Hello everyone,
I have a question about when I should be testing my blood glucose, all advice on here says 2 hours after eating but I've been watching a youtube video where the guy says you should be testing 1 hour after eating to get correct peak reading, now I'm confused!? Also when looking at the carb content on food packaging should I be subtracting the grams of fibre (again advice from the same youtube guy but he is in the US), this would obviously make a big difference to a lot of the higher fibre food in regards to carb count. I have to admit I haven't been testing for a while due to anxiety around needles (and pain - lol) but now want to see what different foods are doing, yesterday I had a roast chicken dinner with mashed potatoes (I know but had to know how bad it would be), pre-meal reading was 4.9 and 2 hour post dinner reading was 6.2 which I was absolutely delighted about. I have lost 19 pounds since being diagnosed in Nov/20 and still taking one metformin a day so don't know if that's making a difference. Thanks for any advice about this.
Maggie x
I have a question about when I should be testing my blood glucose, all advice on here says 2 hours after eating but I've been watching a youtube video where the guy says you should be testing 1 hour after eating to get correct peak reading, now I'm confused!? Also when looking at the carb content on food packaging should I be subtracting the grams of fibre (again advice from the same youtube guy but he is in the US), this would obviously make a big difference to a lot of the higher fibre food in regards to carb count. I have to admit I haven't been testing for a while due to anxiety around needles (and pain - lol) but now want to see what different foods are doing, yesterday I had a roast chicken dinner with mashed potatoes (I know but had to know how bad it would be), pre-meal reading was 4.9 and 2 hour post dinner reading was 6.2 which I was absolutely delighted about. I have lost 19 pounds since being diagnosed in Nov/20 and still taking one metformin a day so don't know if that's making a difference. Thanks for any advice about this.
Maggie x