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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / March 2008The Numbers From The House Of Android
Good Morning, The Missus woke up with a BG reading of 5.1. Two hours after breakfast, 7.1. Just before lunch 5.0. The past couple of days the numbers have started off great. We're experimenting a bit with food and we've noticed some things really cause her numbers to bounce (upwards). Also found this site http://www.nutritiondata.com/ which lists not only nutritional data but the glycemic load ... ah ... glycemic load. I'm sure someone's pointed this out in a previous reply but anyhow ... I realized the difference this makes from having one piece of whole grain bread toasted and a sandwich made with 2 slices. It'll double the GL and send it from being a low GL to a high. Things are slowly beginning to make some sense ... I think :-) Also, the site mentions a GL of 10 or less is considered low, anything over 20 is high. Is this correct? Thanks again for being here. Cheers! -- The Androids :-) > ... glycemic load. > I'm sure someone's pointed this out in a previous reply but > anyhow ... I realized the difference this makes from having one piece > of whole grain bread toasted and a sandwich made with 2 slices. It'll > double the GL and send it from being a low GL to a high. AKA "the importance of portion control!" and BTW it's rather an individual matter as to "how high is high" & "how big is big (serving size)" for any particular food. bj > Good Morning, > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > -- The Androids :-) wow, excellent bg control, Marvin! and in under 2 weeks, at that congratulations, your research is paying off :) as for the GL, your meter will tell you if it's a level you can eat or not...... i go by the GI and avoid the foods with a GI over 50 >Good Morning, > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > >Cheers! Excellent! So glad your wife is doing so well. It's daunting, I know, but you really did the right thing by coming here and keeping an open mind. I can't claim I helped any, but the rest seemed to have it well in hand.  SignatureLarry, T2, Saskatchewan, Canada. DX 24 Aug 07. D&E Metformin 2000mg, Ramipril, Simvastatin Dx A1c 8.1 : Latest 5.1 (4 Mar 08) Wow congrats on the good numbers! If my math is right the fast was around 90? If so very nice!! KROM > Good Morning, > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > -- The Androids :-) >Good Morning, > >The Missus woke up with a BG reading of 5.1. Lovely! >Two hours after breakfast, 7.1. Nice - but what was the 1-hour? That's more likely to be the spike. >Just before lunch 5.0. Cool! A lovely base figure. GL is a good place to start testing from - but there's still too much individual variability amongst diabetics to take it as gospel; you'll still need to test. I see that Jennie Brand-Miller's team is retesting foods, with a bigger number of test subjects, though - they've just removed carrots from the high-GI list, which matches my experience - so maybe the GI / GL tables are becoming more generally usable. They have the bad habit of using non-diabetics as test subjects, though :P This is interesting reading: http://ginews.blogspot.com/ Nicky. T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid D&E, 100ug thyroxine Last A1c 5.6% BMI 25 > Good Morning, > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > -- The Androids :-) Hi Marvin ... hopefully you two will continue to make good progress like you have so far ! Have you reminded Mrs Android lately she married a prince :-) cheers and best wishes Paul (I'm guessing she doesn't need to be reminded) |
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