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

[alf_Josiah]

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and sorry but must be orf under orders, you know the type of orders.....
A fresh 6.8 this morning.
I have to be on the road and gone in 20 minutes, wash, pills to take etc.
Have a great day folks.
Bye

 

[UserABC2021]

I had a late start as I didn't get to sleep until 4 am. Showing 6.3 at the moment, off out before the rains begin

 

[jjraak]

Just another day here.

6.0 on the Richter scale of blood
Debating the merits of breakie before hitting B&Q

decisions, decisions.

have a good un all,
and stay warm while 'studying' @gennepher

 

[mojo37]

goodness knows where i am up to but I will start with my last few FBSs, seems a good place to start after a few busy days

5.8
4.8
4.9
5.3
4.7

just going to spend an hour catching up, see you soon

Should be able to press the winner button 5 times for those ( scores )

 

[SaskiaKC]

7.8 this morning after another early-morning issue (or rather non-issue) with the KittenCat that warranted a call to the vet who said just keep an eye on her this weekend. Thank goodness everything sorted itself OUT and she was back to her usual purring self within the hour. Our vet is wonderful, and her own medical history reminded me that if I suffer the same sort of thing I don't go rushing off to the ER but find some sort of home remedy, but when it's the KittenCat I panic ...

@DJC3 I sympathize with you on the nightmares. I have had some doozies. Thankfully after being up till after 3 this morning all I had was a rather weird dream about Heralds of Valdemar posting scores on an online forum ...

 

[ianpspurs]

O/T can't believe no-one asked where were you 30 years ago yet. According to our 3 year old son a part of that structure found its way to a village car park in the fens.

 

[dunelm]

O/T can't believe no-one asked where were you 30 years ago yet. According to our 3 year old son a part of that structure found its way to a village car park in the fens.

I was in Germany - then West Germany - in a town called Verden, Lower Saxony. I have two half German cousins, one who lives and works in Berlin so she was there when the wall came down.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

good start and the family day sounds just the ticket - as no one ever says.

Certainly been a good day and it looks like they will be spending another night with us. 'Just the ticket' is a phrase often used in our household, mustn't let these phrases die.

@dunelm thank you for sharing that data, another tactical approach to consider. Between @Debandez and your post it helps us to see how these sensors help untangle some of the mysteries.

 

[karen8967]

 

[mojo37]

Away up in Scotland visiting my daughter Edinburgh uni so missed putting my numbers on here . So catch up had 5.7 thrus 5.8 yesterday and a 6.8 this morning. The latter due to takeaway and rather a lot of chocolate afterwards

 

[DJC3]

&SaskiaKC so pleased KittenCat is ‘all systems go’ again, your vet sounds lovely.
Nightmares are so strange aren’t they? I don’t have vivid dreams as a rule, let alone nightmares so I’ve no idea what bought them on. Hopefully a calmer night tonight.

 

[Debandez]

Good morning everyone. The rain has stopped. Not sure for how long. The wind has also dropped so the sea will be a bit happier this morning - so grouchy yesterday.

The wonder wheel of just a wee drop of 12 year old Redbreast and an excellent nights sleep gave out to a 4.9 this am.

It’s not the full story and for some folks that find their fasting readings a bit odd I carried out an experiment yesterday to see what happens if I pig out a bit on carbs. I usually keep my carb intake quite low and consumed mostly at around noon (I rarely have anything before that apart from tea and koffy). Yesterday a carb laden dinner; about 35g and consumed by 2100.
As you can see from the graph, the night shift had a whale of a time shoveling the resulting sugar load around. When I got up at 0500 (where the red line is) my reading was 4.9. Liver then kicked in and went berserk, due mainly because the night shift had failed to sort it out.

OK, only once but (1) if I keep my carbs low, especially after lunch time then my nightly graph looks fairly nice and smooth and (2) taking a fasting reading (a) a good 8 hours after eating and (b) immediately upon waking may be very different from not 8 hours or perhaps more importantly delaying after waking for even just a small time when the liver may be already doing it’s thing to help you get some energy for the day.

Have a great day if you can - kofee now and maybe a bit some cheese I think.



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Great for info, thanks for sharing

My dads army inside deal with carbs later in the day far better than at breakfast. I dont have over 6g carbs breaky but zero carbs would be better. Graphs for info

 

[Debandez]

5.3 today following a late tea if 1 x thins cracker, some cheese and nuts. Had a full English breakfast so wasnt hungry. Blood sugars didnt go over 6 at all which I love. Nothing very carby so just as I expected.

Today I had a later breaky. Cheese omelette. Would put my bloods up to just over 6. It got to.6.2. Then about 1 hour later I decided i fancied a 5.9g choc n nut bar from aldi. So you can see one rise to 6.2 then a pause before it goes up further. Dads army were taken by surprise, didnt even get chance to get back to their barracks. Tonight was my usual kebab. Naked (the kebab not me, far too b***dy cold!). Chili sauce and garlic mayo, cabbage and onions. Large glass of red and a few nuts. dads army happy with that. Coffee and cream and 4 small pieces of Tesco 90% no sugar choc. Nice. Sweeteners in it so tastes devine!

Painting day today. One of our rentals has come empty. An amazing tenant we have had for 4 years left to move closer to her new job. She left it immaculate (not always the case!). Not even one bit of rubbish left (never the case!). So freshening up for new tenants whilst we do viewings. Lots of viewings!

Tomorrow repeat.

Trying to work on a few things in between but not a lot of time. Will have more time soon.

Preparing PowerPoint for my event at Blackpool tower ballroom. Monday 25th November. Free entry. Me and Eric have a table. Hoping to help lots of people. It may be a damp squid. Blackpool has many challenges. Not sure too many will be in the queue to hear about their health and wellbeing. But if we can help one person! Going to do the teaspoons of sugar quiz. Also the pouring the daily sugar we have into a Tupperware. Lots of dr unwins infographs and pictures of pasta rice etc with equivalent sugar. My leaflets. Blood glucose monitor demo. Cgm demo. That kind of thing. If anyone has any ideas let me know as I have to fill 6 hours!!!

@Listlad my 30 minute talk is at 12 noon for info

Got quite a busy couple of weeks.

My friend invited me to madame tussauds this week. Free entry. They have a strictly come dancing section. There were 3 LIVE DANCERS in between the waxwork dummies!! Imagine that. We laughed. Johannes is my favourite and I got the chance to tell him.i especially loved his stiletto dance. TV cameras there so might be on TV again this Thursday on it takes two. I might end up on cutting room floor too!

Happy weekend to you all.

 

[Listlad]

5.3 today following a late tea if 1 x thins cracker, some cheese and nuts. Had a full English breakfast so wasnt hungry. Blood sugars didnt go over 6 at all which I love. Nothing very carby so just as I expected.

Today I had a later breaky. Cheese omelette. Would put my bloods up to just over 6. It got to.6.2. Then about 1 hour later I decided i fancied a 5.9g choc n nut bar from aldi. So you can see one rise to 6.2 then a pause before it goes up further. Dads army were taken by surprise, didnt even get chance to get back to their barracks. Tonight was my usual kebab. Naked (the kebab not me, far too b***dy cold!). Chili sauce and garlic mayo, cabbage and onions. Large glass of red and a few nuts. dads army happy with that. Coffee and cream and 4 small pieces of Tesco 90% no sugar choc. Nice. Sweeteners in it so tastes devine!

Painting day today. One of our rentals has come empty. An amazing tenant we have had for 4 years left to move closer to her new job. She left it immaculate (not always the case!). Not even one bit of rubbish left (never the case!). So freshening up for new tenants whilst we do viewings. Lots of viewings!

Tomorrow repeat.

Trying to work on a few things in between but not a lot of time. Will have more time soon.

Preparing PowerPoint for my event at Blackpool tower ballroom. Monday 25th November. Free entry. Me and Eric have a table. Hoping to help lots of people. It may be a damp squid. Blackpool has many challenges. Not sure too many will be in the queue to hear about their health and wellbeing. But if we can help one person! Going to do the teaspoons of sugar quiz. Also the pouring the daily sugar we have into a Tupperware. Lots of dr unwins infographs and pictures of pasta rice etc with equivalent sugar. My leaflets. Blood glucose monitor demo. Cgm demo. That kind of thing. If anyone has any ideas let me know as I have to fill 6 hours!!!

@Listlad my 30 minute talk is at 12 noon for info

Got quite a busy couple of weeks.

My friend invited me to madame tussauds this week. Free entry. They have a strictly come dancing section. There were 3 LIVE DANCERS in between the waxwork dummies!! Imagine that. We laughed. Johannes is my favourite and I got the chance to tell him.i especially loved his stiletto dance. TV cameras there so might be on TV again this Thursday on it takes two. I might end up on cutting room floor too!

Happy weekend to you all.

Not sure I am supposed to post here. I had been aiming to take a day off work to pass through at the tower but sadly it won’t be possible. Thanks for posting the info graph, btw.

 

[jjraak]

Not sure I am supposed to post here. I had been aiming to take a day off work to pass through at the tower but sadly it won’t be possible. Thanks for posting the info graph, btw.

we always welcome new blood...

after all, a stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet..

 

[SaskiaKC]

Not sure I am supposed to post here. I had been aiming to take a day off work to pass through at the tower but sadly it won’t be possible. Thanks for posting the info graph, btw.

 

[gennepher]

Not sure I am supposed to post here. I had been aiming to take a day off work to pass through at the tower but sadly it won’t be possible. Thanks for posting the info graph, btw.

You are welcome on here.

 

[gennepher]

Fbg at 5 am 6.8

I am happy with that after all the nibbling of food I did yesterday!

I have been playing with my new phone camera. It has something called nightsight.

There are no lights on in my bedroom. It is pitch black apart from the gentle luminous glow of these two fairies.

These two fairies glow at night. All night. But nothing like this. They are a very pale ghostly green. The phone camera in nightsight brings up the green far more.


Then I noticed this nightsight setting picked me up in the mirror. I was this beautiful etheric golden glow (I suppose it was the light from the phone screen).

I took the shot...but I was exactly the same green as the fairies...scary...

 

[dunelm]

Good morning everyone and those other folk also.

The wonder wheel of a day less ordinary and a menu most carniviour dug out a tantalizing 4.5 this am

It’s Remembrance Day today. Mrs Miggins and I will be on parade at our town senetaph.
Lest we forget.

Have a great day.

 

[Muddy Cyclist]

Good Morning and a 5.7 for me today, a good 6 hours sleep instead of my usual short nights.

A day looking full of sunshine promise. Off to some maze and tree top walk world with granddaughter, more silly behaviour to enjoy and look forward to.

I wish you all a lovely day and hopefully lots of sunshine.