Mon, Feb-06-17, 09:31
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Say NO to Diabetes!
Posts: 8,671
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Plan: My own - < 30 net carbs
Stats: 440/228/210
BF:Energy Unleashed
Progress: 92%
Location: Central Virginia - USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JEY100
As the old business adage says:
"You can't manage what you don't measure"
You will get so much useful information about foods, impact of exercise, etc
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I tested my BG a lot on this journey. I don't do it nearly as often now, but I sure had multiple sore fingers in the early days of testing. This is a graph of my progress from January 2015 to present (logged into my ONTRACK app on my cell phone). I actually started testing my BG a month or two before I got this app and I wish that I had logged that data, too; as the left side of the graph seems to capture the period where my insulin resistance was being resolved. My mean BG fell from over 100 to around 80 over a period of just a few weeks.
Most of these BG readings were fasting BG, but I logged many postprandial readings as well in order to see what effect my meals had. Some of those higher readings in the middle are me testing adding back higher carb foods (like sweet potato fries). After seeing how some of these foods still had a significant impact on my BG, I did not add them back to my regular OP food rotation.
Many of those lower readings were as a result of intermittent fasts. A diabetic may say that some of them are too low. But I was not on any diabetic medications. I felt great, even with BG in the 60s.
It is also worth noting that my BG remained relatively high for several months into this WOE. My A1c in June 2014 was in the prediabetic range. I started walking (40 to 60 minutes daily) by the end of the summer in 2014. I only started testing my BG in November of 2014. I was surprised to find that my FBG and premeal BG were so high (100 to 110 range). I expected better. I was still quite insulin resistant. In those early BG postprandial tests (not captured on this chart) a 15 net carb dinner could spike my BG well above 150. These days a 30 net carb dinner won't do much at all to my BG. It is rarely above 100. I would say that my insulin resistance is resolved.
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