Thanks Karoline, yes but tried a Keto diet and will now probably go back on that one, as I did feel good!Hi James,
It is not a great feeling, we’ve all been through this. I have been diagnosed 6 weeks ago and still sometimes feeling down about this but you will improve… someone told me on here that this is a marathon rather than a sprint and it takes time to improve. Have you tried low carb diet?
Ok thanks, its a new learning curve for me. Yes, will try the before and after method, interesting to see the different levels.Welcome James
There's not a lot you can do to influence your fasting numbers so at first concentrate your efforts on reducing your meal time numbers. If you check your levels just before you eat and again around 2hrs, the difference in the two readings will show how your meal affected your blood sugar. A rise of more than 2 mmol indicates that there were too many carbohydrates for you to process.
If you really want to discover how a certain meal or food affects you you can test at 30 min intervals until your blood sugar is back to its pre meal level. It uses up a lot of strip's and will probably cause sore fingers but you will learn how high that food/meal spikes you and how long it takes to come back down.
will try the before and after method
Yes thanks, need to start keeping better records, its still all new at the moment, give me a few weeks and hopefully I will get the hang of this and hopefully re start my Keto diet.It really is the only way to use your meter effectively and actually learn from the test results. A single reading tells you nothing of any value it's just a snapshot of your sugar levels. Take the 11.1 reading that gave you a shock, if before your lunch your level was around say 6, a rise of 5mmol would mean that you need to rethink that meal, cut some carbs out of it or even ditch it from your diet altogether. If on the other hand your pre meal reading was somewhere around 9 then your lunch didn't cause too much of a rise and maybe your breakfast was the culprit.
If you keep a food diary along with your glucose readings, in no time at all you will have a good Idea of what you can eat and what you need to avoid
ok, thank you.Hello and welcome,
Having a meter is the best thing you can do to help you work out what you can and can't eat.
The 2 hours thing is a guide and helps with consistency. Different amount of fat and exercise will affect when the peak actually is- when I eat something new I often test a few times over three hours and the peak can vary a lot. That said 4.8 is excellent
You've made a great start-if you have done keto before you already have some ideas for meals so you are way ahead.
Good luck and welcome.
porridge with honey and a slice of home made lemoncake (with butter cream), this should be interesting? result 4.8 normal..............slightly baffled!!
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