Lots of us monitor our bloods as type 2. It’s a very effective way of working out which foods suit us best. Test before and 2hr after a meal rather than randomly. Most of us want no more than a 2mmol rise, less is even better. Otherwise it shows we didn’t cope with the carbs in the meal and it took us too high for too long.
You may have slid off the keto wagon for now but don’t let that stop you jogging alongside it and doing what you can low carb wise til you’re ready to hop back on it. It’s all too easy to fell that you’ve blown it and go mad on anything and every as a result. But every bit you do manage is better than not managing it.
Hope you feel better soon.
I love your reply, in particular the "jogging alongside it" image
. You're right - I should probably chill out a bit. I do have a tendency to, well, I suppose, over-compensate for life crises, which means I commit myself to high and absolute remedial actions (stubborn Yorkshireman LOL), and then the inevitable lapse/crash, after a short while, feels like much more of a setback than it probably is. I'm impatient, and I want to get on with fixing stuff.
When I was diagnosed with Sleep Apnoea I embraced that overnight (literally) and just got on with wearing an air mask in bed every night, whilst the SA forums are full of folk saying that, even after years, they can't tolerate the feel of the thing on their face in the dark. I hate mine, too, but I'm determined not to give up on it, not least because, if I do, some very bad things can happen, and I live alone, so it's "Team Chris" (and my cat) against the world now really
And so with the T2 I have asked for and received a glucose meter from my doc (even though he said, in fact, they are not usually offered to T2s), plus a repeat prescription for test strips and lancets, and of course for Metformin, and dived into Keto as it seems universally recommended. The only life change I have not yet made, is to up my exercise regime - which I believe I should do - but being recently single, and cooped up at home in lockdown, with a new "hobby" called T2 / Keto, I seem to prefer pottering in the kitchen.
My "jogging alongside" seems to be going fairly well - but my big problem is that I have never taken regular meals. ie - breakfast at breakfast time, dinner at dinner time, tea at tea time, supper at supper time. I am a grazer, which means that, if I have a pan of left-over yumminess, I find it hard to leave it alone. Which makes it hard to do the "pre-prandial and then 2hrs post-prandial" thing. And also my Metformin is supposed to be taken with a meal, as I'm sure you know - but I only really have a "meal" (sit-down, with a knife and fork, and a plate of food LOL) in the evenings. I made a decent thing with chicken thighs (pan-fried, skin-side down, in butter) layered onto sliced fennel, sliced onion, chorizo and 30 (yes thirty) cloves of Garlic, last night - roasted in the oven (lid on, for the steam) for 35 minutes... I did 4 thighs, of which I ate 2 as the meal, leaving 2 left, in the pan, on my hob.... it's now 13:46 the next day and there is currently 1 thigh remaining, and none of the garlic, as every time I go into the kitchen, I sneak a forkful
It really bugs me that one clove of garlic has 1g of net carbs... how can that be fair... but that meal was supposed to make 4 portions, and there's not many carbs in the rest of it. But there again, I can't resist picking at it, which kind of messes up the sums.
Breakfast is the biggie - I've never really eaten breakfast, although I know I should - for the first daily Metformin dose, really - but I cannot find any decent appealing Keto breakfasts ?!. You can only have so much mushroom omelette or bacon and eggs..... :-(
