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<blockquote data-quote="Lamont D" data-source="post: 1719525" data-attributes="member: 85785"><p>How to use your glucometer properly?</p><p>As [USER=41816]@Brunneria[/USER] has said finding the spike for foods is necessary but also finding food that doesn't spike you is just as important.</p><p>I have done a great amount of testing and recording, I've got readings from 2012, I have tested religiously just after diagnosis, because I was told by my medical team to keep eating low GI carbs or complex carbs with good protein and low fat!</p><p>Well, low fat was the first to go, closely followed by the low GI or complex carbs.</p><p>The spike after eating from these foods was more than double than i was recommended on this site. For example, porridge no milk, no sugar, after half an hour, would spike me into double figures, middle teens!</p><p>The hypo after that was severe.</p><p>My average spike was around forty to forty five minutes to an hour, depending on what my meal was. I would start going hypo after three to four hours after, if I spiked higher than seven mmols.</p><p>If you want to see what tracking a meal will show, then test every fifteen minutes.</p><p>Always test pre meal, then when you have found your spike, at one hour, two hour and every hour till you eat. </p><p>Then after the initial period. Testing pre meal, then two hours after, it will give you a basis to which you can see how you are doing and see patterns and trends. And in your food diary, recording everything you can will help to see if your body is adapting to your new lifestyle. It will help your medical team understand what is happening.</p><p>Exercise of a moderate nature, walking, swimming, low level weights, will help with blood glucose levels. A walk after eating is so good for your health.</p><p>Strenuous exercise is the opposite, unfortunately. It gives you a liver dump, which means, that because your glucose is depleted due to excess insulin, the liver will give you the glucose you need for the exercise.</p><p>So you exercise, liver dump, hyper or spike, then if you don't stabilise levels you will hypo, without eating!</p><p></p><p>Experimenting and testing, recording and gaining knowledge and experience is part and parcel of finding what your body needs, and thrives upon. To get healthy, we have to give up the foods that are making us ill.</p><p>To live healthy, we have to eat healthy, for us!</p><p>We are not normal, the way our body overshoot insulin is not usual.</p><p>So we have to find out how to be healthy, by testing and experimentation.</p><p></p><p>Keep asking, let us know how you are doing.</p><p></p><p>Best wishes</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lamont D, post: 1719525, member: 85785"] How to use your glucometer properly? As [USER=41816]@Brunneria[/USER] has said finding the spike for foods is necessary but also finding food that doesn't spike you is just as important. I have done a great amount of testing and recording, I've got readings from 2012, I have tested religiously just after diagnosis, because I was told by my medical team to keep eating low GI carbs or complex carbs with good protein and low fat! Well, low fat was the first to go, closely followed by the low GI or complex carbs. The spike after eating from these foods was more than double than i was recommended on this site. For example, porridge no milk, no sugar, after half an hour, would spike me into double figures, middle teens! The hypo after that was severe. My average spike was around forty to forty five minutes to an hour, depending on what my meal was. I would start going hypo after three to four hours after, if I spiked higher than seven mmols. If you want to see what tracking a meal will show, then test every fifteen minutes. Always test pre meal, then when you have found your spike, at one hour, two hour and every hour till you eat. Then after the initial period. Testing pre meal, then two hours after, it will give you a basis to which you can see how you are doing and see patterns and trends. And in your food diary, recording everything you can will help to see if your body is adapting to your new lifestyle. It will help your medical team understand what is happening. Exercise of a moderate nature, walking, swimming, low level weights, will help with blood glucose levels. A walk after eating is so good for your health. Strenuous exercise is the opposite, unfortunately. It gives you a liver dump, which means, that because your glucose is depleted due to excess insulin, the liver will give you the glucose you need for the exercise. So you exercise, liver dump, hyper or spike, then if you don't stabilise levels you will hypo, without eating! Experimenting and testing, recording and gaining knowledge and experience is part and parcel of finding what your body needs, and thrives upon. To get healthy, we have to give up the foods that are making us ill. To live healthy, we have to eat healthy, for us! We are not normal, the way our body overshoot insulin is not usual. So we have to find out how to be healthy, by testing and experimentation. Keep asking, let us know how you are doing. Best wishes [/QUOTE]
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