At first, after my diagnosis and being started on Metformin, I was thinking my BG levels had been dropping, but now I've realized that the dropping of the levels is only daily fluctuation. In the morning, my blood is usually in the low two-hundreds (surely because I test it before breakfast and after fasting through the night), then it jumps to the four-hundreds at around noon or one in the afternoon. By three or so, it drops to the mid to low three-hundreds (which is odd because by then I have eaten lunch and the food from that has circulated through my body; so why it's higher before food and then drops after, I have no idea). My blood sugar continues at about the same throughout the evening until eight or nine when it jumps up again to the high three-hundreds or low four-hundreds.
I will not be discouraged though because apparently the medication takes a week or so to start affecting me as it should. I also haven't yet been to the nutritionist, so I can only use my best guess as what to eat. But, still, I would think cutting out sugared soda entirely would have had a greater affect. Alas, I might just need to give it a bit more time.
1. My little pricker thingy that I'm sick
of jabbing into my sore little fingies!
2. My glucose-ridden blood and
a really expensive test strip.
3. The scary results (at noon)!
Sorry to be very strict here, but I have some comments.
ReplyDeleteKeep in mind that I'm just a Type 2 diabetic, and not a doctor. (Not that I think doctors know what they're doing, but that's a different topic.)
1. Why are you eating ANYTHING when your blood glucose is so high? For gosh sakes, don't eat anything if your blood glucose is over 150. Skip one or two or more meals until you get your BG below 150. If your blood sugar is over 150, you have plenty of fuel (glucose) already. Any more will cause major long-term problems.
2. Eat a very, very low carb diet to get your blood sugars down. That doesn't mean no veggies, because you want the fiber, but stick with lower-carb stuff like avocados, tomatoes, red bell peppers, celery, and even a few pecans and walnuts. Chop some of those things up into a salad, and sprinkle a little olive oil on, and watch your blood glucose come down nicely.
3. Read more about low carb diets. There is very solid science behind low-carb. In fact, doctors were getting amazing results with low carb diets for diabetics before 1921, when insulin became commercially available. Ever since 1921, medicine has been pushing profitable drugs and surgery instead of plain old common sense dieting.