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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hayling Billy" data-source="post: 597665" data-attributes="member: 119935"><p>Thanks everyone.  I think you have got it for me, and certainly I have learned something for sure today. I knew about liver dump in the morning but not after exercise on an empty stomach, which I confess I do a lot. A typical example would be a six mile ride to the paper shop and back before breakfast without eating. Another reason I have been multi-testing is that I wanted to check my machine was working okay. I use a Freestyle Freedom Lite which I got four  years ago and the extreme readings have made me wonder if it is the machine or me! A good example is that I tested  as usual on my forearm several hours after after dinner ( it was two duck eggs and three slices of toast and before I went on the diet) on Tuesday and got a shock to see a reading of 12 plus. I jumped on my bike and cycled for twenty minutes along the prom, and when I got back it was down to 8. It was the big number 12 and the fact that my average level had gone up for 6 to 8 that cause me to go on the diet and start taking things seriously. I just tested again at 8.30 am after nothing since 8 pm last nigh except some water and a bit of fruit at 9pm and then a sip of coffee just now. My forearm was 6.2, my finger pad was 6.3...and my palm was 3.8. I immediately did my pal again to check for error and it  came out at 3.5. Thanks for all your help, and this time I am going to make a serious effort to get inline and stay there! Long story fairly short but I seem to have the ability to control my sugar levels by diet alone but am really idle and sloppy. Thirty years ago I was twenty stone at 40  and developed a terrible thirst and would drink literally gallons of soft drinks. My doc  di the strip test and said it looked as if I I was diabetic and made me an appointment with a specialist for a month's time. I got scared and for the first time in my life behaved and went on a very strict diet and by the time I went to the specialist he did the tests and said I was fine. All well then until four years or so ago, when  at  114kilo I  got thirsty again and did a strip test and it went brown. The doctors diagnosed late start diabetes 2 ( I am 70 now) and I have been managing it with metformin and more than usual exercise. But the weight crept on again and last Tuesday I was 108k. After four days of hard diet and increased  exercise I have got it down to 103 and will keep going till I am at 85-89. I know I can do it as I have done it all my adult life, and once I get started on something, I always finish it. Anyway, that's mys tory, and a thousand thanks for your interest and help support.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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