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https://www.facebook.com/groups/Type1DiabeticAthletes/?ref=nf_target&fref=nf Lots of crossfitters on this website if you are on Facebook.

Hi @BeccyB give him my love from one Bootle Buck to another. I was a St Augustines girl myself. I think Bootle Grammer was just before my time!

Hi @garbuttg5. Dr Bernsteins book is a good read. He was a type 1 diabetic way back. He trained as a doctor at the age of 45 to specialise in diabetes. Some type 1s think his approach is very severe but I think he's great. He has said he has reversed some of his complications but it did take...

Wooohoooo @BeccyB I grew up in poet's corner by the docks. Whereabouts is yer alfella from then? (See what I did there I'm speaking proper!) Was he a St George lad or a Salesian lad?

Hi, born in Bootle, moved to the Wirral and I'm a science teacher.

Yep, arterial spray, 9am start of the working day all over my white flippen blouse. Happened the other night when my cgm went off and I checked all over the bed sheet and hit me in the face. My partner was on nights and I got a text in work the next day asking me where I'd hidden the body. Once...

Have you hit any buttons when you are bolusing? I know that I can stop a bolus if it's an accident by pressing any button in an emergency? But I've never had that message.

Love mine too! Anyone tries to take it off me ......

From what I've heard, the ability wears off for the liver to dump as time goes on. Mines still going good after 25 years. Your liver could kick in but if you've still got something of your bolus left floating around that could still bring sugars low. Alcohol also dampens down the liver dump...

@azure I think it's just mad DP. Tried the timings and all that. I first started looking into it because I got to around 10ish on the morning and my bs were 25 after my usual bowl of porridge I'd had at th same time every day for years, the same amount and the same bolus. I had three staff phone...

@noblehead I used to love my breakfast. before diabetes I had an inch thick slice of wholemeal toast with an inch thick layer of butter and a bowl of half bran flakes and cornflakes!

Hi @noblehead , I've tried it every which way, eating doesn't switch it off for me. I've tried carbs, low carb, protein and fat. Timing of eating. Then the playing around with lantus on advice. Nothing breakfasty switches it off or lowers it. I've ended up on the pump for it. I think it's...

Hi, it was full fat we don't do low fat anything in our house! My type 2 partner can eat it with a smallish spike. I do coffee and cream sometimes for breakfast. Love that! I have thought if sugar free jelly and cream for breakfast but I'm trying to cut out sweeteners. I really need to start...

Yoghurt and berries sound lovely. I tried Greek yoghurt and really enjoyed it. Carb counted for it and got a massive spike! Was lovely though.

I set my basal to MASSIVE an hour before I wake to drive my sugars down to 4s before it kicks off. But the amount changes. The first 3 days of the six week summer hols it didn't appear at all! Thought I was cured of it yaayyyy. Then it started again so when I hit 6.7 on my cgm I start...

Nope @azure, tried eating, not eating, lucozade, protein .... The list goes on. Nothing stops my DP. My liver thinks I'm being chased by bears and tigers 30 minutes after my first cuppa. The only thing I know is that it will happen. The extent and the length changes every day depending on what...

Wouldn't touch them with a barge pole tbh. Tasteless. But then I don't do brekky because of dawn phenomenon.

@ohitsnicola sounds like a plan. Stay safe.

Meant to add I try to start HIIT or weights in the low 5s because I know they'll go up. I try to start a spin class mid 6s. But I test and correct as needed every 15 minutes.

Hi @debbie222 , I reduce my basal by 50% for cardio stuff half hour before, and increase by 60% for hiit or weight lifting at the start. It's a case of trying to begin with and testing it to find the magic number that suits you. (When I first started I had to increase for everything because my...