7.2 with Codefree this morning = 6.2 with Accu Check.
I'm doing these readings so that I can compare how my readings are from month to month to see if things like seasonal foods, weather conditions, stress, daylight hours etc affect my diabetes. I've noticed that when I sleep for more than 8 hours my morning BS is lower and actually stays lower throughout the day, so I'm wondering how much effect lack of sleep has been having on my blood sugars and whether that's because of something simple like I can't eat if I'm sleeping
or whether it's more to do with the Circadian rhythm being in good working order.
Since August when I was diagnosed, the first things to go out of my life were bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, cakes, biscuits, sweets - but I did still have the odd nibble of chocolate until around November, when I began to balk at the smell of chocolate until finally last week I took one bite of a Mini Crunchie and it tasted like poison to me. The sweetness was overwhelmingly sickly and I was totally repulsed by it and at first, very confused at that reaction. I also had crisps as the odd 'treat' and am now getting a similar reaction to them - poison. Yuk!
My body is finally having it's say, it's found it's voice, it's saying it's piece and not before time. Every time I ate potatoes and felt bloated afterwards, that was me overriding my body's voice. Every time I ate all those doughnuts for breakfast ... (only joking). But it really was confusing to be eating things that were supposedly 'good' for me, bread, potatoes, carrots, parsnips etc - I loved them all, were actually making me ill. It's very easy to see the dangers of sweets and cakes and biscuits etc., but we're told to eat our 5 a day aren't we? So we don't expect them to make us ill.
So gradually almost all processed foods are being rejected by my body. I know everything is processed to some degree, I can't go out and slaughter my own cow or make my own cheese, but what I buy at the moment doesn't come in sealed packs and doesn't have a list of chemicals in the ingredients list. Anything that has a huge list of ingredients or has a list that's too small for me to read with 1.5 specs is returned to the shelf.
I now completely miss out several aisles in the supermarkets and shopping takes me next to no time. I do use frozen fish and veggies but not frozen meat and I eat fresh fruit in moderation but I'm now physically very conscious of HOW SWEET things are and instinctively turn away from them. And I'm absolutely loving it. I love the fact that I can trust my body to tell me what it wants again.
It's now asking me for a facelift, and a belly lift! :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'm doing these readings so that I can compare how my readings are from month to month to see if things like seasonal foods, weather conditions, stress, daylight hours etc affect my diabetes. I've noticed that when I sleep for more than 8 hours my morning BS is lower and actually stays lower throughout the day, so I'm wondering how much effect lack of sleep has been having on my blood sugars and whether that's because of something simple like I can't eat if I'm sleeping
or whether it's more to do with the Circadian rhythm being in good working order.Since August when I was diagnosed, the first things to go out of my life were bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, cakes, biscuits, sweets - but I did still have the odd nibble of chocolate until around November, when I began to balk at the smell of chocolate until finally last week I took one bite of a Mini Crunchie and it tasted like poison to me. The sweetness was overwhelmingly sickly and I was totally repulsed by it and at first, very confused at that reaction. I also had crisps as the odd 'treat' and am now getting a similar reaction to them - poison. Yuk!
My body is finally having it's say, it's found it's voice, it's saying it's piece and not before time. Every time I ate potatoes and felt bloated afterwards, that was me overriding my body's voice. Every time I ate all those doughnuts for breakfast ... (only joking). But it really was confusing to be eating things that were supposedly 'good' for me, bread, potatoes, carrots, parsnips etc - I loved them all, were actually making me ill. It's very easy to see the dangers of sweets and cakes and biscuits etc., but we're told to eat our 5 a day aren't we? So we don't expect them to make us ill.
So gradually almost all processed foods are being rejected by my body. I know everything is processed to some degree, I can't go out and slaughter my own cow or make my own cheese, but what I buy at the moment doesn't come in sealed packs and doesn't have a list of chemicals in the ingredients list. Anything that has a huge list of ingredients or has a list that's too small for me to read with 1.5 specs is returned to the shelf.
I now completely miss out several aisles in the supermarkets and shopping takes me next to no time. I do use frozen fish and veggies but not frozen meat and I eat fresh fruit in moderation but I'm now physically very conscious of HOW SWEET things are and instinctively turn away from them. And I'm absolutely loving it. I love the fact that I can trust my body to tell me what it wants again.
It's now asking me for a facelift, and a belly lift! :lol: :lol: :lol:
