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Pre-meal testing and Carbs

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tomcamish

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Hi all,

I've recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and have bought a blood glucose monitor and have started doing pre and post meal testing.

I've noticed that sometimes my pre-meal results are quite high (sometimes above 11) so obviously i don't want to be eating loads of carbs and adding to it.

My question is, how do I know how many grams of carbs to eat based on my pre-meal test result?

As an example this evening my pre-meal result was 5.7 which is the best result I've had yet, so for dinner I had 2 poached eggs on white toast (we really need to go shopping) followed by half a pancake my wife couldn't eat which had a teaspoon of maple syrup on it, then 2 hours later my post-meal test said 17.4! My highest result yet!

Any ideas would be gratefully received.
 
hi Tom. it's difficult to say 'you should eat x amount of carbs' because that's not the whole story.The question is, Glycaemic Index, or how quickly does your body process those carbs? Carbs that are released slowly into the body (Low GI) will help keep your levels steady.Have a look at the newbies section, there's a sticky at the top with links to low Gi carbs. Also, if you eat fat and protein with your carbs, this also helps slow down the release into to your body. ( Glycaemic Load, or GL) maybe the eggs weren't enough to slow down the load of white bread, pancake and maple syrup, all of which are very high GI.
people differ in their reactions to foods, and the only way to find out what affects you personally is to experiment and keep testing. ( And keep asking questions on here!)
 
Hello and welcome! Great that you are testing, should really help you find out what you can tolerate (sadly not pancakes with maple syrup and white bread :(). Whilst it is good to think about your pre-meal bs level in relation to what yyou are going to eat, there is a danger that you will treat yourself if you have a good reading. I think it is important to use the pre-meal reading as a benchmark for your post meal reading so you can look at the difference, rather than to judge how many carbs you can eat. Best of luck 🙂
 
Hi Tom & welcome, it all depends on what you are doing as well. If you were going to have a quiet nt in or going to play squash. Good luck
 
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