Blood glucose meters half price in Boots

El_Dangeroso

Picked one up the other day or €11! The Accucheck one. The monitor is cheap but the strips are expensive (~€1 each!).

I'm having great fun with it all week testing my various reactions to things.

I did a test with a LOAD of lucazade to see how high I could get my blood sugar (all in the name of science you understand..mmm lucazade ) I topped out at 7.5mmol/l which is pretty darn good, I must have good insulin sensitivity. But I was on a mad sugar buzz for a while, and felt crappy enough later on.

150g white potatoes, although supposedly high GI, didn't budge it above 5.8 after two hours, though that could be just me, YMMV.

Sapsorrow

Ohh sounds like fun! Might grab one if I make it into the city in the next while.. we could have a boards championship to see who can give themselves heart failure trying out different foods first! I reckon my buckfast and powdered glucose cocktail would be a sure fire winner though

Khannie

Mental! I was just thinking about getting one of these because I'm concerned about the spike my lovely oat and protein pancakes may give me in the morning (yes, I am that crazy).

El_Dangeroso

Khannie wrote: »

Mental! I was just thinking about getting one of these because I'm concerned about the spike my lovely oat and protein pancakes may give me in the morning (yes, I am that crazy).

Haha! That's the danger alright.. I was scared about the potatoes, love me some potatoes, I think what you find filling is a good indicator, but I'm open to be proven wrong on that.

I really want to try wheat but I don't want to have 3 days of brain fog and weird dreams that normally accompanies it. I hear wheat is even worse than pure glucose for making blood sugar go bananas.

EileenG

I had one of those and had fun playing with it for about a week. Then I got tired of all the little pricks....

El_Dangeroso

EileenG wrote: »

I had one of those and had fun playing with it for about a week. Then I got tired of all the little pricks....

Damn you Eileen, I just spewed water on my keyboard reading that.

El_Dangeroso

Aww man, just had a whey protein shake and my blood sugar jumped from 3.9 to 7.7 1 hour after!! WTF is going on? It's only protein with maybe 4g carb.

Gonna have to retest to make sure this isn't an anomaly, though this would explain why I'm always hungry about an hour after a shake.

brianthebard

Isn't there sweetener in the shake? Read something before on boards about insulin spikes and whey and whatnot but can't remember what thread....Also, was it concentrate or isolate protein, or a blend?

El_Dangeroso

*Checks tub*

It's a blend of whey isolate and concentrate. It's sweetened with oligofructose. Flipping expensive it was too..

Insulin spikes I get, but non-sugar sweeteners don't tend to increase blood sugar, if anything the insulin in the absence of digestible carbohydrate should make BG go down, not up.

Whey should do the same thing, at least so says this study.

brianthebard

That is odd, were you just after training? What brand are you buying out of interest?

El_Dangeroso

brianthebard wrote: »

That is odd, were you just after training? What brand are you buying out of interest?

Bodytronics. On further investigation apparently those meters can be quite varible, if you squeeze your finger too hard then you can concentrate the drop and lead to an artificially high result. If you use the side of the finger then you don't have to squeeze, so that's what I'll be doing from now on.

Equally, if you get too big a drop of blood then the result can be too high as well.

Oh well, that'll learn me not to read instructions fully!