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

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Nice one BT :)

Calm seas ahead, waves behind :) What we all deserve, especially you :)

Mike
 
5.0 this morning by my accu chek these are the numbers that have got lost in the batch44 code free.

Even some of my pre meal 4.5s returned yesterday which I have not had for several weeks on batch 44

Neil :)
 
5.7 this morning. Had the chilli con carne last night, same meal that spiked me last time. Smaller portion though, 5.3 > 5.6. But It's always difficult to pin down a single reason for anything, there are so many factors going on.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Thank you Eddie, but I haven't reported my 2.5mmol/l spike at 2hrs from my evening meal! (nor the 8.5 at 90 minutes!). Just so relieved I was only 5.1 by bedtime.
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sanguine said:
5.7 this morning. Had the chilli con carne last night, same meal that spiked me last time. Smaller portion though, 5.3 > 5.6. But It's always difficult to pin down a single reason for anything, there are so many factors going on.
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It's a mystery. My awful spikes last night were from my usual Saturday night meal that hasn't varied in content or noticeable portion size for months and has never done that to me before. What I THINK happened is that I have been gradually reducing my carbs again. Yesterday I had 60g. My average over the previous 5 days was 47g. Could this be those pesky enzymes thinking I need less insulin so didn't produce enough to cope with yesterday's increase? I'm not well up on this side of things.

Does anyone know?
 
Bluetit1802 said:
It's a mystery. My awful spikes last night were from my usual Saturday night meal that hasn't varied in content or noticeable portion size for months and has never done that to me before. What I THINK happened is that I have been gradually reducing my carbs again. Yesterday I had 60g. My average over the previous 5 days was 47g. Could this be those pesky enzymes thinking I need less insulin so didn't produce enough to cope with yesterday's increase? I'm not well up on this side of things.

Does anyone know?
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I wouldn't worry about the whys and wherefores unless it becomes a repeatable pattern. Just file it under 'one of those things' that hits us all occasionally. The body is too complicated to analyse everything that's going on.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
It's a mystery. My awful spikes last night were from my usual Saturday night meal that hasn't varied in content or noticeable portion size for months and has never done that to me before. What I THINK happened is that I have been gradually reducing my carbs again. Yesterday I had 60g. My average over the previous 5 days was 47g. Could this be those pesky enzymes thinking I need less insulin so didn't produce enough to cope with yesterday's increase? I'm not well up on this side of things.

Does anyone know?
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Unless you are exceedingly carb sensitive at the moment, I doubt you would see a significant rise by reintroducing some carbs - bearing I mind you have tolerated 60g only recently?

Given that, I'd say, note it and move on, after all you will repeat the meal next week anyway?

Had you consciously trimmed carbs because of number creep (for the variety of reasons documented? Or did they just drift down by a preferred eating style?

I'm having to rethink my eating strategies at the moment, as I'm now only 0.4kg from going underweight according to BMI ranges, and I am looking increasingly thin. I'm going to have to eat to the scales for a few weeks, and probably apply a mental discount factor to some of the (44 related) readings I'm seeing.

It's a real pain. Just when things get clearer, something else muddies the waters.
 
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Unless you are exceedingly carb sensitive at the moment, I doubt you would see a significant rise by reintroducing some carbs - bearing I mind you have tolerated 60g only recently?

Given that, I'd say, note it and move on, after all you will repeat the meal next week anyway?

Had you consciously trimmed carbs because of number creep (for the variety of reasons documented? Or did they just drift down by a preferred eating style?

I'm having to rethink my eating strategies at the moment, as I'm now only 0.4kg from going underweight according to BMI ranges, and I am looking increasingly thin. I'm going to have to eat to the scales for a few weeks, and probably apply a mental discount factor to some of the (44 related) readings I'm seeing.

It's a real pain. Just when things get clearer, something else muddies the waters.
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I have deliberately trimmed the carbs because my pre-meal, fasting and bedtime readings have seen a creep upwards. They are now normalising. Because of the weight loss issues I've had to increase the fats again and am still tweaking these. Very frustrating.

When people on low carb diets are about to have an OGTT they are advised to eat normal amounts of carbs for the previous few days or the test may be skewed. Something to do with enzymes and the pancreas only releasing sufficient insulin for the carbs it is expecting. If more carbs are suddenly consumed, the pancreas is taken by surprise and doesn't produce sufficient insulin to cope with the extra carbs, hence a higher than expected spike. If this is the case, someone eating for example 50g carbs all week but then eats 60g one day, presumably the same thing has happened? I may have got this wrong, but that is what I understand.

Anyway, onwards and downwards. Roast lamb's leg today - including my new found veggie. Broccoli. Never liked it before but it isn't as bad as I thought!
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I have deliberately trimmed the carbs because my pre-meal, fasting and bedtime readings have seen a creep upwards. They are now normalising. Because of the weight loss issues I've had to increase the fats again and am still tweaking these. Very frustrating.

When people on low carb diets are about to have an OGTT they are advised to eat normal amounts of carbs for the previous few days or the test may be skewed. Something to do with enzymes and the pancreas only releasing sufficient insulin for the carbs it is expecting. If more carbs are suddenly consumed, the pancreas is taken by surprise and doesn't produce sufficient insulin to cope with the extra carbs, hence a higher than expected spike. If this is the case, someone eating for example 50g carbs all week but then eats 60g one day, presumably the same thing has happened? I may have got this wrong, but that is what I understand.

Anyway, onwards and downwards. Roast lamb's leg today - including my new found veggie. Broccoli. Never liked it before but it isn't as bad as I thought!
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Broccoli knob of butter yum, actually Broccoli cheese bake is yum too
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I have deliberately trimmed the carbs because my pre-meal, fasting and bedtime readings have seen a creep upwards. They are now normalising. Because of the weight loss issues I've had to increase the fats again and am still tweaking these. Very frustrating.

When people on low carb diets are about to have an OGTT they are advised to eat normal amounts of carbs for the previous few days or the test may be skewed. Something to do with enzymes and the pancreas only releasing sufficient insulin for the carbs it is expecting. If more carbs are suddenly consumed, the pancreas is taken by surprise and doesn't produce sufficient insulin to cope with the extra carbs, hence a higher than expected spike. If this is the case, someone eating for example 50g carbs all week but then eats 60g one day, presumably the same thing has happened? I may have got this wrong, but that is what I understand.

Anyway, onwards and downwards. Roast lamb's leg today - including my new found veggie. Broccoli. Never liked it before but it isn't as bad as I thought!
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Yes, the enzyme lag is correct, but I doubt it's material or likely to be longstanding if you intend to keep your carbs relatively stable, and the fact your numbers zipped back into range suggests your system is functioning pretty well.
 
Broccoli cheese is yum i make it with alpro cream lacto free soft cheese and lacto free mature hard cheese. Just bake in the oven like cauliflower cheese.
 
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