[Handybear]

Before eating dinner I tested at 105. I ate a salad with mayo and ground beef and cheese (sort of a cheeseburger salad).
Wanting to see what my spike would be, I tested 30 minutes later and was down to 92. This has happened on more than one occasion when I eat this meal. Other dinners seem to always go up 10 to 15 points in the same time frame.
Can anyone explain why?

[bryan42]

Originally Posted by Handybear

Before eating dinner I tested at 105. I ate a salad with mayo and ground beef and cheese (sort of a cheeseburger salad).
Wanting to see what my spike would be, I tested 30 minutes later and was down to 92. This has happened on more than one occasion when I eat this meal. Other dinners seem to always go up 10 to 15 points in the same time frame.
Can anyone explain why?

Sounds like your testing too early. You have to wait 2 hours before testing/after eating, to see how a food affects you.

[mho357]

It could be your meter. It is possible that another test right after the 105 reading could have read 92.

That is within the acceptable error for a glucometer.

Mark

[xMenace]

Originally Posted by bryan42

Sounds like your testing too early. You have to wait 2 hours before testing/after eating, to see how a food affects you.

Many of us do 30 minute tests to build finer profiles of what's happenning to our BGs similar to what you can do with a CGMS. It's not a daily exercise but a once-in-awhile snapshot.

You didn't eat any carbs. Why would you expect to go up quickly? Do you have a history of food intake causing liver dumps?

[Handybear]

Originally Posted by bryan42

Sounds like your testing too early. You have to wait 2 hours before testing/after eating, to see how a food affects you.

Normally I wait two hours, but every once in awhile I like to see what the 30 minute spike of a meal will do. Also, the salad contained mixed greens, green peppers, onions, tomatoes and dill pickles besides the ground beef and cheeses and mayo, so there were some carbs.

My meter is fairly accurate. I use a freestyle flash that has been checked at my doc's office. Also, to round out the meal I finished it off with a cup of decafe coffee with cinnamon, stevia, and vanilla(my usual after dinner drink).

I am extremely carb sensitive, and therefore maintain a very low carb diet ala Dr. Bernstein. I sample a one inch square of a calzone one day and pushed my numbers up 50 points!

[princesslinda]

I would think having so few carbs interspersed with all the protein, your blood sugar would stay pretty stable throughout the entire 2 hrs. I'm the same way...eating what you ate would have no effect...add half a bun...HELLO spike!