7.2 / 129.6 Bedtime
8.6 / 154.8 Overnight 7am
8.5 / 153.0 Overnight 7:50am
9.4 / 169.2 Fasting 10:37am
8.2 / 147.6 Random 11:36am
8.2 / 147.6 Random 11:56am
8.6 / 154.8 Random 12:58pm
9.8 / 176.4 Post-Breakfast 14:09pm
6.5 / 117.0 Post-Lunch 18:00pm
10.1 / 181.8 Post-Tea 22:15:00
5.7 / 102.6 Random 00:21:00
Fasting: I'm not sure what to make of the high fasting result as I didn't have anything to eat between the first overnight reading at 7am and the fasting reading at 10:37am aside from green tea.
I had 2 cups of green tea to bring down the levels before having breakfast at 11:36.
Slightly high overnight readings were due to indulging in about 1/4c Doritoes while doing a puzzle before falling asleep.
Post-Breakfast: Breakfast consisted of half a pita bread with cheese and green onions. Have had same before with better readings.
Post-Lunch: Lunch was a whole pita bread round with lettuce, tomatoe, green onions, cheese, and a small amount of small hot salami cut in small pieces.
Tea was 3 slices roast beef, potatoes and 3 veg.
Post-Tea Reading: Ah ha. No wonder the iced tea I've been making hasn't had much of an effect. I've been trying to use up the Clipper brand that I bought with several different types of flavourings in the iced tea I make by having one bag of the clipper brand for flavouring and 3 to 6 bags of Tetley green tea bags (which I know beyond a doubt work at lowering my glucose levels). Earlier today I had made up a teapot of the concentrated tea I'd made for iced tea, and had used 6 bags of the good Tetley green tea and 1 bag of the Clipper green tea with ginko. Feeling a bit lazy, I had a whole cup of this concentrate -- which with the Tetley tea should have reduced my after dinner meal, and didn't. In fact, it's higher than normal. So, it looks like I'll have to bin the Clipper tea. Sometimes a bargain isn't. Pity about the waste of 6 of the good teabags in the concentrate though.
So even though my after dinner reading was high, I feel I've learned something invaluable from it, so it wasn't a total screw up.
Random reading - I had a cup of Tetley green tea, and made myself get busy doing odd jobs around the house, taking out the trash (it's bin night), and sadly tossing the Clipper tea. I didn't pay much for those but I hate throwing stuff away. Still, I couldn't in good conscience give it to anyone as it didn't have a good taste either. At least I'll be going to bed with my levels down to a good normal.
2 comments:
1/4c Doritoes?????
Not worth the aggravation!
That was a guesstimate since it was the bottom of the bag I bought at Christmas time (never had a bag last that long).
I think I also failed to mention the one chocolate covered seafoam I ate too. (It's really hard as my other half often has chocolate treats at bedtime and I really miss those).
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