>First of all, strss *can* cause FBG to rise.  The stress hormone 
cortisol does exactly that.  It prepares your body for "fight or flight" 
by making glucose, the explosive exertion fuel, more available.

Second, home glucometers are not perfectly reliable.  I don't know if 
the instructions for yours mention not washing your hands with soaps 
that contain glycerin (many do contain it), because glycerin residue on 
your fingertips can raise the BG reading.  In any case, it's the general 
trend you want to watch, and don't be too concerned about occasional 
readings that don't fit the curve.

Third, since you're carefully monitoring your intakes, you might 
experiment to see how tight the correlation between protein and FBG is.  
A 9g difference doesn't seem like much, but in conjunction with a 5g 
increase in carbs it might have been sufficient to cause a rise.  I'm 
inclined to doubt it, but you never know.

Thanks for sharing your results.  I think monitoring BG is one of the 
simplest and most direct things we can do to get feedback about the 
metabolic effects of our diet.  I know that I was surprised to learn 
that Owsley "Bear" Stanley's FBG is 99 after 40+ years of a meat-only diet.

Todd Moody
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Thanks Todd, that was very encouraging. I have had so many health problems
in the last 4 years with only very slow improvements that I get very
frustrated and impatient when I seem to be going backwards.

How should you clean your finger before taking the sample?

Thanks,
Kristina