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<blockquote data-quote="Snowyshoes" data-source="post: 2354261" data-attributes="member: 536191"><p>Thanks for the reply. It's 4.50am now - and I just took a reading of 6.2. So I am relieved I may not be hypoglycaemic, at least.</p><p></p><p>In reply to the other comments...I've checked and the monitor was new at Christmas, and the strips were in date. I'm prepared to accept it's faulty or my hands were wet, or I'm doing something it doesn't like! I will look at standardising the procedure & I'm about to run out of strips on my second day...so I would like more confidence in it and will look at a replacement (or indeed get one from the NHS if I can't resolve this myself). I have more strips due in the next day or 2.</p><p></p><p>The Smoothie - contained the following:- Avocado/spinach/water/oats/garlic/ginger/flax seed/apple cider vinegar/pea protein/seeds/banana/filtered water. The oats were...a tablespoon or two. I bought the monitor as I couldn't understand how my body was refusing to lose weight while doing 30-90 minutes per day exercise. I watched a TED talk on the personalised diet. I was intrigued about the smoothie somehow blocking weight loss by its ingredients, and I was hoping to reintroduce the smoothie after identifying what food source could be causing a spike (due to my individual microbiome (in theory)). I also have been seeing a nutritionalist who is adamant I shouldn't fast due to the blood sugar spike, and the smoothie was a good way around this.</p><p></p><p>I strictly haven't eaten any wheat products or added sugar since November 2020 (although have been careful for a year) and making my own chocolate out of peanut butter and coconut oil (and cacoa etc). So I have been closely monitoring everything. I keep waking up 3-5am and possibly under stress at the moment due to an exam 22/01. However, I've been meditating and exercising daily to try and manage all this. My meals are mostly oily fish, tufu, salad, beans/pulses, dairy.</p><p></p><p>I don't drink, and eat organic whole foods, exercise 30-90 minutes per day and take Vitamin D (that is the only additive I take). Possibly once a fortnight have a Chinese 'just because I want one'!</p><p></p><p>Thank you all for your input. I am extremely keen to resolve this through diet - I'm doing a BSc in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. So it's important to me to take responsibility. Although I will go to the Doctor when I have some clear data to back up what I need addressing. Which, at the moment, is a disturbed sleep pattern, and I 'feel weird' and can't lose weight without limiting my diet to one small meal a day (which is possibly disrupting my sleep and natural rhythms), and some above normal blood glucose readings (assuming the low ones are false readings). If I look at this through a Chinese lense - the more I get distracted from what I'm supposed to be learning about and getting more stressed. Although I am incorporating Traditional Chinese Medicine lifestyle and diet, but I really can't see what else I can do to harmonise my lifestyle. I'm doing everything I should be, and have been for a year. And now isn't the best time to engage with the NHS in something I can try to manage in the short term.</p><p></p><p>Thank you for reading and in advance for any responses or advice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snowyshoes, post: 2354261, member: 536191"] Thanks for the reply. It's 4.50am now - and I just took a reading of 6.2. So I am relieved I may not be hypoglycaemic, at least. In reply to the other comments...I've checked and the monitor was new at Christmas, and the strips were in date. I'm prepared to accept it's faulty or my hands were wet, or I'm doing something it doesn't like! I will look at standardising the procedure & I'm about to run out of strips on my second day...so I would like more confidence in it and will look at a replacement (or indeed get one from the NHS if I can't resolve this myself). I have more strips due in the next day or 2. The Smoothie - contained the following:- Avocado/spinach/water/oats/garlic/ginger/flax seed/apple cider vinegar/pea protein/seeds/banana/filtered water. The oats were...a tablespoon or two. I bought the monitor as I couldn't understand how my body was refusing to lose weight while doing 30-90 minutes per day exercise. I watched a TED talk on the personalised diet. I was intrigued about the smoothie somehow blocking weight loss by its ingredients, and I was hoping to reintroduce the smoothie after identifying what food source could be causing a spike (due to my individual microbiome (in theory)). I also have been seeing a nutritionalist who is adamant I shouldn't fast due to the blood sugar spike, and the smoothie was a good way around this. I strictly haven't eaten any wheat products or added sugar since November 2020 (although have been careful for a year) and making my own chocolate out of peanut butter and coconut oil (and cacoa etc). So I have been closely monitoring everything. I keep waking up 3-5am and possibly under stress at the moment due to an exam 22/01. However, I've been meditating and exercising daily to try and manage all this. My meals are mostly oily fish, tufu, salad, beans/pulses, dairy. I don't drink, and eat organic whole foods, exercise 30-90 minutes per day and take Vitamin D (that is the only additive I take). Possibly once a fortnight have a Chinese 'just because I want one'! Thank you all for your input. I am extremely keen to resolve this through diet - I'm doing a BSc in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. So it's important to me to take responsibility. Although I will go to the Doctor when I have some clear data to back up what I need addressing. Which, at the moment, is a disturbed sleep pattern, and I 'feel weird' and can't lose weight without limiting my diet to one small meal a day (which is possibly disrupting my sleep and natural rhythms), and some above normal blood glucose readings (assuming the low ones are false readings). If I look at this through a Chinese lense - the more I get distracted from what I'm supposed to be learning about and getting more stressed. Although I am incorporating Traditional Chinese Medicine lifestyle and diet, but I really can't see what else I can do to harmonise my lifestyle. I'm doing everything I should be, and have been for a year. And now isn't the best time to engage with the NHS in something I can try to manage in the short term. Thank you for reading and in advance for any responses or advice. [/QUOTE]
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