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

A frustrating 6.4 for me this morning. Must try exercising it off.
Hope the eye injection isn’t too horrible @Krystyna23040 and that your physio is helpful not hurtful @Viv19 . @johnpol those coughs are so irritating, I could imagine exactly what they sound like. Hope you both recover soon and thanks for the smile your post gave me.
@Bildad I reckon you deserve a medal, fasting sounds like it may be the best option food wise, so well done for sticking with it.
@Bubbsie hope your tum settles before all that travelling.
@dunelm thanks for the protein info. I’ll take a closer look later on
@geefull thanks for the tip re Asda almond milk, I didn’t realise they had their own unsweetened one, the Alpro is quite expensive, I usually stock up when it’s on special offer. What’s the carb count on Asda’s?
 
A frustrating 6.4 for me this morning. Must try exercising it off.
@dunelm thanks for the protein info. I’ll take a closer look later on
Good to see you back on here (twice) young lady. The video embedded in that article was not very optimistic regarding exercise - you can't out run a wrongly constructed diet seemed to be the message. Hats off to anyone who can eat and drink what he recommends for breakfast.
 
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8.6 this morning

I forgot to eat much yesterday because I was taking photos of butterflies in my garden.
There is usually one day a year I have hundreds of butterflies in my garden.
Usually mostly Peacock butterflies and Whites.

This year excelled itself. I had a hundred or more Peacock butterflies, dozens and dozens of Red Admirals (maybe more than the Peacock butterflies). I had at least one Painted Lady, and the biggest surprise was a few dozen Commas.

There were more different butterflies including some Whites.

It was a breezy day, so it was hard to get good photos. I probably took over a thousand photos with iPad and phone. I was trying to get them dancing in the sky, but they got out of the photo before the iPad took the photo. So about 300 photos were just blue sky. I got a few of them flying in the sky. The silhouettes were very impressive but I wasn't quick enough!

I managed to get a few photos with one just flying, the others escaped out of frame.

There were three different species of butterfly sharing a Buddleia flower head, but each time I managed to get iPad focused on it, two had flown off!

I have never seen so many Comma's at any one time. Usually I see one or two, if I am lucky.

Every year for one sunny day, maybe for a few more days, I always get dozens and dozens of Peacock butterflies, clouds of them. But I have never seen dozens and dozens of Red Admirals in one go, like I did this afternoon. And never so many Commas flying at one time.

However I have had clouds of white butterflies some years ago. The caterpillars had eaten nearly all my Kale I was growing. I left them be. And it as a wonderful morning in my garden when all the butterflies hatched out. It was magical. The kale regrew for winter, so I still got some kale that year.

I do have a couple of large beds of nettles. I encourage them. I don't know if that is the reason for all my butterflies each year. I also encourage my wild garden (the neighbours don't like it, one even came one year with his chain saw saying he would raze it to the ground and wouldn't that be nice and he had some weed killer to kill the nettles, he cannot see the nettles from the street, he has to look over the wall or through the slats on the fence...I won't say what I said to him...it was not polite...).

These were only the butterflies in the back garden I photographed. There were more on the Buddleia in the front garden.

I love my wildlife garden.

By the way, I have hundreds of bees and droneflies, and Ichneumonid wasps (you probably don't want the details of what they do, but they are vital for pest control and other stuff), the list goes on of all the flying insects...

There would be no shortage of butterflies and everything else if people at least put a part of their garden over for wildlife.

There is no shortage of sparrows or dunnocks either. Every morning I get a flock of long tailed t*ts (I hope that star will stop it from being all stars), I could go on and on.

Chainsaw man has a concrete jungle front and back and half a dozen pathetic bedraggled roses in pots, and he wonders where the wildlife has gone...

Had to reduce the files a lot to get them on here. But it gives you an idea of how many butterflies.
These were all taken on my iPad.

>^..^<
 
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Good luck with the injection. I had my last one (hope) last week and I have had non D numbers for 18 months. I think there is a theory that when you tighten control it takes a while for these things to settle down. Doesnt seem fair though.
That's really interesting. So hopefully we both shouldn't have any more problems - but I do agree that it really isn't fair that this should happen when we have tightened control.
 
good morning all :)

4.3 today

my computer monitor appeared to have died this morning, no reasuring little blue standby light, no power. Thankfully after excavating the cables etc. from under the desk it was a power connection which had become unseated from it's socket :happy:
it's amazing (and a bit scary) how stressful being cut off from the internet feels to me now :sorry:

I love to check in at least once a day, if not more often, to see how we are all doing and how the world is with you ;)

Hope your day is treating you kindly :)
It is scary. I just have tablets and phone. And if one refuses to boot up it's tota sinkinking of the stomach and panic stations alert!
So, hugs for you and hope you get many more years good service out of it!
x
 
Please note that this posting contains words some will take offence at, gates, Mexican walls and other things. Please read no further.

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and all who encourage wildlife into their lives.
Please note that greeting does not included incontinent cats and incessantly barking dogs.

Well folks, a nice 6.6 leapt out of my meter this morning, waved and disappeared in a cloud of methane, that meter is getting on my nerves.

Here in Tilehurst me and me's are getting back into our normal routine after a week or so of charging about the countryside on motorbikes.
I have, and am still learning that I need carbohydrates in the morning so today I am back on porridge. Eggs and bacon etc are nice, but not enough.
Mrs J has not left me a list of tasks today, her look put me in my place. I might be unsupervised......she is all knowing so I better get on with things.
Have a great not grate day folks.
Ps
If I complete her tasks I could be back tomorrow.
 
Morning...an interesting start to my day...a well dodgy (saarf London parlance) stomach has kept me busy...obviously eaten something that doesn't agree with me...possibly a day at home then enjoying the rain that's arriving anytime soon...possibly off to Birmingham tomorrow...then Leicester on Thursday finishing with London on Saturday I know how to travel:banghead:...woke to a not surprising 6.8

Hug for the tummy and hopes for good traveling weather the rest of the week.
 
Been in consistent 5s so reduced my basal insulin again yesterday. :) :) :) so from 92 of triple strength insulin to 39 units of it now. :)
So excited. I might get off insulin, afterall. It might be possible.
3st or more to lose.
In a year or 2 I might reach my goal. Before bariatric op I had no chance in h+ll.
I love the no hunger. It was my biggest hindrance and all other diets didn't solve that for me.
More importantly steady bgs other than fruit spikes but longer stability thereafter.
I'm 7wks after op so restrictive swollowing and digesting is new so my body hasn't found its new belonging yet.
But so far so good. :)
 
Good morning folks from our retreat in the outbacks of North Yorkshire. An early awakening at goodness knows o’clock by the pattering of feet on the roof of our lodge. Why can’t birds wake up at sensible hours? How can I get one of those noise abatement orders issued?

Anyhow, the wonder wheel of country living and a quite decent scotch on the balcony last night banged home a 4.9 at 0500.

Latest question (nothing to do with the war on the cat lady who now has twelve of the **** things) - Will Tim Ferriss’ 30g of protein at breakfast help you lose weight? An interesting read. In the video embedded in the article (link below) Tim Ferriss advocates eating 30g protein within 30 minutes of waking up as well as cutting any sort of milk from tea or koffy (watch video for more). The analysis in the article takes the protein thing a bit further.

https://optimisingnutrition.com/2018/07/13/does-tim-ferriss-30g-of-protein-work/


Looks like my breakfast or even an OMAD may be a three or four egg omelette packed with spinach.

Thunder storms have been promised by the fake news that is the BBC weather stone folk; a great opportunity to dance naked in your garden and do a load of howling. Have a great day if you can, big hugs to any who want’s one (on a strictly just as many as you need basis).

Who was it wrote "Welcome to the wars"? Book? Poem? Kipling, Brooke, et al.?
If you figure out how to get a noise abatement order issued please let me know so I can get one issued against the antisocial teenagers visiting next door. It sounds like there are 12 of them staying in that 1-bedroom apartment that they think is their personal gym. Last week they got so loud they scared the cat as well as me.

I thought they were the reason I was wide awake at four o'clock this morning but having read through everyone's posts I think I'm here to share these instead:

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Been in consistent 5s so reduced my basal insulin again yesterday. :) :) :) so from 92 of triple strength insulin to 39 units of it now. :)
So excited. I might get off insulin, afterall. It might be possible.
3st or more to lose.
In a year or 2 I might reach my goal. Before bariatric op I had no chance in h+ll.
I love the no hunger. It was my biggest hindrance and all other diets didn't solve that for me.
More importantly steady bgs other than fruit spikes but longer stability thereafter.
I'm 7wks after op so restrictive swollowing and digesting is new so my body hasn't found its new belonging yet.
But so far so good. :)

Great to see you on here again! :)
 
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8.6 this morning

I forgot to eat much yesterday because I was taking photos of butterflies in my garden.
There is usually one day a year I have hundreds of butterflies in my garden.
Usually mostly Peacock butterflies and Whites.

This year excelled itself. I had a hundred or more Peacock butterflies, dozens and dozens of Red Admirals (maybe more than the Peacock butterflies). I had at least one Painted Lady, and the biggest surprise was a few dozen Commas.

There were more different butterflies including some Whites.

It was a breezy day, so it was hard to get good photos. I probably took over a thousand photos with iPad and phone. I was trying to get them dancing in the sky, but they got out of the photo before the iPad took the photo. So about 300 photos were just blue sky. I got a few of them flying in the sky. The silhouettes were very impressive but I wasn't quick enough!

I managed to get a few photos with one just flying, the others escaped out of frame.

There were three different species of butterfly sharing a Buddleia flower head, but each time I managed to get iPad focused on it, two had flown off!

I have never seen so many Comma's at any one time. Usually I see one or two, if I am lucky.

Every year for one sunny day, maybe for a few more days, I always get dozens and dozens of Peacock butterflies, clouds of them. But I have never seen dozens and dozens of Red Admirals in one go, like I did this afternoon. And never so many Commas flying at one time.

However I have had clouds of white butterflies some years ago. The caterpillars had eaten nearly all my Kale I was growing. I left them be. And it as a wonderful morning in my garden when all the butterflies hatched out. It was magical. The kale regrew for winter, so I still got some kale that year.

I do have a couple of large beds of nettles. I encourage them. I don't know if that is the reason for all my butterflies each year. I also encourage my wild garden (the neighbours don't like it, one even came one year with his chain saw saying he would raze it to the ground and wouldn't that be nice and he had some weed killer to kill the nettles, he cannot see the nettles from the street, he has to look over the wall or through the slats on the fence...I won't say what I said to him...it was not polite...).

These were only the butterflies in the back garden I photographed. There were more on the Buddleia in the front garden.

I love my wildlife garden.

By the way, I have hundreds of bees and droneflies, and Ichneumonid wasps (you probably don't want the details of what they do, but they are vital for pest control and other stuff), the list goes on of all the flying insects...

There would be no shortage of butterflies and everything else if people at least put a part of their garden over for wildlife.

There is no shortage of sparrows or dunnocks either. Every morning I get a flock of long tailed t*ts (I hope that star will stop it from being all stars), I could go on and on.

Chainsaw man has a concrete jungle front and back and half a dozen pathetic bedraggled roses in pots, and he wonders where the wildlife has gone...

Had to reduce the files a lot to get them on here. But it gives you an idea of how many butterflies.
These were all taken on my iPad.

>^..^<
Thx @gennepher. I really enjoyed your post. :)
 
5.3 this morning after a 19hr fast. Had a lovely time between classes - relaxing with coffees at my two favourite cafes.

Today have cancelled evening classes as I am having the last eye injection this evening. So will go over to a lovely pub and relax on their sofa drinking coffee as I wait for husband to pick me up to go to the hospital.

I am not going to spoil my day thinking about what happens next but I have been wondering why - when I am having the best blood sugars I have ever had - would my eyes suddenly get worse.

Edited to add: I did ask the eye clinic doctor but he didn't know. Also corrected several typos.

It doesn't seem fair, but things do settle, the body adjusts.
So, hugs x
 
Great to see you on here again! :)
Thx @SaskiaKC. Kids are on their 6wks break and little one's needs keeps me very busy. Also I'm recovering from my Roux-en-y operation so I'm only peeking these days. My shaking and co-ordination has its ups and downs (from uncontrolled diabetes) but lately I was only shaking with nerves at my 6wk return to surgeon appointment yesterday.
My walking is still aided and I've tried a few times unaided but I cannot get momentum to stride. I've told surgeon so he may request physio again. Hoping for a better one, this time.
Oh it's all fun and games here. The kids are the best distraction from scatica though. Little one is fantastic for outdoor activities. He's a godsend.
 
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