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Eating is dropping my bsl - is this normal?

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Hi all

I was diagnosed on Monday so very new to all this. I was meant to see a diabetes educator for the first time tomorrow but she is sick so I'm coming to the brains trust.

I am taking Metformin twice a day and eating an extremely low carb diet of about 10-20g or carbs a day.

My bsls are trending downward (gone from 17 to 10 in a week). I have noticed that my after meal bsl is always less than my pre-meal. I'm confused by this!

Also my bsl is highest in the morning before breakfast.

Can anyone explain this to me and let me know if I need to worry?
 
Well done on your reductions do far. The high reading in the morning is due to dawn phenomenon, have a read here:
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blood-glucose/dawn-phenomenon.html
These morning fasting blood sugar levels are the last to come down.
As to the post meal readings being lower than pre meal, that’s nothing to worry about, you are apparently making good food choices.
 
headache said:
Hi all

I was diagnosed on Monday so very new to all this. I was meant to see a diabetes educator for the first time tomorrow but she is sick so I'm coming to the brains trust.

I am taking Metformin twice a day and eating an extremely low carb diet of about 10-20g or carbs a day.

My bsls are trending downward (gone from 17 to 10 in a week). I have noticed that my after meal bsl is always less than my pre-meal. I'm confused by this!

Also my bsl is highest in the morning before breakfast.

Can anyone explain this to me and let me know if I need to worry?
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That's exactly what should be happening.. higher morning reading are often down to "dawn phenomenon" where our bodies gee us up to get on with the day by shovelling out sugar into our blood. It took a good 6 months of intermittent fasting and ultra low carb eating before mine "normalised" so don't worry about those. Keep recording them though as they'll start to come down eventually and can be a great motivator.
 
Thank you @bulkbiker! I won't give up just yet then :P

The low carb isn't too bad but I do miss carrots! I can't even face intermittent fasting right now though - I commend you!
 
headache said:
Thank you @bulkbiker! I won't give up just yet then :p

The low carb isn't too bad but I do miss carrots! I can't even face intermittent fasting right now though - I commend you!
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I just skipped breakfast (usually the carbiest meal of the day) replaced it with a coffee or 3 with double cream and went from there. Pretty soon became the norm for me. Depends on when you like eating. Reducing the window in which you eat can have major benefits though so once you get the low carb thing sorted you should find that not eating becomes easier.
Early days still though.. you have a whole lifetime ahead to experiment on yourself!
 
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