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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Robbity" data-source="post: 871202" data-attributes="member: 93179">After meal readings are not supposed to be anything other than (if possible) within or lower than the recommended guidelines.  You're more likely to be doing things right than otherwise if you get close or lower readings 2 hours after your meal, so don't look a gift horse in the mouth!! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />  It may mean that you are getting a small earlier spike, or just that you are eating low carb food that doesn't cause (much of) a spike at all.  But if you feel it worthwhile you can test similar foods after 1 hour to see what's happening then too.   Meters are not 100% accurate so may possibly not be "seeing" a smallish spike because of thisI eat a very low carb diet and will quite often get either very little or no spike, or even a  reduction from pre meal levels, and I'm very happy with this sort of result.  I actually prefer to be in this situation where I have  fairly consistent "flat" levels than a large rise afterwards:  I feel it's much kinder to my body, as it has less work to do.RobbityPS Like [USER=88961]@AndBreathe[/USER] I'd much rather eat a good varied diet than restrict my foodstuffs too much and then choose to take supplements because of this.ETA As I've just seen your post re supplements, needing them for genuine reasons is obviiously a different matter though.</blockquote>

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