My continuous glucose monitor (CGM) logging [and health notes]

[Alex K Chen]

I did it again, I ate 900 calories of Ezekiel raisin bread at once. Obviously not ideal, and I'm NEVER getting raisin bread again, but at least it didn't peak at a horrible level. This was good enough of a stress test

And that raisin bread was the only thing I ate the entire day (apart from riced cauliflower now) so that still leaves me at fewer calories today than I normally get

Tomorrow I'm gonna finally stress test fruit on canagliflozin with my CGM in the right spot at once

[Alex K Chen]

 

this was 1 acarbose 200mg and then 2 cans of garbanzo beans in the morning. I guess I could take another acarbose to really reduce the spike

oh late yesterday I nade myself full with 1can of garbanzos

Edited April 13 by InquilineKea

[Alex K Chen]

This spike from just diced tomatoes which usually don't spike them

[Alex K Chen]

finally took 18 oz blueberries AFTER canaglifloznin, needed to test this

145 and stll increasing.. 160... 183... [this NEVER happens...]

the avocado oil beyond meat i ate right before didnt do anything to stop that

Edited April 13 by InquilineKea

[Alex K Chen]

Yet, strawberries after canagliflozin and garbanzo beans.. barely inched upward at all (I almost NEVER see this with fruit). I need repeat tests

Just on inspection alone, bluebrries do seem to have simpler "matrix structure" (and less fiber) than strawberries. also they were target's. maybe costco's frozen ones may be dif

Edited April 14 by InquilineKea

[Alex K Chen]

After 14 days of CGM, 7 without canagliflozin and 7 with...

Average glucose without: 100

Average glucose with: 97

It's not a huge obvious difference. Also I ate not the healthiest food on two days of the first week bc I wasn't at home

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yesterday i ate 4 packs of mr tortilla and felt so K/O'd from all the fiber that I wasn't able to do amything for rest of day/next of day. it's not a huge calorie load. BG only around 95-105 for a long while after

2 days ago I ended up eating an entire pack of ezekiel bagel (960 cals). it only spiked my BG to 125 at the very end (and I had other things too). the decrease in BG the night after was lower but only around 100

AlexChen_04-19-2024.pdf

Edited April 19 by InquilineKea

[Alex K Chen]

hemoglobin a1c was 5.1%. So the latter CGM was right. also, this was despite me taking a lot of canagliflozin...

[i experimented with eating bread! but my LDL increased. bread, even of the ezekiel kind, is NOT GOOD. the lesson is stick with beans, there is almost no reason to eat bread when beans are available - though when bread is the only vegan food available, it's ok].

just dissolved tirzepatide and injected 1/5 of 5mg, or 1mg of tirzepatide. 5 days half-life

[Alex K Chen]

Applied CGM again today, starts out at 95 (and this is 16 hrs after eating almonds, 2 lbs strawberries)

this is. a high value to start out with 😞

my hba1c did recently increase, idk for what reasons

for past few weeks ive been eating LOTS of garbanzo beans + acarbose and tomatoes...

i did do tirzepatide 4 days ago which suppressed my appetite for one day and didn't seem to have much effect the subsequent ones

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weight can range from 95 to 102

 

Edited May 26 by Alex K Chen

[Alex K Chen]

2 cans of garbanzo beans, 28oz tomatoes, 2 100 mg acarbose

[Alex K Chen]

new CGM, average BG has been 95 for the past week, even with intermittent use of flozins. sometimes waking up can increase from 75 to 95 for a bit..

I know the avg w/o flozins was 100, and the average with was 95, but the sample w/o flozins was biased b/c I ate hackathon food/fruits that week.

i think kidney beans might increase glucose a little less than garbanzos (they're tougher). there are some surprising increases with amy's/pacific foods soups. I haven't had a chance to completely eliminate glucose spikes with acarbose like I previously reported with bread, but it depends on the time of the day when I take them, since I think the spikes are much higher when fasting early in the day, probably due to low insulin.

2 nectarines w/acarbose increased to 110 (not that much). have to try peaches and the other stone fruits [apricots] again.

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i just got a blood draw again (oxidized LDL and Lp(a) and particle sizes - there were a few days where I ate lots of almonds but not too much over the past week). blood pressure right after was 91/61. also glucose to finally calibrate my CGM against [sad b/c for all the times I used a CGM I never put it on the proper back of the arm until last month]

i figured out how to apply tretoinin cream under my eyes for once. i'll see how this effects things if i get visia next month (in ny)..

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I might test for PFAS, esp after drinking lots of tejava tea (they use giant bags to filter, idk if it's the type that has PFAS)

Edited May 31 by Alex K Chen

[Alex K Chen]

A lot of pacific foods bean soups have some potassium to sodium ratio., even wit the added sodium. Like, from 1 K/2Na to above 1:1. Kidney beans also have more K than Na...

But the ideal ratio is 1:1 or higher. blah.

a steady stream did gradually increase BG to 110. It takes a long time to go down

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peaches/stone fruits have very small glucose response - I just ate 6 peaches [1] (though I need to try without acarbose). Stone fruits in general are more sucrose-y than fructose and more amenable to acarbose, and are the REAL fruits with lower GI. but they are usually more seasonable.BG

mild onramp from 95 to 105

Edited June 1 by Alex K Chen

[Alex K Chen]

https://stephenmalina.com/post/2023-08-13-cgm-and-beyond/

Muir Glen "no salt added" organic diced tomatoes spiked my BG from 95 to 115 130.. this is way higher than other tomatoes... (other than poma)

i mean glucose variability also hugely increases AUC insulin...

discovering that beans are not as benign as I thought they were... like a gradual rampup from 85 to 123... It depends on context and when I take them, and if they're garbanzo..

Edited June 3 by Alex K Chen

[Alex K Chen]

today i ate 2 cans of garbanzos, 1 can of kidney, and muir glen diced tomatoes this morning, and my BG did not spike THAT much (like 20-25 pts)

but then later in the day (after i slept) i ate one can of diced tomatoes again and it spiked from 85 to 135.

i suppose it's the amount of insulin that was there..

also sometimes for whatever reason, the numbers don't decrease below 105 for a long time idk why.

i need to get some stone fruits tomorrow and test it out

 

Edited June 4 by Alex K Chen

[Alex K Chen]

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Spiked to 145

[Alex K Chen]

Damnit, 12oz blackberries spike glucose to over 140 EVEN with canagliflozin 2hrs prior

And over 156 WTF

Just after blackberries and raspberries 

Edited June 7 by Alex K Chen

[Alex K Chen]

It never even went down until I ate Amy's tortilla soup and then it went below 100..

 

A lot of Amy soup produce low response, they are lower calorie density than garbanzo beans

But kidney beans also lower response

Edited June 7 by Alex K Chen