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Pre and post meal test

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vit90

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Been dieting fairly aggressively to lose a stone in one month and am now several pounds under my overweight/normal weight threshold.

Am planning to throttle back on the diet in time for Christmas so today had I had a low carb breakfast and light low carb lunch (probably less than 10g carbs in total and no carbs in drinks at all and then this evening a roast dinner. I had the meat, two medium roast potatoes, some carrots, broccoli and a piece of parsnip. I didn't have any pudding but I did have 50g of 50% cocoa solids dark chocolate after the meal. I only had a mug of fruit tea afterwards. Estimated carbs: about 70g, Before the meal using an SD Codefree meter I was 5.5 and 2 hours afterwards, 8.8. How does that rate? This was the highest carb meal I've had in about 6 weeks.
 
Sounds about right i would be the same with roast potatoes they are lethal for me. I usually have roasted sweet potato instead, but go for the roast potatoes if it's only occasionally you have them. You've got to Have a treat now and again.
 
vicjord said:
Sounds about right i would be the same with roast potatoes they are lethal for me. I usually have roasted sweet potato instead, but go for the roast potatoes if it's only occasionally you have them. You've got to Have a treat now and again.
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Sounds like my test result isn't that good then?
 
No, not ideal! And I wouldn't like a spike that high - I want to keep my pre and post meal levels as flat as I can. But I suppose it's maybe OK for an occasional naughty meal as it's just above the NICE guideline figure of under 8.5 that's listed on the UK Diabetes main site.

NICE recommended target blood glucose level ranges
by Type Before meals(pre prandial) 2 hours after meals (post prandial)
Non-diabetic 4.0 to 5.9 mmol/L under 7.8 mmol/L
Type 2 diabetes 4 to 7 mmol/L under 8.5 mmol/L
Type 1 diabetes 4 to 7 mmol/L under 9 mmol/L

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