Six weeks in and my mornings won't settle

Welcome. Your trig drop from 190 to 121 is the standout. Mine went 210 to 140 in eight weeks, but fasting still jumps 15 points. What are you tracking with?

Fasting glucose seems like the last thing to settle. About three months, in the labs I've watched. Weight and waist move way earlier.

That tracks with my experience. My morning numbers actually went up weeks 3-5 before drifting down. Did yorus start low and then bounce?

I wouldn’t read too much into one fasting number. Sleep and stress wreck mine. Are you checking at the same time daily?

Same. Bad sleep adds like 10 points for me. Your trigs falling that much is the bigger signal, honestly.

Wait, 11 lbs in six weeks could explain some morning weirdness. I saw strange fasting numbers weeks 4-8, then it calmed down.

The part people forget is that seven weeks of logging is about where the picture actually settles — the early swings flatten out and you're mostly watching the same numbers hold. Common surprise: A1c sitting at 5.6 while fasting glucose bounces around 95-107, which looks like a wide spread until you realize fasting readings just do that day to day. Worth knowing before you compare options or panic over a single morning. Following this one.

The morning puzzle is why I switched to weekly averages instead of daily readings. Less head noise.

Weekly averages helped me too. Daily made me obsessive.

The notebook is fine, but if fasting stays high for weeks, that’s still data. I’d want a clinician’s read on it.

My fasting bounced for two months, then settled around 90. Trigs and HDL changed first, just like yours.

HDL 38 to 44 in six weeks is fast, isn’t it? Took almost a year to move five points on the labs I’ve seen.

Depends on weight loss and starting point. M yHDL jumped six points in ten weeks when I dropped 15 lbs.

Not doubting you, but are those fasting numbers from a home meter or lab draws? That changes how I’d read the bounce.