Eating to one's meter...

[Applenerd81]

I hear the term "eat to my meter" dotted around the forum, can someone please explain what this means?

 

[donnellysdogs]

Finding out what foods are affect your blood levels and avoiding them...
Ie breakfast of porridge or cereals is difficult for me as despite being on a pump the spikes from those foods ate just too much but berries and cream didn't spike my bloods at all.

I cannot tolerate takeaways of any description easily without having to meddle around with my insulin.. So only have these very rarely.. However, meat and veg is fantastic....

So its really checking your blood pre earlting and again 2 hours later. Some do a 1 hour but I certainly don't.

And then checking that your bolus ratio's are correct and insulin for the foods that you are eating....

 

[Applenerd81]

Ok, I thought it meant not eating any carbs if BGs where already elevated before a meal/ waiting till sugars where corrected first..

Thanks!

 

[donnellysdogs]

No...definitely not!!

 

[JTL]

I eat to my meter.
If I get out of bed and my reading is 6 and above I know I dare not have porridge even with coconut oil in so have eggs sausages whatever.
I can't be bothered cooking usually first thing in the morning but a fried egg takes no time and I pull a Polish sausage out the fridge to have with it or I might just have a bullet proof coffee and nothing else.
I'm not rigid with the readings I can give and take to either side depending how I'm feeling.
I've been slowly introducing a little more carbs back into my diet this way.
I do this with evening meal too.
I don't do the three meals a day thing and never have.
Who decided three meals a day was the ideal I don't know.
I'll snack through the day on raw veg cheese things from the fridge but again not rigid in my approach.
My morning readings have been so consistently good of late that I have porridge almost every morning.

 

[Applenerd81]

I eat to my meter.
If I get out of bed and my reading is 6 and above I know I dare not have porridge even with coconut oil in so have eggs sausages whatever.
I can't be bothered cooking usually first thing in the morning but a fried egg takes no time and I pull a Polish sausage out the fridge to have with it or I might just have a bullet proof coffee and nothing else.
I'm not rigid with the readings I can give and take to either side depending how I'm feeling.
I've been slowly introducing a little more carbs back into my diet this way.
I do this with evening meal too.
I don't do the three meals a day thing and never have.
Who decided three meals a day was the ideal I don't know.
I'll snack through the day on raw veg cheese things from the fridge but again not rigid in my approach.
My morning readings have been so consistently good of late that I have porridge almost every morning.

I really miss porridge especially since starting LCHF, so are you low carb? Or switching back to moderate carb?

I recall needing a lot of insulin for breakfast porridge, why the coconut oil with it? (I eat a lot of it on LCHF, but not with carbs...)