I am happy that I have achieved what I was asked to, that is 4.4-6.1 mmol/L fasting and 4.4 - 8.0 mmol/L after meal. You can click on the graph for the larger and clearer one.
Okay here it is. The first I want to show is the graph for 7 days running everage since 26/3/2007.
I am hoping to get to the minimun by the next month.I reach the 6.1 mmol/L on 10 April 2007 and still going further down. I am now at 5.4 mmol/L. The next graph is for the actual readings. You can see how far I am going down with regards to my sugar levels. The lower diamonds are reading for fasting sugar and the upper squares are for after meals. The lines are exponential and linear regression, often used to chart share price movements!
Not to rest on my laurel as they say, I chart another graph, this time taking out the earlier readings before any medication.
You can see how I struggled to maintain the levels, sometime I took off the drug from my diet and experiment with several herbs that is known for glucose blockers. That is where the levels went up a bit but then brought down again with exercise, and smaller dose of gliclazide.I have not taking any more for the last two days.
For diabetics my advice is very simple. Go and buy AccuCheck(on sale now in Guardian) and check and control your sugar. It can be done if it is not too late. The next is excercise. No short cut. I now run and walk for about 2 km every morning before going to the office. The last 7 days I was tracking in Crocker Range and climbing the eastern side of Kinabalu. And the last advice is get the (safe) known drug to lower it down if you can't control your diet. Learn how to say no to sugar, and there are many ways for that. Take tea ais without sugar (teh is kosong), if it is too boring then take tea ais limau. Occasionally I took juice oren ais tanpa gula. Many times I brought my Ahmad Tea from London (available in Tesco) with strawberry or lemon flavor to kedai mamak, and asked for hot water. Sure he was not happy. I have it in my pocket all the time and there are plenty of mamak stall that doesn't charge a sen for air panas. Took a quarter of your normal rice, and double your ayam or ikan. And the best is I triple my vegies. Always try to get ulam especially celery and peria. If that is too bitter, get the pills.
Anyone want to share your experience, write to me.

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