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"A new you in 42"

Bebo321 said:
3hrs - holy moly! That's dedication. I love the smell of Pledge myself - reminds me of being at my grandma's house.
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I stretched it out and took my time . Got the washing out overnight , I never do that but got a full day tomorrow so im ahead

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I will start the new thread if people still want it. I plan to continue because I feel good (not at the moment because I ve got a cold but usually do).


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Enjoy your hols

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Hey! You missed me? Awww that's so good to know Thanks @Bebo321 and @sanguine

I'm still here and I check in daily but was waiting to report good news. I have my 3 month check with DN mid July and am hoping she will see an improvement and agree to me staying off statins. Also waiting to report losing my first stone, but its only 12lbs so far. Didn't want to peak too soon Desperately wanting to post with low fasting BS but they've risen to 7 of late due to the ongoing stress I mentioned when I first joined.

I'm still LCHF and feeling wonderful. Loads more energy and clarity and loving my food again. Still learning loads from this forum by checking in each morning

Thanks for the shout-out. Hope you are all doing good and well
 
Pollylocks said:
...I don't know how you do it, 5k!..puts me to shame, well done you...

Pipp, enjoy your holiday..
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I've gradually built it up. The mind, the lungs and the heart could cope with some running/ jogging but I think the knees will say no.

I'm off to boots in the morning for a weigh in. I'm hoping the machine will tell me I've reached the overweight figure. ;-)


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Well you've got great news to report! You're doing so well!
You know Jamrox has just started a new thread sporty in forty a you should report your great progress!
Sorry the BGs aren't as good as you would like. Stress will inevitably keep levels a bit higher.
Great to hear your progress
Hope to see you again on sporty in forty soon. Bx
 
Good to see you back Diana
 
Bebo321 said:
How


How exciting!
Where are you going Pipp?!
Will you take a load of photos to share with us when you get back?
Wishing you a wonderful restful break. xxxx
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Not that exciting. Not telling where, just somewhere we go to escape and retreat.
No to photos.
Thanks for good wishes will try to make it wonderful and restful, and the rest will include ending 42 challenge by completing it, and staring new 40 sporty challenge.
You all keep up the good work.

Thank you, you wonderful 42ers.
 
4.8 at 7am
Much happier with that. It's an hour later than during the week.
I'm going to Boots to weigh myself at 9am. I hope to be in the overweight range lol. I've had a Scandi tapas breakfast: olives, hazelnuts, cheese, whole earth crunchy peanut butter.

I got the peanut butter from one of the main supermarkets. No added sugar and it's delicious.

I'll be going from Boots to the coffee shop for a capuccino with a mint humbug tea chaser. It's my weekly treat whilst I browse the newspapers. Lounging in a coffee shop makes me feel I'm on holiday

I've just realised I've posted on the wrong thread. Can't be bothered to type it out again.

Have great holiday Pipp, wherever you are.



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Today will be clearin my deceased mother in laws garden with my hubby. We have a skip and hope to get it cleared and finished this weekend in the Ayrshire sunshine.

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Grrrr! Need to do my exercise now. Hubbie forgot to tell me that we have no sausages left. This probably means I'll have a liver dump on way to Lidl. Hour round trip walking. Was looking forward to leisurely brekkie followed by leisurely walk. Probably good to walk briskly as despite doing all the right things have maintained but not to bothered as that time of month again.
 
Bebo321 said:
Can you let us know if and how much this helps your BG control please sanguine?
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I may not be able to manage this every day (probably not today because I'm off round to some friends hobbying) but here's what happened yesterday:

0720, 6.2
Shower, couple of mugs of tea
0905, 7.1
Breakfast - two eggs on small slice of wholemeal toast
Pint of water
1005, 8.4 (that'll be the toast - not too bad after an hour though)
10 minutes on the rower
1030, 6.6
Pint of water
1230 light lunch - salami, olives, tomato, feta cheese, bit of houmous
1330, 6.1
1430, 7.3 - liver kicking in?
1530, 7.2
5 minutes on rower
1545, 6.1
Afternoon tea - some berries and cream
1645, 7.3
30 minute walk
1745, 5.9
1845, 5.3
Dinner - sausages, mushrooms, half an avocado, glass of red wine, small piece of 85% chocolate
1945, 6.2
5 minutes on rower
2000, 5.6
2045, 6.2
bedtime, 6.3
this morning, 5.8

I'm not going to test so intensively very often, but intuitively I like the idea of spreading the food intake more evenly to avoid the liver getting anxious, and burning off the peaks by short exercise an hour or so after eating. (I think Andrew Colvin has been through all this already in much more detail!).

And I've lost 1.8 kg in the last week after plateauing for a while, so happy this morning! BMI now 26.8!
 
Well back from walk in pouring rain and had nice long soothing hot shower. The rain was bouncing off the ground and my maxi skirt wrapped round my legs, making it difficult to walk. It was drizzling when I set off but 10 mins later it was bouncing. My shoes got so wet that I turned my ankle so figured I was better off walking on the grass bare foot but managed to avoid the piles if doggie doodles which were on the grass. It certainly added an element of danger to the walk. It takes half an hour to walk there and half an hour to walk back. I was so wet I actually had to strip off in the hall way. And all my hubbie could do was laugh till he cried whilst singing "isn't she lovely" the man is warped! He is now cooking brekkie which is brunch and my liver has just dumped! Grrrr!
 
That's so great sanguine!

Thanks for this - it's one thing to be able to say that exercise will reduce BGs, but it's great to see someone with the real time data - it's surprising how little exercise is needed for a drop too (though I guess the rower is quite an intensive workout)
The 1430 reading of 7.3 will probably just be peak post prandial after lunch (usually about two hours after)

Really interesting that you have lost weight too - do you think this is due to changing how you exercise, or have you modified your diet? That's me grinning cos you lost 1.8kg!
 
Well done Scandichic!
We just missed the rain by a couple of minutes. I like the danger element - the doggie doodle dance!
Hope your ankle is okay.x
 
Well done on the weight loss sanguine .

This is useful information because it's interesting to see the effects of the exercise.
If you don't mind me asking, what was your last HbA1c ?

Thanks again



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