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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2577736" data-attributes="member: 517579">Hi Daisy.You really need the numbers before eating as well as the numbers at the two hour mark.  That shows you what the impact has been. I found that with some things the BG rise and fall had taken place within two hours and with others it took longer, so I also fiddled around with testing at +1,+2 and +3 hours - but you need to know where you're starting from. For example, I'm happy with a BG reading anywhere in the 4s or 5s before eating, and am usually somewhere in the 5s or occasionally 6s after.  That is consistently resulting in low-normal HbA1cs around 36-38. Both Weetabix (and the milk)  and biscuits are carb-heavy, where bacon/egg/mushroom isn't.  The after meal figures you're reporting look OK in themselves - they're not high -  with the rider as above that there's no way of telling what they were before eating.  Other things do affect BG levels (exercise, stress, illness, outside temperature etc) although food generally has the biggest impact.  Morning readings tend to be high because of a thing called "dawn phenomenon" where your liver helpfully dumps a load of glucose into your bloodstream as you wake up.  This tends to stay high even when other readings fall, and is usually the last reading to come down. It seems to take livers a bit of time to adapt.</blockquote>

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