I broke my fast after 6 days of fasting. Ate few eggs, rice and some carbs.. my glucose levels are not coming down. 2 hours after food it was 165. After 4 hours it is 200. I am a healthy individual with a HbA1c of 5. Any idea why it is shooting so high? I even walked for 1/2 hour.
Unrelated to this is testing your sugar American thing? I am 38 years old and only had my sugar levels tested once in my life and it was only because I was doing training at work to learn how to do it for patients I look after. Why are so many healthy individuals testing their sugar?
When you break an extended fast, your hormone levels can swing drastically. 4 hours after breaking your fast, your body is probably still processing the food, but maybe your insulin production hasn’t geared up enough after the fast to handle it. I’d wait 24 hours after breaking your fast to measure blood glucose level.
I’m not a medical professional, this is just a hypothesis based on what I’ve learned about fasting and metabolism.
If you’re fat adapted your cells downregulate their processes to burn fat, it takes a few days for them to adapt to burning sugar again with the return to a high carb diet. This can cause physiological insulin resistance and make non diabetic people temporarily fail an OGTT.