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Is this right? weird low bs

lucylocket61

lucylocket61

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
I have gone completely against the diet advice of my surgery and had:

Breakfast 1 fried egg, slice wholemeal toast, tinned toms and 3 small pickled onions.

My pre-food reading was 6.5
My 2 hour reading is 5.1

Is this right? I expected it to rocket as I had very few carbs to absorb the insulin.
 
how much insulin did you have? The tinned tomatoes and the pickled onions would've had sugar in them I'd say. The wholegrain toast is low GI which is good. It also depends how much water you've been drinking as I find if you drink cold water it does lower your BGL. Just some ideas. :)
 
just noticed you said wholemeal toast... that is more medium GI and not low GI. So possibility is that because you didn't really have low GI in your menu your BGL has dropped quicker.
 
There is another ingredient in your meal that would have helped to bring your blood sugars down, vinegar. The pickled onions would have absorbed some and it is well known that vinegar and lemon/lime juice helps to lower blood sugars. If you are making salad dressings, always include some vinegar and add vinegar, lemon/lime juice to suitable foods. I always add lemon juice to sardines, mackerel, salmon when eaten cold and use vinegar on hot fish dishes.
 
Interesting - thanks.

What bs level am I supposed to aim for? for example, should I try to stay under 6 all day or something?
 
Maybe I am reading your first post wrong (it has been a long day!) but you said you expected your blood sugar to rocket without the carbs to soak up the insulin? Insulin is responsible for lowering blood sugar so a meal with only a low amount of Carbs should cause your blood sugar to remain steady or even drop, therefore your test results make sense to me based on what you had to eat.

As far as I am aware, a normal persons blood sugar are between 4 to 6 most of the time so this would seem a good target to me.
 
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