Fasting Blood Sugar and Exercise Question

[TTDuck]

So I've had pretty good numbers since I've started monitoring my blood sugar, but my fasting morning number is sometimes a little high. The past week I've had really good fasting numbers - all below 90 where my doctor wants to see those numbers! But this morning it jumped up to 95 which is not bad, but not ideal. I had a class at the gym the night before - could that cause my fasting number to go up the next morning? Or was it more likely to do with my snacks? I had a protein bar before the class and my normal bedtime snack afterwards. Trying to make sense of these numbers can sometimes make me crazy!

 

[buzzy]

I have no idea but I hope that you'll soon figure it out! Sounds complicated!

 

[Pinkflower83]

I'm not really sure either. What time in the morning do you test your sugar?

 

[cammy]

maybe you are eating to late at night? what time do you finish eating?

 

[Nela]

It is my understanding that exercising burns carbs and therefore should help reduce sugar levels, not increase them. Most likely the protein combined with the snacks would do it as I think the protein also helps slow down the break down of sugar. What did you have aside from the bar?

 

[TTDuck]

peanut butter and english muffin, cottage cheese and strawberries. it's the same thing I have before bed every night that gives me a fasting below 90 in the morning. I only had the bar (comprised of 1 carb and 1 protein) before my gym class because otherwise I'd be going too long without having any food, but maybe it was still too much combined with the rest of my snack! if I ate my night time snack any earlier I would be starving in the morning. it's about 8 hours between night time snack and breakfast for me.

 

[donna noble]

Dont sweat over five points. No meter is that accurate. Read the pamphlets that come with your meter and most have an accuracy range of ten to twenty points. Scarey but true.

 

[TTDuck]

makes sense that a home meter has poor accuracy...

I'm attributing my peaks like that to being dehydrated in the morning. when I make an effort to drink enough so I'm not feeling parched in the morning my numbers are fine. so I'll blame my not drinking enough water in the evening sometimes

 

[Pinkflower83]

Sometimes I'm a few points over as well and I don't really get too concerned unless I see its becoming a pattern or their just getting too high and my diet is no longer working.