What did you have for lunch?

Whats normal for one person is not always normal for another person. My BS ranges from 90's to 120's depend ing on what I eat and when I test. Could have been what you ate for lunch. Keep testing and see if you fall into a patten. It is an ongoing learning experience. I have found that Fitness Pal has helped me a great deal in tracking my foods and staying within my carb range. I also printed out my reports and brought them when I meet with my nutritionist. She found it very helpful to guide me in the right direction.

Normally you would expect your numbers to be a little higher after you eat. It's called a 2-hour post-prandial reading, and there are different criteria for it than there are for your morning, fasting reading, but those criteria change depending on who you ask. Some people say it should be below 140, some say 160, and I've even read 180. Talk to your Dr. about what sort of PP reading he or she thinks you should have.

It's higher then because our bodies are still in the process of digesting and using the food we've eaten.

The chicken wonton soup is 8 carbs per serving. A serving is 1/2 c. Even if you had a cup...or 11/2 c, I wouldn't expect your glucose to rise that much. However, you don't say (or don't know) what your reading was just before lunch. Did you eat breakfast? You don't mention it and often if a meal is skipped, blood sugar will rise. And sometimes .... it's just the diabetes gremlins creating chaos *shrug*

As others have said, everyone has a different number that makes them happy. Like your doctor, i want my fasting numbers to be below 100. I don't want my post-prandial number to be above 140 and I want the numbers before my next meal to be back below 100. These numbers are based on "normal", becasue that's what i want to be :-)

You might consider testing more often for a while. Right after diagnosis, I tested a LOT because I wanted to see the affects of food and exercise. Test strips are expensive and insurance is loath to pay for truckloads of them, so I bought a cheap meter and strips from Walmart (ReliOn) and followed the guidelines here http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/10/test-review-adjust.html until I had an idea of what and how much I could eat. Now that I've established what affects my glucose levels, I'm back to testing just 2x per day, unless I try a new food or am playing around with exercise intensity.

if you are new at this.. know that everyone is diffent. My doc wants my blood sugar under 130 for am fasting, and under 180 when i check it 2 hours after a big meal. stick with it and keep checking your levels you may learn what triggers you have. My nutritionist did tell me as a experiment to take my level before a nice relaxing walk and then after and it should be down.. for me that did not work, mine were up.. I do know for me stress does effect by levels.

When you are just new to measuring BG, the variations in your readings can be extremely troublesome and cause you a lot of undue stress. I know I freaked at every reading when it was higher than i expected, like after excercising and after a "good" meal.

it will take your body some time to adjust to your new lifestyle. Keep excercising, keep carbs low, and calorie value of each meal low. log what you eat..how many carbs and cals. After a while you will learn your limits...for me its about 45-50g carbs per meal or 600cals. If I go over either one I expect an unacceptable BG reading 2hrs afterward

as for excercise, many people experience a post workout increase in BG. All this means is you were working hard enough for your body to demand some glucose to be released by your liver to fuel your workout. Its overall a good thing and temporary. The benefit fromexcercise far exceeds the downside of a tempoary spike.

Overall, keep doing what you are doing. Focus on the big picutre. Log all of you BG readings on piece of paper. Dont comapre to yesterday...but compare this week to two weeks ago. re your numbers, on average, higher or lower? Make adjustments and move forward!!

You can do this!,

Good luck

Sometimes it is a puzzle to figure out why readings go high. For me, it depends on the intensity of the exercise. I just did 20 moderate minutes on my home treadmill and my BS dropped from 170's to 154. I am not ready for heavy workouts at the gym. But I have noticed that if I don't do 30 minutes per day, the numbers go up.

Also, it is important to test the post prandials Keep a log and show it to your doc along with what you are eating and your exercise.

Remember that blood sugars peek two hours after you eat something, so that would be your high, before and after it would be a little lower. Most Dr's want to see your sugars jump less than 50 points between a "pre meal" reading and a meal + 2 hours. So, the 132 may not be high at all. Do a couple more 2 hours after meals and see if the range is normal for you. So, breathe, seems like you're doing well! Good luck!