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Group 7-day waking average?

Good morning 5.0 on this cloudy day, 22.C, first time I had to put the light on to test and inject, winters a coming :(.

Have a good day folks.
 
Hello and here is my numbers so far
14.1 - when I woke/ before breakfast 2 shredded wheat. 1%milk
16.4 - 2 hours after breakfast
12 - before lunch x 2 sandwiches coleslaw ham and 10 chips.
16- after lunch
8.1- before dinner

Numbers coming down. But not enough!
 
Bloden said:
Morning all.🙂 4.5 here.😛

Great to hear you’re testing and doing a bit of exercise, @CELTICDUFF.

I’m not a T2 but I know a lot of the T2s here follow the LCHF (low carb high fat) diet and find it works really well. You’re already seeing the impact carb has on your numbers - why not try eggs for breakfast? 😛
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Thank You Bloden. Yes but with other health issues can go high fat.
 
Morning all, clocking in with a 5.5.

Testing out upping my carbs a notch - around 180g yesterday, "buffered" with 40g fibre. Seems to give the envelope a bit of a stretch but no big deal. A little puzzled that I seem to be putting on a bit of weight; thought I was keeping cals a tad below maintenance level. Sluggish metabolism, no doubt.
 
CELTICDUFF said:
11. 7mmols.
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Getting there. Yr levels remind of mine for a while after diagnosis. Can be frustrating not to see them drop faster, and to go up after going down, but it takes time & you'll get it sorted.

The biggest single thing for me early on was cutting back on bread; amazed at how much a piece of wholewheat toast could screw up my BG for the entire day.

EDIT: Just because I always find it useful & interesting to see what other people have done, this is what my daily avg BG levels have looked like since early June:

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I only started regularly testing at that point, after diagnosis in late March, when my daily avg would have been say 14-15. March through early June was my cut-the-c**p period, also on low-dose Metformin.

Up to early July was my replace-bread-with-nuts period, also the period when I'd started full-dose Metformin & that was kicking in. The ups & downs were frustrating but the overall trend encouraging.

The next couple of months or so were basically marking time with no major changes to anything; still frustrated with the ups & downs at times but basically OK.

The latest down-trend has been my fibre-is-magic period. Looking at my diet I noticed I wasn't getting enough fibre, partly as a result of cutting bread etc; increasing it seems to have had some good benefits.

This is just me, and you sound like you have to deal with much greater restrictions than I do, so just as a little illustration, not supposed to be guidance, which anyway I'm completely unqualified to give. Have you talked with a dietician at all?
 
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05:50 BS7.6. Slightly better than yesterday. Had 12 units Novorapid, exercises & breakfast.

It’s perfect weather for ducks out there today!😱 Absolutely lashing down with rain & still quite dark!

Picked up my mail & my annual flu jab is on 03/10/18 a few weeks earlier than usual or, I’m a wee bit higher up the list now?🙄 My health centre triages the vaccine to patients at higher risk first & sends out the app. letters accordinglyl

Yesterday all my readings settled down & were all green & within target ranges! Had a “duvet day” reading & listening to the newly out Robert Galbraith, aka JK Rowling, Strike kindle & audio book: weather only slightly better than today! I have a feeling it’s going to be stormy all day today: has that feel about it!😱 So, another duvet day today!😳😛:D

Wishing you all a sunny on the inside day no matter what the weather throws at you on the outside!🙂
 
11 this morning all I had was a small amount of pasta chickpeas and a gammon steak and 3 biscuits. Surly I cannot have such a bad case if CARBPHOBIA?
 
CELTICDUFF said:
Hello and here is my numbers so far
14.1 - when I woke/ before breakfast 2 shredded wheat. 1%milk
16.4 - 2 hours after breakfast
12 - before lunch x 2 sandwiches coleslaw ham and 10 chips.
16- after lunch
8.1- before dinner

Numbers coming down. But not enough!
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You are getting their ! yes your numbers are high but except for lunch the difference between the pre and two hrs post brekkie are ok. . With lunch it’s posdibly the 4 slices of bread depending on what bread it was.
Perhaps try one sarnie ie 2slices of bread and or find a lower carb bread that you like,
also try 6 chips instead

A gradual reduction as you are doing is in my opinion a god d way of doing things for youin the beginning as you are leaning what carbohydrates and how many of them your body copes well with.
 
Good morning on this blustery day, 4.6 @ 7am. Its still warm 22.C with the front door open, going to get my hair cut as starting to look like something from the local zoo 🙂.

Take care all and have a good day.
 
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