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I didn't do anything from Friday to Monday as I was away for a long weekend (very nice thank you) and boy does it instantly show when starting again; I think the terrible fact may be that you have to keep doing these exercises or else the benefits evaporate like good intentions going into your...

Ignore your consultant; that is atrocious advice. Have a look at the DCCT trial which governs who we are treated in the UK. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/gap/cgi-bin/GetPdf.cgi?id=phd000390 You are doing very well according to that. Best Dillinger

That's because we're looking at a range of probabilities for complications developing. The DCCT showed that for every 1% drop in HbA1c the range of complications drop. Just because Keith Richards is looking quite sprightly on a lifetime of smoking, drinking and heroin doesn't mean we should all...

Well those levels are non-diabetic levels; in the UK the targets are much higher; below 6.5% is the lowest that is suggested (which I think is the level for diabetics with existing cardiovascular disease) and below 7% for everyone else. Most of us fail to get even those levels though; about 93%...

It's a tricky one to get a straight answer to that; there is a lot of discussion on here about it but I have just found this old blog that suggests 4.7 to 5.7% is what 95% of non-diabetic are at. Is that a possible or even achievable level? Bernstein suggests between 4.2% and 4.6% - but I've...

My morning insulin to carb ratio is much higher than my evening ratio; so yes it certainly can happen. As @mo1905 said tyring 1 unit for 6 and if that doesn't work go down until it does. Best Dillinger

Well, those are just the ones I've settled on; your cross training thing sounds ideal. I guess you can do anything as long as you get out of breath and your heart rate goes nice and high. Found it a bit of a chore to do them this morning but once you start they are over so quickly. I had a...

An HbA1c of 10.6% equates to an average blood sugar level of 14.3 mmol/l - so something is going wrong! Best Dillinger

This sounds pretty great; but I hope they don't cost the Earth http://richarddawkins.net/2014/07/google-partners-with-novartis-to-create-smart-contact-lens/ Best Dillinger

Hi, What tests did they do to make them sound so confident? I thought that fasting blood sugars of above 7.0 mmol/l on multiple occasions meant a diabetes diagnosis? Have they done a C-Peptide test or GAD autoantibodies test? C-Peptide to see how much insulin is being produced and GAD to see...

But that's good - that's the start; if you can do that everyday and get out of breath then it will help with your blood sugars, if you can raise it after a while then that's even better. Best Dillinger

As long as it's good wine! A friend of mine's wife is French and when she got pregnant she went to her French doctor who when asked about drinking and pregnancy said that if she was used to having a glass of wine in the evening it would 'be a violation' to stop whilst pregnant! That's the sort...

I was surprised by that as well; it does look suspiciously easy doesn't it? I thought I would be able to do hours of it, until about a minute in when I collapsed on the floor... You need to keep your back straight so that you are holding everything together with your stomach muscles. I use a...

Get out of it Zand! :)

Hi @K80smith - welcome aboard! I don't think it matters when you do it as long as you do it every day (except weekends). As you are already doing HIIT then you might be way ahead of us anyway; but it can't hurt?! My bg before bed last night was 6.4 mmol/l and this morning was 6.3 mmol/l and...

Thanks @Juicyj - that's a interesting link. If you are a non-diabetic you will have an average HbA1c ranging from 4-5.9% (in old money) which at the lower end of the range (4.0%) equates to an average blood sugar level of 3.8 mmol/l - and there doesn't appear to be any evidence that...

Keep it up @zand and I'll be sending my baby boy round in a few weeks to sit on you whilst you do them. :)

I was doing the plank this morning when my 3 year old thought it would be fun to lie on my back. Laughing, whilst doing a plank with 15 kilos of toddler on your back is a pretty great enhancement to this exercise I must say :) What I like about this is that the whole exercise routine is over...

That's because my brothers and sisters have less patience than me Sid Bonkers. If you are going to dismiss Taubes but recommend Keys surely it follows that you should read both of them? Or how can you know? Dillinger

Are you sprinting though? That's the key; hard as you can for 20 seconds. It might take a while to start affecting blood sugar levels. Best Dillinger