Recent Content by Paule Foster

Hi Sophie, First of all so sorry you find yourself in this situation. I’ve not had a medical abortion but lost several babies in the first couple of months - one at 12-14 weeks. You are still very early so will probably be like a very heavy period with lots of clots. It’s groups of cells at this...

5.9 this morning [emoji3] but then got cocky & had homemade bread with some local honey for breakfast, spiked at over 11 & then crashed to 2.9 by midday [emoji849] Ah well tomorrow is another day & back to the oats & yog for breakfast…

Happy New Year everyone! This morning (for the first time) my BMI is in the green healthy range [emoji322], fasting blood glucose 5.7 despite all the cheese straws last night & blood pressure down to 104/80 so an excellent start! The challenge for 2024 is to keep up the progress…

Hi Geoff, I assume you know you can use your Libre2 with an Apple Watch? You have to download Shuggah & turnoff the Bluetooth on the freestyle app to get it talking to the watch then use a modular face on your watch. It’s a bit of a faff but works well & mine is more accurate in real time than...

Congratulations that’s amazing progress & a lot of hard work. Sorry about the neuropathy & hope it has improved now. Can I ask, have you had any problems with your eyesight? I’ve lost weight & reduced blood glucose significantly since July & it had really affected my eyesight.

5.8 this morning while Libre 2 reading 7.2! Shuggah in between at 6.5. Didn’t change much over the next 10 minutes ‍♀️ Libre has been consistently reading high for a couple of weeks now. I’d hoped with a new sensor (yesterday) it would settle but obviously not. At least I can calibrate Shuggah…...

Yes that was a clue!

Good morning, 5.7 here for me. Not bad as I went wine tasting last night& had some bread & cheese & half a mince pie [emoji849] . Sensor change this morning & this one seems OK so far. The last one was consistently reading a least a mmol high so I had to rely to totally on Shuggah which I can...

No you can’t with carbs& Cals - sounds interesting! You can scan barcodes with carbs & Cals & input (& edit) your own recipes which I find useful as we try & cook from scratch as much as poss.

Poor man - yes I couldn’t drive either & at night have to have different prescription glasses - it also gave me constant headaches. I hope they settle down soon. The cheap glasses from Amazon & the supermarket got me through the worst bit in the first few months.

Any side effects Nik? I’ve worked really hard the past 5 months, lowish carb - HBA1c from 114 to 44 lost 6% body weight (target 5%) & blood pressure right down & reduced meds & now my non hdl cholesterol has shot up. Meeting with DN next week & I guess she’ll put me on Statins. I had a tough...

6.9 this morning- still a bit high from last night. I had one of the kids drum stick lollys left over from Halloween figuring it was only 9 carbs & I needed a boost before bed (or I get a hypo alarm) - I spiked immediately up to 10.6! The highest I’ve been for months. So definitely no chewy...

According to my optometrist it’s because of osmotic pressures in your eyes. I went from a very high blood glucose (HBA1 114) which dramatically dropped (44 now) in 3 months on a low carb diet. Your eyes get used to the high sugar solution in your body & when this drops it causes them to change...

Thank you all the good advice- it was chicken veg & potatoes (which I left) & just went straight for a coffee instead of pudding -I told the waitress I was too full so it was fine. Everyone was too busy talking to notice I think. Anyway confident to go out again. Now I just need to discrete to...

5.4 this morning but quickly rose to 6.6 by the time I’d got downstairs-fed the beasts(cats not children [emoji23]) & boiled the kettle. How come it rises so quickly just with liver release -I didn’t eat anything got another hour [emoji849]