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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul_" data-source="post: 2643678" data-attributes="member: 578575">There are no hard and fast rules to this. We all have different tolerances, metabolisms, insulin resistances etc. If you're testing before a meal and 2 hours after, this will tell you whether it's a meal that's compatible with your own situation and reducing blood glucose.The only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask and spend time stressing about instead. It's daunting and a steep learning curve with diabetes, don't ever be scared to ask questions.Essentially yes. However, it's about lowering your blood glucose in a controlled and steady way, it's not a race as such. Lowering too quickly can cause some side effects too.With that said, low carb diets (particularly the very low end of less than 20g a day) help to reduce your blood glucose, which starts to reduce the stress on your pancreas by allowing it to slow insulin production down, and your liver might also start to play ball and reduce the amount of glucose it pushes out into your system. So, steady reductions are good and allow all of that to happen, hopefully without side effects, and any diabetic side effects you currently have will also reduce or go away in time too.</blockquote>

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