Continuous glucose monitor
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Anonymous
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Curious if anyone here has tried a CGM to better understand your body’s response to food and lose weight?
I’m in perimenopause and feel like my body’s immediate response to food is really unpredictable. I’m tired of feeling tired. I don’t like the 12 lbs that appeared and won’t go away. After talking with my doctor, and finding out my fasting glucose and a1c is at the very top end of “good” I decided to give one a try. It’s pretty fascinating. For example, my glucose spikes if I add Vital Proteins to my coffee. But not when I leave it out. I just had a big low starch salad with chicken - which I thought would be a good choice - and now it’s rising fast. Flackers + hummus = steady. Flackers + hummus + some blueberries = spike. I just started last Friday and feel like I’m already getting all sorts of insights. Anyone else find these learnings turn into real change for how you eat and feel during the day? |
Anonymous
| I used one for about 6 months and it made my a little obsessive. I also found some things would spike my blood sugar some days but not others. |
Anonymous
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OP, because of things you have learned since doing this --- do you *feel* better when you have tweaked your food choices?
Not asking about: losing weight or the hope of losing weight. |
Anonymous
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There was a discussion about CGM's on here - maybe at the beginning of the year? OMG it got out of control with many diabetics shaming non-diabetics for using a CGM.
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Anonymous
| So what are you doing with that newly found insight? |
Anonymous
Exhibit A ^^^ |
Anonymous
Don’t be an idiot. It’s a legit question. |
Anonymous
| My son is a type I diabetic I've been watching his readings for years. There is no rhyme or reason to the data IMO. At least for him, every day he has a different response to carbs. He isn't doing it for dieting, though, so not sure what they tell you to do with the data. |
Anonymous
I think the biggest thing I learned early on is weighing food is important. Most food nutritional information is inaccurate when measured via other methods (cups, etc). |
Anonymous
and you should learn how to smell sarcasm when you see it.... |
Anonymous
+1. That's why I was wondering how OP plans to use with data. People think the relationship is linear. In reality, it is not. |
Anonymous
100% this. Your body could react to the exact same food completely different on a different day. So many things play into this that it's not a set formula. One of my kids is T1 and she could eat the exact same thing and have wildly different reactions to it. |
Anonymous
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Op here. Good grief, people. Gotta love when dcum’s gonna dcum!
It hasn’t even been a week, so right now I’m not doing anything with this info. I’m learning. I’m curious. My doctor recommended trying it and we’re going to review the data together in 2 weeks. Also, I’m using Signos which has an AI that makes recommendations that tweak over time as more data, including sleep, exercise, stress, etc. is collected. And, with that, I’m out. Didn’t mean to stir the pot |
Anonymous
| My sister has one and she's found it really helpful - she's lost a ton of weight and more importantly her A1C has improved because she's modified her diet to avoid glucose spikes. |
Anonymous
\ I found any kind of heavily processed powdered food had an impact, whether collagen, as you noted, whey powder, etc. Please keep posting your findings, OP, I only had a CGM for 2 weeks so it's interesting to get more data. I also found it interesting to see how sleep and exercise impacted glucose. I have kept the habit of trying for a 15-20 min walk after meals and feel a lot less brain fog and sleepiness than in the past. Re: salad, wonder what kind of dressing? Some people have noticed seed oils, in almost all dressings, can have an impact. |