Recent Content by Annb

Down from 228 lb 6oz to 223.13.8oz - 4.6lb

I hope the wind doesn't do damage to your garden, or to anything else for that matter. Keep safe all you guys down there. Up here in the Hebrides, we're built for those strong winds (occasionally it goes wrong, but normally we don't suffer much damage.) In past years, it was different. The...

Our local health service has recently changed the way they work. It used to be local opticians who did the diabetic eye screening and sent the results off the Dundee or somewhere. They were the ones who got in touch with the results. When the optician sees an eye problem - other than...

6.6 at 04.00 today. Finding it difficult to stay awake but I have to go to get my diabetic eye screening done. Respiratory clinic yesterday. Consultant couldn't hear much wrong with my lungs and Xray didn't show much. All to the good. Now he wants a CT scan to confirm that they're just...

Cheese and ham sandwich (wholemeal) for breakfast. Tea. 2nd meal will be lentil spaghetti in a tomato sauce. Diabetic eye test this morning.

Breakfast was o/night oats with a banana chopped in. Tea. Because it was both oats and a banana, I did use insulin - a small amount compared to my used-to-be. BG sounded a 'high' alarm just before we went out for my hospital appointment. No problem, it was only just over 8 so I figured...

5.3 this morning (04.00). There was something on the early news on TV that was talking about a new problem that has arisen with computers. Something to do with PHP which has caused quite a lot of websites to close down to avoid a cyber attack. I didn't understand it, of course, but I...

Breakfast was to have been avocado on RyVita but the av o was still rock hard, despite having sat for days alongside some bananas in an effort to ripen it. So it was banana on RyVita and tea. 2nd meal: there is still some of the cheesey mash left, and some butter beans, so that will be part...

Good to see you posting @jjraak. So sorry times have been difficult for you but you've come through it as a winner (as the emoji indicates). Apart from Neil, I am fairly isolated here but this forum gives me lots of support and, I feel, real friendship even if at a distance. I hope you can...

Overnight oats again for breakfast with some rather tasteless strawberries. Tea. Lunchtime: 2 Jacobs crackers with Boursin cheese. Water. 2nd meal: Defrosted mashed potato with a lot of grated cheese and some crispy fried onions, topped with tinned butter beans in tomato sauce. More trouble...

5.3 at 03.00 today. Frustrating day today. As you will know, I've had a lot of trouble recently with my pc. It didn't help that the old laptop Neil dug out for me decided that even though it was plugged in to the mains, it wouldn't work without an operating battery. The fact that we could no...

According to our local pharmacist, diabetics should be very careful with products like 'Deep Heat'. He advised me not to use it (I gather he thinks I wouldn't feel if my back or knees were burning). I hope it works well for you. I would have given you a hug for that pain, but you sounded as...

5.2 at 03.40 today. Been yo-yoing a bit since then, but still within reason. Average over the last 30 days has been 7.2, so that can't be bad.

Breakfast: overnight oats with some chopped up strawberries (quite tasteless actually). Tea. 2nd meal will be the rest of the baked vegetables and beans from yesterday. Not feeling quite so grotty today, but still very tired. I'm finding that, with these weight/glucose reduction pills, my...

Decided to put some haricot beans with a tin of tomatoes and some onion and broccoli together with the last of that pack of frozen chips as a "crust". The chips should be resistant starch, but there's a fair amount in the dish, so it will probably do for 2 days.