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High BG only after lunch

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#1 ·
Advised I was prediabetic a few months ago. Checking my BG level regularly to see what I am and not able to eat but unable to find a pattern except that I by BG seems to be high only at noon. I ate one fried chicken breast with bowl of brown rice at noon for lunch and at 1 my BG went 206 the other night I ate some chicken wings with brown rice and an hour later it was 128 does anyone know why this is? Thank You much
 
#2 ·
Most type 2 diabetic's insulin resistance is highest in the morning and gets less as the day goes along. You will react differently to the same foods at different times a day.
 
#3 ·
Do you know what your BG was before you eat?

Mornings are the toughest time for carb sensitivity so you could have been high before lunch and jest added to it with lunch. did you have fruit or drinks with lunch? did you walk home from work or do any phisical work after work (phisical activity lowers BG)

OR

Because your diabetic BG can change for no apparent reason (apparent in that you haven't figured out why ... yeat)
 
#4 ·
Not for this particular instance of 206 reading I did not have a before reading but from my record prior to lunches has been low 90s to 110 after a combination of and/ or all natural peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat,oatmeal and coffee at about 8 am. I did suspect that usually after lunch at work I go back to my desk and sit until I take the one hour BG but then I realize I am not that much more active after dinner when my BG is fine cause I usually exercise after I take my one hour post dinner read. Also I have not consumed any sugar drinks since my DX and sometimes I do eat fruits with my lunch but not in this instance.
 
#5 ·
Could rice be the culprit, rather than the time of day?
 
#7 ·
Welcome to our forum. Diabetes can be very frustrating because your body reacts differently at different times of the day. Those type of high bgs are definitely in full blown diabetic territory. Many of us have had to give up things like rice, bread, cereal, pasta and anything with wheat in it because it spikes us too high. A normal non D is usually 70-100 most of the day so many of us try to keep our bgs in that range are fairly close to it.
 
#8 ·
If I had bread and oatmeal for breakfast I would probably be ok at about the 2 hr mark but would start to spike at the 3 hr mark. That would be with an extended bolus of insulin. Even that may not bring it down. Just the oatmeal alone does that to me.

All rice does that to me also. YMMV though :)
 
#9 ·
The lunch chicken breast has little fat. Many carbs without fats are digested quickly. The supper chicken wings and the peanutbutter sandwich had more fat, which may have delayed the spike from all the rice and bread carbs. If you had tested at 3 hr pp you may have seen higher numbers.

You might want to consider reducing the amount of rice you eat, and leave out the sandwich bread and just eat the filling. Put peanut butter on celery, or, like I do, just lick the spoonfull.
 
#11 ·
Also pre Diabetic



I am new to the forum just diagnosed Pre Diabetic
Don't understand all the codes, A1... BG ???
I have been reading up on several comments in the forum
Confused . My blood work came back 104 fasting.
I am so trying to cut out carbs , my weakness, I love rice
Especially Mexican rice . I am felling down:( with my recent
Diagnose . As a Teen I was hypoglacymic , always felt low
Shakey & would pass out. My Mother always told me that it was the oppisite of Diabetes. After I had my children my Dr. Knowing our family history of Diabetic , always said to eat as if I had Diabetes.
:):confused:
 
#12 ·
Chachita said:
I am new to the forum just diagnosed Pre Diabetic
Don't understand all the codes, A1... BG ???
I have been reading up on several comments in the forum
Confused . My blood work came back 104 fasting.
I am so trying to cut out carbs , my weakness, I love rice
Especially Mexican rice . I am felling down:( with my recent
Diagnose . As a Teen I was hypoglacymic , always felt low
Shakey & would pass out. My Mother always told me that it was the oppisite of Diabetes. After I had my children my Dr. Knowing our family history of Diabetic , always said to eat as if I had Diabetes.
:):confused:
Welcome you may want to go to "introduce yourself" and begin there by telling your story and you will get plenty of helpful tips and tricks and advise. BG stands for blood glucose and the A1C is a reading of your average BG for the past 3 months.
 
#14 ·
Chachita said:
I am new to the forum just diagnosed Pre Diabetic
Don't understand all the codes, A1... BG ???
I have been reading up on several comments in the forum
Confused . My blood work came back 104 fasting.
I am so trying to cut out carbs , my weakness, I love rice
Especially Mexican rice . I am felling down:( with my recent
Diagnose . As a Teen I was hypoglacymic , always felt low
Shakey & would pass out. My Mother always told me that it was the oppisite of Diabetes. After I had my children my Dr. Knowing our family history of Diabetic , always said to eat as if I had Diabetes.
:):confused:
If you do a search for acronyms there was a thread where several of the more common ones are listed with tere meanings

Sent from my iPhone
 
#16 ·
Thanks for the input evryone it's just confusing i was doing ok eating brown rice with my meals at night for months, a few times at lunch, and I have even chanced some white rice and pasta at dinner to see how much that would affect my BG and at most topped at mid 120s at 1st hour and always goes down after the first hour. So tonight after my 206 reading at lunch had grilled chicken thighs for dinner with the same batch of brown rice from the afternoon, couple spoonful of pasta salad, spinach w cream and a bottle of beer, it had been a long day. Hour later 129 three hours 90 basically the same meal if not worse right. I guess just can't chance non diabetic meals at lunch?
 
#17 ·
If I were you, I wouldn't chance non-diabetic meals at all, that is if you're truly serious about remaining "pre"-diabetic instead of escalating into full-blown diabetes. I personally believe there's no difference: if your blood sugar rises after consuming carbohydrate, you have a metabolic malfunction and it isn't going to go away. It will progress unless you take measures to contain it. Taking measures means stop pushing the envelope: Carbs raise your blood sugar - stop eating carbs.

I was diagnosed fairly early in the game - prob'ly within a year of developing symptoms - with fbg of 130. It took me some time to get the right information - some of it from the people you find on this forum. It took me a bit longer to recognize that I was not going to be able to continue eating the bread, cereals and root vegetables that I was accustomed to enjoying.

It's your choice - get tough and remain symptom free, or keep on trying to be a non-diabetic, and wind up with high blood sugar and future complications.
 
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