[Hammer]

I asked this in another thread, but it might have been buried so I figured I'd ask it in a new thread.

First, I see by other replies in other threads that you should test 2 hours after your first bite of food, not 2 hours after you've finished eating. Okay, so I was testing wrong and have adjusted. Now what I'm wondering is, do you test before you take any meds, or do you test just before your first bite of food?

I take Byetta, so do I test before I take the Byetta or before I eat my first bite of food? I would think that I would test before I take the Byetta, since the Byetta might lower my basal BG levels. I don't want to know how much my Byetta lowered BG levels were before I ate. I'd think that I'd want to know how much my basal BG levels were before I ate, and what they spiked to after I ate. Is this correct?

Also, how does Byetta make you lose weight? I've been on it now for about a month and my weight is the same. I see people commenting about Byetta helping them lose weight. How does it do that?