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dingbat

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Thanks to some excellent advice here over the last day or so I've reduced carbs (pots/Bread/Pasta) and my Bg levels are significantly lower, like from 14, 2 hours after a meal to 5.5.
I was advised by my dietician to change my diet but not how. I assumed to a low fat, lean meat ,skimmed mik type of diet and I've been throwing wholemeal bread down my neck for months thinking I was doing everything rigjht. At no time has my Doctor/Consultant/dietician mentioned reducing carbs ! I'm almost shocked to see the reduced readings I'm seeing so quickly and ~I know its early days but I'm thinking this is the way forward for me, so thanks for the help here.
A quick question - assuming I eat tuna salad at 7.00pm and take reading of 7.7 before bed, why would fasting reading at 7.00am be 9.2 ? I don't quite follow the logic there.
Thanks again
 
Hi dingbat

I think you might have the dawn phenomenon - your body dumps glucose into your blood supply in the early hours of the morning ready for you to spring out of bed and go slay a woolly mammoth for breakfast :)
You BS will rise until about 11am. Some people stop it by eating breakfast others by a late night snack. I've also read that a 20 minute walk before bed can be beneficial. I'm currently trying the spoonful of peanut butter last thing at night. It's not working for me but I love peanut butter :)
 
Hi Dingbat,

Glad to see you are getting good results with the diet. As our friendly dragon has mentioned it sounds like you are getting the dawn pnenomenon, which seems to affect over 80% of diabetics to some degree. Here's a link to a site that I think explains it very well.

http://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/daw ... ?pageNum=2
 
excelent link, thanks, seems I've a lot of experimenting and testing to do.
I know we're all different, but on average, as a guide and just roughly, and I won't hold any one to it,
but by how much could the bg level rise by eating, for instance a slice of brown bread (17g carb ish ) or 100g pasta - is there such a thing as a rough guide ?
Everyones help is much appreciated.
 
In a word, no. Your response may differ at different times of day depending on the level of insulin resistance and the state of your pancreas.

Type 1s with absolutely no endemic insulin production might be able to predict things much more accurately, but even then there may be some diurnal and other variation

Forgot to add, WELL DONE!

You'd think they might tell you that diabetes is a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism and therefore you should eat less of it, but they usually tell you the opposite.
 
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