Welcome to the forum
@feengala
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis with diabetes and also your copd
Hope the headaches subside for you soon - frequent headaches can be very debilitating. Do mention them to your surgery if they continue, unless they are a symptom of something else?
It’s great that you have got yourself a BG meter already - that would have been one of the first suggestions of the forum. As you can already see you can get vastly different numbers from your meter depending on when you check, and what you have eaten / been doing before.
Interpreting the results can feel a bit bewildering at first, but the basic idea is pretty straightforward. You taking a reading before and again 2hrs after eating a meal, to see what the differences are and how the meal increased your BG at 2hrs. Initially in a sense, the numbers themselves matter less than the differences between them. You should be looking for a ‘meal rise’ of 2-3.
The part of the meal that will be increasing your BG most
significantly is carbohydrate - which includes sugars, but also more ‘complex’ carbs like cereals, pasta, rice, potatoes, bread, bakery items, grains, and many fruits. It’s not that you have completely avoid all these things forever, but using your meter you can adjust portion sizes and choose the ones that suit your body best (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
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If you are interested in this approach you may find
test-review-adjust by Alan S a helpful framework.
Good luck and let us know how you get on
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