Hi, I don't have diabetes but I have been monitoring my blood sugar and I have some questions about what I've seen.
I have noticed that my blood sugar seems to spike after dinner, often going between 7 & 8, and then it seems to level-off in the low to mid 6s for much of the remainder of the evening, right through until I go to sleep. This is despite the fact that I am eating relatively light dinners (certainly nothing particularly high in fat or carbs), and am having nothing further to eat in the four or five hours between dinner and bed. Nor am I doing anything else that should cause this. The result is that I am starting to see fasting blood sugar levels in the morning in the high 5s. The strange thing is my fasting level has actually gone up quite significantly in recent weeks and months, since I started eating better and undertaking regular exercise. I regularly used to have fasting levels in the low 4s, even if I'd gone to bed with levels quite a bit higher.
I have noticed that my blood sugar seems to spike after dinner, often going between 7 & 8, and then it seems to level-off in the low to mid 6s for much of the remainder of the evening, right through until I go to sleep. This is despite the fact that I am eating relatively light dinners (certainly nothing particularly high in fat or carbs), and am having nothing further to eat in the four or five hours between dinner and bed. Nor am I doing anything else that should cause this. The result is that I am starting to see fasting blood sugar levels in the morning in the high 5s. The strange thing is my fasting level has actually gone up quite significantly in recent weeks and months, since I started eating better and undertaking regular exercise. I regularly used to have fasting levels in the low 4s, even if I'd gone to bed with levels quite a bit higher.