Recent Content by OceansEdge

thanks guys, I'd have been happy with anything sub 7.0 .... but that really chuffs me. I just have to be careful I don't get cocky about it and start backsliding.... but careful self monitoring - especially with the reduced meds, should hopefully keep me honest :D

Soooo.... been a little bit since I last checked in.... latest 3 month check up and bloodwork.... Hb1ac 5.8 BGL 6.2 Weight 252.2 kidney function perfect, thyroid excellent, potassium, sodium, triglycerides, cholesterol, no retinal myopothy - all bonzer my doctor was pleasantly shocked to say the...

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Thanks :) Somedays are a struggle, but mostly its good - last night I was working the mixers section... Mojito mix, Cosmos, Breezers - all got marked down to half price ....fortunately I do a **** fine job of mixology myself at home ... but then I realized but had that wistful moment when I...

I do find my fasting number on Saturday morning can be a wee bit higher than most days, but not exceptionally so, this weekend was a bit of an anomaly because we were on the run early .... so it was a case of my post breakfast number being higher than my pre, but then normally if I have toast at...

now THAT is a meal out!! :D

I do pizza at home once a week - but then I control the crust (thin crust - I always did like mine extra thick)... and the sauce and just meat and veg and a lotta cheese. It pops my numbers a wee bit but as things have come down in general the spikes are less spikey and it's a bit high normal...

yep - Bluenoser :D Good to know about A&W - they and Harvey's and Wendy's tend to be my burgers of choice Micky D's I avoid on the best of days. I always liked Dennys not enough of them in Canada ... Smittys would probably be pretty good as well, although I do associate them with pancakes.

thanks folks friends and people we visit with are all relatively close friends, so most of them already know about my diagnosis and are quite understanding about my 'trolling' through the foods offered for what I can eat. Proper restaurants (well except for the hubby's favourite pizza and...

So just wondering what people's strategies are for eating away from home.... I'm not always able to pack food to take with me for longer trips, and my husband and I used to enjoy eating out on occasion - which we haven't done since I was diagnosed, but with several recent road trips, and...

PS.. related, while not SPECIFICALLY about diabetes, an interesting non-the-less, 2 hr (2 part) radio doc about Fat and Sugar, from the folks at the CBC http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/fat-and-sugar-part-1-1.3635209 http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/fat-and-sugar-part-2-1.3645937

.. another liver dump victim here.... and yeah frustrating and disappointing, especially at first @Neverbloobloo - like you I don't really 'count carbs' so much as read packets carefully, watch my numbers, adjust accordingly and keep a rather lovely spreadsheet of food intake, medications and...

first post diagnosis check up yesterday (7.5 weeks), had the Hb1ac bloodwork done a week ago (6.5 weeks) - 3 month average down from 12.8 to 8.9 - as it's a 3 month average, and I've only been at it 6 weeks she is exceptionally pleased with my progress - I think she was a tad shocked, I don't...

Interesting new research, I can't help but wonder if this is possibly a factor in the Dawn Phenomenon as well. http://infowebbie.com/scienceupdate/melatonin-signaling-risk-factor-type-2-diabetes/ "A sleeping pancreas releases less insulin, but how much insulin drops each night may differ from...

with carb reduction and metformin (2x500mg) I was seeing the numbers start to come down pretty much immediately - but not dramatic drops just a nice fairly steady progression,.... from 16.9 day after diagnosis to 10`s and 11`s the first week, 8`s and 9`s the second week by the end of week 3 I...