What is considered a spike in glucose?

#1

I am doing some experimenting to see what foods spike my blood sugar. My morning numbers are usually in the 80-90s and during the day they go down into the 70’s. This morning I tested at 97 for glucose and 1.0 for ketones. Today was my bacon experiment. I ate the bacon and tested one hour after. My glucose is at 110 and Ketones are at .7 I will test at 2 hours and three hours to see if it comes down. My question is, how much does your glucose have to go up for you to know that you should avoid that food?
Thank you,
Lisa

(bulkbiker) #2

Here in the UK we usually say that any spike greater than 2 mmol after 2 hours is not good (36 mg/dl US measurement)
So looks like bacon is great for you…that reading after 1 hour is very good.

#3

thank you!! I was hoping it was going to be ok. Have a great day. I appreciate you taking the time for me

(Vincent Hall) #4

I can’t answer your question but am doing the exact same thing as I bought my meter specifically to test if the specific Stevia im using raises my BG.
Right now after 23hr fast (I’m on OMAD for the moment have been for two weeks)

I did a few weights and stuff this morning for an hr and a 5 mile walk (1hr, 20 mins) so left it two hours before I checked T0 BG.
just water up to T0 then a decaff coffee with a tsp of my granulated Stevia in. (Normally I’ll have 1/2 tsp but wanted to to be sure)

T0 = 4.3 ( x 18 = 77.4) (Ketones 1.3)
T+30 = 3.8 (x 18 = 68.4)
T+60 = 4.0 (x 18 = 72)

T30 it seems to have dropped but not much (only 0.5) and is heading back up after an hour and I think this could be just normal variation over that time so maybe my brain is not possibly thinking this is sweet, lets dump some insulin to prepare for the rush. That’s what I’m hoping anyway, as I’m trying to stay in fasted state for the full 22 hours or so right now, but like my sweetened coffee.

Mark, thanks for input.

Watching topic (and others) with interest if there’s more input forthcoming?
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(Allie) #5

I didn’t know that, never had any medical dealings with blood sugar. Useful to know though as I’ve noticed my fasting blood sugar increases to the low 5’s (normally between 4.2 and 4.7) after eating certain things and was wondering if this was an issue.

(Andrew) #6

Sounds like regular bacon with sugar? I mean it’s like 2g’s, but 2g’s of sugar. My BG sky rockets after I eat the stuff. Uncured / sugar free bacon it barely move the needle.

$0.02

(bulkbiker) #7

We need to remember that home meters also aren’t all that accurate. They are allowed to have a 15% variability so the difference between 4.7 and 5.2 (85 to 94) could simply be variance on the meter. Your blood sugar could be exactly the same with both readings.

#8

Its a bacon from my local butcher. I do think that there is sugar in it. I wanted to try to see what it would do. But I think I will avoid it in the future.