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

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cold ethyl said:
It is better to average them. If I get wildly varying ones I tend to do several tests and average the ones that cluster and ignore any glaringly obvious outliers.
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Unless a count really is unexpectedly low or high by a lot, I very rarely retest.

I would not retest a 5,9 morning count for instance even if I was hoping a 5,0.

I prefer to take an extra count after an hour say and consider the two together.

So if the first was unexpectedly high say before a meal but my one hour after a meal count is good ie within my target range, I know that the earliest count was probably wrong. I probably would retest though if the meal I was about to have was something new that I wanted to check my glucose response to for the first time.

Pavlos
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Nail hit on head there, Vit. I have always had good fasting and bedtime levels, from almost as soon as I started testing and eating properly, and rarely had an overnight rise. My bedtime ones are fairly static most nights, low 5's with an odd 4. My fastings were also always low 5's but the averages have been trending upwards month by month from September. The only explanation I have is that from September I have been trying not to lose more weight. I haven't increased my carbs but I have increased my fats, especially cheese. Nothing else has changed. This is my concern, not the actual readings.
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Quite a lot of saturate fat in cheese; maybe up the olive oil in salads instead?
 
@Bluetit1802 could be the cheese.. Not the fat aspect but the additional protein as protein gets converted to sugars in absence of a high carb intake I think ( put very simply as I'm no scientist). Have you upped your other protein portion sizes at all to stop weight loss?
 
pavlosn said:
Unless a count really is unexpectedly low or high by a lot, I very rarely retest.

I would not retest a 5,9 morning count for instance even if I was hoping a 5,0.

I prefer to take an extra count after an hour say and consider the two together.

So if the first was unexpectedly high say before a meal but my one hour after a meal count is good ie within my target range, I know that the earliest count was probably wrong. I probably would retest though if the meal I was about to have was something new that I wanted to check my glucose response to for the first time.

Pavlos
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I wouldn't bother if it was within an acceptable range but sometimes ( particularly with the batch of strips my current pot is from) I'll get a really whacky way out number at both ends of scale so I do another couple of tests to get a sensible stab at it. Otherwise the readings are what they are, good or bad.
 
pavlosn said:
Well done on your progress.
Dawn phenomenon is just a natural process of our liver preparing for our day ahead. If despite this you get numbers in the fives/ low sixes and your counts later in the day are even better, I would not worry too much about it, although it is nice to see those numbers under six consistently in the morning, :)
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Thanks - my aim is definitely to get consistently in the 5's in a morning but I'm not going to beat myself up too much about it as I'm definitely pleased with my progress so far
 
cold ethyl said:
@Bluetit1802 could be the cheese.. Not the fat aspect but the additional protein as protein gets converted to sugars in absence of a high carb intake I think ( put very simply as I'm no scientist). Have you upped your other protein portion sizes at all to stop weight loss?
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I also think it could be the extra protein from the cheese, and maybe I am having too much of it. MFP tells me I should be having 103g protein but I am always less than this, usually in the 90's. It is SO hard to get the balance right when trying to maintain weight. Diet re-think coming up!
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I also think it could be the extra protein from the cheese, and maybe I am having too much of it. MFP tells me I should be having 103g protein but I am always less than this, usually in the 90's. It is SO hard to get the balance right when trying to maintain weight. Diet re-think coming up!
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What carb to fat to protein %s do you have myfitnesspal set to?

Just me being nosey?

Pavlos
 
Bluetit1802 said:
It is set at 15% carbs, 25% protein, 60% fat for 1650 calories and 60g carbs, but I don't always reach that number of calories.
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Unless you're going to weigh everything, every day, there will be overs and unders on everything on a day-to-day basis.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
It is set at 15% carbs, 25% protein, 60% fat for 1650 calories and 60g carbs, but I don't always reach that number of calories.
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Thank you
I use the iPhone app and it was not so long ago that they upgraded this to allow anything than the standard healthy plate percentages to be set.
I do not use it much these days, although I probably should.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
The 10 sounds much better, but as the true figure could have been either or neither of them, I would have gone for 11.5 as an average. Not much point in kidding yourself, Ally.
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Is that like knocking 2 points off for having 1/2 a slice of fried bread:rolleyes::D
 
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