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- Thread starter rosalindb
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Hi @rosalindb and welcome to the forum.
Everyone’s glucose levels will vary during the day. For this reason it is useful to test before you eat, and many on here also test two hours after their meal, as it gives some indication of how well your body is coping with processing the carbs they are eating. Armed with this information it helps each of us to adapt our choices of carbs and/or portion sizes to what our bodies can process.
If you have any other questions, just ask.
Everyone’s glucose levels will vary during the day. For this reason it is useful to test before you eat, and many on here also test two hours after their meal, as it gives some indication of how well your body is coping with processing the carbs they are eating. Armed with this information it helps each of us to adapt our choices of carbs and/or portion sizes to what our bodies can process.
If you have any other questions, just ask.
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Good to hear you are able to monitor your own BG levels. This can be a really direct way of checking how you are responding to different foods and meals in your menu, and identify any sources of carb which seem to be causing bigger rises.
You can use a BG meter, taking a reading before and again 2hrs after eating, to see what the differences are (initially in a way the numbers themselves matter less than the differences between them). Ideally in the long run you would want to try to reduce the ‘meal rise’ to around 2-3mmol/L for the majority of meals. This helps to keep your overall levels down, as they aren’t rising so much after meals. 🙂
Once you can see how you respond to different meals you can begin experimenting with reducing amounts of carbs and trying different types (sometimes just having things at a different time of day makes a difference). Gradually tweaking and tailoring your menu to find one that suits your tastebuds, your waistline and your BG levels 🙂
If you are interested in this approach you may find test-review-adjust by Alan S a helpful framework.
If you need to self fund your BG meter, the most affordable meters members here have found are the SD Gluco Navii or the Spirit Tee2 - which both have test strips at around £8 for 50
You can use a BG meter, taking a reading before and again 2hrs after eating, to see what the differences are (initially in a way the numbers themselves matter less than the differences between them). Ideally in the long run you would want to try to reduce the ‘meal rise’ to around 2-3mmol/L for the majority of meals. This helps to keep your overall levels down, as they aren’t rising so much after meals. 🙂
Once you can see how you respond to different meals you can begin experimenting with reducing amounts of carbs and trying different types (sometimes just having things at a different time of day makes a difference). Gradually tweaking and tailoring your menu to find one that suits your tastebuds, your waistline and your BG levels 🙂
If you are interested in this approach you may find test-review-adjust by Alan S a helpful framework.
If you need to self fund your BG meter, the most affordable meters members here have found are the SD Gluco Navii or the Spirit Tee2 - which both have test strips at around £8 for 50
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