Hello

[rebrascora]

Many congratulations on such fantastic results, especially after a Covid infection and very best wishes for maintaining that success.

 

[effayjay]

Many congratulations on such fantastic results, especially after a Covid infection and very best wishes for maintaining that success.

Thank you.

 

[effayjay]

Thanks, that’s very helpful

After a bit of experimenting with FP testing I have decided to start with breakfast. I’m a few days in, testing before eating and 2 hours after first bite. Had an odd reading today having eaten poached eggs, bacon and a slice of LivLife low carb bread. Before 5.1, after 4.5.

Had eaten nothing else earlier, had a cup of coffee after getting up and had the breakfast at midday.

Is this just a rogue reading or something else?

 

[rebrascora]

Looks like a great result to me. BG meters are not nearly as accurate as the decimal place leads you to believe, so both of those readings are effectively 5mmols, which is excellent. If the post meal reading is slightly lower that he premeal reading then that is fine and just means either there is a slight discrepancy on the reading or that your body dealt with that meal really well.

It is important to understand that there are approximately 42 things which can impact BG levels. Food and particularly carbohydrate is the main one, but exercise and medication of course, if you take any, and stress or illness and alcohol and hormones and ambient temperature and lots of other things can impact it. Exercise is an interesting one because it can impact your levels for up to 48 hours afterwards and make you more sensitive to either your own insulin or any insulin you inject if you are insulin dependent, so if you went for a long walk yesterday, it could easily be responsible for your levels trending downwards the next day as well as possibly lowering your levels whilst you walked, or if you are unfit a brisk walk might increase your levels whilst you are walking because the body is unused to the exercise and is finding it hard work, but then decrease your levels afterwards and the next day, so even if there is an initial increase during exercise, there is usually a longer term gain.

 

[effayjay]

Looks like a great result to me. BG meters are not nearly as accurate as the decimal place leads you to believe, so both of those readings are effectively 5mmols, which is excellent. If the post meal reading is slightly lower that he premeal reading then that is fine and just means either there is a slight discrepancy on the reading or that your body dealt with that meal really well.

It is important to understand that there are approximately 42 things which can impact BG levels. Food and particularly carbohydrate is the main one, but exercise and medication of course, if you take any, and stress or illness and alcohol and hormones and ambient temperature and lots of other things can impact it. Exercise is an interesting one because it can impact your levels for up to 48 hours afterwards and make you more sensitive to either your own insulin or any insulin you inject if you are insulin dependent, so if you went for a long walk yesterday, it could easily be responsible for your levels trending downwards the next day as well as possibly lowering your levels whilst you walked, or if you are unfit a brisk walk might increase your levels whilst you are walking because the body is unused to the exercise and is finding it hard work, but then decrease your levels afterwards and the next day, so even if there is an initial increase during exercise, there is usually a longer term gain.

Thanks for your reply, really helpful.

 

[effayjay]

Have avoided pulses since diagnosis. Tonight had half a can of cannellini beans with tinned tomatoes and hake. Was expecting a higher number. Before it was 4.5 2 hours later 5.3, retested and it was still 5.3. Seems too low?

 

[Leadinglights]

Have avoided pulses since diagnosis. Tonight had half a can of cannellini beans with tinned tomatoes and hake. Was expecting a higher number. Before it was 4.5 2 hours later 5.3, retested and it was still 5.3. Seems too low?

It sounds like they were fine for you, although pulses are highish carb they are high fibre, and if they were the main carbs in the meal you likely had around 30g carbs with what you had.