Re: How to interpret glucose meter readings

louise <louise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Alan S wrote:
louise <louise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks to all for your help. I did some testing today and
thought I'd thrown in the numbers to see what you make of them.

fasting when I first got up 106

1 hour after breakfast 127

2 hours after breakfast 107

1 hour after dinner 134

2 hours after dinner 106


So the numbers seem to go somewhat high one hour after
eating, and then go way down to fasting level two hours
after eating.

Are they supposed to drop so much between one hour and two
hours?

And - are they supposed to go to fasting level two hours
after eating?

I'm particularly concerned because it is between one and two
hours after eating that I often experience exhaustion. Are
they dropping too much too rapidly?

Thanks

Actually, those numbers aren't too bad for a newly diagnosed
diabetic or pre-diabetic. However, they are higher than a
non-diabetic would see.

The peak at one hour is typical of many of us. As I said,
they aren't terrible, but if you want them lower the trick
is to review what you ate and see what can be changed.

What was the menu that led to those?
http://loraltravel.blogspot.com (The Taj Mahal)

Morning:

1 scoop unflavored, no sugar whey protein powder with my
regular vitamins and medications
1/2 sandwich on whole grain whole wheat bread of almond
butter and no extra sugar apricot jam
1 cappuccino - 2 scoops espresso, 1 envelope of splenda and
1 tsp of sugar. 2% milk.
BTW - this is my breakfast every morning - I'm a creature of
habit in the AM

Evening:

BBQd spare ribs - 6 ribs
Thai noodles with vegetables - about 2 cups
Vitamins

IMHO Change the bread to a dark rye. Find an unsweetened, low carb jam. Use
2 pkgs of Splenda and no sugar in your coffee and Heavy Cream instead of 2%
milk.

Cut your dinner noodles down to 1/2 cup. What kind of veggies?

Since I've not been diagnosed - in fact, told I'm fine when
I "know" from my body that I'm not (also 30 lbs overweight
with limited exercise ability), I would very much like to
get to "real normal" - not "normal for diabetes or pre-diabetes.

Am I right to be aiming for normal? Or at least a little
better?

Also BTW, I'm not sure where you came in on this thread. I
take psychotropic medications that are known to put weight
on you. Therefore, the numbers I gave you are with my
taking 500 mg Metformin twice a day. I'm eventually
supposed to go up to 2,000 per day divided.

So, does that mean that without the 1000mg of metformin my
after meal number would be even higher?

Thanks again for all your help.

Take care.

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