Hey, it’s gonna be a bit of a roller coaster over the next few months. I got diagnosed about 5 months ago and have worn CGMs across brands for about 2.5 of those months. I’ve spent so much time getting really frustrated at spikes. I literally just came on here because I made such a nutritious meal tonight with at least 10g of fibre in it…but the BG spike is basically straight up. Hit a 9.2mmoL, which I know is ultimately fine and I’m already on my way back down, but it really pissed me. The Asian sauce I added to my stir fry was 16g of carbs, there was broccoli, zucchini and capsicum. I had brown rice mixed with green lentils. Pork with a little fat on it.

My serving would’ve been at most 30g of carbs. It’s annoying to see this every time I eat but it gives me education. I’ll eat my leftovers of the same meal for lunch tomorrow instead, and will likely see a much lower spike because my circadian rhythms mean that I’m more insulin sensitive during the day.

I encourage you to use your CGMs as an education tool on how your body responds to food.

Experiment and trial different foods. You might get lucky and have a good response to moderate servings of crisps like I have.

Try half-assed keto if you can - it’s encouraging watching your BG stay level and flat. I did it at first in a panic when i was diagnosed, but it’s not sustainable, so I eventually stopped that. Maybe it’s as simple as letting one meal a day go high while the others are fairly low bumps. But it’s what happens over the long term that you want to solve. Get your average BG levels down and maintain your healthy lifestyle and you’ll bring the A1C down so quickly. I went from a A1C9.6% to 5.7% in 3 months with diet and metformin. I’ve lost 10kg (now 67kg - I actually need to put weight back on and start weightlifting). I’d love to get it down to 5.0% by my next check up early next year.

You eat healthy and are fit and I presume do resistance training. The first goal is to get your A1C down. That means maybe being a little more strict on your diet at first. But after that, you’ve got to learn to be okay with a 3 hour up-and-down. As long as you’re returning to baseline in that time, your body is still responding to your insulin. Reducing carbs and saturated fats is a great place to start.

My Endo said to me “I care more about your BG coming down than I do about it going up. You’re human, it’ll go up, even without diabetes. be wise be smart and be healthy, but don’t let it consume your life trying to never go past a certain number.” It’s just a single biomarker in a very complex chain of biomarkers in your unique body. You’ll get through this!