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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nicole T" data-source="post: 2291253" data-attributes="member: 527609">I'm generally just testing first thing in the morning and 90 minutes to 2 hours after lunch and evening meal. I sometimes test before bed, but didn't that night. Last night, 2 hours after food, but while actually drinking my second can of beer, I tested a 7.0. My highest result in over a week.My diet has been appalling during lockdown. 3 months of house arrest, and I was constantly stuffing myself with bread and chocolate, out of boredom and despondency. The diabetes test was totally unexpected (I needed different antibiotics for a water infection because my usual ones weren't working, my GP insisted in a urine test which, as always, was inconclusive with respect to the infection, but did show sugar.) If I'd known it was coming, I'd probably have eaten differently. Instead, it was a case of "Daren't go shopping for healthy snacks, but look, Amazon will deliver a 2.4Kg box of Celebrations for 20 quid." I got through 3 boxes of those during lockdown, as well as still buying Jaffa Cakes, Kit-Kats and Aldi's fake Mars/Snickers bars when I actually did go shopping. Oh, and it was normal for me to get through a box of Toffifee or a whole Chocolate Orange, watching a movie of an evening.So I'm rather hoping my A1c figure isn't really representative of my norms, and that I actually don't have this as badly as the recent tests show. I think my real issue has been a massive excess of carbs over healthy norms, over the last few months. Probably at least 2 times the RDA for the last couple of years, and maybe as much as 4 times as a coping mechanism for lockdown. So maybe I handle the carb spike of a couple of pints of lager a lot better than many others might.That said, as a numbers game and with a lot of people happy on just over 100g of carbs a day, 10g of carbs per can isn't a massive amount in the grand scheme of things, unless you're having lots of them. They probably hit hard and fast because they're in liquid form, but surely its effect on average levels is the same, regardless.I'm generally happy on 3 cans right now. If I open a bottle of wine, I'll finish it. 5.4 units vs 10 (for a bottle of 12.5% wine.) So lager works better for me on the alcohol units front. I am drinking gin and slimline tonic, too, but I get bored with it. Especially since I'm drinking the slimline tonic without the gin while doing 'dry during the week.'</blockquote>

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