I’ve been monitoring my blood glucose morning levels for about 4 months now. Here is the data:

It shows that my fasting blood glucose does go up and down, some mornings it is high and others it is fine. Overall the average for the period is 5.45 which is normal. The average hasn’t changed for the period in question. I think that is probably a good thing. I’ve not been hyper vigilant on my inputs the whole time, I’ve just been living a normal healthy life generally.

In a previous post I suggested a link between blood glucose and HRV the day before. Here is that graph updated:

Not such a strong correlation, although it is interesting to note that the holiday periods (the time when I’m not getting my blood tested) show high HRV. Generally I think this is a good thing as my holidays are very active.

So what to conclude. Not actually sure really. It seems that my diet isn’t really having that much impact on my fasting blood sugar levels, unless I fast. Keeping an eye on fasting blood sugar is probably a good thing. Whether I need to do it every day or not is debatable.

The fact that the high readings don’t appear in clusters is interesting. My readings are up one day and down the next. So it could show that anything that is affecting the reading is a short term actor. If I were able to see the effects over a longer term it would perhaps be easier to pinpoint what makes the reading higher on some days.