Newly Diagnosed Need Advise

jjraak said:

Hi @LivingWithAPurpose .

It's your personal detective mystery

Who are the smiling assassin's, lurking in your kitchen.?

Which innocent looking snack is secretly sabotaging your health ?

Most check at waking ..that first feet on the floor experience of the day .

A FASTING blood glucose (FBG.)

It's usually the last to drop, but it gives a clear look at your BG levels after being fully rested and without food.

However beware of dawn phenomenon.

And pre food, it's your base line for checking rises,

Then 2 hours after eating, to check how well YOU can tolerate what it was you ate.

And some check last thing at night, I guess to compare with the next mornings


When starting out, you need lots of data, so plenty of testing early days is the norm, I'd say.

Then once you have a better grasp of how individual good items affect you, it then tails off somewhat

For me, it's 2 meals, rarely any snacks and the morning FBG ...5 times In total.

But early days I was testing more as I still snacked, and I also tested at the hour marker for some meals ...hence why its good to check out the cost of strips, as like a printers ink, they are the ongoing costs

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jjraak said:

Deffo months, for me, not years.

It tested each meal, found a few things that stayed the same ..so ticked them off and stopped testing that meal

That happened a few other meals, I tested then relaxed, as it matched expectations.

Each stage/ plateau I became more comfortable & relaxed the testing

I still test each morning.
I test meals/foods I don't usually have
and still test some regular meals, just to stay on point.

I am pretty settled in what I normally eat.
Though recently began trying out a few more choices.

But yeah, those first 3 months I tested most food, and while a pain gave me two things.

Information
&
Confidence.

Add in the drops in fbg, my HBA1c coming down, and the matching drop in the blood lipids.

All the fear and concern I first had at DX,
simply lifted, and I began, once more enjoying my food.

I still see it as fuel, to get me to the next fuel stop, but the fear I first had of eating almost ANYTHING, quickly moved from the experimental stage, to actually looking forward to my meals.

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