Cunning plan, or crazy idea? Fast to get glucose down

Thanks again for the comments and support

So..
Fasting 8.3
Pre-meal 6.6 (Yey!)
Post-meal 8.2 (Not so yey)

Seeing my new low score, and having half a loaf of wholemeal left over, I figured I'd try a 'bad' meal. So 4 slices of bread to make 2 cheddar & pesto sarnies.. And I can see the results. I figure that was pushing 60g carbs.

Ok, so I'm still a limited dataset, but trying to keep things consistent, ie testing, meal time and activity.. And it's looking like bread's off the menu. Although I'm thinking with some exercise, a sarnie for lunch and then low carb dinner might be tolerable.

My experiment continues! And for me, highlights the importance of having a glucose meter to see what food does for my body. Think I'm also coming up for a week's worth of weight & body composition data from my scales.

And so for Tuesday..

Fasting 8.3
Pre-meal 8.1
Post-meal 8.3

For dinner, I pondered what I was going to do with the sauerkraut I bought, and made some shchi with some carrots, peppers instead of the spuds, and some beef. Tasty! For my next trick, I think I might try bigos.. Sadly, not in a bread bowl. That was an awesome winter dish when I spent time in Prague.

Wednesday. Was ol'one eye smiling on me?

Fasting 7.3
Pre-meal 7.9
Post-meal 6.7

This suprised me. I figured I'd do a snack test, so 8 slices of dark Ryvita with a mix of low-carb toppings. The crackers run to around 53.6g carbs, but heavy on the rye fibre. When I tried with 4 slices of wholemeal bread, glucose spiked, so if I can repeat this with the same result, then it looks like I've found a safe cheese & crackers combo for me. Much happiness, if true!

Thursday. Cold, wet and windy. Was this why the forum was down? Bedraggled hamster?

Fasting 6.6
Pre-meal 7.0
Post-meal 6.6

Today's meal was inspired by bigos, so used up the rest of the jar of sauekraut in a nice low-carb soup/stew.

Friday, and my stock pot runneth empty. But the soups were nice.

Fasting 8.2
Pre-meal 9.3 (Nooo!)
Post-meal 6.4

I suspect the pre-meal high was due to me being in town, thirsty and getting a bottle of Volvic 'Touch of Fruit'. Which I noticed has more than a touch of added sugar. Carbs, they're everywhere! So cooked up a nice pepper steak slathered in runner beans, gravy and carrots. I'm realising life can go on without the potato.. Sorry Ireland & Idaho.

And on to Saturday

Fasting 6.3
Pre-meal 7.0
Post-meal 6.3

Today's dinner was a 4-egg omlette filled with some cheese, roasted papers and a few capers with some more runner beans on the side. Also took a look at what my funky Tanita scales had logged.

So since 27th Nov to today, weight's dropped 2kg, total fat from 27.6% to 26.7%, and my metabolic age has gone from 61 to 58. I'm feeling younger already! Now to get that number lower than my actual age. I'm not entirely convinced it measures accurately, eg it's showing a fair amount of muscle/fat redistribution around my limbs, which seems unlikely. But it's handy I can log this stuff to a card, then view it on my PC to check trends are heading in the right direction.

Sunday, and I blame the weather..

Fasting 7.5
Pre-meal 8.3
Post-meal 8.9

Ate a couple of smoked gammon steaks with runner beans, sprouts, carrots and gravy. Nipped out to shops pre-meal & tested just after I got back. Kinda curious if my liver was trying to be helpful and warm me up. In which case, yey for fat burning. Also curious what effect eating more greens is going to have on my warfarin INR test.