Hammer,
What you say about avoiding spikes by avoiding food, is logical, but the problem is that this disease is not logical. I wondered about this very thing, but it doesn't work. If it did then we would all have great FBG levels, cause we didn't eat. A little while ago I woke to what is a high reading for me (about 117), so I reckoned it would be best not to eat breakfast - wrong - I needed something to kick start me to get the BG's down. I'm having some shoulder/neck pain at the moment and my FBG this morning was 129.6
, but I still made myself eat something small, by lunch time it's down to 113.4, which is high for me but I reckon its "stress" from the neck/shoulder pain.
I did ask my doctor when I was DX'ed if I should be "grazing" and he said no, 3 meals a day, maybe a snack if I get hungry or before bed to help morning levels.
I do find if I skip a meal (not intentionally) that yes I can start to go low, but I can also start to see a bit of a climb in the numbers, guess it's my body kicking in.
Diabetes, wonderfully consistently inconsistent.
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Diagnosed T2 on 26th Nov'07
Metformin 500mg twice daily
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14th Dec'07: 11.6%
15th Jan'08: 9%
3rd March'08 6.8%
6th June'08 6.1%
30th Sept'08: 5.1%
