Fasting BG 5.9. What's going on?

[everydayupsanddowns]

Anything could have caused your 5.9, which isn’t an awful reading anyway.

But as a separate matter, you ask:

Should I just give up on these no added sugar wafers and biscuits? Indeed, helping myself to spoonfulls of nutella substitute even with no added sugar clearly isn't helping the BG levels?

My honest answer to that would be Yes. Lots of your posts talk about over-eating sugar-free foods. I think they can be addictive because our bodies are expecting a sugar hit they never get. They’re also usually full of additives, which doesn’t help either.You’ve said yourself that strawberries work well for you, so I’d stick with things like that for a sweet taste. Real food not fake food 🙂

This seems wise advice to me. You are concerned by frequently eating more of these ‘low sugar‘ or ‘no added sugar’ (not necessarily low carb) wafers, biscuits etc, so it would seem helpful to try to avoid those, or at least to only eat them where you feel in control of them.

You seem to be eating more than you would like to, finding it hard to stop, then getting stressed and anxious about what effect that may have had. Which doesn’t seem very helpful to you?

 

[Terry-J]

I would avoid foodstuffs that are over 50% carbs.

 

[Leadinglights]

I would avoid foodstuffs that are over 50% carbs.

Also some people do have a bad reaction to sweeteners ending in OL e.g. Maltitol, erythritol.