Blood glucose question

[Scott Stevenson]

Your blood glucose will reflect the food you've taken in, it's digestion and rate of absorption, and the exercise you've done preceding the measurement. It's a steady state measurement that is the function of appearance (from food and the liver) and disappearance (use by tissues such as the brain and skeletal muscle.) If you know this, you'll have a sense of what you're measuring here.

If one of those 2-3 10 min walks come after the meal (#5) before your BG measurement, this could be affecting your BG (lowering it).

If you are still absorbing the food from your 10PM meal <10hr later (at your AM BG measurement), this could elevate it. (This is certainly possible.)

---To get a better representation of post-absorptive BG, I would try to compress meals such that I get that last meal in early enough (say 8:30) and blood glucose measurement late enough (push to 8:30AM ) to have 12 hr since finishing the last meal.

---Removing the walk after that meal #5 will tell you more about how it's affecting BG, as will taking pre-, post- and other (e.g., every 30min) measurements.

-S