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

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4.5 pre breakfast, doubt it will stay this low but a welcome break from the 5's usually record in the mornings.
 
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I am doing lots of reading on stuff I buy, low carbs, low fat and low sugar. Ive just been left to get on with it, was told to see doc againi 3 months time. I will do a reading in about half hour, post dinner if it helps. Am keeping a daily diet list of what im eating and drinking.
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It's very confusing at first, have a good read around here and ask questions- I learnt all I know from this lovely forum. For years pre-type 2 I purchased low fat etc, now I know it's loaded with sugar and therefore carbs!! Full fat is far better for us on low carb !!
 
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Thank you all for your support, with you all here im sure i will there. Im going to do all my tests today and see whats what, so before breakfast it was 6.7.......
After breakfast it was 6.7.
Before lunch its gone up to 8.7!
 
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6.2 pre and 6.8 post, however I'm feeling really weak and wobbly it's only an hour since I had a good breakfast.
 
6.0 pre breakfast and 7.3,3 hours later. Don't feel well though, could be a virus.
 
It was a 3.8 for me this morning, which is mid-third of my usual range.

I had a bit of a strange one last night, which I am putting down to not managing my eating too well yesterday. I find I do best when I have pretty much three meals a day. Yesterday got a bit chaotic, resulting in a very late breakfast, and lunch not happening. Late afternoon I grabbed a Babybel, just to have had something, but in essence I then ended up with a liver dump, and it felt like another attempted liver dump. Pre-dinner was 4.5, which is certainly higher than usual for me, but the shocker (to me!) was a 6.8 after dinner. (Eh? Dinner was a slow cooker beef stew, which had leek, carrot, onion and two potatoes between the pair of us) I was hungry and had a decent portion, but the meal doesn’t strike as a real shocker in terms of carb count. At c40, it’s higher than many can tolerate, but not outrageous for me, these days.

Last time I had a score anything like that was 1st May, when I had the most humungous baked potato with cheese, baked beans and coleslaw, and I was absolutely over-fed. Prior to that, it was 8th December (7 weeks post-diagnosis, and after spaghetti Bolognese, out at an Italian). So, it was somewhat unusual. I washed my hands and retested, so it was apparently a valid measurement, unless my washing technique was particularly rubbish. Thirty minutes later at was 4.2, then 3.8 this morning. If I had had a liver dump, closely followed by another, I can see the number going up, but I usually plummet pretty fast after a liver dump.

Naturally, I’ll keep an eye on things, but I don’t have anything really material to hang that one on. I had a runny nose yesterday afternoon, but I put that down to being out in the cold almost all afternoon.

Hey ho. Such is the puzzle we call diabetes.

Have a great day everyone.
 
I suspect an advantage of the Newcastle diet is it improves the insulin response to the liver, certainly I'm not seeing any rises if I don't eat, and the BG is staying down when I do, the the liver and pancreas cycle seems to be working with the right feedback.
I'm even getting used to the 3's and 4's now, I never enjoyed being that low previously.
6.8 is still a very good number though.
 
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