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6.2 at 7:50am. Though if I hold my meter upside down, it looks like 2.9 :)

I thought about one of the static trainers, but discounted it for a couple of reasons. Even though I've replaced the saddle with a softer one, my bum starts to ache before my legs do, on the e-bike (and I'm only using the motor for gradients.) So I decided a recumbent exercise bike might be a...

And as if by magic, it's come to a screeching halt. Or at least slowed down. Started on 15 stone 11lbs and now I seem to be hovering around the 15 stone 4 lbs mark, in spite of going very low carb, not going crazy on fat, and getting some exercise. In all honesty, the weight loss is a secondary...

6.5 at 8:30. I was expecting lower, but still within acceptable limits.

6.2 at 8:30am

Just 'dared' to make a prawn and beansprout stir fry, using an Aldi sweet & sour sauce sachet that wasn't exactly low in carbs. Kind of an experiment to see if it spiked me. 90 minutes later, and just tested at 6.0. Happy days :) I also did homemade low carb gazpacho for the first time, earlier...

6.6 around 10:30am (I had a lie in.) Not as good as yesterday, but still good enough.

Thanks, and I'd welcome your feedback on others you try. There seem to be supply issues with the Ultra at the moment, if Amazon, Tesco and Asda are anything to go by. If they're not too expensive, I'll give them a go. But as someone who begrudges paying much more than £1.50 a litre for stuff to...

Just done my third test of the day (when I woke up, 2 hours after lunch and just under 2 hours after evening meal.) I thought I'd spike tonight because the Iceland chicken breast I've had in the freezer since Christmas turned out to be full of stuffing. I could have left the stuffing, but I...

If you love to snack, then there are some really tasty low carb options out there. The Curators "Pork Puffs" have a similar flavour to pork scratchings, but are more like Quavers in texture, so you don't break your teeth on them. The only pitfall is that the specialist foods tend to be a lot...

I haven't noticed excess urination. Then again, I'm peeing a lot less since getting my blood sugar down to pre-diabetic levels. But I'll watch out for feeling fluey symptoms, and not automatically assume they're coronavirus. I take a vitamin D / calcium / magnesium / zinc tablet every day, so...

I went low carb on Monday of this week, so that's 5 full days since my diet change, so far. I'm over the moon with my blood glucose readings since doing it, but a little concerned with having lost a full half stone within this time frame. I'm sure I've read that overly rapid weight loss isn't a...

5.8 just now. I was expecting higher, having had 3 beers (an additional 30g of carbs) last night.

Also, there's a possibility of a serious interaction between Viagra and poppers, and the two certainly shouldn't be used together. I've known people who did, with no ill effects, but a friend of a friend (so I'm not sure how true this is) ended up in an ambulance using both. The possibility of...

I'm new to this, too. Higher A1c readings than yours, and I'm sure the nurse suggested that if it'd been in the 50s, we'd be trying to do this on diet alone. So it does seem that there's conflicting advice and standards around. I can't help feeling they're going for the low maintenance option...

Nicotine is well known as an appetite suppressor. Most of my properly thin friends still smoke. But there's also that habit thing, and as someone who had got into the habit of getting through a 2.4Kg box of Celebrations in a few days during lockdown, or eating a whole chocolate orange while...

6.7 at 7am.

For years, my GP nagged me for annual checkups for high blood pressure that I didn't have. I used to bin the letters, thinking they were about my urinary problems that are being dealt with by the hospital, but when I actually bothered to read one, it was "You suffer from high blood pressure and...

Various sources, including this one: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html To be fair, 7.0 is the upper target pre-food, and I'm a little over that some mornings. Well below it in the evenings, though, and staying below 8.5 after food. If I keep on losing weight...

7.5 this morning. The highest reading I've had since going low carb, but still pretty pleased with it.