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Prediabetes Rise in blood sugar

saky

saky

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Location
Bangalore
Type of diabetes
Prediabetes
Treatment type
Diet only
If i eat chicken soup (with low carb vegggies) and salads my sugar rises to 123mg/dl.
If i eat fish and same salad my sugar spikes are 108mg/dl, 114/dl.
Why is it so?
 
Even "low carb" veggies have more carbs than fish.

Which veggies do you mean?

But to be honest those readings are probably about the same looking at permitted variances in meter accuracy.
 
Premeal for chicken soup + salads was 89mg/dl.

Premeal reading(cgm) for fish +salads was 85mg/dl
 
Soup always seems to hit me harder than I'm expecting, I think its because my body doesn't have to do too much work to get at the carbs. It's the same with the green smoothies that were popular a while ago, my meter didn't like them at all.
 
saky said:
Premeal for chicken soup + salads was 89mg/dl.

Premeal reading(cgm) for fish +salads was 85mg/dl
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These are rises, certainly, but aren't huge rises. I think 108mg/dl is about 5.5mmol/l and 126mg/dl equates to 7mmol/l. If I was seeing these figures myself after food, I wouldn't describe them as spikes. The chicken result looks to me like the sort of rise you might expect to see after having food that has some carb in it. The fish seems absolutely OK. Like you I might be interested in why chicken and veg was taking me to that level.

I'd want to check there was nothing in the meal I didn't expect - for instance some food producers in the UK coat chicken skin in sugar to make it brown better - and I would probably want to see if the same thing happened again.

The variance between the fish and the chicken could also possibly be down to the meter variance, the veg you use, or another factor unconnected with food - eg you might have a slight illness, be stressed (or not).
 
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