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

I find my morning readings quite depressing. This morning I am 13.2, yesterday 11.8 which is about the norm. Despite this, my recent HBA1c was 42.
 
Hi, are you doing intermittent fasting by any chance? And if so, has it helped with lowering your FBS?
 
Talk about reporting late...

My reading was 4.1 this morning at 6AM at 36 hours into fasting and I continued till 48 hours mark but during the day had a few difficult customer meetings and readings touched 8 at one point. Average of day has been a decent 5.7 so that's good.

haroonmalik11 said:
are you doing intermittent fasting by any chance?
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Hello Haroon,

yes I follow Alternate day fasting (although i do longer fasts fairly regularly too) along with low carb diet and it is the only thing that has helped to bring my BG in control ( that and the wonderful support from all lovely people in this forum) and helped me become medicine free as you can see in my signature.

Its not to say any other approach is bad or wrong, it's just to say this is the one that works for me.

Ryhia said:
shocked myself awake this morning
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Happens with me more often than i like to admit..

DJC3 said:
hope your numbers come down soon.
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Thanks... seems to be heading in the right direction but like you said... things in T2 world can happen for absolutely no reason or rhyme.
 
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5.7 today, better than expected after finding, and finishing a packet of hazelnuts in the cupboard last night. Bedtime BG higher than usual so I was prepared for the worst. Turns out hazelnuts have loads of manganese and copper in them. Cronometer tells me I am usually short of these minerals so it’s all turned out very well really.
Have a good day all.
 
5.8 at 6AM but it went all the way to 7.6 by 7.40 and has now been fluctuating between 6.4 and 7.0.

I had minimal carbs (below 13gms) last night when I ate, so I guess it's just the DP kicking in a bit late. Hopefully this will be fixed by evening as I am going to fast a whole day again, though not by design but because I have back to back meetings pretty much all day and I figured if I can stretch it till tomorrow morning I will - nothing like an element of surprise for the body, eh!!

Have a great day, everyone.
 
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