pre-diabetes, fasting blood sugars.

[eddye88]

5.8 this morning. Really hoping to see low 5s or high 4s in the future.

Just going back over the thread, it seems you've already made some good progress!


Yesterday I tried some methods I'd seen online to keep your blood sugar from spiking after carbs and I'm at a 4.4 this morning.

 

[Parnassus]

Just going back over the thread, it seems you've already made some good progress!


Yesterday I tried some methods I'd seen online to keep your blood sugar from spiking after carbs and I'm at a 4.4 this morning.

Which methods are those? Do you have a link?

 

[eddye88]

Which methods are those? Do you have a link?

I saw them both mentioned by people in either YouTube or reddit comments on other overall topics so I don't have a link, sorry.

One was about the impact of apple cider vinegar before meals, the other was on eating fat and protein first in a meal so the carbs sit on top of the other stuff in your stomach, so it doesn't spike your blood sugar so much.

When I looked into it, the apple cider seems to be extrapolated from any kind of vinegar, so I started eating way more pickled things - I like them so it's much easier then drinking vinegar mixed with water everyday

When I posted this for example, I'd had a huge spinach and tuna salad, with egg, grated cheese, gherkins and pickled beetroot. When I'd eaten most of the pickled stuff and had about a 3rd left overall, I added two big pieces of granary bread with butter on and the combo of both tactics worked for me.

Its worked for me with pasta too - I bring a jar of gherkins with me if I'm eating at someone else's house now, which probably does seem weird.

 

[robin321]

16/01/2017 - 9.2
17/01/2017 - 6.3
18/01/2017 - 6.7
19/01/2017 - 6.9
20/01/2017 - 7.3
21/01/2017 - 6.2
22/01/2017 - 6.2
23/01/2017 - 7.0

I've only been testing for 8 days and prior to, and during that time, I've followed a low(ish) carb diet, so the results are not good in that case methinks. I'd like anyone else's opinion though.

Although those are the fasting figures, there's some not good ones at other times as well, like an 18.2, lots of 7's, a couple of 8's and 9's and lows too, like low 4's and 5's and anything in between.

Yes I've followed a low carb diet for about 7 seven years? My fasting glucose reads the same, could it be the diet? Robin from newhaven south coast

 

[Mallyman]

I saw them both mentioned by people in either YouTube or reddit comments on other overall topics so I don't have a link, sorry.

One was about the impact of apple cider vinegar before meals, the other was on eating fat and protein first in a meal so the carbs sit on top of the other stuff in your stomach, so it doesn't spike your blood sugar so much.

When I looked into it, the apple cider seems to be extrapolated from any kind of vinegar, so I started eating way more pickled things - I like them so it's much easier then drinking vinegar mixed with water everyday

When I posted this for example, I'd had a huge spinach and tuna salad, with egg, grated cheese, gherkins and pickled beetroot. When I'd eaten most of the pickled stuff and had about a 3rd left overall, I added two big pieces of granary bread with butter on and the combo of both tactics worked for me.

Its worked for me with pasta too - I bring a jar of gherkins with me if I'm eating at someone else's house now, which probably does seem weird.

Try pre cooking all starchy carbs like pasta, rice and potatoes. Let them cool to 4°C overnight. That will turn the starch to soluble carbs lowering the spike in some cases with me, by 50%-60%. All pickles and Kimchi type preservation is fantastic for lowering BGL. Yes, ear carbs lasy to lower yield amount digested.
For anyone on acid blockers..........I stopped taking mine. Reduced slowly. My BGL lowered with the reduction. My workouts got better now as I actually see the effects of digested protein. I had pasta last evening (100g) in a roasted tomato sauce (400g) with 4 cloves of chopped garlic and a small red onion roasted with the tomatoes. A few herbs from the garden and a tsp of tomato paste. My BGL this morning 5.3. Or 96 mmol.

 

[dwnunder]

I saw them both mentioned by people in either YouTube or reddit comments on other overall topics so I don't have a link, sorry.

One was about the impact of apple cider vinegar before meals, the other was on eating fat and protein first in a meal so the carbs sit on top of the other stuff in your stomach, so it doesn't spike your blood sugar so much.

When I looked into it, the apple cider seems to be extrapolated from any kind of vinegar, so I started eating way more pickled things - I like them so it's much easier then drinking vinegar mixed with water everyday

When I posted this for example, I'd had a huge spinach and tuna salad, with egg, grated cheese, gherkins and pickled beetroot. When I'd eaten most of the pickled stuff and had about a 3rd left overall, I added two big pieces of granary bread with butter on and the combo of both tactics worked for me.

Its worked for me with pasta too - I bring a jar of gherkins with me if I'm eating at someone else's house now, which probably does seem weird.

I have read Jason Fungs latest book and he mentions cooking rice and letting it cool then reheating it and some of the carbs crystallise and then cannot be absorbed which is a win win for diabetes, but unfortunately potatoes do not act in the same way when reheating them as the crystallised carbs melts back into the potatoes, but cooking the potatoes and eating them cold as in potato salad helps keep the crystallised carbs intact so has less impact on BG. That is interesting to read about pickles as there’s quite a bit of sugar in pickles so maybe the vinegar counteracts the sugar? The glucose goddess has mentioned the same thing in her book and eating carbs last to get less impact. It’s a good thing to know these tweaks as every little thing helps.