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<blockquote data-quote="Element137" data-source="post: 1572722" data-attributes="member: 328310"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Welcome to the forum - reference testing, you will see from the different comments above that we are all different in response to foods, you have made a massive step in the right direction with using a meter, this along with a food diary and logged results will allow you to see what spikes you, and allow you via elimination to find foods that allow you to reduce your BG level. Couple of pointers, don't get too hung up on individual results, this is a long game, single point test anxiety will drive you mad-for me I focus on longer term results. I only test three times per day - fasted in the morning - once before my main meal of the day ( 6.00PM ish) and two hours after - I try not to repeat food/meals that cause me to rise more than 2 full points - however - there are many variables at play that sometimes throw up odd results - retest-or move on. For some perspective, your morning levels typically are the last to show reduction, so hang in there - I am just over a year on from diagnosis - my fasted level is average 6.0, pre -meal average 5.5 and post meal average 5.7 - most recent Hba1c has risen slightly, but only to 38. Over a year period I have taken my meter reading average, added 15% to it - and that has always been spot on to my Hba1c actual. Your meter is the best tool you have in this battle.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Element137, post: 1572722, member: 328310"] [FONT=Arial]Welcome to the forum - reference testing, you will see from the different comments above that we are all different in response to foods, you have made a massive step in the right direction with using a meter, this along with a food diary and logged results will allow you to see what spikes you, and allow you via elimination to find foods that allow you to reduce your BG level. Couple of pointers, don't get too hung up on individual results, this is a long game, single point test anxiety will drive you mad-for me I focus on longer term results. I only test three times per day - fasted in the morning - once before my main meal of the day ( 6.00PM ish) and two hours after - I try not to repeat food/meals that cause me to rise more than 2 full points - however - there are many variables at play that sometimes throw up odd results - retest-or move on. For some perspective, your morning levels typically are the last to show reduction, so hang in there - I am just over a year on from diagnosis - my fasted level is average 6.0, pre -meal average 5.5 and post meal average 5.7 - most recent Hba1c has risen slightly, but only to 38. Over a year period I have taken my meter reading average, added 15% to it - and that has always been spot on to my Hba1c actual. Your meter is the best tool you have in this battle.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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