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

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who are not politicians.

7.7 for me this morning, an expected number, I knew exactly what I ate last night. Sympathy not required.

The local elections results should be leaking in today, best avoid the media and endless speculation, I expect a few politicians will be to quote an expression " kicking the cat " best phone the RSPCA and get the politicians put down.
 
So good news and bad news. Good news first , I slept! Now the bad 9.0 this morning. This is mainly bad as it messes with the formatting of my rather complex spreadsheet. The whole number messes with the aesthetics of my maths.. as a former maths teacher, the aesthetics of tge maths discombobulates my head. I’m not ready to accept that one pasta dish causes a 9.1 ( it’s round up month for my spreadsheet )
 
PenguinMum said:
Morning All. 6.7 at 0800. No reason for it considering everything. But had a really good nights sleep.
@zauberflote cute little kitty...I have pretty much the same kitchen floor.
@gennepher hope you get your settings how you want them to hear some singing voices.
Have a good Friday everyone. Stay well, stay safe.
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Thank you.
You have a great day.
>^..^<
 
Goacher55 said:
So good news and bad news. Good news first , I slept! Now the bad 9.0 this morning. This is mainly bad as it messes with the formatting of my rather complex spreadsheet. The whole number messes with the aesthetics of my maths.. as a former maths teacher, the aesthetics of tge maths discombobulates my head. I’m not ready to accept that one pasta dish causes a 9.1 ( it’s round up month for my spreadsheet )
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Hug for being a former Maths teacher. I must have been unlucky because all the Maths lessons I observed and had to assess were soul destroying for myself and the kids. I know yours would have been perfect 1s:)
 
geefull said:
good morning all :)

4.3 this morning

Even chillier than yesterday here, we're back down to 5 'C this morning and chucking it down again. I may have jinxed it by getting some of my summer sweaters out the store box under the bed :sorry:

Never mind, I shall go back to extra layers of lagging for my stint in the charity shop today ;) if the cold and rain continues we'll have a quiet day I think.

Hope your day goes well :)
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Hope the lagging goes well _ down here most common use of that phrase used to be for blind drunk - and excellent fbg. The rises seem to have gone. Can I reiterate, you do seem to me to be able to generate these great numbers by living and eating in a way I recognise. Being a demographic I understand and approve of may not be something anyone wants:arghh:
 
Morning...didn't sleep well up at 5am yuk!!!...had coffee & 'slumbered' in the big phat comfy chair for an hour or so...more coffee...no waking numbers cant be bothered this morning I am eschewing diabetes today...an energising shower may perk me up...on a positive note all paperwork done...invoices done...house relatively tidy...now to tackle the cold rainy weather:meh:
 
Bubbsie said:
I miss pasta
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Hug for that. I used to eat huge quantities of pasta and did wonder if I would miss it but I don't. Bread is what I miss - dark sourdough is one of my feral treats every 6 months. Luckily. my 6 monthly tests can be timed to avoid Chrsistmas and my birthday.
 
Pasta...not so much .

But oh the love affair with FRESHLY BAKED BREAD .( Drool, drool, drool)..omg.

One, let's just call her tiger.

Left me heart broken when we broke up, I know I didn't take it well, :bigtears:

Tiger ..well, she seems to be coping well without me, seen her about with others, once or twice.:rolleyes:

Find my self thinking about what might have been, all those little buns in the oven we would have... Now never to be...:sorry:

Still find myself going through the "good times" we had from that old memory bank

Even hooked up, once or twice on some pretext, to collect a "forgotten ' dvd or book.

All very civilised, and occasionally we'd,... you know...

but it's not like it was,
At least not for me.
I still have feelings, but it hurts too much to go back.

Got to go..seem to have some dust in my eye..sniff
 
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Morning all. 7.6 for me at 8.15am. (Yesterday I tested 5.7 at 6pm (pre evening meal). Two hours later after a ham/cheese salad--only 6.4. All good for me so far. :)Took Gliclizide ,which has been known to cause me hypos, so risked a Mr. Kipling's apple pie with my black tea at mum's at c 8.30pm . Big mistake! Nothing else to eat yet about 12 hours later it is up to 7.6. :banghead: Enjoy yor long weekend one and all.:)
 
jjraak said:
Pasta...not so much .

But oh the love affair with FRESHLY BAKED BREAD .( Drool, drool, drool)..omg.

One, let's just call her tiger.

Left me heart broken when we broke up, I know I didn't take it well, :bigtears:

Tiger ..well, she seems to be coping well without me, seen her about, once or twice.:rolleyes:

Find my self thinking about what might have been, all those little buns in the oven we would have... Now never to be...:sorry:

Still find myself dialing her up, just to hear her voice on the message service.
Even gone over once or twice on some pretext, to collect a "forgotten ' dvd or book.

All very civilised, and occasionally we'd,... you know...

but it's not like it was,
At least not for me.
I still have feelings, but it hurts too much to go back.

Got to go..seem to have some dust in my eye..sniff
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Sounds like a link into a Fleetwood Mac song - guess the song time. My take on this is we eat meals not carbs/macros. Last Christmas we had and excellent turkey that deserved to be respected when sandwich time arose. LC has no way of honouring some ingredients properly IMHO.
 
Morning. 5.7 for me around 9am
@zauberflote and @gennepher I’ve just finished reading your fascinating and informative exchange and looking up some of the plainsong suggested. I so hope it helps you gennepher. My only experience with deafness was through my dad who was deaf in later years - he would turn his hearing aid off if we went out to a bar ir restaurant as he said the cacophany of crashing cutlery and chairs scraping on floors etc was too painful and completely drowned out people’s voices anyway.
Not sure I’ve got the correct mental picture of you being suspended upside down at Glastonbury but that is astonishing too.
Hope everyone is looking forward to a jolly bank holiday weekend.
 
DJC3 said:
Morning. 5.7 for me around 9am
@zauberflote and @gennepher I’ve just finished reading your fascinating and informative exchange and looking up some of the plainsong suggested. I so hope it helps you gennepher. My only experience with deafness was through my dad who was deaf in later years - he would turn his hearing aid off if we went out to a bar ir restaurant as he said the cacophany of crashing cutlery and chairs scraping on floors etc was too painful and completely drowned out people’s voices anyway.
Not sure I’ve got the correct mental picture of you being suspended upside down at Glastonbury but that is astonishing too.
Hope everyone is looking forward to a jolly bank holiday weekend.
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@DJC3 Wow. Thought we may be similar demographics but jolly weekend???? @zauberflote I am listening to voices of angels as I type - sublime so thanks ma'am. Would be idyllic listening to that on headphones in right setting - either Ely Cathedral or Walsingham spring to mind.
 
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DJC3 said:
Morning. 5.7 for me around 9am
@zauberflote and @gennepher I’ve just finished reading your fascinating and informative exchange and looking up some of the plainsong suggested. I so hope it helps you gennepher. My only experience with deafness was through my dad who was deaf in later years - he would turn his hearing aid off if we went out to a bar ir restaurant as he said the cacophany of crashing cutlery and chairs scraping on floors etc was too painful and completely drowned out people’s voices anyway.
Not sure I’ve got the correct mental picture of you being suspended upside down at Glastonbury but that is astonishing too.
Hope everyone is looking forward to a jolly bank holiday weekend.
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Hi :)

Thank you!

Those noises are painful and hearing people don’t remotely understand.

I half think the crowd were watching because they couldn’t figure out how this was going to end...

But I remembered the guy’s instructions, fully trusting it would end perfectly with me extricating myself gracefully (despite my mobility and size). I had two figure of 8 bands to keep my hands and feet together so I could keep my shoulders on that upside down Buddha position, on his feet, for a long while. (Coming down in heap would have been embarrassing so not an option in my mind!!!)

Have a great weekend :)

>^••^<
 
ianpspurs said:
@DJC3 Wow. Thought we may be similar demographics but jolly weekend???? @zauberflote I am listening to voices of angels as I type - sublime so thanks ma'am. Would be idyllic listening to that on headphones in right setting - either Ely Cathedral or Walsingham spring to mind.
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I enjoy words like that - maybe I read a few too many Enid Blyton books when I was young? Haven’t managed a ‘spiffing’ yet but am now setting myself the task of using it this weekend.
Have fun, however you prefer to call it.
 
Happy Friday, everyone! It's a lovely day, sunny and 18 degrees outside and a lovely 5.3 - 5.4 in here. Yesterday I picked up the refill pot of strips for my prescription meter and as usual it gave me the higher reading; my Relion backup meter gave me the 5.3.

To give credit where credit is due, I think it was the sub sandwich I had yesterday for lunch and supper. Roast beef and cheese, spinach, sliced tomatoes and pickles on multi-grain bread. Two filling meals, I couldn't finish the sandwich even in both of them, and I didn't have a bedtime snack. I think I will be trying more of those sandwiches.

I'm settling in today to watch racing at Churchill Downs this afternoon. Races for fillies (girls) culminating in the Kentucky Oaks (named for THE Oaks).
 
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