Ahh....Thank you susikav! It won't be every day I have to eat earlier and 1st of March I return to my main receptionist job at the holiday centre, will still be kept as relief at the homeless centre thoughYou are a dynamo - a very caring one...It might take a while to balance a new pattern in your life, might it? Your routine will be all over the place...
Sable Jan I knew you had naughtiness in you.Your caring nature led you to it....LOOOLL!!Ok, I admit, I was NAUGHTY too - had 2 shortbread biscuits post lunch
I think the Chicken neutralised or slowed things down, the rice was Basmati and the small potatoes were new potatoes...Just all round i feel sharper these days...definitely think the 30 minutes toning in the gym has made things a lot better...
Thanks @Sable_Jan I have been floating you are spot on. from 86 even my nurse said last week I guess you will be about 58 and when it was 38 I was GabberFlasted...not flabbergasted...because there isnt a word for it...but all i did was follow the advice that people like you and Andrew Colvin and Blutit have given me. I only lost 1 and half stone in weight but that has made all the difference. I have been lucky my BP has always been good. As for taking credit your modesty is getting the better of you...you still have had to manage, just as I have..allow yourself that...yes of course the body has to be able to respond but you have to do something different to get and sustain the change. YOU DESERVE IT!Thank you @beatdise I'd love to take credit for the good figures but I was lucky being diagnosed early enough to have only just gone into prediabetic range last year because of my high BP. I have worked at getting back to normal range but lucky that my body seems to be bouncing back without too much damage with only having had higher bs levels for a short while..... Still astounded at your great results - I was floating for days when I got my HbA1c back as 39 so you must still be on cloud 9......
Have you tried looking at eBay - I use an Accuchek Nano and find that I can get the strips for half the price of getting them from a chemist
Well I liked the post but I doubt I'd like tea with coffee mate@Sable_Jan
Glad to say no rice just:
Chicken, mushrooms, red sweet pepper, red onion, garlic, cabbage olive oil.
My tea was made coffee mate.
I use soya milk these days - seemed a little strange at first especially using more of it to get the same "colour" but find I can switch easily between milks and not notice any difference in taste (it probably does but my taste buds are used to either milk now). Means I can have cocoa and latte with impunity now 
"meths week" lol, some kind of substance abuse issue going on here ? lol
*sigh* I'm so easily pleased!
Hah! Bravo... we are all easily pleased love... check the posts that give readings under 6!Yup, if only Eddie! Bloomin' predictive text...I give up!
Forgot to say I got a nice surprise yesterday as I had a delivery of a Contour Next USB free from lovely Bayer, despite having apparently applied for it after the closing date
