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

ellesangel said:
6.6 which I'm really pleased with as it's my lowest for a while. I was going to go on the Oviva programme but there is such a waiting list. So grateful for this forum and the low carb programme!
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Wonderful news @ellesangel

(Welcome to the forum if I haven't said so already )

Looked at oviva, sounds remarkably like the Newcastle diet (ND) ?

Plenty of threads on here regarding it.

Have to say, like you I was SO grateful to the forum and it's members guidance into how to eat a low carb diet to reduce complications of T2D.

6 months got me to 42 HBA1c...the next blood test had me at 40, where I wouldn't have passed as T2D if tested.. yippee.

My thoughts on oviva & Nd, are yes the do help in the early stages....

But it's a life long condition and users will have to transit to a diet that suits that fact.

Which is low carb, imho.

I think I, and now you too, may have saved ourselves the time lost by adapting sooner rather than later.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from L.A. where there was a fresh start to the day weather wise. Hedging and ditching season weather next 2 or 3 days (3-5 weeks early) and the clowns have 2 more cricket matches scheduled. Shiver me timbers and refunds all round seem likely. At 5.30 my fbg was 4.4 and Hive thermostat told me it was 20 in my hallway so no heating as it is set to 15 overnight then 17 until 8.15 before soaring up to 18. Coats and heated blankets are available for the profligate:#22billionblackhole.com. @dunelm thank you for sharing the art, extra water or no. So much for you taking it easy yesterday. @Krystyna23040 how is Trev these days? I'm fascinated as to how predictive text ends up with that. @gennepher thank you for sharing the video and another majestic kaleidoscope. I took this one as a kind of sepia photo of a piece of Celtic religious art: nurse will escort me back into bed soon. Enjoy/endure/mix and match your Wednesday.
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Thank you @ianpspurs. It was definitely a more Noel Coward smoking jacket and matching Tasseled smoking cap in The Stately Homes of England sort of day today.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife video
Badgers & the Fox
59 secs

Creative...a photo of some postage stamps...in Kaleider Kaleidoscopes...

Cold today.
It was definitely a crisp autumnal morning...
Have a good day.

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Wow - a smashing kaleidoscope - I saw something similar in the Smithsonian Air and Space museum hanging from the ceiling pretending to be some sort of Sputnik thing. Or was it an image from the inside of the large hadron collider? Smashing
 
ianpspurs said:
Trev is an amusing family story here. Oldest grandchild was given an Easter Bunny by us when he was about 2 (too long in the checkout queue at W so granddad got bored, a few things have been bought that way, especially at Christmas and Easter), When asked to name it he said Trevor. Now, nearly 12 he still has it on his bed and it is known as Trev. To this day neither his parents nor anyone else know where the name Trevor came from - rather like your predictive text.
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Trevor the Traction Engine was a book by W V Awdry - or possibly his son Christopher. Perhaps this had been read to him, or maybe Trevor featured in the Thomas the Tank Engine TV programmes.
 
septua said:
Trevor the Traction Engine was a book by W V Awdry - or possibly his son Christopher. Perhaps this had been read to him, or maybe Trevor featured in the Thomas the Tank Engine TV programmes.
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Good to see you here @septua. At that stage he loved Curious George, Masha and the Bear and Dipdap. He insisted on certain stories, principally The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Saturday's meal had to be all in one breath - Old McDonald had a zoo, the three little pigs and ones I had made up for his dad and uncles. My stories mostly involved vegetables taking umbrage at a poor gardener called Mr Arden who bought seeds from a mischievous source. Grandson had his own patch in our garden and wondered if what he grew would talk or fight back as per the stories. Ronnie the rocket radish was a classic even if I say so myself. No Thomas and friends.
 
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ellesangel said:
6.6 which I'm really pleased with as it's my lowest for a while. I was going to go on the Oviva programme but there is such a waiting list. So grateful for this forum and the low carb programme!
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Welcome to this FBG thread for diabetic chatterers @ellesangel

It's good to know your numbers are heading in the right direction.
Once again, welcome


Wednesday's FBG 4.9 mmol/L on rising at 6.00 am.
 
gennepher said:
Fbg 6.7

Nighttime wildlife video
Badgers & the Fox
59 secs

Creative...a photo of some postage stamps...in Kaleider Kaleidoscopes...

Cold today.
It was definitely a crisp autumnal morning...
Have a good day.

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I'm beginning to feel I know your nocturnal wildlife visitors @gennepher, Thank you for sharing your nighttime video and dramatic kaleidoscope images.

Wednesday's FBG 4.9 mmol/L on rising at 6.00 am.
 
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