u/EmotionalQuestions

Hi all! Hope you can help me interpret my chart from yesterday. I've had a Libre 3+ for about 5 days and it's been consistent and working well.

Background: prediabetic, A1C 5.7 for a few years, on metformin twice a day. Typically fast for 16-18 hours daily. Huge family history of T2D so I need to get a handle on this.

Yesterday: did a little experiment. Ate a fair amount of peanut brittle candy after a lunch of an In-nOut Burger protein style burger (ie no bun). 2pm

Huge spike to 160 about an hour later, highest I've seen yet. Cool, makes sense and goes (mostly) back down before dinner around 7:40 pm. Dinner is dumplings at Din Tai Fung (on vacation!) mostly protein, minimal carbs.

Took metformin as usual at 9:45pm. But looking at my graph this morning, had another rise around 3am, as high and wide as a regular non-sweets meal. Didn't wake up, didn't feel any of this.

Ideas for how to explain what's going on physiologically?

I bought this one in the retirement sale since it had been on my wishlist for a long time. It's so pretty. This was 3 coats over a pale pink from another brand. I think it would also look amazing over black.

Got this one in a destash lot and in the bottle it's kinda meh. Muted teal with teal flakies that are hidden. I saw some lukewarm reviews as well.

But on me, I love this 😍. It's actually more sparkly than expected though more subtle than the Overcast Collection polished. And it's definitely less muted than I expected and quite opaque in 3 coats. Lovely formula too. Top 10 ILNP easy!!