Hi Peacetrain, yeah, I look at some peoples' figures in the 3's and low 4's and wonder how they manage to function on those figures?
It's just reminded me this morning, of females trying to get to be a size zero. Is this too a progression where people want to aim for a figure in the 1's? How low can we go?
I'm happy in the 5's. That stops me fretting too much as it's an achievable figure I think, and I feel ill in the 4's. Simples.
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Linda - I'm one of those people always posting in the 4s and regularly in the 3s, and I'm certainly not a wilting lettuce leaf at any time of the day. I'm up at 6am. I am active. I swim every day. I use by bike to run short (usually under 3 mile round trip) errands, and I sail. I also almost always have a project I'm working on which will usually involve physical work. My weight now appears to have stabilised it it's current level of just over 50kg. I'm 5' 3", so hardly a rangy individual. I'm not a size zero, but I am a 10, but could get into an 8 if I didn't care for breathing.
I don't, and never have taken meds for my diabetes, but I did control my diet very strictly at the outset, which pulled my HbA1c into non-diabetic levels at the first re-test, after 4 months. It was marginally down again at a second retest last month.
I have been moderating my diet a bit of late, and (fingers crossed), the additional carbs don't appear to be impacting on the blood scores I am recording. For now, I record my fasting level, plus a before and after for my main meal, or anything new I am trying.
Personally, I think I have crossed my personal fat threshold (as discussed by Prof Taylor), which has given my body a chance to reboot some of its functionality. I don't believe I am cured, or in remission, but I believe that for now, my body is functioning quite well, on what I am asking of it. Should I continue with scores like now, I might begin to consider my condition has gone into a suspended state.
Like our personal fat thresholds, I believe we each have baseline blood scores, along with baseline BP and pulse rates. Mine just appears to be quite low. If I thought I was harming myself by running this low, I would take specialist advice and deal with it.
I respect your and other people's views on what your (and their) baseline rates are, balanced with a diet/lifestyle you and they are content at, but for me, I will always want to run in the non-diabetic range, whilst I physically can. Should I find myself unable to maintain that, without meds, I will have to reconsider my options and launch Plan B.
This thing is a big puzzle, and we don't all seem to have the same pieces, or be building to the same picture on the box.
You seem more settled in yourself these days., so long may that continue.
