Questions. I have questions.

[andyp64]

With regards to drinks, specifically coffee, try replacing dairy milk with almond milk - it has zero carbs. I use the Alpro brand as easily available in supermarkets.
Bit of a different taste but you'll soon get used to it. Think it would taste dreadful in tea but coffee is quite nice.
Depending on how many cups you have a day (I have about 4-5) it can add up to a useful reduction in overall carb intake.
My best results have come from 'fine tuning' what I eat rather than going on a crash low-carb diet. Substitution rather than elimination.
If you have a specific food that is causing a spike, I suggest posting on here and asking for alternatives. Someone is always out there with a tasty alternative - that's how I found out about the almond milk.
Plus - when I go into a coffee shop, I can pretend to be trendy and ask for an almond latte

 

[swimmingalong]

If you’d like a very (very!) vague indication of your direction of travel, you could try one of the old fashioned formulae - derived from matched pairs of HbA1c and estimated average glucose levels. They are far from perfect, and are likely to be a bit out from a lab test - partly because HbA1c and fingersticks measure completely different things, but some find them helpful as long as their shortcomings are taken into account.

The one I used to use was

HbA1c % = (Average BG+2.52) / 1.583

And to convert from % to mmol/mol

(HbA1c % - 2.15) x 10.929

Hope these help 🙂

Oh that’s interesting. Thank you.

 

[swimmingalong]

Forgot to post Fasting (morning BG)

7.7 - 8.1 - 7.9 - 7.4 - 7.6 - 7.6 - 8.2

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I’ve been eating significantly fewer carbs. It’s been a week. I have ironed out a lot of peaks but my fasting glucose/baseline is still stuck around 7.5-8.

Sounds like you are making great progress! Good to hear that you are generally seeing more even, less ‘spiky’ BGs.

Waking readings can be a bit stubborn and take a while to come down, but that should happen in time.

When it comes to managing your diabetes, it’s often best to make changes to your menu and activity levels gradually - partly because they need to be sustainable long term, but also because very rapid and sudden changes to blood glucose levels are harder on the fine blood vessels, and changing things more gently will give your body time to adapt. There can even be the risk of short term damage to eyes, and/or nerve pain, if persistently high levels suddenly plummet into a healthy range.

Diabetes is a marathon not a sprint 🙂

 

[ColinUK]

If you’d like a very (very!) vague indication of your direction of travel, you could try one of the old fashioned formulae - derived from matched pairs of HbA1c and estimated average glucose levels. They are far from perfect, and are likely to be a bit out from a lab test - partly because HbA1c and fingersticks measure completely different things, but some find them helpful as long as their shortcomings are taken into account.

The one I used to use was

HbA1c % = (Average BG+2.52) / 1.583

And to convert from % to mmol/mol

(HbA1c % - 2.15) x 10.929

Hope these help 🙂

Much simpler than that is download Mysugr app and take three readings a day and let it estimate an HbA1C for you.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Much simpler than that is download Mysugr app and take three readings a day and let it estimate an HbA1C for you.

What??!? Amd miss out on all that Mathsfun (TM)

 

[swimmingalong]

Much simpler than that is download Mysugr app and take three readings a day and let it estimate an HbA1C for you.

Absolutely love the MySugr app! Thanks for tip!