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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

5.8 today. Pleased it is within the 5's but absolutely no idea why. Wished I knew what has bought about the recent lows as I would continue the same routine but nothing has changed for me during past weeks. Just like the unexplained and annoying highs we all experience I am having similar unexplained lows which on the face of it is good but need to know why in order to make it sustainable.
 
Ryhia said:
6.5 today. I need some tips on how to lose some weight. I lost 35 kilos in the first year after diagnosis but for the past couple of years I have been living with anxiety and my weight is just going up and up. I've put on 10 kilos and gone up 2 dress sizes. This weight gain needs to stop as it makes me uncomfortable I feel it does have a negative impact on blood sugars. However I can't remember what I did to achieve the weight loss in the first place it seemed it was done without effort. I do remember being careful what I ate and being very motivated and the weight just dropped off. I am still very careful what I eat it's just the motivation I'm struggling with. Losing weight this time round is going to take much more effort.
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Have you tried increase activity levels maybe take up regular swimming? Lots of walks maybe will help too especially if just after meals it will likely have advantage of muscles using some of that glucose up. If you have a smart watch/fitness app on your mobile calc the carbs you eat a day and try aim activities to use more than you eat should help. Application for mobile device 'carbs and cals' should help gl
 
Ryhia said:
6.5 today. I need some tips on how to lose some weight. I lost 35 kilos in the first year after diagnosis but for the past couple of years I have been living with anxiety and my weight is just going up and up. I've put on 10 kilos and gone up 2 dress sizes. This weight gain needs to stop as it makes me uncomfortable I feel it does have a negative impact on blood sugars. However I can't remember what I did to achieve the weight loss in the first place it seemed it was done without effort. I do remember being careful what I ate and being very motivated and the weight just dropped off. I am still very careful what I eat it's just the motivation I'm struggling with. Losing weight this time round is going to take much more effort.
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Hi @Ryhia
Your story mirrors mine at the moment
early 2018 diagnosed and initially hit the ground running.. loosely followed the 8 week blood sugar diet book by mike mosley and the weight fell off ,found this forum and posted fbs on this and the low chat one and also posted weight on Friday weigh in (or something like that)
the weight loss made me more motivated and fitter to work /exercise
Not sure what made me fall off the waggon but stopped testing exercising and weighing myself bit of depression i guess as well
I've looked back on posts from 2018/19
My morning fbs were 5s and 6s mainly
And now 7s and 8s
I'm now only working part-time mainly
Following fast till 11ish , mainly low carb
I manage to be around the 6s before evening meal , don't test before bed
I remember you posting back then as well.
I think the seven years we've added to the total must also make things harder!
 
Diawara said:
Hi @Ryhia
Your story mirrors mine at the moment
early 2018 diagnosed and initially hit the ground running.. loosely followed the 8 week blood sugar diet book by mike mosley and the weight fell off ,found this forum and posted fbs on this and the low chat one and also posted weight on Friday weigh in (or something like that)
the weight loss made me more motivated and fitter to work /exercise
Not sure what made me fall off the waggon but stopped testing exercising and weighing myself bit of depression i guess as well
I've looked back on posts from 2018/19
My morning fbs were 5s and 6s mainly
And now 7s and 8s
I'm now only working part-time mainly
Following fast till 11ish , mainly low carb
I manage to be around the 6s before evening meal , don't test before bed
I remember you posting back then as well.
I think the seven years we've added to the total must also make things harder!
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Added to say since the heady days of 2020 93.5 kg
Now back to 115 kg
 
5.0 Dexcom, 5.3 blood prick
Good numbers again, super happy with that. For the past four days my glucose number throughout the day are significantly lower than “normal”. I used to sit in the sixes, always and now it’s the fives, and usually low fives. Lots of 4’s yesterday too. I keep double checking with blood pricks and they are always pretty close. Don’t know why, the only thing I’ve done differently is bike riding instead of walking at the gym. Eating is very low carb but I have had a bite of nectarine here and there, a few nuts and some pickles.
I am anticipating it to return to my normal, but love these numbers right now!
 
grantg said:
Have you tried increase activity levels maybe take up regular swimming? Lots of walks maybe will help too especially if just after meals it will likely have advantage of muscles using some of that glucose up. If you have a smart watch/fitness app on your mobile calc the carbs you eat a day and try aim activities to use more than you eat should help. Application for mobile device 'carbs and cals' should help gl
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Thank you for responding with your helpful suggestions. As regards walking, I used to walk a lot more that I do at the moment. I am just carrying a bit of a leg strain at present. I walked too far one day and started having pain behind my knee. Doc reckoned it is hamstring tendonitis and he told me to rest it. I was trying to walk through the pain which was making things worse. I am on the mend now though so I am gradually increasing the amount of walking I am doing.

As regards swimming, I used to swim regularly many years ago but got out of the habit, when i tried to take it up again for health reasons, I found I was totally out of practice and could hardly swim a breadth. So was having to learn again. I also have neck issues which made it very uncomfortable for me. I could only comfortably manage back crawl or old English breast stroke but I couldn't see where i was going and I kept bumping into people. I had to give it up as a bad job just too dangerous for the other swimmers around me.

Diet: I try to stick to around 10gms carbs per meal but admit I sometimes snack over and above. I probably need to start writing everything down to gain better control, I do wonder if I could be eating too much protein as well which may be converting to glucose, I'm investigating that one. Anyway thank you again for responding.
 
libre 4.5.
dsn appt later this afternoon via telephone. would of much rather prefered an in person appt.

mri yesterday those machines so noisey. chap spoke to me a couple of times during it... absolutely no idea what he said at the time, if they want someone to hear better increase the volume in the headset that they make u wear. found out afterwards was to say just about to start and at one point during to stay still. libre2+ survived. you sign a form which i've attached it is given back to you afterwards with a time marked on it stating when should be able get readings again. Personally dont think it effected any readings what so ever. scanned directly afterwards. all blank space was filled in. parking so so easy too first thing in the morning so so much better than trying to park for an appt in the mid afternoon where frequently no spaces for ages, had a massive choice of parking spots arrived 30 mins prior to the appt, grabbed a coffee from its cafe popped over to the ward, was taken 20 mins early didn't have enough time to down it so bought another large one on the way out £2.90 was pretty decent too much better value than costacoffee/starbucks etc whjch for the equivilent £5.20ish
 

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Ryhia said:
Thank you for responding with your helpful suggestions. As regards walking, I used to walk a lot more that I do at the moment. I am just carrying a bit of a leg strain at present. I walked too far one day and started having pain behind my knee. Doc reckoned it is hamstring tendonitis and he told me to rest it. I was trying to walk through the pain which was making things worse. I am on the mend now though so I am gradually increasing the amount of walking I am doing.

As regards swimming, I used to swim regularly many years ago but got out of the habit, when i tried to take it up again for health reasons, I found I was totally out of practice and could hardly swim a breadth. So was having to learn again. I also have neck issues which made it very uncomfortable for me. I could only comfortably manage back crawl or old English breast stroke but I couldn't see where i was going and I kept bumping into people. I had to give it up as a bad job just too dangerous for the other swimmers around me.

Diet: I try to stick to around 10gms carbs per meal but admit I sometimes snack over and above. I probably need to start writing everything down to gain better control, I do wonder if I could be eating too much protein as well which may be converting to glucose, I'm investigating that one. Anyway thank you again for responding.
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sorry to hear tendonitis, good that your on the mend. maybe you could do walks in the pool. physio suggested walking in the water to help take weight off and could assist in comfort. At my local pool there are several people who walk across breadths at the shallow end, some using weights to help reduce their weight, which can't otherwise walk any distances. Some pools offer lane swimming which might be easier if comfortable with back/breaststoke (thats the only strokes i do not really even back crawl... more kick legs every so often with gentle sweeping water back with hands at sides every so often).

diet wise: there are several type1's in the forum who have to inject for proteins so i think your right that protein can be converted to glucose. instead of looking at the carbs within your diet have you tried looking into the cals? then attempt burn off that number of cals instead. even sitting down bopping legs up/down moving, knitting, lifting small weights with arms etc use energy, worth a try. gl
 
Six point four this morning

Last night it was a pub supper pork chop with salad and half a bottle of wine

Being a real whimp with alcohol these days I had a lovely wine buzz on until about three in the morning when I drifted away while listening to the bbc world service.

Have a good day all - if you possibly can
 
Diawara said:
Added to say since the heady days of 2020 93.5 kg
Now back to 115 k
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Diawara said:
I remember when you used to post before and I was always impressed by how well you were doing. Jealous even.:) i know how frustrating it can be when you are doing everything you know to do but are not achieving the desired result. In my case I have put on 10 kilos in the last few years and I don't think my bloods are liking that too much and certainly would not like me putting on more weight, it's going in all the wrong places! I'm determined to lose some of that to make me "comfortable" again. I do appreciate that I am better off than a lot of others as I have managed to control the "beast" by diet, much as you are doing. But it is a beast that rear up and bite us at times. I wish us both well in our journey and best wishes as well to anyone else who is struggling or just not seeing the numbers all their efforts would warrant.:)
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Bloods 6.1 today. That's after a fast for most of the day yesterday. Lets see what tomorrow brings.

I HOPE I am going to be out of pocket today, grandson's GCSE results are out and I've promised him a treat based on performance. He's quite bright but doesn't always see the point of putting effort in however he does need Math and Science for the apprenticeship he has been offered so I hope he at least achieves those. He seems pretty confident, I'll find out this afternoon.
 
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