There is a book that some of the folks on here say is pretty good. You might not like my answer to your question. Maybe you might like to read the book for your answers.

"Think like a Pancreas"

Dear laurabp: I do not mean to sound harsh but as a newly diagnosed diabetic you need to understand you have a serious disease. You need to educate yourself. Testing your blood glucose once a day in the morning is almost meaningless. In my opinion, you need to be testing and tracking your BG levels a minimum of 3X a day. Here is a free BG tracker computer software program. http://www.soundtells.com/GlucoseTracker/index.html

And yes, dumping sugar into your system with cookies is a very unwise thing to do at any time of day. Cookies will almost always give a diabetic a "spike". They are so bad for us diabetics on so many levels. Please get some education.

CARBS are CARBS, it doesn't matter the type but yes the amount..and if you are only doing the morning, that is not giving you a true picture of what is really happening with the food you eat. Morning numbers change, it has nothing to do with what you ate at night unless of course you went full blast and ate way too much.

There is something called the dawn effect and you can't really control it,

Numbers fluctuate all day, whether diabetic or not. We unfortunately have a harder time processing the carbs since our liver and pancreas no longer function together as they should.

You should really be testing at least 3 times a day, morning fasting and 2 hours after a meal(pick a different meal each day) and then at night before bed.

It is important to test often, esp. if you are new to it and just learning what has different effects on your body. For me, simple carbs like in a bagel will cause a big spike, but something with some fat or protein will slow it down. Still, I try to stick with stuff lower on the glycemic index. The demon sugar not only affects my glucose levels but also my triglycerides and such.

Your responses are interesting! I am testing once a day because MY DR told me to do that! Sabalo, yes, you are being harsh; I DO realize this is a serious disease and I AM educating myself as fast as possiblle, but I was only diagnoxed TWO WEEKIS AGO. I am obviously not going to learn everything overnight which is WHY I joined this group - to get some feedback from those of you who have been dealing with it longer. Thank you everyone for your feedback.