Eating to your Meter... Literally !!!!!

rab5 said:

I have just been reading a couple of articles I found on the 'tinternet' in relation to using your BGM as a fuel gauge.

Basically you test your BG and only eat when your testing 'set point' is below your predetermined personal score..... thats when you eat.

So for talk sake lets say your BG set point is 5.0 .
You test and your 5.8 . You dont eat
Lets say you test and your 4.8. You eat. (Only if hungry)

Here are a couple of links I found, it sounds interesting to me.

Please feel free to comment. Any views welcome. Im sure this has been done before, however its new to me

Rabby

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I use this method standardly - my target before meal is max 5.6. I don’t eat if my BG is over 5.6 (never ever). This means for me to skip one meal sometimes...

rab5 said:

Have you any information of GNG happening immediately after you eat. I dont think up to now that I have suffered from that so far. Might be something I should be thinking about

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Personally I don’t. GNG is now thought to be demand driven so if your body thinks it needs the glucose it uses GNG to make it otherwise not.

rab5 said:

Have you any information of GNG happening immediately after you eat. I dont think up to now that I have suffered from that so far. Might be something I should be thinking about

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I think it happens immediately before I eat, but of course can't be sure.

I only have my own personal observations. Something happens to me, and looking back at my records it seems to happen when I am probably dropping and have reached mid 4s. This is usually before lunch after an 18 hour fast. My lunches are normally under 10g carbs and cause a rise of about 0.5. when starting at my norm of around 5.2. However, if I start in the mid 4s the rise can be above 1mmol/l (and I do check these levels) It smacks of a liver dump to me to counteract the dropping levels before I eat, the liver not appreciating that I am about to eat and doing what it it is supposed to - keeping me alive and out of hypo territory. I suppose I could check this by delaying my lunch next time I see those lows and see what happens.

rab5 said:

Ok I have set out some details of what I am going to do. Its not final needs a couple pf changes as I watch what is happening

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Hey, I'm glad it's working for you! You should do what you feel is right for your body, but be careful, don't forget to consult with your doctor.

I tried this a few times, but never stuck to it. My setpoint was 5.5. My BG would always rise in the afternoon to 6 or above, i never had the willpower to fast all the way to bedtime. But if you can do it, it makes for an easy in principle ( not in practice) diet to follow.

Blood-Sweet-and-Tears said:

Hey, I'm glad it's working for you! You should do what you feel is right for your body, but be careful, don't forget to consult with your doctor.

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I think the last thing I would do is consult with my Doctor (unless I was on a complex variety of medicines or with other conditions). All they would do is refer you to the eatwell plate which would be a fat lot of use.

rab5 said:

I have just been reading a couple of articles I found on the 'tinternet' in relation to using your BGM as a fuel gauge.

Basically you test your BG and only eat when your testing 'set point' is below your predetermined personal score..... thats when you eat.

So for talk sake lets say your BG set point is 5.0 .
You test and your 5.8 . You dont eat
Lets say you test and your 4.8. You eat. (Only if hungry)

Here are a couple of links I found, it sounds interesting to me

https://optimisingnutrition.com/2016/02/15/how-to-use-your-glucose-meter-as-a-fuel-gauge/

https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12986-015-0017-2

Please feel free to comment. Any views welcome. Im sure this has been done before, however its new to me

Rabby

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Hi Rab, I found those articles very interesting, thank you. It sounds quite logical really and I'll bet a lot of people do it as a matter of course rather than eating 3 'set meals' at set times of the day which I have never done anyway. Can I ask, do you think that your current regime isn't working or is hard to stick to?