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Is this normal

If I get into the very low 3s or 2s then I do finger prick. High 3s, I don't panic, just watch carefully. Always a couple of steps away from a packet of jellybabies and a piece of toast or rich tea biscuits makes me feel secure.
 
Usually, when I was on gliclazide I would go low and start to shake and panic, but on sitagliptin and metformin I can be in the low 4s or even high 3s and I wouldn't be shaking or panicking.
 
Tomorrow morning I will stop weetabix and have yogurt with berries and shall see if I get better readings. I will also.look up other options too
 
UsmanMo96 said:
How much carbs do you eat in a day?
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This year my average has been 10g
That's mainly from double cream in coffees and maybe a few raspberries with cream for dessert sometimes.
For January I'll try and tighten up again and just do meat and cream in drinks ( I simply hate black coffee tho).
 
bulkbiker said:
You may end up being pleasantly surprised. Good luck if you decide to give it a go..
A few of us gather here..
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/carnivore-corner.164920/
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What benefits have you gotten from this carnivore lifestyle apart from blood sugar control?
 
UsmanMo96 said:
How much carbs do you eat in a day?
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My daily maximum was 50 gm of carb, got down to Hba1c of 41, but then it was 42 - I reduced down to 40 gm a day, but got 42 again, so I think that all the low calorie low fat high carb diets I was told would save my life have got me stuck at the top end of normal. I am very sensitive to carbs, even from legumes, I need to stick to low carb foods - not everyone needs to go as low as I do - but my meter is adamant about how carbs affect me.
 
UsmanMo96 said:
What benefits have you gotten from this carnivore lifestyle apart from blood sugar control?
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Lost a bit more weight, food prep a lot easier although had already healed a lot of stuff before with fasting and keto but have maintained all those benefits as well.
 
bulkbiker said:
Lost a bit more weight, food prep a lot easier although had already healed a lot of stuff before with fasting and keto but have maintained all those benefits as well.
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I will definitely give it a go for 1 month but if I see good results within a week. I will continue on. I haven't been able to sleep properly with my blood sugar levels so hopefully that will improve too and my energy too
 

So with my weetabix I'm doing your daily max in just my breakfast alone. I will be trying the carnivore movement for a month to see if that helps.
 
I am sure that I was always sensitive to carbs, all my life I have found the advice to eat 'healthy' carbs was not right for me - gaining weight and losing muscle strength every time I was put on a diet. The 50 gm of carbs was my Atkins way of eating to control my weight, so I was pretty smug when I found it brought me down to normal blood glucose levels too. I lnly need to eat twice a day at the moment, and eat only about 10 gm of carbs for my first meal - I am more insulin resistant in the mornings - or I was when sorting all this out.
I am really quite normal now, I tend to keep to the way of eating to control my weight, and perhaps one of these years might see my Hba1c reduce down into the normal range - 42 is so near, but so far.
I hope that you find that watching the carbs will prove useful in getting a grip on the diabetes.
 
Hi- I'm another that is very low carb- less than 20 grams a day and most days much less- most from cream in coffee and some vegetables- broccoli and cauliflower and spinach leaves.

You may find once you have been low carb for a while that you can give up breakfast- that is what I have done. I couldn't find a breakfast I could tolerate that was low carb enough- I have coffee with cream instead.

The benefits are not just control of blood sugar levels there is also the loss off my lifelong asthma- in Australia with the bad fires the air has been really bad and I have not had one asthma attack- prior to very low carb I could have been in the hospital with the air quality. I've also lost weight which I needed. The improvement- disappearance of my asthma is something that shows that low carb way of eating is for more than just diabetics.
 
Today readings.
  • Before meal 5.6
    1hr 12.3
    2hr 12.6
    3hr 9.3
I will be going to see my diabetes doctor in 2 weeks time. I didnt have weetabix today and still got readings like this.
 
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