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My GlucNavii BG meter has arrived! I had breakfast at around 7:30 (small portion of Greek yogurt, raspberries, blueberries and two boiled eggs).

I didn't get to take my before reading, as the meter hadn't turned up, but I took one at 9:30 (2 hrs post) and it was 132mg/dL. Is that heading in the right direction?
 
The units you mention are not the ones familiar in the UK, which are normally in mmol/l. I'm sure there must be a conversion factor but not sure what it is. There may be a setting you can change on the monitor.
 
Divide by 18
 
Hopefully there will be a means of changing the setting to mmols/l but I believe you need to divide the mg/dl by 18 which gives a result of 7.3 which is a lot better than your 18 or whatever it was when you were diagnosed at the Docs and is a good post meal reading.

Do be careful about cutting your carbs too quickly though and bringing those readings down too quickly. Slow steady reduction is better. You don't want to damage your eyes.
 
Leadinglights said:
The units you mention are not the ones familiar in the UK, which are normally in mmol/l. I'm sure there must be a conversion factor but not sure what it is. There may be a setting you can change on the monitor.
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Yes, I realised that after I looked into it more. The meter reads in mg. I'll try and find a way to change it. If not, I can do the conversion.
 
rebrascora said:
Hopefully there will be a means of changing the setting to mmols/l but I believe you need to divide the mg/dl by 18 which gives a result of 7.3 which is a lot better than your 18 or whatever it was when you were diagnosed at the Docs and is a good post meal reading.

Do be careful about cutting your carbs too quickly though and bringing those readings down too quickly. Slow steady reduction is better. You don't want to damage your eyes.
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Thanks for your advice Barbara - well noted! Yes, 7.3 is much better than 18. I'll have a bit of bread for lunch, along with whatever other delights that I've got in the fridge.
 
Utters - steady with the bread! A slice or even 2 whilst adapting, reading, getting generaly sorted but do NOT eat the whole loaf!
 
TinaD said:
Utters - steady with the bread! A slice or even 2 whilst adapting, reading, getting generaly sorted but do NOT eat the whole loaf!
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I just just had the one slice, along with carrots, celery, tomato and cottage cheese. Pre lunch 5.9 and 9.3 two hours later.
 
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Well done. 8gms of carbs in each 100m of carrots; celery only 1gm; tomato 3gm; cottage cheese 3gm usually;bread anything between 9 and 10gms carbs per thin slice (thin slice weighs 22gns) and nice thick slice (44gms) contains 18-20 gms of carbs. Butter which is very calorific (717 calories in 100gms) has no carbs at all...So do not feel restricted in eating your bread buttered on both sides!
 
That sounds to be a greater increase than is comfortable, 2-3mmol/l increase and preferably no more than 8.5mmol/l after the 2 hours. Was it a large slice of bread and tomatoes and carrots are quite high, cottage cheese is low fat so perhaps not as good as a slice of nice cheddar.
 
Leadinglights said:
That sounds to be a greater increase than is comfortable, 2-3mmol/l increase and preferably no more than 8.5mmol/l after the 2 hours. Was it a large slice of bread and tomatoes and carrots are quite high, cottage cheese is low fat so perhaps not as good as a slice of nice cheddar.
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Agree. Cheddar is 0 carbs normally (always read the label). So unless Utters you are much fatter than you look in your picture go for the hard cheeses like cheddar as it is very calorific, will keep you full longer as its high fat, and it won't spike you BG as it has 0 carbs.
 
Oh dear, I thought that I was starting to understand it all . . . back to the drawing board then. Ok, so limit carrots and tomatoes and normal sized slices of bread. BUT have a good lump of cheese.

I've lost about a stone since that picture, so there's not much of me at the minute. I might just go and grab that cheddar now!
 
Enjoy it! Some more carbs for you - all by the 100gm portion: Asparagus is 2; so is celariac, courgette,fennel,lambs lettuce, radishes, spinach. Celery, cucumber,kale, ordinary lettuce, are only 1 gm per 100gm. Mushrooms are zero carbs - so is steak, roast sirloin, belly pork and pork chops (but not sausages),chicken, goose, duck, turkey - basically any meat you buy from the butcher and cook at home so you know there are no additives are zero carb.. Nuts are hugely fattening (alas) but have fairly low carbs: walnuts 1 carb per 30gms,almonds 3 carbs for 30 gms. You can eat eggs until they are coming out of your ears.
Avoid all breakfast cereal as a product from Hell (lots of sugar hidden away in it). Some people manage porridge (but sadly I can't) made with real oats not that instant muck - think about adding cream instead of milk as it is lower in carbs - indeed it is close to zero - but no sugar/syrup/honey (sorry about that).. A very small bowlful containing 9gms of oats has 9 carbs- a decent sized one (45gs of uncooked oats) 44 carbs.
Milk contains sugar (lactose) but Fage Greek Yoghurt is only 3 carbs per 100gms. There is no need to be hungry just because you are cutting down on carbs.
Fruit is a bit difficult - blueberries are 9 carbs to the 100gm but blackberries only 5 as are raspberries, strawberries are 6 carbs, apples are 10, kiwi fruit,9, peach 8 as is plum - most of the tropical stuff is out of sight - mango 14/pomegranite seeds 16 etc. The book says rhubarb is only 1 carb per 100gm but nobody with normal tastbuds can eat the horrible stuff without 100 gms of sugar to improve the taste....
Do not attempt to go too quickly in reducing carbs. To get down to my level you have to reduce slowly or face keto flu and constipation which would daunt a cement mixer. Until you experiment a bit you will not know how many carbs you can tolerate so let your meter be your guide. Take it steadily, do not panic, and do not let yourself get hungry or you will make silly diet choices like "Oh blow this for a game of soldiers - 2 pints of your best landlord and I'll have a pork pie and chips...." When deciding on veggies look at those with high fibre as well as lowish calories (i.e under 5carbs per 100gms) because fibre slows the absorbtion of the carbs which helps stop your BG spiking (it also avoids the cement mixer syndrome). Good luck and buy the book or download the app.
 
TinaD said:
Enjoy it! Some more carbs for you - all by the 100gm portion: Asparagus is 2; so is celariac, courgette,fennel,lambs lettuce, radishes, spinach. Celery, cucumber,kale, ordinary lettuce, are only 1 gm per 100gm. Mushrooms are zero carbs - so is steak, roast sirloin, belly pork and pork chops (but not sausages),chicken, goose, duck, turkey - basically any meat you buy from the butcher and cook at home so you know there are no additives are zero carb.. Nuts are hugely fattening (alas) but have fairly low carbs: walnuts 1 carb per 30gms,almonds 3 carbs for 30 gms. You can eat eggs until they are coming out of your ears.
Avoid all breakfast cereal as a product from Hell (lots of sugar hidden away in it). Some people manage porridge (but sadly I can't) made with real oats not that instant muck - think about adding cream instead of milk as it is lower in carbs - indeed it is close to zero - but no sugar/syrup/honey (sorry about that).. A very small bowlful containing 9gms of oats has 9 carbs- a decent sized one (45gs of uncooked oats) 44 carbs.
Milk contains sugar (lactose) but Fage Greek Yoghurt is only 3 carbs per 100gms. There is no need to be hungry just because you are cutting down on carbs.
Fruit is a bit difficult - blueberries are 9 carbs to the 100gm but blackberries only 5 as are raspberries, strawberries are 6 carbs, apples are 10, kiwi fruit,9, peach 8 as is plum - most of the tropical stuff is out of sight - mango 14/pomegranite seeds 16 etc. The book says rhubarb is only 1 carb per 100gm but nobody with normal tastbuds can eat the horrible stuff without 100 gms of sugar to improve the taste....
Do not attempt to go too quickly in reducing carbs. To get down to my level you have to reduce slowly or face keto flu and constipation which would daunt a cement mixer. Until you experiment a bit you will not know how many carbs you can tolerate so let your meter be your guide. Take it steadily, do not panic, and do not let yourself get hungry or you will make silly diet choices like "Oh blow this for a game of soldiers - 2 pints of your best landlord and I'll have a pork pie and chips...." When deciding on veggies look at those with high fibre as well as lowish calories (i.e under 5carbs per 100gms) because fibre slows the absorbtion of the carbs which helps stop your BG spiking (it also avoids the cement mixer syndrome). Good luck and buy the book or download the app.
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Thanks for taking the time to give me all of this info Tina, very much appreciated! You've also made me laugh this afternoon too - thank you 🙂
 
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