Our dotter wears one to keep an eye on her glucose levels as a pre-diabetic. She does not eat any carbs of the grain or fruit variety, sticking to just proteins and vegetables. Her ‘normal’ line is almost flat at below 100.
Last night’s dinner, tomato beef curry, causing a spike to 140. She was very upset (with me) with that spike, something she’s not experienced since starting the monitor almost 5 months ago. The dish was beef, green bell pep, tomatoes, rehydrated shitake mushrooms and yellow onion in a sauce containing low sodium soysauce, cornstarch, curry powder, sherry, ketchup, rehydrated mushroom water, oyster sauce and a pinch of brown sugar splenda. She opted not to eat the accompanying ramen noodles. I can see when the kechup + oyster sauce + cornstarch + Splenda +caused the spike.
She follows the ‘Glucose Revolution’ regimen religiously. I’ve been reading the book and it has just about everything I’ve read about dieting and food consumption out there. How you eat your food and in which order appears to be the main point. I can see where some people might get a bit OCD on monitoring.
In the future, I will let her make her own meals when she visits.
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