Dinner pre-post numbers

[Newtothis]

Had dinner tonight; pre number was 4.7; had salmon; garden peas; new baby potatoes (husband bought the one's you pop in the microwave smothered in herbs/butter🙄) followed by a sugar-free jelly. 1hr reading 8. Can I assume the potatoes were a little naughty....

Only had 4 small ones.

Amanda x 🙂

 

[Vicsetter]

Don't see a problem, what was the 2hr reading? 8 is fine.
Save your money and do the potatoes yourself, don't buy ready made ones!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Guidelines would recommend you try try to stay below 8.5 at 2 hours - and you'll be well below that I'd have thought. Well done!

 

[Newtothis]

Guidelines would recommend you try try to stay below 8.5 at 2 hours - and you'll be well below that I'd have thought. Well done!

I get really confused with numbers; I thought it was ideal to not go higher than 3 after a meal. The difference between 4.7 and 8 is 3.3 or am I looking at this wrong.... Also, if my numbers stay below 8.5 after 1 hour is it worth testing again at 2hrs.

Sorry to keep asking; I should keep a food diary because I keep forgetting what's good/bad. Thank you. Amanda x 🙂

 

[Newtothis]

Don't see a problem, what was the 2hr reading? 8 is fine.
Save your money and do the potatoes yourself, don't buy ready made ones!

We normally do but for quickness hubby bought these today - he has an allotment so normally brings home potatoes/veg/fruit (weather permitting) and we have a herb garden so ok for mint, parsley etc...

My 2hr reading was 6.3

Amanda x

 

[Northerner]

I get really confused with numbers; I thought it was ideal to not go higher than 3 after a meal. The difference between 4.7 and 8 is 3.3 or am I looking at this wrong.... Also, if my numbers stay below 8.5 after 1 hour is it worth testing again at 2hrs.

Sorry to keep asking; I should keep a food diary because I keep forgetting what's good/bad. Thank you. Amanda x 🙂

The idea behind the 1 and 2 hour tests is to find out the peak - if you are lower at 2 hours then you know the peak came earlier, but if you don't test at 2 hours then you don't know whether you were still rising. Once you have established where your peak is for a meal, you probably don't need to do either test again as it won't tell you anything new. 🙂

3.3 after an hour is fine - remember the 10% allowance for inaccuracies in the meter reading, so you don't need to be too precise and you are very close to ideal 🙂

 

[Newtothis]

The idea behind the 1 and 2 hour tests is to find out the peak - if you are lower at 2 hours then you know the peak came earlier, but if you don't test at 2 hours then you don't know whether you were still rising. Once you have established where your peak is for a meal, you probably don't need to do either test again as it won't tell you anything new. 🙂

3.3 after an hour is fine - remember the 10% allowance for inaccuracies in the meter reading, so you don't need to be too precise and you are very close to ideal 🙂

I just get confused with the 1hr and 2hr test and whether its necessary for all carb meals; I don't test at 2hrs if I have a meat/fish/salad but do if I have starchy carbs... which isn't very often although I am trying to have at least 1slice of bergen toast per day; usually with a poached or boiled egg. I do need to start varying my diet so that I don't get fed up with the same meals at all times (glad I'm ok with pasta/spaghetti/noodle & new potatoes though) Its all so confusing...but you have to keep smiling 🙂

 

[Northerner]

I just get confused with the 1hr and 2hr test and whether its necessary for all carb meals; I don't test at 2hrs if I have a meat/fish/salad but do if I have starchy carbs... which isn't very often although I am trying to have at least 1slice of bergen toast per day; usually with a poached or boiled egg. I do need to start varying my diet so that I don't get fed up with the same meals at all times (glad I'm ok with pasta/spaghetti/noodle & new potatoes though) Its all so confusing...but you have to keep smiling 🙂

I think people who don't have diabetes would never believe just how complicated it all is! Experience and time will make things much easier 🙂

 

[am64]

simply those are good figures!🙂 ...you are doing all the right things IMHO so well done you !! x 🙂
whens your next hba1c ?

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Amanda, You are doing brilliantly!

I think sometimes it is good to allow oneself a little leeway outside of the 'absolute ideal' to allow flexibility and, as Northie says, even for meter inaccuracy which could have given you that 0.3 extra.

At the end of the day, we are in this for the long haul, and it's important to celebrate the successes and 'near perfects' to avoid becoming burnt out with feelings that 'whatever I do it still isn't enough'. This is absolutely not te case in the levels you are posting. It would be a real shame if you began to give up hope with such fantastic readings.

Keep going 🙂

 

[imtrying]

Amanda, I'd be over the moon with those readings and you should be too 🙂 don't forget by 2 hrs after you were 6.4 - PERFECT!! keep up the amazing work.