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koprano

koprano

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Type of diabetes
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I have just got my Codefree monitor

I took a while to work out how to use it and got my first ever reading Pre lunch 5.4
 
1 hour after eating was 12

Big soup plus an apple and a greek yogurt
 
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Testing at 1 hour when you first start tells you very little unless you test again at 2 hours and if necessary every half an hour after that. Everyone, including non diabetics, will spike at 1 hour. The trick is to be well on your way back down to base by 2 to 3 hours. However, a spike from 5.4 to 12 must tell you something about the meal you had! There will have been too many carbs, and very likely too much sugar and not enough fat. What did you have?
 
Thank for your help

I had Big soup plus an apple and a greek yogurt. Prob too much sugar there..

Just tested again and the level was down to 7.1
 
OK well it seems that your lunch was not suitable for you. I suggest you keep a food diary and record your levels alongside each meal you test. Patterns will emerge and you must act on what you see. I don't know what Big soup is? Was it a tin of something?. How many grams of carbs were there in it (it will tell you on the nutrition label). Most tinned/packets of soup are full of carbs because they are thickened with flour and/or potato. Again, the list of ingredients on the tin will tell you this. Apples are also dicey for most of us.

It is a steep learning curve, but you now have your best tool to help you - your meter.
 
Small "kids fun sized" apples are just about OK for many pears have a lower sugar/carb content.
100 grams of Greek yogurt contains between 14 & 20 grams of carbohydrate all of which is sugar so a little 150 gram pot could contain 30 grams of sugar.
Try to keep to foods that are below 5 grams per 100 grams of sugar and remember all carbohydrate is sugar once your body gets to work on it.

Sainburys Thai Green Chicken Soup sold in a plastic pot is low carbohydrate at 5.6 grams/100 grams other soups in the same range are higher. Some tinned soups are more than 20 grams/100 grams.
 
Sirmione said:
Small "kids fun sized" apples are just about OK for many pears have a lower sugar/carb content.
100 grams of Greek yogurt contains between 14 & 20 grams of carbohydrate all of which is sugar so a little 150 gram pot could contain 30 grams of sugar.
Try to keep to foods that are below 5 grams per 100 grams of sugar and remember all carbohydrate is sugar once your body gets to work on it.

Sainburys Thai Green Chicken Soup sold in a plastic pot is low carbohydrate at 5.6 grams/100 grams other soups in the same range are higher. Some tinned soups are more than 20 grams/100 grams.
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Which Greek yogurts have you been looking at? Fage Total, which I use, has 4g carbs per 100g. As long as you avoid any low fat or fruit flavoured yogurts, they are mostly all low carb.
 
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