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Type 2's: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning?

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Yes, disgrace......

Interesting predictive text there Kimbo!

5.7, beginning to think it really is the red wine (been off alcohol for a few days) . Off to check my stats to see if there's anything significant in it.
 
well done everybody mine was 14.4 this morning down from 16.2 yesterday kept my carbs to below 25% but it took 2200 calories to do so, not as good as you guys but down nether the less
 
Hey.....Diana, you haven't hijacked me - this is a team effort!! Just lets all keep going and being positive!! You have done amazing too!
 
Interesting predictive text there Kimbo!

5.7, beginning to think it really is the red wine (been off alcohol for a few days) . Off to check my stats to see if there's anything significant in it.
Predictive really annoys me rod!!
 
5.7, beginning to think it really is the red wine (been off alcohol for a few days) . Off to check my stats to see if there's anything significant in it.

Checked my fasting levels for the last 5 weeks or so - since I started the potentially suspect batch of strips, so that's one variable removed - and my average the morning after some alcohol is 5.9, and with no alcohol it's 6.0. So no significant difference.
 

It's the same with me. Red wine doesn't seem to make any difference to my morning figures. In fact I can't see what difference it makes to anything, post dinner, bedtime, fasting. Anyone know what difference it is "supposed" to make? I'm talking 200 to 300ml here, not a bottle!
 
I think wine (or alcohol in general) is supposed to engage the liver in alcohol-processing activities and stops it thinking all the time about producing glucose. I've just tried confirming that with mine but he's too pi$$ed to give a coherent answer at the moment ...
 

But that is only when it's in your system. Once it goes it isn't doing anything, so a moderate amount with evening meal has surely gone by morning. One unit on average takes one hour to clear according to the NHS, so about 3 hours for 250ml of wine.
 

It's OK I was joking - neither my liver nor the rest of me are hungover, we just shared a bottle of red last night (that's me and Mrs Sanguine, not me and my liver)!

If there was a relationship between moderate wine drinking and lower BGs it would probably be due to the stress-reducing properties rather than trying to outfox the liver - which would never work of course ...
 

I knew that I was musing that wine can't be the cause of morning fasting rises/falls. 'Ecky thump, red wine is one of the "foods" I've added back to increase my calories.
 
'Ecky thump, red wine is one of the "foods" I've added back to increase my calories.

LOL what grape does that use? Can you get it in Sainsbury's?
 
5.7 this morning after going to bed on 5.8.
 
5.3 again, three days straight with the same numbers. Not moved above 5.6 on any reading for weeks. Had my first carbs yesterday in 6 weeks. 2 papadoms with a spicy chilli beef stirfry. 2 hrs post and I was 5.2. I am really tempted to do an ultimate test with a pint of Stella that's been sitting in the fridge winking at me for 6 weeks since I have been alcohol free but I have vowed not to drink at least until I go on holiday is another 3 and half weeks!
 
8.5 and that was because I had a tomato sandwich for my supper ....the seeded bread too much I guess
 
what will the stella do? I thought alcohol was supposed to lower blood sugars
 
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