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

4.5@ 07:50 (Contour XT) Pleased with this as my daughter selected Italian last night, so I had to tip toe through the menu with Mozzarella and Tomatoes followed by Steak with vegetables and a cheese board (minus biscuits and grapes). The 5 mile trek in the Lakes helped as well.
 
busydiabeticmum said:
Hi, just test before and after eating and hourly after that. Keep a spread sheet of these numbers alongside a full list of ingredients you ate at those times so as to see what your reaction was to what foods! There are some ingredients on the lc diet that you may find will spike you (your body cant tolerate) you just have to keep testing, there is no one size fits all in diabetes though most of us on here are agreed that the low carb diet does work (with a few tweeks) so i wish you well and letting you know you are in the right place for the best advice on getting those bgl under control.
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Thank you so much for your reply, I will take your advice and keep testing.
 
Tawa93 said:
Hallo all, I have just completed one dish for my food diary. My BS was 9,3 this morning and 7,7mmols before the meal ( actually that's the lowest it's been since I was diagnosed 2 weeks ago). So I had my experimental meal, slept for 2 hour (on night duty), then rechecked. It's gone up to 10,5mmols. What sort of range in rise should I be happy with and when should i avoid the meal altogether? I hope this makes sense?
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A few tips.
Don't skip a meal or not eat for long periods of time unless a planned Intermittent Fast. Your liver will dump glucose into your system as it thinks your in starvation mode.

If not hungry nibble a bit of protein or cooked none root veg.

Before bed once again nibble on something very small so your liver doesn't dump so much at 3am (roughly the time), morning dawn phenomenon.

Don't over eat on carbs as they cause many hereditary diabetics to crave more carbs. Keeping carbs low reduces that but must keep filled up with veg and your daily protein requirements.

Try and avoid bread, pasta, rice, cereal and sugary treats.

Don't go hungry

Don't restrict good fats. Full fat is always best as less sugar in.

On rising nibble something immediately. Or leave it near your bed to nibble on before getting up and after testing bgs in bed.

I hope this helps.
 
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I don't use insulin either but I believe 3.8 is low and can be classed as hypoglycaemia so would treat it as such.
 
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Fbg 6.1 :) :) :) great improvement. @eddie1968 how was yours?
I remembered my liver dump tip for a change. No supplements but expensive so saving for when I'm less active with kids.
Going through some sandwiches on day outs. Mine is protein rolls. :)
Still sneaking the occasional ice cream mouthful from kids. Well I am on holiday too!
 
PenfoldAPD said:
Woeful 8.8 today :(
Staying with our friends overnight in Spain - she knows how much I love food so it was lemon risotto - then orange sorbet, raspberry ripple ice cream - strawberry ice cream - and sweet dessert wine. I ate it all, then had an arguements with OH (mainly about the sweet wine) who I know is only try to look after me - better not tell him my FBG ;) it's a day of recover today - down to 7.5 now. Jumping in their pool to swim now until I'm back in the 5s LOL
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You're not on holiday by any chance! Enjoy yourself mate.
Plenty of time for 5s and occasional 4s.
Those little tips to cleans the liver can wait for home.
Everyone deserves a holiday. None diabetics eat and drink worse on holiday, everytime.
Diabetics are human too!
Enjoy. I'm still voting you a winner as you are still testing, which Is the most important thing on holiday.
Well done for not letting diabetes rule your holiday. Like i said, plenty of time for that in none holiday time. ;)
 
ickihun said:
Pain hun.
Make sure you get plenty of help from GP.
Don't suffer in silience. You might need to see a specialist if too many scatic nerve attacks hun. Pressure from somewhere in your back?
Be kind to yourself. ;)
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I know you're right, Vicky. I'm really bad at taking care of myself - far more focused on taking care of other people.
(And I suspect there's somebody else exactly the same not a million miles away from this post! ;))
 
ickihun said:
Fbg 6.1 :) :) :) great improvement. @eddie1968 how was yours?
I remembered my liver dump tip for a change. No supplements but expensive so saving for when I'm less active with kids.
Going through some sandwiches on day outs. Mine is protein rolls. :)
Still sneaking the occasional ice cream mouthful from kids. Well I am on holiday too!
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7.2 mmol/l @ickihun, better than 8.2 yesterday. :)
 
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