Zoe Nutrition Testing

[Wombat27A]

Not sure this is the right place for this...

Anyone else doing the Zoe Nutrition Testing?

My results were poor, so now I'm tackling my diet. I thought it was pretty good but it's clear it needs a major overhaul. So much information but finding it good.🙂

Following as I have joined the waiting list !

@Llamasally I’ve got a code for you to jump the waitlist queue if you want. Send me a pm.

My kit finally arrived yesterday - so today is day 1 for me, glucose monitor has been attached. Excited to join in properly!

Ohhhh @BarryKentPoet excellent news! Enjoy today, get full use out of your hammock tomorrow and never look a muffin in the eye again after Monday.

Ha, ha, so true.

Take care with attaching the hammock. I used a camping toilet to ensure no water was present, as I am remarkably clumsy. 💦🚽😁👌

That's great news @BarryKentPoet after the delays. I think over the weekend is a good time to get to grips with it all. Enjoy it! How often are you scanning your monitor? I was obsessed!

I didn't feel great on the day when I had to eat two lots of muffins. If I were doing it again, I'd pick a day when I wasn't too busy for muffin day.

Had the CGM on for 24 hours now, think it starts to be more accurate now? My lowest has been about 3 and highest has been about 9, after eating a roll with bacon, egg and potato scone!

I need to try & scoop the poop today.

Mine did settle down after 24 hours @BarryKentPoet. Good luck with the sample, I felt a lot better getting it out of the way.

I'm also on day 3 @BarryKentPoet
I love the blood glucose monitor but it's interesting I'm not sure what counts as a spike but nothing seems to have truly spiked it yet. I've generally run below 6. More worryingly I seem to have gone into the red every night but I'm sure if there was actually something weird going on I'd have known about it before this!

@Plural I generally didn't have huge spikes either, until the last 3 days of wearing it. For me a spike seemed to be popping just into the 7s which I did with the muffins and the bagels. My normal diet kept me fairly even.

Enjoy the muffins

The muffins weren't as bad as I thought they might be given what others have said! Some water is definitely required though

Breakfast time

My bowel has gone shy, I was supposed to provide my sample yesterday but it's been a no show so far!

Muffins were awful to eat, way too dry and dense. Gah.

Love scanning my monitor, lowest was 3,3 overnight, highest has been 10.8 after 2 cookies! Its gone from 4.3 to 8.8 after eating the muffins and climbing ...

Glucose Goddess reckons a change of more than 1.7 is a spike, but not sure what Zoe says.

@chutneypig does your dashboard still show as processing your gut health results? I am PARANOID re the poo sample not being right and I was expecting it to have moved down to the next category given my results are due a week today......

Most meals made me spike up to 8 or 9 but they came down quite quickly and didn't dip below the pre meal levels generally. My worst meal was a quinoa salad followed by cake, that went out of range and dipped low. That was for lunch but I did notice my blood sugar dropped too low over the following night,

My best day was day 5 with the second lot of breakfast muffins actually. So hopefully that's good data for them.

Zoë says the same :)

God I don’t envy you, I hope I never have to eat those again 😄

@lugeforlife same for me, still analysing the gut health. I keep checking hoping it's moved!

Meh, Zoe 103 has me in such a slump 😄 and the app has been playing up and I don’t like the changes they’ve made. A week until my results I think, although my ‘where are my results?’ link has disappeared with the rebranding. I did get some results from my monitor but they were confusing - eg ‘this meal gave you your biggest spike; up to 7.3!’ and then the next slide saying ‘this have you a spike to 7.6’ 🤷🏻‍♀️ Plus chat support seems to have died a death!

The ‘eat 30 plants’ thing is annoying me because i already do and there’s no suggestions for that situation? My breakfast and lunch are usually vegan anyway just by chance, so that’s say 10 plants over 2 meals already on day 1!

Also listened to the Glucose Goddess episode and now I’m worried about menopause - if I already do all the glucose hacks now, where does that leave me in 10/15 years when menopause hits, there’s no tactics left? I’m already so overweight and honestly don’t know what else I can do about it (I realise weight is not the focus of Zoe though!)

Sorry, just getting it all out 😄😄

@MassiveSalad22 oh. Massive. No.

Don't worry about menopause. Remember why you are doing this. If you are already eating lots of plants your guts are probably full of tiny happy bunnies already. Remember this is a process.

Shall I cheer you up by telling you about my food today? Yoghurt from Pret, banana bread baked my by my mate, a falafel wrap a banana and then some crumpets, a strawberry mousse and a cupcake. And no walk. By my thinking maybe 2 plants all day. Now that is shite ( I really really need to work out how to manage stressy days).

Chin up buttercup. Knowledge is power.

@MassiveSalad22 the hacks you learn now and out into practice will stand you in very good stead for the menopause - don’t despair you are doing the right thing. I managed to swerve the worst of the menopause by cutting out caffeine and with diet - you have this!!

Just signed up yesterday patiently ( not ) awaiting my kit. I have an instant access code for anyone who's still waiting. joinzoe.mention-me.com/m/ode/mu9bd-44c0f0a2fc