Hi Mrspepper (btw, great name)
Welcome to the Forum and like Krysia says, what a great start – completing 9 weeks and losing over 10% of your body weight. You must be pleased as punch!
It’s good that you started the BSD so soon after your T2 diagnosis – I did the same following my T2 diagnosis last August.
As far as your blood sugar levels go, those numbers seem pretty good to me, too.
I used the diagrams and tools on diabetes.co.uk to check my progress last year – still do, in fact.
I’ve just looked at all your blood sugar results on here https://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-hba1c.html (scroll part way down this page to diagram titled ‘HbA1c as an Indicator of Diabetes Control’) which allows you to see how your home monitor blood sugar results (below) compare to HbA1c numbers (above) – as you know, the HbA1c numbers are the ones usually used by GP practices/healthcare teams (in UK) to monitor progress. I also used the second calculator here https://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-to-blood-sugar-level-converter.html to do the same thing.
The HbA1c 7% on your diagnosis would be equivalent to a home monitor bgl figure of 8.5/8.6
If you compare all the home monitor bgl numbers in your post they all come out as an HbA1c equivalent of below 42 (6%) which would put you back in the normal range. So, looks to me as if the BSD is working really well for you. So, well done that woman!!
As far as your blood sugar numbers going up, it could be the dawn phenomenom as Krysia says. I never really had that (just as well because I’m not sure I can spell it!). But I did experience my bgls going up; for me it was about 4 or 5 weeks in and lasted for approx. 2 weeks before they came down again. I’ve read about that happening to quite a few other people on here at different points. The theory is that as your liver gives up its stores of fat, so it releases the sugar into your blood stream so your bgls rise again. So, if that’s right, it’s a positive thing. They do come down again.
The only other thing I guess is to check your carbs and portion sizes haven’t started creeping up again. But, I’m sure you’ve got that.
I’ve also read that illness, stress etc can impact on your numbers.
But like Krysia says it seems to me you’re doing brilliantly.
Marie xx
nb Diabetes.co.uk do identify to be aware that the HbA1c and home monitor bgl tests measure different things (and in different time frames – bgl – single point in time, HbA1c – over a 3-month period) but they do believe the calculator etc can give a good indication of progress in relation to HbA1c.