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high reading after lunch

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Carina1962

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I can't understand why my reading was 9.8 after my lunch today, all I had was a small portion of shop bought salad from the salad bar and a chicken tikka wrap which wasn't very big at all. I didn't check my reading pre-meal but I had not eaten anything since breakfast - I must admit I was surprised at this reading, what went wrong? :-(
 
Hard to say without a pre-meal test, sometimes levels can climb if you don't eat for a while because your brain sends out a message to your liver that you are 'starving' and the liver responds by releasing extra glucose. Or, it might have been a dodgy test strip. Or possibly something like the salad dressing which may have had 'hidden' carbs in it?
 
Carina, I had a bit of an unexpected hike after a chicken wrap but when I looked at the carb content I wasn't surprised. They can be from 35 to 58 g of carb dependent on size which is much more than I'd normally have for lunch. Not sure if that caused it for you but I suspect it did for me.
 
Like you Amigo I keep away from wraps. Its hard to quantify carb values of them. Higher than plain bread 😱
 
Snap! - can't eat one at all, dunno what they do to them to make them THAT carb-full. Worse than any other bread I've ever met. If you used a small pitta or a chapatti - either would be less !

But however much they are - I wouldn't recommend any of em as particularly suitable to a T2 !
 
It was one of those that you buy from the deli counter in Sainsburys, they look quite thin and filled with chicken tikka. I normally make my own lunch but I hadn't got time yesterday so thought I would buy something 'healthy'. It's really disheartening when you think you are eating the right things and it still puts your BS up. I am also trying to lose weight and have lost one stone already but I do have several more stones to lose so it's going to be a long slow journey for me I think but I wonder how many stones you have to lose before the BS levels start to drop. I am on x1 Metformin tablet daily which I take at breakfast time but even since taking Meformin and losing a stone in weight, I haven't seen a dramatic reduction in my levels yet :-(
 
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