Personal Glucose Monitors

[Phoenikia]

I do. I have lost 7 lbs since I started. I love it .

There’s some chat about it in these threads.

Healthier (however you define it) meals you've been making lately

I guess I’ll try them out and see whether my sugar spikes. Maybe the nut butter combined with the dates has an effect on the dates’ glycemic load. I was shocked how high my sugar spiked after I ate a 28 gram packet of chocolate covered pineapple jellies RStuart gave me. The highest glucose reading I’ve ever had, and a fairly small amount of candy. The main thing I’m learning with my body is that I cannot eat fruit or candy without some protein and fat, if I want to avoid spikes in glucose. I u…

The Mediterranean Diet is a Whitewashed Fantasy

Study after study show that there is not one best diet except the best diet is the one that helps you lose weight. The statement that diet only affects health is thru weight loss is pretty close to accurate. Diabetes risk/harm and heart risk will plummet if you lose 20% of your body weight, weather from a keto diet, or a whole grain, veggie/fruit centric with 40% or more fat, or the same with 30% fat. By the way, the latter two are variants of the so-called Mediterranean diet. I prefer to descri…

Anyone else attempting to stick to a regimen right now?

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 …