{"id":888,"date":"2010-09-22T13:51:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T13:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/type-2-test-strip-game\/"},"modified":"2010-09-22T13:51:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T13:51:20","slug":"type-2-test-strip-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/type-2-test-strip-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Type 2 &#8211; Test Strip Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- #BeginTags --><\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/diabetes\" rel=\"tag\">diabetes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/fit4d\" rel=\"tag\">fit4d<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/test strips\" rel=\"tag\">test strips<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- #EndTags --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">If you are a Type 2 diabetic on medication, you probably have been told to play the &quot;test strip&quot; game.&#160; Even Fit4D plays this game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">Here is how the game works:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">\n<li> On day 1 and day 2, you test in the morning, fasting and 2 hours after breakast and record it.&#160; <\/li>\n<li>On day 3 and day 4, you test before and 2 hours after the meal and record it.<\/li>\n<li>On day 5 and day 6, you test before and 2 hours after the meal and record it.<\/li>\n<li>On day 7 you test before an evening snack and record fasting the next day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">Rinse and repeat.&#160; This is insane!&#160; Doesn&#8217;t even give a decent picture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">Okay, name 3 people who are organized enough to do that.&#160; Here&#8217;s how it should go:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">Test every day, morning, lunch and dinner, probably two hours after.&#160;Testing after meals you eat a lot of both before and after are good.&#160; Now I&#8217;m a pumper and do a bit more.&#160; I often forget the before meal check, but I always get the after meal (bolus check).&#160; <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>diabetes,fit4d,test strips If you are a Type 2 diabetic on medication, you probably have been told to play the &quot;test strip&quot; game.&#160; Even Fit4D plays this game. &#160; Here is how the game works: On day 1 and day 2, you test in the morning, fasting and 2 hours after breakast and record it.&#160; On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status","category-diabetic-issues","category-fitness4diabetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}