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What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

DJC3 said:
Haha I am trying to get used to having my coffee black! I found I was going through buckets of cream and far too much coffee I think. I’m trying to keep CWC as an after meal treat, often instead of a pud.
Such a shame about your friend’s situation and her little dog getting old and frail too. 17 is a great age but doesn’t make it any better.
When our little terrier died last year I was grief stricken - it hit me much harder that I anticipated. It was my Macmillan nurse who pointed out that Tilly had been with me as a source of comfort and a reason to get me up in the morning through the very worst times.
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Sorry about Tilly but as your nurse said these sensitive creatures get us through many troubles and are so loyal. Have managed to skip lunch today with two CWC so theres something in it. I dont want to get too hooked though, my weight has hit a plateau despite dropping two sizes. D is a crafty old fiend!
 
Good Lork @HarrisonK I think the aorta is scanned on my regular cardiac ultrasound, very restful and completely non-invasive!!! Colonoscopy a whole nother can of worms. Trying to keep the gallon of swamp water down is the hardest part.
Aw @PatsyB sorry about the wakefulness!
@ianpspurs thanks for sharing again. I grabbed it again, this time in US measurements. The pic does look familiar.
@gennepher good luck today, hope new hard- and soft-ware interacts better with your wetware! What a monumental task for you to learn how to process speech. Dare I ask about music? I'd recommend starting with plainchant which has only one pitch going on at a time. Less confusion, more easy learning.
Gad. 42 posts behind. Stopped at #480.
FBG 6.1 at 0710, a slight improvement.
See y'all later!
 
SaskiaKC said:
(Shudder) now y'all have got me remembering kaopectate. (Shudder.) Has the opposite use of milk of magnesia, which is just as shudder-worthy.

I'll take prune juice any day.
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Oh...Milk of Magnesia in the blue bottle...my mother loved it but I soon learnt to keep tum issues to myself just in case! Then there was a tincture which was really foul (I think against worms?) that she would pin us down on a bench and drop it in our mouths. I really dont know why.
 
ianpspurs said:
That post and @dunelm's chocolate olive cake prompted a sliding doors/join the dots moment for me - I'm from the Fens so a bit thick. Over the last year I have seen very respectable body composition stats without any improvement in bg control. 100% chocolate and that cake are perfect examples of foods I have tried as they are low carb but strongly disliked. During the last year there is a growing list of foods that , LC or not, I just won't eat. Hopefully, I am just refining my food range - it is getting quite narrow but unless I am medically directed to urgently eat x, y or z food I am determined not to eat anything else just because it is LC. Long winded way of saying try things you learn of on here but be honest with yourself about what you can tolerate or you won't stay the course.
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I completely agree. However... I am a sucker for chocolate. I did try cheapo Baker's baking chocolate on vacation bc the one I'd bought previously tasted, apparently intentionally, as though marinated in dry white wine. Not pleasurable. Neither was the Baker's, even less so. However, I have yet to meet a homemade, and I mean scratch from actual ingredients, chocolate cake I didn't like. And you must notice me not eating all these meat dishes. I'm used to that and it's no more a problem now than it was 8 months ago. I'm not having tremendous luck here at control either, although I expect my range is lower than it was 8 months ago. I must face and defy and clobber my plain old B-flat vanilla Food Addiction. Stress and it seems protein gets me in the BG too. So, yeah, narrowing food windows on a better bod lol.
 
ianpspurs said:
I think that is the point @DJC3 - be honest about up with what you can put. Both of us have had long enough to work that out and have taken enough readings to know some LC foods/recipes just aren't worth the faff - they neither please nor keep bg low.
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Have not heard that "up with which I will not put" in decades!!! If I say it, ppl look at me blankly. Eleanor Roosevelt or Mark Twain, was it?
 
jjraak said:
This morning FBG a light and fluffy 5.7

dry for the most part in the capital, showers expected at 3 pm.

@alf_Josiah ..hope you enjoyed the trip..east coast ? is that a future planned ride out, or one you arranged and actually went on ?
and i take it that's a pretty organised meeting / ride out you attended.
@dunelm..how i envy you the run out to the moors, takes ages to get out of London, really.
first stop proper is probably Box hill..(if i don't count richmond park.....and i don't ..:hilarious: )

Had a bit of a disaster sunday..big meet planned ..swapped indicators and rear rack sat night ..in prep for a 5 minute refit next am...Yep, should have known..NOTHING is ever a 5 minute job, when you NEED to be somewhere.:sorry:

Blew a fuse....AND the relay..but had a universal alternative..did NOT work..:wideyed::inpain::jimlad:

Meeting over..ho hum :rolleyes:
Off out this AM/..now PM..( thank you again Dunelm.;) ) .to refit new relay and see what other damage i may have done.

Everyone, i hope you all have a good day,
may your gods go with you, and always look over you.
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Hello
Yesterday's was a test run, to check on my riding fitness, new varifocal glasses and the route home on my bike sat nag.
The east coast trip is an organised trip, organised by me and is planned for later.

My blood sugars in the morning were approximately in the 7's, at lunchtime in Cambridge were in the 7's and when I got home were in the 7's. As I stated in another post diabetes and travelling, you have to be so careful.

I once led a Rideout from the Ace cafe to Divines cafe in Wiltshire, the first 26 miles were spent just getting out of Mordor as I call London.

I like to sneak up to the York's Moors and Dales, the roads are brilliant biking roads with excellent scenery.

I hope you have sorted your bike out by now. As for god's I like Dave Allen's phrase " may your God go with you " . I don't decry anybody's belief as long as they leave me alone.
 
@jjraak time to plug your phone in!!!!!
I got sick once on Maalox so y'all have to stop talking about MoM plzkthxbai!
 
Goacher55 said:
So my millionth search of my test results and voila, there they are HBa1c is 6.6 ( they want 6.5) And my cholesterol is 3.6 they want it reducing by 40 % damned if you do, damned if you don’t !
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What is it your cholesterol they want reduced by 40%...that sounds like madness 3.6 is absolutely fine Goacher & the 6.6 is not far off the mark...I hope you got some praise for your results...they should be encouraging you at the vey least...sod em' I say
 
alf_Josiah said:
I once led a Rideout from the Ace cafe to Divines cafe in Wiltshire, the first 26 miles were spent just getting out of Mordor as I call London.

I like to sneak up to the York's Moors and Dales, the roads are brilliant biking roads with excellent scenery.

I hope you have sorted your bike out by now. As for god's I like Dave Allen's phrase " may your God go with you " . I don't decry anybody's belief as long as they leave me alone.
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yes, that is what i originally thought...nice.

The ace not far from me..don't go too often, though.
and yep, even on a bike london's huge and sooooo slow moving traffic wise.

ah, never been , on the to do / bucket list.

yes thanks..relay replaced, rewired butchered loom, undone connection and re sealed, then adjusted bulb in rear indy..finally got it all to play nicely..
blinky, blinky, happy joy.

and the dave allen..well spotted..loved his shows as a kid.

and also with you on the god..
i'm pretty relaxed, and without disrespect, we do genuinely take on board ganesh, when we hit india..
and was quite fascinated by Buddha when we hit thailand
so i respect any one who is of another religious belief... Or NOT as the case may be..

( But i always think it never hurts to have some big hitters on the bench.... just in case..:) )
 
Well. Looks like I'll be living exclusively on olives for awhile. They seem to lower bg.... fairly expensive WOE if you ask me!
I ought to try an "olive day".
 
PenguinMum said:
Oh...Milk of Magnesia in the blue bottle...my mother loved it but I soon learnt to keep tum issues to myself just in case! Then there was a tincture which was really foul (I think against worms?) that she would pin us down on a bench and drop it in our mouths. I really dont know why.
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I'm glad I was not of the generation of kids who were given cod liver oil and castor oil!
 
Bubbsie said:
What is it your cholesterol they want reduced by 40%...that sounds like madness 3.6 is absolutely fine Goacher & the 6.6 is not far off the mark...I hope you got some praise for your results...they should be encouraging you at the vey least...sod em' I say
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My DN has enthused in my notes. It’s the guidelines for high risk patients (me) for cholesterol. HBa1c is 0.1 above what the guidelines want. I seem to be damned either way... increase insulin to reduce HBa1c then put weight on. You know what I think I will be golden girl. It’ll just be my weight.. ah well onwards we go. Quite enjoyed my prawn sandwich on ***** bread today ... next HBa1c in November so I’m good for. Day I think
 
Bubbsie said:
What is it your cholesterol they want reduced by 40%...that sounds like madness 3.6 is absolutely fine Goacher & the 6.6 is not far off the mark...I hope you got some praise for your results...they should be encouraging you at the vey least...sod em' I say
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I had logged onto my notes 5 times a day or was that an hour since testing
 
dogslife said:
I understand, Debandez. We had our walls and ceilings re- plastered and there was more plaster on the floor than anywhere else!:arghh: Don't do too much at once.:)
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All done, it looks fab. Then hubby came in and said 'you did it with a wet cloth! Didnt you?' Appatently its not only elbow grease that's required but a dry cloth too! I told him where to go in a very short 2 word sentence :-)
 
PenguinMum said:
Oh...Milk of Magnesia in the blue bottle...my mother loved it but I soon learnt to keep tum issues to myself just in case! Then there was a tincture which was really foul (I think against worms?) that she would pin us down on a bench and drop it in our mouths. I really dont know why.
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SaskiaKC said:
I'm glad I was not of the generation of kids who were given cod liver oil and castor oil!
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Oh, SaskiaKC. Now you are bringing back childhood memories! My grandma used to give me a tablespoon of "Scot's Emulsion"-- Cod liver oil in white, slimy gloop! :arghh: I used to heave! It took me years to overcome my dislike of oily fish as a result. I love eating fish now but still don't like the smell. LOL
 
Bubbsie said:
I had to do that Deb several years ago...it was hard work & it took me three days...good luck.
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All done, it looks fab in.my opinion. Took all day almost. Couldn't wait to show hubby. Tadaaa!!! To which he teplied 'you did it with a wet cloth! Didnt you?' Grilling me but knowing full well he was right. Appatently its not only elbow grease that's required but a dry cloth too (he had instructed me to do this but I got more satisfaction from a wet one Haha always go against the grain me)! I told him where to go in a very short 2 word sentence :)
 
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