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carol43

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Bought some Bergen soya & linseed and it's now 3 hours since I made a ham sandwich for lunch and my BG is 2 points higher still. Does this mean that this bread is out as well?
 
I would suggest that if you test again it would be slightly different again, the test can be out by 15%. However persevere, with a standard 2 hour test. And after a month you will see a pattern of foods that are good, not so good and just no, no's
We recommend below 2mmols at the 2 hour after first bite, but you can have some leeway, when it's that close. Test, test, test. Then control.
 
Test it a couple more times you can't go on just one result.
 
The thing to remember about Burgen (Bergen??) bread is that it has half the carbs of normal bread. It is not a no carb bread. All this means is that it takes twice as much of it to get the same old high reading. To put it another way, if one slice of normal bread spikes you then so will two slices of Burgen bread.

First last bite? I personally time from the end of a meal. If I am at home with a quick lunch then it will only make five minutes difference but if in a restaurant I could still be on the coffee two hours after the first bite. Having said all that I don't get too anal about terribly accurate timings. Two hours-ish is close enough for cash. In short, a timing error might be greater than the time it took to eat my lunch anyway.
 
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