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Normal Blood Sugar Levels ARE Possible for a Diabetic!
What are normal blood sugar levels? Fasting (blood sugar level
after not eating for 8 hours) blood sugar should be between 70
milligrams per deciliter to 100 mg/dL. Your blood sugar should
not be above 100 at any given time; If it is, this suggests a
pre-diabetes condition. A level of 100 - 199 suggests
prediabetes. A level over 200 suggests that you have either Type
1 or Type 2 diabetes.
There are several steps in lowering your blood sugar. Try the
following if you are interested in more normal blood sugar
levels.
A. Begin slowly lowering your carbohydrate intake. If you want
to get very specific on which foods you can and cannot eat, I
recommend the diet as per Dr. Richard Bernstein. He has done all
the testing for us and eliminated all foods that had a make up
that could not be tracked. After all, if you can't track it, you
can't manage it. Also, check out our diabetic recipes page for
some delicious low carb meals. If you stick to a pre-calculated
amount of carbohydrates per meal, your insulin amounts should be
the same every day.
B. Test your blood sugar more frequently. We test from 5 - 10
times per day. If your fingers can take it, the blood sugar
readings are imperative to helping understand if the insulin
amounts are correct or not. Know your A1C. This test is very
revealing as to how you are doing with blood sugar levels and
should be under 6.0%.
C. Pay attention to how and when your type of insulin works.
For example, before meals, Isobel gets about 2 units of Regular
Humalin insulin. This particular insulin is given about 40
minutes before a meal because it takes that long to begin
working. Humalog on the other hand is a more fast acting insulin
and if given for meals, should only be given about 5 minutes
before eating. Check with your doctor or do your own research on
your insulin to make sure you are giving it enough time to start
working before you eat.
D. Stop snacking and limit yourself to three meals per day.
Snacking is habitual and can easily be broken.
The level of blood sugar control predicts the onset and
severity of diabetes-related complications for both types of
diabetes. This means that if you have diabetes, if you can keep
your blood sugar levels as close as possible to normal, you can
live a normal life span with few or even no complications at all.
A non-diabetic's normal blood sugar range is from 70 - 100. There
is no reason why a diabetic can't strive for the same levels.
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