Glucorx nexus meter & blood sugar results

[rebrascora]

140g carbs in one meal is quite a lot, so if that is right, it is certainly capable of bumping your levels up that high and higher. With Type 1 where we have limited or no insulin production, we work on the basis that 10g carbs will raise your BG levels by about 3mmols. Obviously you have some insulin production so it will not rise that much but 140g carbs at one go is going to be a challenge for most diabetics at one meal.

You are better eating smaller amounts more regularly than going all day and then asking your body to try to manage that much all in one go. As mentioned your liver will be releasing glucose into your blood stream throughout the day if you are fasting. Eating actually shuts off that function, so fasting for long periods isn't always as helpful as you might expect, especially if you then eat a lot of carbs.

 

[Leadinglights]

I am keeping a note of everything.

Yes 13.8 2 hours after eating.

Dinner total 140g carbs according to carb manager but I’m not sure how accurate that is as couldn’t find exact foods & still figuring app out. Not sure how it was a high carb meal when no standard carb items aside from yorkshires

If that meal was 140g carbs then that explains the high post dinner reading. If people are following a low carb regime then that would be more than the total carbs for the whole day which they would preferably spread between their meals. You should be able to work out the approx carbs for your meal from each of the components. The things that would be the main contributors would be the carrots, the nut cutlet, the yorkshire puds.

 

[LucysLostSister]

Yea I wouldn’t normally have so many carbs in one meal, it was sort of an experiment the 24 hour fast & the big meal.

I’m still figuring out what works for me and what doesn’t and understanding how I need to manage things

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Dinner total 140g carbs according to carb manager but I’m not sure how accurate that is as couldn’t find exact foods & still figuring app out. Not sure how it was a high carb meal when no standard carb items aside from yorkshires

That's excessive under any circumstances I would have thought. 😱 Even though I'm type1 I wouldn't eat that amount in a day normally.

 

[Leadinglights]

I am struggling to see how your meal came to 140g carbs, nut cutlets (Asda) about 18g carbs each , yorkshire puds, depends on the size 10-20g carbs, a 120g portion carrots 6g carbs, the other veg probably 10g.
I think if it had been 140g it would have increased your blood glucose by more than it did.

 

[Lucyr]

Nut cutlet, carrot and swede mash, Yorkshire puddings and gravy all have carbs. Broccoli and green beans won’t have had much carb. For it to be 140g carb though it was either a massive portion or you’ve estimated the carbs wrong. How did your 140g break down by item?

 

[Lucyr]

I am struggling to see how your meal came to 140g carbs, nut cutlets (Asda) about 18g carbs each , yorkshire puds, depends on the size 10-20g carbs, a 120g portion carrots 6g carbs, the other veg probably 10g.
I think if it had been 140g it would have increased your blood glucose by more than it did.

Depending on which brand of carrot and swede mash it could have had potatoes in too (either in the actual food or in the food it was counted as)

 

[rebrascora]

I wondered if perhaps there was also something to drink which added to that total rather than just the food, or perhaps a dessert with it?

 

[Leadinglights]

Depending on which brand of carrot and swede mash it could have had potatoes in too (either in the actual food or in the food it was counted as)

I suppose it would never occur to me that people would buy prepared mash, naïve perhaps.

 

[Lucyr]

I suppose it would never occur to me that people would buy prepared mash, naïve perhaps.

OP has already explained being unable to stand to cook and needing to use preprepared foods

 

[LucysLostSister]

That’s what carb manager said carbs were

Food was -

1 asda nut cutlet
125g asda frozen carrot and swede mash
3 mini Sainsbury’s Yorkshire puddings
2 teaspoons Sainsbury’s veggie gravy
Green beans
Broccoli

 

[notmez]

That doesn't really add up for me either.

(Numbers below rounded up)
I've seen the Asda mash before and if it's the same as what I've seen. It's 5g carbs for your portion size.

If it's the mini Yorkshire puds. Around 7 each so 25g

I'm skipping the veg and gravy but the nut cutlet would have to be up to 90-100g carbs and that's highly unlikely as the full box is 350g that contains 4. And not the whole cutlet is carb.

Do you still have the box/packaging for the nut cutlet? If you could share a photo?

Asda plant based nut cutlet (frozen green box is around 20g per cutlet according to the box)

 

[LucysLostSister]

That’s the nut cutlet I had, can’t get into carb app as it’s middle of a security update? Which is annoying

 

[Pumper_Sue]

This the web info which is based on 100gms cooked not per cutlet

Calories in Asda Plant Based 4 Nut Cutlets 350g​

Serving size​

100g (ovenbaked)

Energy: 270 calories​

Protein	6.6g
Carbs	20g
Fat	17g

 

[Lucyr]

You mustn’t have put it in right. I’ve used the same app and the same foods and got 52g carb.

 

[LucysLostSister]

Fully accept I may have entered things wrong but can’t open app to Check

 

[LucysLostSister]

Ok now I think something wrong with meter.

On waking - 11.2

Following some cardio exercise -

1 - 11.7

So took it again different finger - 13.2!

That makes no sense?

 

[LucysLostSister]

Ok so bg can initially be higher after exercise? But why the 2 very different readings within a couple mins of each other?

 

[LucysLostSister]

I think I entered the yorkshires wrong as it didn’t have the ones I was using so I entered 1.5 portions of another but I think it’s counted 1.5 of those huge full plate yorkshires?

 

[silentsquirrel]

Ok so bg can initially be higher after exercise? But why the 2 very different readings within a couple mins of each other?

Not very different at all bearing in mind readings can be +/- 15% from the "true" reading. Best to think of readings as "ish", so 12ish, 13ish very much the same.