18 Nov 18 by member: Keilin_4
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Congratulations! I have been in the same road a while longer. My carb tolerance has increased over time so I can have a high carb meal once or twice a week and nothing happens to sugar levels (104 mg/DL avg). Rest of the time carbs remain <20%. Blood tests (3 months) come out normal. It is easy to eat low carb.
18 Nov 18 by member: lrh1964
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Hi, @lrh1964: My carbs are averaging under 5% per day. I am keeping it under 20 total carbs for the day. My monthly average is 98 so pretty solid. That is testing two hours after start of lunch. I think I am going to start testing my fasting every morning. Today it was 108 and I don't like that. I am hoping that when I get some more weight off, I will increase my carb tolerance and be able to tolerate more veggies and some fruit. Right now I am eating low GI veggies 2x a day but no fruit. In the last few months, I have only had 1/2 apple and a handful of blackberries. Trying to stave off NAFLD. Thanks for your support!
18 Nov 18 by member: floridagal2000
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You might not have control over that fasting glucose, could be the dawn phenomenon/effect. I'm not diabetic, would fast for 16+ hours (vlc) and it would be slightly over 100.
18 Nov 18 by member: Cb1006
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18 Nov 18 by member: Alnona
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@Cb1006 - Metformin changes things dramatically. My family members taking it have to be careful that their blood glucose does not drop too low. Now, I measure my fasting glucose every morning and I am in the 90's unless I have liquid fasted for 3+ days. Then I am the 70-80s.
18 Nov 18 by member: adefwebserver
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Yes, so shouldn't her fasting glucose be less? Metformin should help lower it I assume. Dawn effect can still have an effect along with other physiological functions etc..
18 Nov 18 by member: Cb1006
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@Cb1006 - Exactly the Metformin should lower it. A 108 'fasting' is not what I would want to see.
18 Nov 18 by member: adefwebserver
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18 Nov 18 by member: Cb1006
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@adefwebserver I'm not sure why it is so high. My doc. has me testing 2 hours after the start of lunch at it is usually 85 - 104. So it is odd to me that my fasting is so high. Unless its because my extended release med has worn off by that time. I usually test prior to taking my Synjardy (a metformin combo med). Since my lunch number is pretty stable, I think I will start taking a morning reading for a couple of weeks and see what it does over time. I did that for a week a month or so ago probably time to check it again.
18 Nov 18 by member: floridagal2000
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dawn effect always is higher reading in the morning, great job on your weight loss progress!
19 Nov 18 by member: baskington
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@floridagal2000 - I started testing my levels months ago and found a definite 'pattern' and a direct relationship between what I ate and my levels. However, my fasted levels will sometime be high for no-apparent-reason (sigh). It doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen.
19 Nov 18 by member: adefwebserver
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Have you read up on that Adef, I think the body dumps glucose type material into the system when fasted. I can't remember all I read but there is a reason for it, just like the dawn effect.
19 Nov 18 by member: baskington
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@Baskington - Yes I agree that is probably the cause in my case. It's like the 'whoosh' effect with the water dumping, you can't control it.
19 Nov 18 by member: adefwebserver
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@adef..and this morning it was 94.... Ate a 7 carb meal at 7:30pm so maybe that was helpful....
19 Nov 18 by member: floridagal2000
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