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If you take medicine (diabetes pills or insulin), you will probably want to know how well that medicine is working. The general rule is to test before meals and keep a record. If you want to know how your meals affect your blood sugar, testing about 2 hours after eating can be helpful.
First, you measure your blood glucose level after fasting for at least 8 hours (i.e. you haven't eaten anything before you go to the lab early in the morning). The next step is to measure your blood sugar level after two hours you've had a sweet drink. What my blood sugar levels after eating should be? Now, you must understand that in a normal person (non-diabetic) these levels should be less than 140 mg/dl. Meanwhile in cases of pre-diabetes, you should find your blood sugar level between 140 and 199 mg/dl. But, if you're a diabetic, the results you may see can reveal sugar levels higher than 200 mg/dl. The chart below will give you a better idea on what your blood sugar levels after eating should be.