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<blockquote data-quote="Hareph" data-source="post: 1824627" data-attributes="member: 468099"><p>If I may I'll update this thread, after a third visit to the Diabetes Nurse. The gap between January's and now is five months.</p><p></p><p>I'm advised all my blood test results are now within her acceptable range, my liver is no longer fatty, my BMI is 23 and I should stop my dieting before I appear fixated. She'll see me again at Christmas.</p><p></p><p>It's an improvement but I don't feel out of the woods. It's possibly as good as I could hope for though. Much of the improvement is a consequence of my joining this site. Thank you everyone.</p><p></p><p>I implanted a Freestyle Libre yesterday afternoon and it showed only minor variation over a 24-hour baseline on just salad and yoghurt.</p><p></p><p>Today I've tried hard to get as big a reaction as I can manage.</p><p></p><p>At noon I ate 100g rolled porridge oats microwaved in 350ml whole milk for 5 minutes: 74g carbohydrate in 592 calories.</p><p></p><p>The chart is a screen capture from my phone running Glimp. The porridge excursion lasted four hours, which may be because it's a slow release carbohydrate - I hope that's what it is.</p><p></p><p>At six thirty this evening I had battered cod and chips from the chippie: 110g carbohydrate in 1,500 calories, as best I can guess.</p><p></p><p>As a jump away from five months' keto it's dramatic. On the other hand my trousers are now UK 34 instead of UK 42 and I have no intention of buying replacements for the new ones, so I don't intend any further tests like that.</p><p></p><p>This second rise above base level lasts a huge seven hours, again with a slow release carbohydrate.</p><p></p><p>Neither of the meals exceeded a 5 mmol/L rise. I find that a bit of a relief, staying below a peak 10 mmol/L is better than I'd anticipated.</p><p></p><p>What I'll try next will be smaller quantities of swifter acting carbohydrate and see whether the rise returns to a base rate within two hours.</p><p></p><p>Is the long duration on these charts unacceptable, or is it just what happens with large slow-release carbohydrate loads like that?</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]27358[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]27359[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hareph, post: 1824627, member: 468099"] If I may I'll update this thread, after a third visit to the Diabetes Nurse. The gap between January's and now is five months. I'm advised all my blood test results are now within her acceptable range, my liver is no longer fatty, my BMI is 23 and I should stop my dieting before I appear fixated. She'll see me again at Christmas. It's an improvement but I don't feel out of the woods. It's possibly as good as I could hope for though. Much of the improvement is a consequence of my joining this site. Thank you everyone. I implanted a Freestyle Libre yesterday afternoon and it showed only minor variation over a 24-hour baseline on just salad and yoghurt. Today I've tried hard to get as big a reaction as I can manage. At noon I ate 100g rolled porridge oats microwaved in 350ml whole milk for 5 minutes: 74g carbohydrate in 592 calories. The chart is a screen capture from my phone running Glimp. The porridge excursion lasted four hours, which may be because it's a slow release carbohydrate - I hope that's what it is. At six thirty this evening I had battered cod and chips from the chippie: 110g carbohydrate in 1,500 calories, as best I can guess. As a jump away from five months' keto it's dramatic. On the other hand my trousers are now UK 34 instead of UK 42 and I have no intention of buying replacements for the new ones, so I don't intend any further tests like that. This second rise above base level lasts a huge seven hours, again with a slow release carbohydrate. Neither of the meals exceeded a 5 mmol/L rise. I find that a bit of a relief, staying below a peak 10 mmol/L is better than I'd anticipated. What I'll try next will be smaller quantities of swifter acting carbohydrate and see whether the rise returns to a base rate within two hours. Is the long duration on these charts unacceptable, or is it just what happens with large slow-release carbohydrate loads like that? [ATTACH=full]27358[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]27359[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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