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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
For the first 6 months after I was diagnosed, I stuck rigidly to a very strict LCHF regime which brought me brilliant blood sugar levels (under 5 in a morning and rarely over 5.5 at any time), along with losing a lot of weight.
However, once I reached my target weight, I found I can't eat enough calories on LCHF to stop my weight loss (basically I get full very easily on LCHF and can't eat more than 1,500 calories without feeling uncomfortably so: What paid dividends during my weight loss was now hampering my efforts to maintain my weight!), so I've been experimenting with introducing carbs into my diet.
This has inevitably led to increased blood sugar levels so I'm now trying to establish whether my current blood sugar readings are likely to lead to problems for me down the line or whether I'm over-worrying
As a test, I tried this morning with a particularly "carby" breakfast - a bowl of nut-free muesli (40g Carbs with 9g of sugars) which resulted in the following readings:
Before: 5.1
45 minutes after: 9.0
75 minutes after: 8.7
120 minutes after: 6.4
180 minutes after: 4.8
240 minutes after: 4.7
The concerns for me are the readings between 45 and 120 minutes where the spike to 9.0 is pretty dramatic and even though I dropped down after 2 hours and right down after 3, are the spikes early on enough to cause long term damage and what sort of 1 hour figure should I be aiming at? (I see a similar pattern of a pretty high spike above 7 with pretty much any carbs, but less than this if I have less carbs, obviously)
However, once I reached my target weight, I found I can't eat enough calories on LCHF to stop my weight loss (basically I get full very easily on LCHF and can't eat more than 1,500 calories without feeling uncomfortably so: What paid dividends during my weight loss was now hampering my efforts to maintain my weight!), so I've been experimenting with introducing carbs into my diet.
This has inevitably led to increased blood sugar levels so I'm now trying to establish whether my current blood sugar readings are likely to lead to problems for me down the line or whether I'm over-worrying
As a test, I tried this morning with a particularly "carby" breakfast - a bowl of nut-free muesli (40g Carbs with 9g of sugars) which resulted in the following readings:
Before: 5.1
45 minutes after: 9.0
75 minutes after: 8.7
120 minutes after: 6.4
180 minutes after: 4.8
240 minutes after: 4.7
The concerns for me are the readings between 45 and 120 minutes where the spike to 9.0 is pretty dramatic and even though I dropped down after 2 hours and right down after 3, are the spikes early on enough to cause long term damage and what sort of 1 hour figure should I be aiming at? (I see a similar pattern of a pretty high spike above 7 with pretty much any carbs, but less than this if I have less carbs, obviously)