So, as promised, I’ll keep you updated with the experiment of wearing a constant blood glucose monitoring system.

So far, here’s the biggest trends for me…

DIET

The diet I am on due to previous health issues is ketogenic (which is tough to get right, I’ll speak about that another time).

Thus, my blood glucose as you can imagine doesn’t get crazy spikes or is elevated much at all.

Cognitively, I function best around 4.2 – 4.4 as my readings and 4.2 is my weekly average.

On Sunday I had my first ‘carb’ up day in 4 weeks to see how my body would respond.

I was very active that day (18k steps & rollerblading) so I didn’t just sit on my arse.

That said, I saw big elevations in my blood glucose and they stayed above 5 the whole day and night.

What’s interesting is the next day I still was hitting above 5… even going back to keto.

So, it’s not the day you go off plan that affects us, it takes time to bring the body back in line after.

Next,

SLEEP

When I get great sleep my blood glucose is stable.

One night I had a rubbish sleep for some reason and blood glucose again has hovered around 5.

Next,

ALCOHOL

I have been drinking low residual sugar wine when I have drunk (as its my favourite) and notice next to no difference with 1-2 small glasses of wine.

Its been an awesome learning experience in just 8 or so days and can see exactly what helps and hinders my body.

It also shows me why sleep is so important.

Imagine getting sub optimal sleep every night and what it does to blood glucose management, brain health and weight gain etc.

So, I’ll keep reporting back to you all