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Old Sat, Dec-15-18, 06:30
PaCarolSue PaCarolSue is offline
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Plan: Reduced carb
Stats: 217/189/150 Female 5ft 2 inches
BF:lots/lots/less
Progress: 42%
Location: USA
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FREETOBEME, if you are not diabetic, your body works to control your blood sugar, releasing more insulin when needed and less when not and clearing blood sugar out in minimal time. It's only in diabetes that the body does not do this properly.

If you were to start testing as a non diabetic, I would recommend you look up and study what the blood sugar ranges should be for a non diabetic in different situations. Your blood sugar DOES go up after you eat, and your body regulates it back to normal in a reasonable amount of time. You would have to know what the ranges for that should be so as not to panic when you see it rise. The increases will be minimal with low carb eating, but will still be there to some degree.

It would be somewhat beneficial to test certain foods if you are eating them, such as fruit or starchy vegetables.

By law, meters are allowed to be off by 20% and are the results are only to be a guide.

If you went with Walmart's Relion, your initial outlay would be $10 for a meter and $9 for 50 strips, $18 for 100. You would probably be spending more on Amazon but not necessarily getting better results. And once you saw how your body is working, you really wouldn't need to continue testing.

If you are doing this because you are concerned that you might be diabetic or prediabetic, you could ask your doctor to do an A1c blood test to find out, but that would probably lead to meds if it proves to be positive.
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