Pardon me Patdart; If I could only rephrase my Title... anyways, I just would wanna capture the Blood Glucose after the whole day activities and food intakes but before having dinner...I don't understand the question...maybe I'm senile like Jim says he is???????
This question seems to know something that I do not know... as I've said, I don't know if I'm making sense on this; does someone care to enlighten me?What will you learn from that?
Do you ever worry that your antioxidants & flavor might be causing more damage than they're worth? I would dearly love to have your bedtime & fasting numbers - not sure why you'd want to sabotage that. I try to stay under 7.7 (140) at all times, so ANYTHING higher than that I call a spike, and I stop eating whatever takes me higher.I went to bed with a 6.6 woke with a 5.5 and now 1 hour after cherry blueberry flax meal iso whey yogurt I am 7.8 and probably climbing. Is there some definition to taking a hit or spiking. I expect to come up short of 9 then start dropping. I guess if I did away with the 4 cherries and blueberries I would be a few points less but missing some antioxidants and mmmm flavor
Also, rather than saying never...you may find that you tolerate these fruits better later in the day. I just can't eat many carbs in the morning!Do you ever worry that your antioxidants & flavor might be causing more damage than they're worth? I would dearly love to have your bedtime & fasting numbers - not sure why you'd want to sabotage that. I try to stay under 7.7 (140) at all times, so ANYTHING higher than that I call a spike, and I stop eating whatever takes me higher.
Yeah, that's what made me give up even trying, when 1/2 a grapefruit spiked me 50 points ... I'm an orange nut too, and watermelon, and moist and sweet ... <passing out>The one I miss most is grapefruit. I so love grapefruit.![]()
This is a good idea but it uses a lot of strips up. For the first six months following my diagnosis I tested six times a day - fasting, 1 hour after breakfast, just before lunch, one hour after, just before dinner and finally two hours after dinner. This helped the OH spot what spiked me and what I could get away with. Like Shanny I loved grapefruit - but now it's forbidden fruit :Cry:.85 mg/dl just before starting to eat dinner...
Thanks John.in.France ... sort of just trying to understand the behavior of my Blood Sugar... yup! you're right! so that someday I can just rely on my BG trend and by that time minimize the testing after knowing much better on the do's and don't.This is a good idea but it uses a lot of strips up. For the first six months following my diagnosis I tested six times a day - fasting, 1 hour after breakfast, just before lunch, one hour after, just before dinner and finally two hours after dinner. This helped the OH spot what spiked me and what I could get away with. Like Shanny I loved grapefruit - but now it's forbidden fruit :Cry:.
The tests gave us a few surprises but generally we very quickly learned what to avoid. Come this March, the doctor started getting twitchy about the number of test strips I was going through, so we've dropped the pre-meal tests and rely on the post prandial figures to identify when we need to review the previous meal.
Your idea works - go for it. This morning I started on 88, one hour after breakfast a rather high (for me) 109.
John
Ok, this is my opinion - the following are High Carb by my definition -Thanks John.in.France ... sort of just trying to understand the behavior of my Blood Sugar... yup! you're right! so that someday I can just rely on my BG trend and by that time minimize the testing after knowing much better on the do's and don't.
I tested 81 mg/dl tonight before dinner and earlier had coffee and oatmeal cookies (1 & 1/2) during a meeting... earlier in the day were full cream milk, vegetables, peanuts, raw cardava banana and a little bit of meat.