Recent Content by niblue

6.5 at 08:15 this morning, which isn't bad considering I gave low-carb a miss last night as we were out for an Indian meal. Loads of carbs including rice and naan bread - although I hadn't eaten much else that day. I didn't do a lot of exercise either as the dog mostly got his exercise from a...

6.7 this morning which isn't too bad considering I had fish and chips last night (although my wife and I now get one fish support and a single fish between us and split the chips). Usual 5km walk with the dog at lunchtime

The freebie Dexcom One+ I had on trial for 10 days expired a week or so back and I've just got around to checking the overall results in the Dexcom Clarity site. By default it sets a target range of 3.9 to 10 and over the course of having it my readings were: - 0% Very High - 3% High - 97% In...

I think the NHS assume that everyone only drinks the full-sugar versions of fizzy drinks, as the one and only bit of advice I got from them when I was first diagnosed was to stop taking sugar in my coffee and to stop drinking fizzy drinks. The doc actually seemed bemused when I told him I only...

The only times I've seen readings much below 4 have been from a CGM sensor overnight (and it's happened with both the Dexcom and the Libre when I had them on trial) and I'm pretty sure in my case anyway those were falsely low readings. I also noticed with the Dexcom that those lows (and other...

When I had a freebie Libre a few years back I also noticed that the readings were unreliable when I was sleeping on the arm that it was fitted to. I tried the Dexcom recently and didn't seem to get the same problem, however given I've only ever tried one of each it could easily be down to...

6.7 this morning. The freebie Dexcom expired a week or so back and I'm still trying to decide whether I sign up for maybe 3 months or not, as I did find it useful for tracking what happened after eating different foods. I had a few home made sausage rolls yesterday, then sausage and eggs for...

81.55kg this morning, which is 12st 12lbs, so that's down 2kg/4lbs from last week. BMI is now 26.6. That's down pretty much 10kg from when I started measuring mid March, with about another 5 or 6kg to go to get into the normal (i.e. sub 25) BMI range. We've been at our cottage in the...

83.6kg (13st 2lb) this morning, so down 0.9kg (2lb) from last week. BMI is now 27.2.

8.4 this morning, which is quite a bit higher than normal so I'm hoping is a one-off. At the weekend we were backpacking (it was the first camping trip with this dog) and I was eating backpacking food that's higher carb than I normally would. By evening though I was back home and had a fry up...

8.4 at 08:50 this morning

8.4 at 08:50 this morning

84.5kg this morning, which is 13st 4lbs. So that's down 1lb this week, with BMI now 27.5

6.7 at 08:30 this morning (6.2 on the Dexcom) Nothing for breakfast, protein shake with berries and spinach for lunch, chilli and tacos for dinner with some rice (which surprisingly didn't spike my blood sugar up). 4km lunchtime walk with the dog

6.7 at 08:30 this morning (6.2 on the Dexcom)