Experimenting with Lingo

Lingo is about keeping things personal. It’s about helping you better understand your body’s unique response to foods, drinks, exercise, and lifestyle shifts. You’ll gather real-time insights into your glucose levels and soon feel ready to handle whatever life throws at you.

To get things started, it’s best to explore the impact that food and lifestyle habits have on your glucose levels. Exploring the different causes and effects will lead you to uncover the best choices for you, ones that help your glucose stay steady. Lean on Lingo and learn more about your response to different foods and make the best choices for you and your body.

Your biggest daily contributor to your Lingo Count, unsurprisingly, is food. Your Lingo Count correlates with how food, activity, and other daily activities impact your glucose. You might be surprised by your body’s response to your usual diet, similar types of food on different occasions, and the time of day that you eat.

How do you solve the mystery of increasing or decreasing glucose? Experimenting and observing. Within 90 minutes of eating, your glucose levels start to rise. The bigger the rise, the greater impact that particular food has on your Lingo Count.  This gives you a good idea of where your starting point is and which foods cause sizeable increases to your glucose. 

You’ll also be able to track your mood, energy levels, cravings, and restfulness alongside your glucose levels. Frequent fluctuations or changes in your glucose levels can make you feel depleted, so the goal is stay within your normal range with the help of Lingo.   

Here are few experiments to get you started: 

Eat the same meal on two separate occasions. Observe the impact on your glucose when you walk for 20 minutes before or after one of the meals, versus when you relax on the sofa. 
Enjoy a higher carb meal (like a plate of pasta) but add in non-starchy vegetables and protein and eat these foods first. Check in with your hunger level and your Lingo Count and compare them with the carb meal alone. 
Track your water intake one day. The next day, add a few more glasses of water. Note the difference.

A final note from Lingo

You can learn more about how your glucose rises and falls throughout the day by experimenting with your meals and daily habits. The insight these experiments can provide will help you work out what the best choices are for you and your body.

^{The Lingo system is not for medical use and intended for users 18 years and older. Lingo is not intended for diagnosis or management of any disease including diabetes.}

^{The Lingo programme does not guarantee that everyone will achieve the same results as individual responses may vary. It is best to speak to your doctor for advice on starting any diet or exercise regime or if you have an eating disorder or a history of eating disorders.}

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Introduction
A final note from Lingo