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Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

Morning all

Looks like another beeuuooooootiful day down here again.

The chips with last night's scampi might have been a mistake though as fbg has sneaked up to 5.2

Can't really grumble at that though :cool:
 
Morning all,

8.6 today. Have a food shop coming Wednesday with lots of low carb options, until then, I am trying to make the best choices I can, trying to avoid the pork pies!

I hope you all have a nice day today.
 
ainiabdul said:
Hi, I haven't tried this yet.
There was one time attempt to do it and my BG level went through the roof, so I got scared and cancelled it.
Now I am reducing the amount of food with decent amount of exercise for the rest of the week, and hoping to see improvement.
The thing is that, using insulin, I gained weight :/ And I do not lose visceral fat as I am hoping to happen.

What is your fasting experience?
I am very new to Diabetes and doing my best trying different things to achieve stabilized BGL.
Thank you for responding to this.

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I do low carb high fat with fasting. I test my blood sugars before i eat, then one hour after the 1st mouthfull of food, then 2 hours and then carry on every hour to check what my bgl are doing, if they are higher than i like i will run (jiggle) up and down the sitting room for 20 minutes or run up and down the stairs and do warm ups. I may also go for a walk. If you are on insulin not sure if you can fast, if you do regularly check you bgl. If it goes below a certain level (i wont let them go below 3.1) then eat something. I am still experimenting myself but as i am not on insulin anymore i wouldnt be able to advice you about how the two mix... maybe a type1 would be more suited to advice you!
 
Debmcgee said:
6.6 after splurging on a giant waffle with Nutella sauce, cream and ice cream. It was really good but in hindsight not worth it....x


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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
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Maybe see how long it takes you to come back down? I had fish and chips yesterday - a tradition of ours post beach for years - my numbers aren't so awful today that I'm thinking once in a while you have to treat yourself to stay sane??
 
PenfoldAPD said:
Maybe see how long it takes you to come back down? I had fish and chips yesterday - a tradition of ours post beach for years - my numbers aren't so awful today that I'm thinking once in a while you have to treat yourself to stay sane??
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I can take weeks to go down! Fasting today til dinner then another 24hr fast before I indulge in some fish on the beach visit too! Not bothered about chips though so that should help!


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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
 
Twoplayer said:
@ainiabdul I just saw your other thread about "Lantus dose". Are you very new to taking it? Keep a food diary with carb count (have you had help with that?) and take it with you when you next see your doctor/nurse. It isn't unusual to begin on a small dose and then your team will increase it until you have good control.
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Will see my doc in few days..
I have only been put on insulin for 4 weeks now..
I will bring my bgl records to my doctor and consult..
Thanks a lot!


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PosyPip said:
5.2 on my normal acc chek mobile and 7.3 on code free. Still concerned about this degree of variance

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You've given me hope!!! If my code free is that much put, then I must be doing ok!!!


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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
 
5.8
It seems like my blood glucose readings are dropping slowly even though I have not changed foods - guessing this might be a positive reaction to staying with the LCHF way of eating - I feel so pleased to be dropping into the 5's - it felt for a while that I was never going to get this level of reading.
I believe I must be a slow learner many of you have achieved such positive results in much shorter a time frame but it does feel amazing.
Without this forum and website I would never have discovered support and knowledge that you all share so freely, long may it continue.
 
4.4 @07:00

I think the differing measures are a nuisance, but still useful as the variance in the readings on the device being used will still be a good guide for monitoring progress. I wear a Fitbit and a Microsoft Band 2, and both similarly provide different results, but I can see my progression from both.

January 2015 HbA1c 134, 98 kg
March 2015 HbA1c 59 (2 x 500g Metformin), exercise and diet
Dec 2015 HbA1c 41 (2 x 500g Metformin), exercise and diet, 92 kg
March 2016 HbA1c 42 (1 x 500g Metformin), exercise and diet, 92 kg
June 2016 HbA1c 42 (1 x 500g Metformin), exercise and diet, 92 kg
 
5.2 at 5:15 am, now big gulp of water and getting ready for a morning walk..


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Debmcgee said:
You've given me hope!!! If my code free is that much put, then I must be doing ok!!!


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Borderline T2, serial yo-yo dieter but firmly sticking to LCHF with IF
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It's not that much out always, but regularly 1.5 mmol. As mentioned before, I'm monitoring the codefree against the accu chek mobile and will see whether I feel it is too far out and inconsistent to use as my fbs baseline. I had a reading of 16 this evening and the same testing site was 8.0 on codefree.
 
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