A few questions?????

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Hi all,

Glad to see things are starting to get back to normality with Yahoo

groups. I'm still not getting all the mail coming through my mailbox, so for

now I'm also reading it off the website. I have a couple of questions and

I'm hoping that somebody out there can help me out :-)

First off, I've been low-carbing now for about a week and the BS readings are

coming down, but they're still not at what I would like them to be. Fasting

is running between 140-150 and my lowest readings always seem to be right

before dinner and that's around 110-130. Anyway, I've been doing lots of

eating and testing. The past few days I've had an Atkins breakfast bar and a

cup of coffee for breakfast, this raises my BS by around 10 points. But this

morning I also took a tablespoon of lecithin granules (for lowering my LDL

cholesterol) and I had a rise of 35 points. I was wondering if anybody knows

if this supplement would be the cause of such a high rise in BS, and if it

is, why would that be, does it have a lot of carbs in it? I buy it in bulk

from the Co-op and never noticed any nutritional breakdown for it.

Also, does it take a while to get your BS readings stabilized, or should it

happen as soon as you start changing your diet? Might it take me a while to

reach desirable levels of between 90 to say 110. Lastly, what is considered

an okay rise in BS, 10, 20, 30, 40 points? For example, should a person be

striving to have no more than a 20 point rise after any given meal?

Oh by the way, I love my new meter the Precision QID.....no matter how many

times I've rechecked with it, it's always within a few points each time,

excellent! On the one from Walgreens (The Prestige) the readings were all

over the place!

Hugs,

Roisin (ro-sheen)

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