Thanks for sharing Indy51. I'm still unclear whether I am doing the right thing or not by following LCHF too aggressively and not eating a great deal.
My pattern tested yesterday / this morning is as follows:
5pm 5.7 mol/L
7pm - eat - approx 10g Carbs & 400 Cal
10pm - bed - 5.7mmol/L
3am - 6.8 mol/L
6.30am wake - 7.2 mmol/L
7.30am - 50 mins / 3 miles power walk
8.20 am - 6.9 mol/L
Is this normal? Is there anything I could be doing too aggressively or is there anything I can do to reduce morning peaks in BG? Are these readings acceptable or Normal even? Some mornings I am seeing readings up to 8.0 mmol/L.
If at 10pm at 5.7mmol/l you were to have pork scratchings or cheese or nuts. A small palm full it would con your liver into thinking no fast.
Morning fbg would be lower. However if you fast on rising the liver will dump then, instead. The nack is to eat small regularly so liver does fill up on carbs to dump at later date (fast). Now metformin, for me soaks up that fast, just a little. Not enough for my protein and carb intake which converts to glucose at different rates. Metformin only has a small limitation of approx 2mmol/l benefit. Yes it can be done without metformin. However I benefit from its other benefits more. So I prefer to take metformin than not.
I try and do a block before bed and on rising. I'm currently losing weight and I'm sure my liver enzymes output will be good after the xmas carb feast well behind me.
Metformin helps lose weight because of less glucose output from mainly the liver, other organs and muscles.
If I forget to eat BANG liver glucose floods my blood.
If I get stressed BANG adrenaline increases glucose manufacture and in my blood it goes.
I don't need the natural process which when I block it doesn't have a detriment to my liver of diabetes care.
Intaking less carbs is just the start of it for me.
