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

Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen and those who didn’t tip toe through the tulips, more stomped through like booverboys from the old skin head days.

Blood sugars this morning were a resounding 7.2 I was expecting much higher after the excesses of yesterday’s bbq and evening meal.

After a couple of weeks break my plinky plonky lessons start again today, today’s lesson should be interesting. Also the walk back through the centre of Reading I wonder if the religious zealots have forgotten our previous encounters and try to accost me, me’s and myself, we shall see.

Now its time to go and do other things in preparation for today, I shall smile at a stranger, say nice things and try to bring a smile to their face, apart from the zealots to whom I shall probably say something along the lines of “ good afternoon, now go forth and multiply “ I shall not use profanities, but the temptation will be strong.

Stay safe all.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.9

Wildlife camera.
Too many Badgers - Cat Midnight keeps them in check
Then, usually, after this kind of a session with the badgers, Midnight comes indoors to leap on me, asleep in bed, to tell me about the terrible night he is having...
Yet just before dawn, he'll go back out again to see the final nighttime visitors...
47 seconds

Midnight is on me now in bed, holding tight on to my arm.
And outside my full length glass door is the parade of ginger cats getting their breakfast.

And the sparrows are feeding on the fat balls. There's more bluetits, more greattits, two male robins, a pair of blackbirds, and always just the one little female dunnock. The two wood pigeons (Mr & Mrs Heffalump). And overhead are ravens and seagulls. I have not seen any buzzards yet this year, nor sparrow hawks, nor kestrels.

Creative - from some soft pastel paintings I did a few years ago. I am reworking them. I also had some Aquarelle Neocolour pastels Caran D'Ache (pastels to add water to), and played with these. So, a sort of pastel mixed media painting.

Have a good day

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Smashing art - loving this series
 
Morning all on a pleasant start to Wednesday here. Four grandchildren here again so Move it, Move it and cinnamon churros are vital. The carbs? They are children and Mark 7 18-19 covers that. @dunelm good idea to take a breather and thanks for the moody art. @gennepher thanks for the latest in this series of creatives. I'm obviously a pastels kinda guy. Have a good day y'all
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all on a pleasant start to Wednesday here. Four grandchildren here again so Move it, Move it and cinnamon churros are vital. The carbs? They are children and Mark 7 18-19 covers that.
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Well, 2000 or so years ago, that was fair enough, but with the adulterated food and various drugs available today, perhaps He would have been a bit more circumspect. Except, of course, eating bad-for-you-food doesn't affect the long term results (on the soul).
 
Annb said:
BG 7.4 at 5.30 this morning. I'd woken at 4.30 but was determined to stay in bed a bit longer, so 5.30 by the time I got through to the kitchen. Managed to drop one of my very small pills on the floor and couldn't find it (must have rolled under something) so I had to take the next one from the packet. Doesn't really matter but it disturbs my very minor OCD and now the blister pack doesn't look right to me. That's one of my bugbears about going into hospital - they take away your pills to be given out by a nurse, probably at the wrong time anyway and when you get the packet back, the pills have been taken out randomly and the blister pack is no longer neatly emptied but there are burst blisters all over the pack. Daft, I know, but I do like to keep them neat and tidy - it helps to know when I need to reorder them (that's the justification). And, more importantly, it offends my sense of what is correct and what is not.

A bit like Poirot, squaring things up on a desk or mantlepiece. I do that as well.
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Stayed in a holiday house in Seahouses like that. I thought it had been Feng Shuid, whatever the Japanese word is, even down to the ornaments measured and lined up on the window sills, the artwork was themed. Even stuff put in bathroom and toilets.
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Sorry my ignorance it is of Chinese origin.
 
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Annb said:
Well, 2000 or so years ago, that was fair enough, but with the adulterated food and various drugs available today, perhaps He would have been a bit more circumspect. Except, of course, eating bad-for-you-food doesn't affect the long term results (on the soul).
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The alternative truth elite blob crew would almost certainly say that the adulterated food, drugs trope is all a myth anyhow. I wouldn't completely rule out there being more than a grain of truth in that argument. I recently read a Zoe article that successfully debunked Paleo obsessives. I think the most parsimonious thing one can say is we don't actually know and basically follow what fits our paradigm - its all confirmation bias. I agree with your final focus.
 
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ianpspurs said:
The alternative truth elite blob crew would almost certainly say that the adulterated food, drugs trope is all a myth anyhow. I wouldn't rule out there being more than a grain of truth in the idea that argument. I recently read a Zoe article that successfully debunked Paleo obsessives. I think the most parsimonious thing one can say is we don't actually know and just go with what fits our paradigm - its all confirmation bias. I agree with your final focus.
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Lamont will confirm what I found from him on this forum, the only thing that stops the blood glucose roller coaster is a low carb diet, which I find awfully difficult to keep to. But I have R.H. which is very difficult to deal without reducing refined carbs, but I have been successful for years stopping hypos.
D.
 
lindisfel said:
Lamont will confirm what I found from him on this forum, the only thing that stops the blood glucose roller coaster is a low carb diet, which I find awfully difficult to keep to. But I have R.H. which is very difficult to deal without reducing refined carbs, but I have been successful for years stopping hypos.
D.
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Low carb does help to keep blood glucose within limits for me but not completely - other things (eg medication, physical strain) keep it a bit unstable.
 
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Low carb does help to keep blood glucose within limits for me but not completely - other things (eg medication, physical strain) keep it a bit unstable.
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Even David Unwin is crystal clear that bg control is always N=1. The best I can make of his results is that LC is about 50/50 for remission. Better odds than doing nothing but I'd like better odds on a pilot landing a plane. I still wonder if LC is an idea who's time had come possibly because career paths were blocked by pro low-fat higher carb proponents and sectors of the agrifood industry needed new customers for dairy and meat. Odd how those foods feature highly in LC/Keto.
 
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Even David Unwin is crystal clear that bg control is always N=1. The best I can make of his results is that LC is about 50/50 for remission. Better odds than doing nothing but I'd like better odds on a pilot landing a plane. I still think LC is an idea who's time had come possibly because career paths were blocked by pro low fat high carb proponents and sectors of the agrifood industry needing new customers for dairy and meat.. Obviously the same interests have no stake in denying greenhouse gasses contribute to deforestation or climate change.
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Don't really understand you Ian. Where Dr Unwin wins he is working with a middle class population. I don't think he would be so successful in St.Helen's where there is a lot of poor people who have poor diets.
What thats got to do with climate change is difficult to determine.
Derek
 
This latest debate over houses and river pollution.
Most of our rivers are polluted by farmers not houses, the rivers were not polluted by sewage in the past with old septic tanks. It the new scheme for sewage by private water companies that can't cope and put neat sewage in rivers and share holders pocket the profits.
 
lindisfel said:
Don't really understand you Ian. Where Dr Unwin wins he is working with a middle class population. I don't think he would be so successful in St.Helen's where there is a lot of poor people who have poor diets.
Derek
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I was trying to say that even Unwin stresses that we all react differently and there is no certainty that a given way of eating will produce the same outcome in two people almost evenly matched. I've PMd you to unpack things further.
Shalom
 
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ianpspurs said:
Morning all on a pleasant start to Wednesday here. Four grandchildren here again so Move it, Move it and cinnamon churros are vital. The carbs? They are children and Mark 7 18-19 covers that. @dunelm good idea to take a breather and thanks for the moody art. @gennepher thanks for the latest in this series of creatives. I'm obviously a pastels kinda guy. Have a good day y'all
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Thank you @ianpspurs
So, more pastels ordered?
 
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