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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

6.2 after a full day do and evening reception at a wonderful wedding in the Lake District. My best friends daughter. So I'm extremely happy with that result.

My bit of news today is that im in the Sunday Mirror national newspaper. Page 18. Loud and proud! Spreading the word.

Here is my social media post today, short and sweet as I'm still away from home enjoying the wedding celebrations.

The NHS are right behind low carb now. They are seeing the results. They are hearing our voices. Which are getting louder. They are giving patients the choice. Finally. I'm loving it. And I'm loving spreading the word. And I'm one of many doing this. Massive thanks to diabetes.co.uk PR team. Today I'm in a national Sunday newspaper! Sunday Mirror. And so is your photo Scott Somerside. I did ask them to give you a mention . anyway I'm thanking you once again . your photos are really helping. This app will save @£30 million but it's just the start. It will be a snowball effect .
 

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Debandez said:
6.2 after a full day do and evening reception at a wonderful wedding in the Lake District. My best friends daughter. So I'm extremely happy with that result.

My bit of news today is that im in the Sunday Mirror national newspaper. Page 18. Loud and proud! Spreading the word.

Here is my social media post today, short and sweet as I'm still away from home enjoying the wedding celebrations.

The NHS are right behind low carb now. They are seeing the results. They are hearing our voices. Which are getting louder. They are giving patients the choice. Finally. I'm loving it. And I'm loving spreading the word. And I'm one of many doing this. Massive thanks to diabetes.co.uk PR team. Today I'm in a national Sunday newspaper! Sunday Mirror. And so is your photo Scott Somerside. I did ask them to give you a mention . anyway I'm thanking you once again . your photos are really helping. This app will save @£30 million but it's just the start. It will be a snowball effect .
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Congrats on going national!! Fab work and hopefully will help so many people in realising they’re options!
 
Debandez said:
6.2 after a full day do and evening reception at a wonderful wedding in the Lake District. My best friends daughter. So I'm extremely happy with that result.

My bit of news today is that im in the Sunday Mirror national newspaper. Page 18. Loud and proud! Spreading the word.

Here is my social media post today, short and sweet as I'm still away from home enjoying the wedding celebrations.

The NHS are right behind low carb now. They are seeing the results. They are hearing our voices. Which are getting louder. They are giving patients the choice. Finally. I'm loving it. And I'm loving spreading the word. And I'm one of many doing this. Massive thanks to diabetes.co.uk PR team. Today I'm in a national Sunday newspaper! Sunday Mirror. And so is your photo Scott Somerside. I did ask them to give you a mention . anyway I'm thanking you once again . your photos are really helping. This app will save @£30 million but it's just the start. It will be a snowball effect .
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Amazing thanks for doing all this
 
Debandez said:
6.2 after a full day do and evening reception at a wonderful wedding in the Lake District. My best friends daughter. So I'm extremely happy with that result.

My bit of news today is that im in the Sunday Mirror national newspaper. Page 18. Loud and proud! Spreading the word.

Here is my social media post today, short and sweet as I'm still away from home enjoying the wedding celebrations.

The NHS are right behind low carb now. They are seeing the results. They are hearing our voices. Which are getting louder. They are giving patients the choice. Finally. I'm loving it. And I'm loving spreading the word. And I'm one of many doing this. Massive thanks to diabetes.co.uk PR team. Today I'm in a national Sunday newspaper! Sunday Mirror. And so is your photo Scott Somerside. I did ask them to give you a mention . anyway I'm thanking you once again . your photos are really helping. This app will save @£30 million but it's just the start. It will be a snowball effect .
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Well done @Debandez you are an unstoppable force for good!
 
rhubarb73 said:
I like all of that - maybe not Bowie so much
I would add Billy Joel, Crowded House, KT Tunstall, Fleetwood Mac, REM and Passenger- that would keep me going.
Hope the journey is going well.
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Fleetwood Mac definitely!
In the end we listened to the radio until 1pm when Elaine Paige came on - a step too far for both of us - so put Jethro Tull albums on. Not a bad journey at all

@ianpspurs no Beatles or Elvis today but that means nothing.
 
Chronicle_Cat said:
You might want to test one to see if it spikes you. Although most grains and beans spike me, (including chickpeas/chana/garbanzo beans) surprisingly besan (chickpea flour) does not. I bought one gobi pakora (cauliflower bhaji), tested before and 2 hours after and it did not spike me (my rise was less than 2.0) . (It must be something about the processing the chickpea flour undergoes.) I didn't try to see how I'd react to 2.

I was really pleased to discover this. I've loved Indian food since the 1970s and my son-in-law is from India so when we eat out, it is usually Indian. I've had to give up a number of dishes I loved (biryani, dosa, samosas,naan and the desserts and sweets but I still have butter chicken, tandoori, many of the vegetable dishes (except for aloo/potato) and kebabs. He's from the south (Andhra Pradesh) but isn't a vegetarian so we usually go to a Hyderabadi place so he can have his beloved biryani and my daughter and I have kebabs.
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We absolutely love Indian food. I am personally not interested in “the hotter the better” though some of my boys are. I love the aromatic aromaand taste. I cook usuallyy from Atul Kucher’sbook Simple Indian (I think he was the first Indian chef in UK to get a Michelin star) but I also like to tweak the spices to taste. If your SIL is South Indian I imagine its aromatic with a lot of coconut milk like Sri Lanka. Lucky you if he cooks for you.
 
SueJB said:
Yikes @SaskiaKC can we go a bit more slowly? Not used to snow!!It's so silly, great BG all day, woke at 4.7 and then slowly, no slalom to 3.8 by lunch time. Had lovely lunch https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes...ing-oven-fried-xian-chicken-wings-recipe.html
Then whoosh!! 3.8 so forced myself to have a piece of stollen
It's just not possible to lose weight if I have to keep addressing these hypos with sugar, no matter how lovely they are..15g of carbs
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If you could see the "big hill" I walked down yesterday you would laugh out loud.
This is what I was picturing originally for our downhill adventure:


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For the sugar fix have you tried non-pastry sugar snacks? I'm T2 dx'd only last spring and I find that something like candy doesn't spike me like a cookie or pastry. But I also don't have lows I need to treat, and I've also learned that no two food tests are ever the same.

Or what about a few ounces of orange juice or other fruit juice? I'm not qualified to advise, just saying what has made me feel better quickly, and may not affect the weight as much as pastry would.

Just a thought ...
 
DJC3 said:
Fleetwood Mac definitely!
In the end we listened to the radio until 1pm when Elaine Paige came on - a step too far for both of us - so put Jethro Tull albums on. Not a bad journey at all

@ianpspurs no Beatles or Elvis today but that means nothing.
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Oh, my goodness, now I've just had a Jethro Tull flash-waaaaay-back. Now I've got to go YouTube Thick As a Brick. Or "Rumours."
 
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dogslife said:
Good morning one and all. fbs of 8.6! Not the best start to my Epiphany birthday but just had my first catch up phone call with my old friend since her cancer surgery 2 days ago and she is feeling much better. Best birthday present I could have wished for! Have a lovely Sunday everyone.:)
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Happy birthday, @dogslife. Hope you had a wonderful day celebrating.
 
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