Wish mine would drop...still getting high 7's some mornings. I'm thinking of trying exercise before bed....but I already exercise between lunch and dinner and don't want to change that.Hoping I have energy for something else like a walk round the block.
It's dropped!
Suddenly, and for absolutely no reason that I can work out, my 'on waking' has stepped down a chunk.
Last week, and for months, it has been in the 6.5-7.5
This week it has been consistently 5.8-6.3
Scratching head (but not complaining!)
Same for me. I did a little experiment yesterday...What really puzzles / annoys me is that my BG is always higher 4 hrs after dinner (bedtime) than it is 2 hrs after dinner (protein I guess, and yet I have very little protein at dinner, all my protein is breakfast and lunch).
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Oh I know...if only the medical establishment knew this and did what they could to save us from ourselves LOL.Now now Loobs, we know that annoyance leads to frustration, stress and higher BGs!Sometimes we just need to go with the flow a bit as we learn more about our systems. (You remember what that nice DN said, you mustn't test, you'll only upset yourself!).
I try not to worry too much about my fasting readings as they are the ones I seem to have least control over being affected by stress, sleeping pattern, hormones as well as the things I can control. I think mine are going down( hard to tell with the batch of strips from hell) as I've lost weight so hoping that when it's all shifted I'll be nearer the 5s than 6s.
Oh Indy, I agree completely! I must admit I do have an inner control freak LOLI sometimes wonder whether Type 2 wasn't sent to us control freaks as a life lesson that not everything is controllable. It's certainly turned out to be the case for me - nothing I do with diet or exercise seems to stop what seems to be runaway gluconeogenesis/liver dumps
So, I'm trying to convince my wife it's the witbier, but she's not buying it.
Could be - p'raps your liver is too busy processing the alcohol to chuck out any glucoseActually I'm being serious - it could be that.
@speters33w
Also, an average of 8.4 after meals is a bit high. An odd meal, yes, but to be at that level after every meal isn't doing you any favours.
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I have found a few ways of lowering my pre breakfast BG readings.
1). Exercise before bed. If I eat at 7pm and test at 9pm I pretty much know that my morning BG will be around 1.00 higher than that at 9pm. However, if I exercise (ex cycle in front of TV), then test half hour after I have finished, my BG levels will be lower and then they only rise a very small amount during the night.....It always works..... For me, lowering my pre breakfast BG levels by between 0.5 and 1.0, always.
2). Check BG levels immediately I get up, then eat something (it does not need to be a lot). If I check my BG levels as soon as I get up, then not eat and check half hour or an hour later, they rise by around a point or more.
3). If I awake early I now get up, rather than lie in..... Eg. If I plan to get up at 8am but awake at 7am I now get up and test and eat something. I have on occasion awoke at 6am and tested, gone back to bed for an hour or two, but not slept then tested and it has always been a point or so higher...... If on the other hand I have woken at 6am tested gone back to bed and slept then tested again there has always been just a very small increase..... I think the body, when it first awakes, starts getting ready for the day, and this increases BG levels quickly (which a non diabetic system copes with, but we can't..... My thinking!!!!).
That's my observations.
Strangely, if I exercise immediately after eating my BG levels drop, but then gradually increase until I go to bed and then I see no benefit or very little to my pre breakfast BG reading..... Exercise (for me) has to be prior to bed!!!!.
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