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"T2s shouldn't do finger prick tests"

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For me I would never have gone as low carb as I did if I hadn't bought a BG meter and tested each meal for the first few weeks in order to see the effect.

If I hadn't gone so low carb I may still have reduced my Hba1C from 53, but there is no way it would have been 45 so quickly. In fact I doubt it would have been in the pre-diabetic range.

@Vonny So far as weight loss and BMI is concerned, those things don't directly relate to health. Certain athletes are Obese even though in their case it may be more muscle than fat causing the weight. Being metabolically healthy should be the main goal and there are metabolically healthy Obese people just as there are normal BMI (or even skinny) people who are metabolically unhealthy but probably don't realise it!
 
I certainly don't agree with the nurse about testing for T2's - that's your choice.
However, it sounds like you want to increase metformin to aid weight loss. With an Hba1c of 37, 3 metformin would not be an appropriate dose. I am surprised you are 2 tablets to be honest.
 
Vonny - a couple of random higher than usual BG readings a week are not significant.

Are they random though? You have to be pretty coldly analytical when considering your meter results - imagine it's my meter (or the Queen's - anyone except you) and that person has printed them on this forum and asked what they ought to do.

What would you ask them? eg.

Do any 'higher than you'd like' numbers all happen at the same time/times of day?
Do they all follow a meal?
Was there anything in partic different about those days or indeed different about the day before them?
What were those meal's carb amounts? Do they differ? Was the food (eg) fried or boiled?
 
Good thinking Jenny. Yes I should be more analytical and yes, they all followed my evening meal (5.2 in the morning still) but there was nothing different about the meals themselves.

Thinking about it though, I wonder if I got v stressed about needing to get below that 10 stone mark. Thanks to all these sensible and encouraging posts I've realised I don't need to do that at all. It will come (hopefully), but in its own good time and stressing is only likely to damage my health more than not losing weight now, provided I carry on with the healthy regime.

Last night's BG was back to normal, so all I can say is thank you everyone, and thank heavens for this forum! 🙂
 
Vonny said:
Good thinking Jenny. Yes I should be more analytical and yes, they all followed my evening meal (5.2 in the morning still) but there was nothing different about the meals themselves.

Thinking about it though, I wonder if I got v stressed about needing to get below that 10 stone mark. Thanks to all these sensible and encouraging posts I've realised I don't need to do that at all. It will come (hopefully), but in its own good time and stressing is only likely to damage my health more than not losing weight now, provided I carry on with the healthy regime.

Last night's BG was back to normal, so all I can say is thank you everyone, and thank heavens for this forum! 🙂
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