I was beginning to develop diabetic complications (peripheral neuropathy, gastroparesis, hypertension and a myriad little aches and pains which I mistakenly attributed to "getting old"). They've all been reversed. Every single one. Not a trace.

After my doctor read Dr. B's book at my suggestion she lowered my postprandial target bg reading to 110 from 140. I've had no trouble maintaining it a lot lower than that, but it just goes to show that we are winning the war, one doctor at a time. They just can't argue with results.

6 months ago, I was on a high carb low fat diet. I could sometimes feel that I was in hypoglycemia. My body wasn't coping with it very well so I had to immediatly eat something. My fasting blood sugar was fine: 0.90 g/l and cholesterol was: total 1.75 g/l and HDL 0.91. These were considered excellent figures I guess.
I'm vrather thin, very lean and and doing some physical training. I started following the Zone diet about 3 months ago. I've been feeling great ever since and I'm no longer starving or overstuffed. For info, I split my food into 6 equal meals a day. Last meal is often taken before going to bed! (I would like to add a few pounds on my skeleton. Sorry folks lol)
Everything was fine so, until my fasting sugar blood test yesterday. It says 1.06 g/l. Now on a low carb diet with no simple sugar, it's much higher than previously! What's going on? I have the strange idea that with my small meals taken through out the day, my glycemai remains continuously in that range. What should I do and is it alarming? The fact is that I've never felt in hypoglycemai since I started the new diet. I hope it hasn't messed up my lipid profile too!

romeo,
...sorry, we don't understand measurements in g/l. What is g/l? (grams/liter?) Most of us are used to mmol or mg/dl readings...please recalulate to either mmol or mg/dl....preferably mg/dl as it appears most of us on this forum use that reading....thanks.

You just need to multiply by 100. 0.90 is 90 for you; 1.06 is 106, etc.

I tried the zone for 3 weeks, following the week in the zone plan. It had a lot of higher glycemic choices than most lowcarb plans would have. Like the pineapple, mandarin oranges,grapes, garbanzo beans. Are you keeping your choices toward the lower glycemic side? I get lowblood sugar feelings and felt great on the zone also. Unfortunately I gained 3 pounds every week I was on it.