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BS readings

Tea last night
Chippy fish, peas, 3 chips, half a slice of bread
5.0 before
6.3 at 1 hour
6.1 at 2hrs
6.7 at 2.5hrs
6.1 at 3hrs
5.7 at bedtime
5.5 this morning

Considering the major carbs involved, I'm happy with that.
 
BS reading before brek.....................6.1. Tried 2 brown seeded slices of bread toasted with a scrape of diabetic marmalade
BS reading 2 1/2 hrs later.................8.5. Guess that's the brown bread going out to the robins. Funny how if I have white bread toasted with marmalade my readings only go up by 1 point. Hmmmm, zis is wery interesting.
 

Try your toast with fat, not marmalade. Lots of butter, 2 poached or fried eggs and a bit of cheese, or a lot of cheese. Or one slice of toast. Beware diabetic foods - they contain laxitives and are expensive. Even my DN warned me off them, and even the NHS booklets on diabetic diets warn us off them.

White bread is fast release, so at 2.5hrs you will be missing your spike. Most likely between an hour and 2 hours.
 

OK Bluetit, duly noted. I did notice on the jar of "Diabetic" Marmalade that the Carbs were 62g per 100g, that equates to a quarter of the jar as the jar is 400g in total. So the way I see it is, 62g per 100g is a quarter of a jar so to get down to 5g which we would all like, I would have to split a quarter of a jar down into 12 portions which would equal about 2 rinds of orange peel.
 
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Ut oh.... my Christmas lunch was postponed until tomorrow so we went down to the local pub/deli for food as obviously I didn't have anything with me. I had a cup of vegetable soup and a slice of their crustless bacon and cheese quiche.

5.3 before lunch
12.4 2hrs later - I washed my hands and tested twice...
9.6 2.5hrs later

I'm like OMG... my colleagues are all laughing at me in a nice way because of my shocked reaction ... I'm now off to walk up and down the stairs a few times to try and bring it down a bit quicker...
 
Oh dear. Must have been potatoes and flour in the soup, plus carrots and peas? Same happened to me with my egg mayo salad yesterday. It isn't always easy to eat out, and even when you think you choose wisely, it isn't necessarily the case.
 

Your supposed to have the piece they cut out ............................Oh you did
 
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Your supposed to have the piece they cut out View attachment 9684 ............................Oh you did
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Ha Ha.. I wouldn't mind, but I could have had something really naughty like a bowl of chips or a bag of M&M's and had less of a rise... Worst still I will have to do penance otherwise it will play on my mind.. So I guess I'll be doing a walk in the rain when I get home tonight before my dinner
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Oh dear. Must have been potatoes and flour in the soup, plus carrots and peas? Same happened to me with my egg mayo salad yesterday. It isn't always easy to eat out, and even when you think you choose wisely, it isn't necessarily the case.
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It just goes to show that we are all still learning something new every day. Last time I ate out, it was when I went shopping with my sister who is also a T2 diabetic. We shared some KFC....(just chicken and no sides) and a diet coke each and it was fab and filling.. and just a tiny rise which was a surprise as I was worried about the coating.
 

............... and it just goes to show that no matter how well controlled we think we are, we are still diabetics and prone to spike after an ordinary normal meal that has hidden unsuitable carbs in it. It is often worth asking in a café, if the food is homemade, what is in it. Yesterday my friend had cheese and onion pie. She asked what the ingredients were. Answer... (apart from cheese and onion) ... potato.
 
I suggest you copy and paste that photo, print it out, laminate it and take it with you when you go for that walk in the rain. I think it's a flogging that you really need and I have just the thing. Now where's Brunneria, she's probably best for administering that.
 
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Today's glucose counts

Fasting/before breakfast 88mg or 4,88mmol
2hours later 85mg or 4,72 mmol

Before lunch 84mg or 4,66 mmol
2 hours later 102mg or 5,66 mmol

Before dinner 73mg or 4,05 mmol
2 hours later 98 mg or 5,44 mmol
 
Got a copy of all my blood tests over the last three weeks. A1c =38
Hospital says still clear of cancer. I'm a happy Nuthead.
 
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