Blood sugar monitors do not work for your female physiology and jumping on this bandwagon will likely be more harmful than helpful.
Checking your blood sugar markers all day everyday won’t fix your blood sugar issues.
Here’s the deal.
You get a fancy blood sugar monitor and realize you are having a lot of spikes after your meals. You start spiraling thinking you are pre-diabetic. You’re eliminating foods, carbs and fasting and all around just spinning your wheels trying to get your blood sugar perfect.
What if I told you you will likely never achieve perfect because of your unique physiology and the 42 other factors that could be impacting your numbers?
Keep in mind most women’s hormonal issues come from LOW blood sugar and the constant blood sugar rollercoaster we put our bodies under due to waiting too long to eat. LOW blood sugar is not discussed enough.
We starve ourselves and then when we eat we get a blood sugar spike and think there is something wrong with us. Nope. Your body is doing what it needs to do to keep you alive due to negligence.
Rather than focusing on what food or meal is causing a blood sugar spike get the foundations in place and if you decide you truly need a blood sugar monitor based off blood work then work with someone that can analyze the results with you otherwise you will just drive yourself mad and end up in a worse place than where you started.
Slapping a blood sugar monitor on someone that has no healthy habits or foundational nutrition in place makes zero sense.
The goal is to have stable blood sugar while eating carbs of all kinds.
That is true metabolic flexibility.
Your body is intelligent. It knows exactly what to do. Stop giving up your own innate wisdom for fads.
There is truly nothing groundbreaking or kept secret about balancing your blood sugar. It’s quite simple in fact. Your body will tell you a lot more than any device could.
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