blood sugar levels 2 hours after eating

Lanieg,
The two hour postprandial reading is used to discern how well your insulin is moving glucose into the cells of your muscles and organs. It is a guideline and not a direct diagnostic tool. The reasons for this are many. The reading can be affected by exercise after eating, how many carbs were consumed at the meal, the amount of fiber in the meal and the amount of fat consumed with the carbs. This is why the parameters are so wide. Also, there is a new school of thought in the management of diabetes that says stricter control is better for preventing crippling complications in the long run so they propose readings no higher than 150 two hours after a meal.

Without doing anything out of the ordinary I would propose to you that you keep a journal and do the following:
1. Get a fasting first morning reading before any coffee or food.
2. Jot down foods and amounts eaten at each meal. Remember to count fats and butter used in cooking as well as fats like mayonaise. Also note caffeine consumption if over a cup of coffee.
3. Do your 2 hr. post-eating readings.
4. Note any exercise and the duration. (This has an effect on readings.)

This will show you which times your bs readings were high and from which foods and amounts. If you are consistantly seeing high readings you may be able to adjust your diet to help bring them into a better range. You also may be able to help your numbers with exercise. If you are not diabetic then your readings will hover around 100 - 120 two hours after a meal or sweet snack like a candy bar.

If you are an insulin resistant diabetic then changing the fibrous nature of your carbs and changing your eating pattern along with exercise will help your numbers. You may also need meds to help the insulin you make work better.

Water will only minimally lower numbers. When our sugar is high our bodies thirst because the kidneys demand more water to help eliminate the high sugar from the bloodstream and flush it into the urine. This is not an optimal way to reduce high sugars. It's hard on the kidneys and the circulatory system as well. High sugars act like maple syrup or honey and clog up the tiny arteries and capillaries in our eyes, liver, kidneys and the ones that supply the oxygen to our fingers and toes. Increasing water in the system will help dilute the blood somewhat but will not prevent organ damage. It will, however, help the kideys do their job more efficiently.

I STILL CAN'T GET BELOW 225....WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

That's exactly what I'm going to do.  The more I've learned recently, the more I realize how much I don't know.  My sister told me to look at the South Beach Diet because it also lists foods and their glycemic indexes (is that the plural form?).  But you bring up another point.  It's better to have 6 small meals?  Are you counting a snack as a meal or do you mean dividing a day's worth of food into 6 smaller meals?  Now it's making more sense to me.  This means blood sugar readings would be lower if the system isn't dealing with a lot of food at one time compared to an entire dinner? 

South Beach is good... Amend it to work with your real food plan (ie. the foods you will really buy and eat) and you will be off to a good start. Take someone along with you when you go to your nutritional classes. Two heads are better than one at remembering the fine points. You're on the right track. When you said you have become aware of all you don't know I was sure you are heading in the right direction.