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Type 2 Is 8.9 too high 5 hours after food?

bopeep12300

bopeep12300

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Hi, I had a small bowl of Kellogg's just right cereal for breakfast. Then a couple of hours later a bacon sarnie on wholemeal with tomato sauce. Now this I think is where I went wrong. I had 2 Christmas mince pies with cup if tea no sugar.
Few hours later feeling very thirsty so tested & it was 8.9. Is this very high or not too bad? I'm trying to drink water to bring it down a bit. I last ate about 5hrs ago & know I really should be cooking the family's tea, but I really & truly don't feel in the least hungry or have any appetite.
Was I wrong to have the mince pies? I know 2 is greedy but I couldn't resist.
 
Yes it's higher than you would want it to be - ideally it should be under 7 -8 2 hrs after food and should then decrease further over the next couple of hours. You want to be aiming for readings between 4-6 before food.
Mince pies are very sweet and I'm sure would spike my sugars really high ( I don't like thm so can't say for sure)).
You're fairly recently diagnosed so I would advise testing before and after each time you eat so you get a picture of how much impact particular foods have on your sugars - it's not something you need to do forever but it's the best way I know of working out what's ok to eat and what's not and under what circumstances For example if you find out that a certain food puts your sugars uP by 4 points then you know you can just about get away with it if you're initial pre meal reading is around 4 but not if it's on a 7
 
Mince pies are almost 40gm per pie; very high carbs. The cereal (with added sugar?), carby bread and sugary tomato sauce adds up to a lot of carbs. A reading of 8.9 is a bit on the high side but not unusual for diabetics 5 hours after a meal with that amount of carbs. Is suspect you spiked a lot higher before the 5 hours?
 
collectingrocks said:
I would expect the cereal, the wholemeal bread AND the tomato sauce to spike your BS as well as the mince pies
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I totally agree with collectingrocks!
All of that would send my BG into orbit, lol. As an experiment prior to Christmas I ate one small homemade mince pie which caused a huge rise. Cereal with milk, bread and tomato sauce would do the same. There's loads of info on the forum regarding suitable eating plans and I'm sure you will find one to suit you. Good luck :)
 
hehe, was you going for a spike eating that? look at what people eat to keep their sugars down on the forum, personally i love everything you ate so dont blame you for eating it, but if you want good blood sugar levels you just cant eat that stuff :( up to you
 
I was going to eat a bit of cake (brioche type with mince,eat I think) to see what my bs levels would be. My husband cut it and gave it to me, I wimped out and gave it back!
 
I was just reading my diary for when I was first diagnosed, and I was regularly into double figures. Dot panic, you are doing well. At least you are checking, it will take time to refine a diet, but you will get there.

Keep up the good work, and just sit back and enjoy your life, just learn from this, And the other mistakes we all make :rolleyes:
 
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