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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

6.4 Saturday morning.

Temperature here finally dropped down into the 80s (upper 20s) here yesterday and it was pleasant walking to the grocery store in the afternoon for a change, even the walk home in the rain.

Hard to picture what I am reading in online BBs, that people are cranking up the heating and rugging up the horses. We need a little more of that cool air here.
 
Got a reminder today how my blood glucose reacts to carbs.

After fasting last night from dinner on and this morning (with a level of 5.4), I went for lunch at a South Indian biryani place with daughter & son-in-law -he's south Indian). I did not have any biryani, rice or naan. or dosa. I had lollipop chicken & gongura (sorrel) chicken curry & masala chai (unsweetened). I added a bit of Stevia to the chai (my own, no dextrose in it unlike the packets of artificial sweetener they gave me.) The lollipop chicken was a mistake, it was breaded with either chickpea flour or wheat flour ( I thought it would be like tandoori chicken, no breaded but it was. I ate it since I forgot to ask). Checked 2 hours after, I got a spike of 7.6!

I assume it was because of the breading. As well, Indians don't usually use flour to thicken their sauces (sugar or jaggery isn't usually added either even with sour ingredients but may use nuts. I wonder if there were ground cashews in the gongura chicken curry? I don't think gongura (sorrel) causes spikes, does anyone know? As well, the milk in the masala chai probably didn't help. I'll have to try it again with a low carb meal. Eating to add: apparently they sometimes use rice flour for the breading for fried items. :( It's the most likely culprit.

3 hours later I'm reading 5.9. Dinner tonight is a low carb chicken stir fry that has minimal effect on my blood sugar.
 
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I completely lost all appetite for healthful foods yesterday and ate half a pizza for supper. Even though I only ate a little of the crust, it spiked me to 10 (looks a lot worse when I write it as I usually do -- 180). Despite that, I enjoyed every bite, and tonight I ate the second half. Two hours later, 7.3. But the pizza was so delicious, pineapple and Canadian bacon with self-rising crust.
 
Chronicle_Cat said:
Got a reminder today how my blood glucose reacts to carbs.

After fasting last night from dinner on and this morning (with a level of 5.4), I went for lunch at a South Indian biryani place with daughter & son-in-law -he's south Indian). I did not have any biryani, rice or naan. or dosa. I had lollipop chicken & gongura (sorrel) chicken curry & masala chai (unsweetened). I added a bit of Stevia to the chai (my own, no dextrose in it unlike the packets of artificial sweetener they gave me.) The lollipop chicken was a mistake, it was breaded with either chickpea flour or wheat flour ( I thought it would be like tandoori chicken, no breaded but it was. I ate it since I forgot to ask). Checked 2 hours after, I got a spike of 7.6!

I assume it was because of the breading. As well, Indians don't usually use flour to thicken their sauces (sugar or jaggery isn't usually added either even with sour ingredients but may use nuts. I wonder if there were ground cashews in the gongura chicken curry? I don't think gongura (sorrel) causes spikes, does anyone know? As well, the milk in the masala chai probably didn't help. I'll have to try it again with a low carb meal. Eating to add: apparently they sometimes use rice flour for the breading for fried items. :( It's the most likely culprit.

3 hours later I'm reading 5.9. Dinner tonight is a low carb chicken stir fry that has minimal effect on my blood sugar.
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That's a reasonably good result Chronicle Cat...it's about how we react to a spike that's important...up to 7.5...then an hour later down to 5.9...I'd say that pretty good & ocassionally won't do you any harm at all.
 
Bubbsie said:
Morning...waiting for my coffee to brew wearing two jumpers & a scarf here in frosty Bedfordshire...dammed nippy...lots to do if I can be bothered:bigtears:...woke to a 5.4
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Frost? Wow! Bit chilly here too and just musing on how few clothes I can get away with on the way to and from swimming - such a palaver in the changing room with too much. Doubt the shorts and flip flops of recent times will do the job!
 
Morning all. 5.4 today but minor detail not what counts today. 2 of our boys slept here - still asleep - and their families coming later for what will effectively be last year's Christmas dinner. Loved clearing the kitchen and starting the huge beef joint ( good job I saw sense and had the butcher cut the original in half - still 4 ribs). Mts P admitted to loving making the big trifle again but the LC version we have been perfecting - including making the lemon drizzle cake first. Grandduaghter will be here for first time. Just missing the Southampton part but the other half of beef and food safe for them. 5 generations have eaten, slept, played and grown food here.
@Goonergal any frost had gone when I opened chicken's protective gates but very cold - still wearing shorts until at least start of October but did have a lightweight jumper. Beautiful sunshine Long post but essence is today rocks.
 
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