, lower your bg, and make you fel better all at the same time.
fergus
Bg's still too high, so you might want to reduce the carbs a little more. 80g per day isn't too bad, but you might find you make progress if you drop it a little more.
Another useful technique is to try and include a little exercise after a meal. If post-dinner bg is such a problem, go for a walk afterwards. It will wake up your insulin receptors, lower your bg, and make you fel better all at the same time.
fergus
if i reduce carb more to about 50 a day, should i spread these out over 3 meals, or it is more helpful to have 25 carbs at breakfast and lunch and then none in evening? would is most effective, can you cut down on more than 50 and still have a healthy diet? if i manage to loose 4 or 5 stone over the next year, will this definately reduce my bg readings, is it realistic to think that this could bring my reading to within the 4-7 range?
Hi, its pretty amazing what losing a bit of weight and eating better can do to your bs reading and insulin amounts, i have only lost 10lb in two weeks but my levimir insulin has been reduced from 70 units to 20 units and my general reading are much better.
