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- Location
- Suffolk, UK
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
After my overly documented experiment with no alcohol for a bit I've resumed booze (but not to excess).
My BG is running about one whole number higher than expected for no very obvious reason.
Latest example:
2/8 - fasting reading 7.0
3/8 - fasting reading 7.6
3/8 - pre bed reading 6.3 (ate a steak with leaves and cherry tomatoes at 16:00 then 90 minutes Yoga starting 19:45)
4/8 - fasting reading 6.9 (had a shot of single malt before bed but no other food since 16:00)
4/8 - 11:00 7.5 (had coffee with butter and splash of skim because run out of cream)
So my BG is rising over night and also rising after nothing more than butter in my coffee. However I am losing weight. I put weight on when off the booze.
The classic explanation for those numbers when not loading in the carbs is a liver dump. However I thought that after all that LCHF my liver wouldn't really have much left to dump.
Scrabbling for explanations, but one might be that when I stopped the alcohol my liver had more time for gluconeogenesis and took the opportunity to top up my glucose stores. Now I am back on the sauce and losing weight, perhaps the extra glucose is slowly coming back out. Much like people who start on LCHF or a fast and see their numbers go up in the short term.
We have all seen people, especially newly diagnosed, posting here in a panic because they aren't eating anything but their BG isn't coming down and is often going up.
Two things I think I can do:
(1) Give it another couple of days and see if my numbers stabilise.
(2) Up my exercise levels in the short time to burn out any stored glucose floating around in my tissues.
If that doesn't work, I'm baffled.
Hopefully the moral won't be not to give up booze because doing so messes up your BG control!
My BG is running about one whole number higher than expected for no very obvious reason.
Latest example:
2/8 - fasting reading 7.0
3/8 - fasting reading 7.6
3/8 - pre bed reading 6.3 (ate a steak with leaves and cherry tomatoes at 16:00 then 90 minutes Yoga starting 19:45)
4/8 - fasting reading 6.9 (had a shot of single malt before bed but no other food since 16:00)
4/8 - 11:00 7.5 (had coffee with butter and splash of skim because run out of cream)
So my BG is rising over night and also rising after nothing more than butter in my coffee. However I am losing weight. I put weight on when off the booze.
The classic explanation for those numbers when not loading in the carbs is a liver dump. However I thought that after all that LCHF my liver wouldn't really have much left to dump.
Scrabbling for explanations, but one might be that when I stopped the alcohol my liver had more time for gluconeogenesis and took the opportunity to top up my glucose stores. Now I am back on the sauce and losing weight, perhaps the extra glucose is slowly coming back out. Much like people who start on LCHF or a fast and see their numbers go up in the short term.
We have all seen people, especially newly diagnosed, posting here in a panic because they aren't eating anything but their BG isn't coming down and is often going up.
Two things I think I can do:
(1) Give it another couple of days and see if my numbers stabilise.
(2) Up my exercise levels in the short time to burn out any stored glucose floating around in my tissues.
If that doesn't work, I'm baffled.
Hopefully the moral won't be not to give up booze because doing so messes up your BG control!
