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

So, with DJ Dump heading here for a press conference, twitter comes up trumps (yes, I just did that).

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More on the venue for that upcoming outburst: I’ve arrived at Four Seasons Landscaping. It’s next to an adult book store called Fantasy Island. Richard Hall

He also got ripped a new something or other by Katie Hobbs, Arizona's Secretary of State:

My office has been putting out information for months about how election processes work in the state & all we do to ensure security & fairness. If you haven’t been paying attention, that’s on you, but don’t show up when you don’t like the result & scream fraud w/no evidence
I am quite liking this - does that make me a bad person?:angelic:
 
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A day of activity, Muddy Cycle ride in the fog and then afternoon walk with Mrs MC in the sun and some mist.
(When did heavy mist become fog? Fog in my book is caused by pollution and mist by the weather conditions. Met Office say Fog and Mist depends on visibility , new to me.)

Anyway I finished one of the watercolours from yesterday, the splodge and spray one. Based on Autumn at Shugbourgh Woods.
A4 about 1 hour 30 minutes.
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And as a reminder this is how it looked yesterday...
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Question.
There are lots of people on the forum who fast or only eat one or two meals a day and have good BG readings.
How do they manage that?
I get the whole fasting thing. Before lockdown I didn’t eat during the day (no time) and I felt fine. I obviously wasn’t fine. When I had my heart attack I was borderline DKA with an hba1c of 118! Bit of a shock. It’s taken five weeks of lots of insulin and limited carbs to get my BG down into single figures.
Yeay me!
However. The Libre (got it on Tuesday) shows that my BG starts climbing every night at about midnight and keeps climbing until I eat in the morning. If I eat a non carb breakfast it keeps climbing and if I skip breakfast it keeps climbing.
How do people maintain such low figures on IF? My BG has a mind of its own!
 
ianpspurs said:
Unless the visitors are faambly that is rather rude. Do the Trumps visit often?
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The visitors are family. They don't mind daytime chimes but the loudest clock (the grandfather clock) is directly below the guest bedroom so we do turn it off.

Just heard that Biden is the winner. I cannot even bear to see Trump's picture let alone hear him speak. I would think he would be the ultimate nightmare guest.
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Just heard that Biden is the winner. I cannot even bear to see Trump's picture let alone hear him speak. I would think he would be the ultimate nightmare guest.
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Trump has refused to concede and given he has earlier called 'his people' to arms it could get messy.
 
SilverK said:
Question.
There are lots of people on the forum who fast or only eat one or two meals a day and have good BG readings.
How do they manage that?
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I ask the same. I can fast for a whole day and night and my BG climbs, a little protein brings it down. I just do my best only take BG Morning, before and after evening meal, no idea what it's doing in between. Keep carbs to around 30 grm per day. Then in a very scientific manner cross my finger s and hope for the best. As @jjraak says we all perform differently one can only do their best within their own comfort zone. As @ianpspurs is keen and right to remind us N=1.
 
SilverK said:
Question.
There are lots of people on the forum who fast or only eat one or two meals a day and have good BG readings.
How do they manage that?
I get the whole fasting thing. Before lockdown I didn’t eat during the day (no time) and I felt fine. I obviously wasn’t fine. When I had my heart attack I was borderline DKA with an hba1c of 118! Bit of a shock. It’s taken five weeks of lots of insulin and limited carbs to get my BG down into single figures.
Yeay me!
However. The Libre (got it on Tuesday) shows that my BG starts climbing every night at about midnight and keeps climbing until I eat in the morning. If I eat a non carb breakfast it keeps climbing and if I skip breakfast it keeps climbing.
How do people maintain such low figures on IF? My BG has a mind of its own!
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I can only speak for me on this. I enjoy fasting (which I just finished after 8 days) and intermittent fasting which I'm now doing. Personally I stick to very low carb (<60g/day) and find my FBG sit between 4-5.5. I do monitor my ketones as I have a dual monitor and try to keep them below 5.0

The only time my blood sugars have raced up was when I was ill and on antibiotics and heavy steroids. Your profile doesn't say what type of diabetes you have, me I'm standard T2.

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I just reread this and I sound like a right little angel. I should add that I need to fast as I am often a very naughty boy :bag:;)
 
Krystyna23040 said:
That's interesting. I use exactly the same strategy as Marjorie. Although I don't have a hearing aid I do tell Mr K he is mumbling.
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A gender thing, blokes have selective hearing and mutter, gals are always right and I'm certainly not brave enough to be arguing with that. :)
 
Muddy Cyclist said:
A gender thing, blokes have selective hearing and mutter, gals are always right and I'm certainly not brave enough to be arguing with that. :)
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We now have a 2nd functional room downstairs and hopefully all the boxes will soon come out of my man cave - sorry gym. Solves all sorts of arguments - Julie can text/email/tweet/google duo me if she needs me.:angelic:
 
good evening all

4.2 yesterday and 4.2 today

playing catch up today :sorry:

hope your day is treating you well :)
 

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