That's cool... the pork must have been splendid... I always have cream I'n my coffee...
I never touch milk - it is high in carbs, which cream isn't, happily...
Hear hear PD...Hi Suzuka, I think you'll find the forum really helpful: I have found it eyeopening to say the least :wideye: Just think of all the lovely things you can eat, not the things you can't
Heres how
Does Mr B mind being blamed for everything...May have had an excess of egg today.All Mr B's fault.
B: scram eggs and bacon, latte
L: huge salad with cheese, chicken and pickled onions
D: good sausages, scram eggs (!) broccoli and cheese sauce (!) followed by rhubarb and cream
Did anyone else mention that we often have a high reading in the mornings? It's worrying but you may have had a liver dump - your liver thinks you need some sugar to kick-start your day, I gather, so it gives you some as you start pottering... bless...Hi
I haven't had any advice yet and not on any meds, having a wait of a month for my first appointment at the surgery. The Pesto is 4.5% carbs of which 2.6 is sugars, I had a large teaspoon. Crisps were a bit of an error! But a small packet. The apple was probably medium sized.
I have taken it upon myself to purchase a meter and start testing, I was 13.6 in the morning (fasting - which is the same as my fasting test with the GP a week ago), it was 12.8 before bed and this morning 13.8?? Why did it go up over night?
Nosey is fine, if it helps me!!I have now lost half a stone since I saw the GP 12 days ago - down to all the things I haven't eaten - bread, cakes, biscuits, pasta, potatoes, chocolate, cookies. And I don't normally eat crisps, I don't actually enjoy them.
Some guys manage it by eating cheese and a little biscuit the night before it seems... that doesn't work for me... I just keep a diary and keep looking back to see what it was the night before that kept the numbers down... it's starting to make a little sense, but we are all different I suppose... it's just a matter of testing and testing really it seems... but you have a whole new batch of friends who are in the same boat and who will support you and make you smile most days...
It does indeed make sense B.... If only we'd known years ago what we know now...Two and a half years ago, when I was basically living on green smoothies for brekkie and lunch, (then eating whatever I felt like all evening, which kind of sabotaged things a tad) I used to add
It was a very interesting experiment.
- Powdered spirulina
- MSM
- Powdered barley or wheatgrass
- Hemp oil or cocobutter
- Raw cacao nibs
Even though I didn't know I was doing an experiment.
I started with the green smoothies.
Felt great.
Felt so fantastic in fact that I felt justified in easing off the low carbing and started eating 'normal low GI foods' every evening.
Lost a tiny bit of weight (cos It was still too many carbs for me, in the evening)
Still felt great.
Kept it up for (about 15 months)
Eventually stopped with the green smoothies when the autumn arrived, and I fell in love with hot breakfasts again.
Kept up with the low GI, 3x a day
Within 6 weeks I had a terrible cough which turned into my first ever chest infection. Lost weight. Felt like death. Eventually had a humungous course of antibiotics and took weeks to recover.
I think I slipped into diabetes during the smoothie/'normal food' era, but had no problems, because to smoothies kept me steady, fuelled and well. Even though the 'low GI' foods must have been spiking me hugely, each evening. But the D effects hit as within weeks of stopping the smoothies => chest infection.
Unfortunately, I didn't have a meter at the time. Wish I had. Might have saved me from some painful lessons! It's been low carbing ever since.
Does that make sense?
Does Mr B mind being blamed for everything...
It seems that a splash of vinegar in a sauce is a really good thing... we ought to keep doing it...I make this sauce quite often as my whole family are vegetarian and it goes down a treat. I use extra strong chedder and mustard.
Im curious as to why "a splash of malt vinegar?" I've never used vinegar in a sauce before, what am I missing?
I reckon you have him well trained there... clever you...One of his favourite comments is, 'Oh, so it's MY fault, is it?'
So he's used to it.
I have been scratching my head about that week. I did have husky bread, but that usually causes a big belly, not big bg lol I had a broken dental crown and a bad cough recently, but that was all before the week in question. My meter doesn't put me over 6.6 that week and I even dipped into the high 4's.
That's appalling.... Would you be able to talk to the Surgery Manager, or Senior Partner instead of just a nurse? On how many levels is that wrong? You must be so frustrated and angry...[rant]
Nurse just phoned to say the result of my replacement hba1c is 39. (Remember they mixed up the labels on the first test with another patient). So the result has gone from 34 to 39 in one week? Is that even possible?
What is really peeing me off is that I logged into my medical records online last night and discovered that the other guy's blood results (hba1c of 59) have been entered on my records! His chol and everything. Spoke to nurse about that this morning and she says she doesn't think they can do anything about that. ***? So anyone looking at my file will see my hba1c and creatinine levels skyrocket (showing creatinine from 56 to 70 in a year when the real figure is 56 up to 57) Of course they can do something about it. I am being fobbed off with **** like "you are still within the healthy range" The fact is that these are not MY results so have no place on my records.
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Are you planning on low-carbing? If so, you need full-fat everything...Hi
This morning was a new start for me! Instead of the usual oat bran and milk (which seems to spike sugar), I had a 0% natural yoghurt, and added some blueberries, raspberries and walnuts! Then a coffee...
Have no strips to test for couple of days but I'm sure it's going to be better!
It can take a while to sort it all out... you'll get there, I'm sure... don't get disheartened, we've all been there...
So, I am doing the same tonight and I'll see how I fare tomorrow morning... don't have to be up at 5 though, get to lie in till 6.. 
One of his favourite comments is, 'Oh, so it's MY fault, is it?'
So he's used to it.
And your blood sugars are?
