Pre-diabetes

[everydayupsanddowns]

In general you should be aiming for 4-7 before meals and no higher than 9 by 2 hours after meals.

It can also be very helpful to check before a meal and 2 hours afterwards to see how much the carbohydrates (sugars and starches) have raised your levels. Ideally you should aim for a ‘meal rise’ of 2-3mmol/L. If you get bigger differences between before and after pairs of readings, you might want to reduce the carb content of the meal. 🙂

 

[francisalison45]

In general you should be aiming for 4-7 before meals and no higher than 9 by 2 hours after meals.

It can also be very helpful to check before a meal and 2 hours afterwards to see how much the carbohydrates (sugars and starches) have raised your levels. Ideally you should aim for a ‘meal rise’ of 2-3mmol/L. If you get bigger differences between before and after pairs of readings, you might want to reduce the carb content of the meal. 🙂

At the moment it’s saying 6.5

 

[grovesy]

Yeah

I would take it as a very rough estimate as I persnally find apps estimates can be out when compared to actual Laboratory result.

 

[francisalison45]

So you were 3.7, ate fishcakes (presumably made with potato) and mashed potatoes, and were 4.7 2 hours later?

Hi is it okay to have a roast

 

[grovesy]

Roast dinner or roast potato, you can only try an see what your bloods are.

 

[francisalison45]

It’s not a proper roast. It’s a piece of chicken mashed up mashed potato sprouts spinach and cauliflower

 

[grovesy]

As I said they only way to know is try it and test. What person can eat with out much effect, is too much for others.

 

[francisalison45]

As I said they only way to know is try it and test. What person can eat with out much effect, is too much for others.

Yeah okay

 

[Madeline]

Test just before you eat, then 2 hours after. It’s the only way you’ll find out - what I can eat will be completely different to what you can, and your figures so far seem so good that you probably just need to eat healthily and cut back on empty carbs like cake, biscuits, and sugar.

 

[francisalison45]

I did have 3 rich tea biscuits this morning with a bottle of water. Was that bad

 

[Madeline]

Did you test?

 

[francisalison45]

Did you test?

Yeah it said 5.2

 

[Madeline]

2 hours after?

 

[francisalison45]

Yeah I’ll do another one at 9.0. Clock

 

[Madeline]

You only need to test just before, and 2 hours after.

 

[francisalison45]

Oh okay

 

[francisalison45]

Now I’ve just done my blood sugar level test it’s 11.0 mmol/L

 

[Madeline]

So what did you last eat?

 

[francisalison45]

Mashed chicken fillet mash potato cauliflower and spinach.

 

[francisalison45]

Mashed chicken fillet mash potato cauliflower and spinach.

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