Tested 2 hrs after dinner last night and blood glucose was 7.8. This morning when testing before breakfast it was 8.3. How can the level increase when I've not eaten anything else in between. Could my monitor be faulty? At the moment I'm trying to control my type 2 by diet alone and am reducing carbs and staying away from anything sugary. Thanks in advance to anyone who may be able to shed some light on this x
Hi there,
I use a freestyle libre monitor.
On LCHF My overnight actual blood glucose stays pretty much the same of lower than when I went to bed - all night long. usually somewhere in the 4's
At some stage the following morning it starts to rise usually by 2-3 mmols so 6-mm from the starting point- that happened whether or not I eat anything - then during the afternoon it starts to go back down again back to 4-5s in the afternoon and the LCHF food I eat barely causes a murmur to the figures.
If I ate a lot of carbs the previous day then the overnight blood sugars will be more jumpy and the morning rise higher - so for example after my three days carb loading experiment ( upto 200g carbs) the rise got to be as high as to 9 mmol at the hieght.
In the end if you control what you eat through REAL FOODS focused away from carbs , and get as active as you personally can, then over time these rises will get less, unless you add back in the carbs like I just did to test what happens. .