I am a new diagnosed gestational diabetic. I am not insulin depend and normally my number are pretty low anywhere from 76 to 90 when I check two hours after a meal. I just check my blood sugar and was extremely surprised with a reading of 150. I had a piece of toast with some peanut butter and a small cup of coffee for breakfast. What can I do to help lower my reading?I have contacted my diabetes RN. So I am now just waiting for a return phone call.
StarLight238 - Avoid carbs if it all possible. Excercise helps as well; I know you are pregnant if it is gestational, but light excercise helps a lot.
ReplyDeleteWinterfire - fruit and vegetables lack the sugar and calms down the glucose in your body it also best to take natural solutions such as meditation, breathing exercises,
ReplyDeletebill.purcell - If your reading was 150 then the first thing you must do is to contact you Diabetic centre nurse and get an appointment to see her as soon as possible.
ReplyDeleteThe next thing is to see if the blood testing machine that you are using is properly calculated. You can do this yourself by following the instructions given in the owners booklet that was in the box with your blood testing machine. If you have no luck with that then phone the manufactur and get advice on the machine from them, they will normally ask you to send the machine back to them and at the same time send you another one.They have an advice line.
buffalo - You really don't want a totally carb free diet. But here is one that should be you bible for eating for life.
ReplyDeleteThis table includes the glycemic index and glycemic load of more than 2,480 individual food items. Not all of them, however, are available in the United States. They represent a true international effort of testing around the world.
The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.
The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn't tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food's effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn't a lot of it, so watermelon's glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.
Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.
Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The "Serve size (g)" column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney's Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.
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Tabea - Cut the carbs. It was the toast that raised your blood sugar to the unsafe level of 150. You want to be under 140, 1 hour after eating.
ReplyDeleteIt is normal to be more insulin resistant in the morning. Try to minimize the carbs in the morning. You will be better able to tolerate carbs at lunch and dinner.
Jason Smith - The toast you had probably has something to do with your high reading. Since you are not prescribed with insulin, you should really speak with a medical practitioner first before doing anything considering that you are pregnant.
ReplyDeleteClarion - Ι think it is better seeing a doctor in person to answer this kind of questions.
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