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

early test gave me another day in my fav place....with a Dano friendly 5.6..:D

see we have the first corona cases now.

a quick thought

IF "feed a cold, starve a fever" is true.

Does that mean people have always known that carbs..( as in the starve part.. Which is what most eat the most of ) are OR can impact on us in a very negative way..?
 
7.4 this rainy morning.

Sometimes irony is funny; other times it just makes me wonder ...
I was just reading the BBC News web page about Brexit, and right in the middle of all the news this ad popped up:

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ianpspurs said:
Morning all. 5.4 fbg (2/3 hrs later today). Pleased by sensible sleep, grateful bg not higher but too high for a sense of control. I am still a long way from making this WOE work well for me but I guess the little visitor and associated chemical cocktail won't have helped. @Muddy Cyclist have a great night blues or not; @PenguinMum enjoy the omelette, curry and son time; @trick60 cheese on toast, steely resolve and love of nearest and dearest will see you through. Lamentations 3.22–23
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Thank you for the reminder. :)
When I was fixing breakfast this morning I thought of John 6:27.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 7.6 this morning

It was 7.9 in the night

And 13.9 when I got home from art group yesterday afternoon.

Why? I had been eating right to keep my blood glucose in the 7's

So I washed hands and took another and another reading...it wouldn't leave the 13's.

So opened a new pot of strips....still 13's...

But we had been talking about the China Coronavirus in my art group, and one of our number was coughing and sneezing badly. We do have cold this time of year...But the others in our group started drawing away from her a bit. And I am thinking, this didn't take long for fear to start.

I then found out the British people in Wuhan and a couple of Irish people who will be on the flight to the UK landing at Brize Norton. However they will then be transferred to Arrowe Park Hospital for their fortnight quarentine for the coronavirus. Arrowe Park is only 8 miles as the crow flies from here...

So was this high 13.9 blood sugar reading, yesterday, my fight or flight mechanism kicking in when I got back from art group?

I have been watching You Tube, last few days, on this particular guy Ben, who was in Wuhan. This will be his final broadcast from China as he is now on the evacuation plane to Brize Norton. I am glad he has made it to the plane.


Here is a painting of my cat Popeye that I did this morning for my daily painting challenge to myself. A4 size. Mixed media. Took about an hour.

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Take care
Hugs for all
Have fun...
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MeoWow! Hello, Popeye! ^. .^ I love it when a portrait's eyes follow one as one moves around the room.
Brilliant painting of a very handsome fellow.

Hugs for the 13s.
 
ianpspurs said:
So today has moved right along for us - ignoring newspapers and news. Contracts finally exchanged with completion next Friday:); Holiday to same/normal hotel in Paphos booked for November - £400+ cheaper this year:cool: and no hoi polloi like Paul Hollywood kicking Julie's seat:joyful:. Waitrose now have lacto free whole milk (- why that and not semi skimmed anyone?.) Bought a plumbers' brazing tool with gas canister - that will be soo much fun:woot::woot:. Nothing I can do about fbg and LC WOE :hungry: so more of the same please - England, Spurs and 49ers wins on Sunday will do nicely. :joyful:Hope y'all are having a fun day too.
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Congratulations @ianpspurs
on the exchange of contracts :happy:
 
SaskiaKC said:
What are you going to braze?
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Initially, 80 years worth of my parents and grandparents papers, a Christmas tree and several chairs, After that the world is your lobster, Terrence:angelic: Myself and No 3 son fancy treating some wooden boards with this as well. Far too dangerous for No 1 son (who happens to be an H and S expert for the British Legion:arghh::arghh:)
 
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ianpspurs said:
Thank you. Possibly more excited about the plumbers brazing tool but very kind of you. Forgot to mention Julie bought some very aspirational hot cross buns and I may need to conduct some research on a small portion of one of those.
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Congratulations from me and hope to follow suit later in the year. I’m not telling Mr PM about the brazing tool, he got excited enough about the flaming weedkiller :D
Were they the chocolate and cherry Hot Cross buns by any chance which I only allowed myself to glance at yesterday in the W shop.
 
PenguinMum said:
Congratulations from me and hope to follow suit later in the year. I’m not telling Mr PM about the brazing tool, he got excited enough about the flaming weedkiller :D
Were they the chocolate and cherry Hot Cross buns by any chance which I only allowed myself to glance at yesterday in the W shop.
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Thank you. Mr PM would be in his element with the brazing tool. If you follow suit, which I pray you will, Mr PM will surely need a bonfire and such a tool is indispensable:angelic: Not the weird hybrid monstrosities that taste forgot but these huge bad boys. They looked forlorn near the checkout so we re-homed some:angelic: https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/no1-perfectly-fruited-hot-cross-buns/473203-679379-679380
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DJC3 said:
When I did domestic science at school in the early 70s we were told that to calculate the amount of meat needed for a recipe, to allow 4oz off the bone and 6oz if on the bone per person. This seems a very sensible amount still but I think these days portions have got bigger. The chicken breasts I get from the butcher are often around 200g each, like the ones you were served. Even in the eighties a quarter pounder burger was advertised as being a really big burger, now it’s normal. I will try to keep this and your testing in mind.
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Yes, I do agree that portions have got so much bigger since the 70s. The Labradors absolutely love going to cafe's and restaurants because they know that I cannot eat the huge portions of meat or chicken that are served nowadays.
 
ianpspurs said:
Thank you. Mr PM would be in his element with the brazing tool. If you follow suit, which I pray you will, Mr PM will surely need a bonfire and such a tool is indispensable:angelic: Not the weird hybrid monstrosities that taste forgot but these huge bad boys. They looked forlorn near the checkout so we re-homed some:angelic: https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/no1-perfectly-fruited-hot-cross-buns/473203-679379-679380
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Mr PM does like a bonfire, its a milestone birthday this year so the brazer could be just the thing. Sigh...I do miss HC buns of all varieties..it would take half a pack of butter to carb and fat match probs. All those buns eaten in my life and worrying over the healthy spread. In the W Weekend magazine the nutritionist tells someone its not the carbs that make you fat but what you put with them. Really?
 
PenguinMum said:
Mr PM does like a bonfire, its a milestone birthday this year so the brazer could be just the thing. Sigh...I do miss HC buns of all varieties..it would take half a pack of butter to carb and fat match probs. All those buns eaten in my life and worrying over the healthy spread. In the W Weekend magazine the nutritionist tells someone its not the carbs that make you fat but what you put with them. Really?
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Double cream in the mix, (sourdough starter), Kerrygold (grass fed) and bulletproof tea, hour on exercise bike (or not) jobs a good 'un. Just weighed one - 92 gms - may need extra thick cream as well:angelic:
 
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good afternoon all :)

was 4.7 today

off out earlyish to take wee Katy to the vets, not for anything dire, just to be weighed and get a worming tablet. 2.2Kg she weighs now, so she's a slightly bigger ball of fluff and energy than she was last month :hilarious:

We took Katy for a walk after the vets, it's amazing how many people want to talk to her :D then we took lunch back and spent a couple of hours with Mum afterwards.

Home again now and looking forward to reading through the thread and viewing the art gallery :)

Hope your day is treating you well :)
 
PenguinMum said:
. In the W Weekend magazine the nutritionist tells someone its not the carbs that make you fat but what you put with them. Really?
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:banghead: Does remind me that I need to schmooze a whole new set of W ....se deli ladies, fish and meat staff whose children I didn't teach, when we move. Current crop now well trained in LCHF ideas and "as it's you have this last bit free" bless 'em. Am I up to the task these days?
 
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