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Fasting Blood Sugar this morning + yesterday's food AND physical activity

You’re not a fraud at all,
Hyperthecially we’re all in the same boat, you just need a motor (injected insulin) to move yours while others have a sail hoping for gusts of wind.
I would be interested to know what you eat to keep carbs that low
 
Good morning
FBG libre 6.5 contour 5.8 (just playing games at accuracy now)
Food
Late breakfast/ cheese, tomato & red onion 3 egg omelette, very strong black coffee
Late lunch: roast turkey, mashed swede & homemade cauliflower cheese
Dinner: 2 cheese strings, handful of walnuts & marmite peanuts (FBG always better when main meal earlier & snack at night just not very practical when at work)
Exercise
60 minutes Peleton endurance ride (still doing gomad)
5 minutes post ride stretch
5 minutes full body stretch
Intermediate plank workout
500 hoola hoop spins (250 each way)
40 pike push-ups (no stopping)
Can you share the recipe for shredded turkey & courgette fritters please?
Have a good day
 
DEBBIESCOTT said:
You’re not a fraud at all,
Hyperthecially we’re all in the same boat, you just need a motor (injected insulin) to move yours while others have a sail hoping for gusts of wind.
I would be interested to know what you eat to keep carbs that low
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Hi, as a female of a certain age (in my 50s), I exercise because I sort of enjoy it (!) and it's good for bones, heart and general health rather than specifically as an antidote to diabetes . I've been eating one meal a day for several years mainly due to being in a profession involving shifts with the odd 15 carb snack if my glucose levels go low! The meal differs but it is a varied one, meat, veg and now and again some form of potato or bread, fish, etc. A 'normal' diet really but with carefully controlled portions of carbs. It can be tricky to manage exercise with insulin requirements though, some forms of exercise send me hypo and others send me high but always in the 24 hours that follow I go down into the low 4s for the rest of the day and then fight to stop from going hypo!
 
FBG: 6.3

B: 3 fried eggs with garlic, turmeric, chilli and cumin seeds, spinach. 1 avocado sliced.
L: Protein shake, brie on toasted keto bread
D: Chicken curry with .... cauliflower rice!!

Snacks: Greek yoghurt with choc no sugar protein powder, 1 tbsp crunchy pure peanut butter 4 squares dark 100% choc chopped into chunks at about 10 PM .. I know .. late .. naughty .. but I was starving!! A lot of running around today!

Physical activity:

Walking: 12000 steps (including a walk around Cannon Hill park and a round of crazy golf with highly competitive daughter).

Workout after dinner:

Dynamic stretching 10 mins

Tired today so went for slower, strength training, keeping good form. Less cardio than doing it circuit style.

100 Press ups:
All done slow and controlled, with hands on a hard foam roller to add some instability
5 x 10 Pressups with hands at shoulder width
5 x 10 Pressups with hands at close grip (diamond push ups)

100 (4 x 25) bent over rows with 18 kg dumbbells

100 (10 x 10) standing shoulder press with 18 kg dumbbells

32 (4 x 8) bicep curls with 18 kg dumbbells

50 (5 x 10) kettlebell squats with 16 kg bell, nice and slow and going really deep into the squat.

Felt good afterwards, good to listen to the body and not push it too much.
 
AGC_68 said:
FBG: 6.3

B: 3 fried eggs with garlic, turmeric, chilli and cumin seeds, spinach. 1 avocado sliced.
L: Protein shake, brie on toasted keto bread
D: Chicken curry with .... cauliflower rice!!

Snacks: Greek yoghurt with choc no sugar protein powder, 1 tbsp crunchy pure peanut butter 4 squares dark 100% choc chopped into chunks at about 10 PM .. I know .. late .. naughty .. but I was starving!! A lot of running around today!

Physical activity:

Walking: 12000 steps (including a walk around Cannon Hill park and a round of crazy golf with highly competitive daughter).

Workout after dinner:

Dynamic stretching 10 mins

Tired today so went for slower, strength training, keeping good form. Less cardio than doing it circuit style.

100 Press ups:
All done slow and controlled, with hands on a hard foam roller to add some instability
5 x 10 Pressups with hands at shoulder width
5 x 10 Pressups with hands at close grip (diamond push ups)

100 (4 x 25) bent over rows with 18 kg dumbbells

100 (10 x 10) standing shoulder press with 18 kg dumbbells

32 (4 x 8) bicep curls with 18 kg dumbbells

50 (5 x 10) kettlebell squats with 16 kg bell, nice and slow and going really deep into the squat.

Felt good afterwards, good to listen to the body and not push it too much.
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Hope your daughter beat you at golf
Don’t know how you can do all that exercise at night when you’re tired, the only things on that list I would be able to do are the shoulder presses with a barbell, I could manage that weight but would have to be hang power clean & press or push press, & the squats, bent over rows 9kg would be my limit
 
Good morning
FBG lying libre Larry 7.9 contour 5.9
Yesterdays food
Strawberry protein shake with almond milk while exercising first thing
B/ 3 scrambled eggs with butter with an avocado
L/ homemade butternut squash, chilli & coconut soup, roast turkey & gammon on homemade keto bread, handful of Brazil nuts
Mid afternoon snack/ snack sized bag of almonds & 2 cheese strings
Dinner/ alpro yogurt with dessicated coconut, almonds, sunflower seeds & cherries
Ramekin of marmite peanuts & gin & low calorie elderflower tonic (very long stressful day at work)
Exercise/
Deadlifts 5x10 sets (getting heavier each time)
Bulgarian split squats with plate 3x10 each leg
Barbell bench press 12 x 3 sets
Barbell push press 10 x 3 sets
Stretch, was going to run but still dark
Done at home
10 minutes Peleton low impact ride (for gomad)
5 minutes post ride stretch
Hopefully get a quick run in this morning before work
 
FBG: 6.3

B: Greek yoghurt, crunchy peanut butter, protein powder, walnuts
L: 3 eggs, avocado, spinach
D: Thai green chicken curry, cauliflower rice, pudding: small keto ice cream bar
Snacks: dark choc 6 squares, walnuts

Activity:

steps: ~9000

Workout:

Dynamic stretches 10 mins

50 Kettlebell goblet squats with 20 kg bell (5x 10), slow, deep and controlled

50 crunches with 20 kg bell

100 floor chest presses with a pair of 20 kg bells (4 x 25)

100 press ups (4 x 25) sets alternating between diamond grip and shoulder width grip

100 bent over rows (4 x 25) with a pair of 18 kg dumbbells

30 (5 x 6) biceps curls with a pair of 18 kg dumbbells

Cool down
Shoulder, hamstring and glute stretches

Very early rise this morning to take da mumski into hospital for a scheduled MRI scan. Love it when they are so early no traffic and no delays in appointments. Can't believe we're home again already!!
 
DEBBIESCOTT said:
Good morning
FBG lying libre Larry 7.9 contour 5.9
Yesterdays food
Strawberry protein shake with almond milk while exercising first thing
B/ 3 scrambled eggs with butter with an avocado
L/ homemade butternut squash, chilli & coconut soup, roast turkey & gammon on homemade keto bread, handful of Brazil nuts
Mid afternoon snack/ snack sized bag of almonds & 2 cheese strings
Dinner/ alpro yogurt with dessicated coconut, almonds, sunflower seeds & cherries
Ramekin of marmite peanuts & gin & low calorie elderflower tonic (very long stressful day at work)
Exercise/
Deadlifts 5x10 sets (getting heavier each time)
Bulgarian split squats with plate 3x10 each leg
Barbell bench press 12 x 3 sets
Barbell push press 10 x 3 sets
Stretch, was going to run but still dark
Done at home
10 minutes Peleton low impact ride (for gomad)
5 minutes post ride stretch
Hopefully get a quick run in this morning before work
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Amazing amount of activity, great weights routine! Love it!!
 
DEBBIESCOTT said:
Hope your daughter beat you at golf
Don’t know how you can do all that exercise at night when you’re tired, the only things on that list I would be able to do are the shoulder presses with a barbell, I could manage that weight but would have to be hang power clean & press or push press, & the squats, bent over rows 9kg would be my limit
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Daughter always makes sure she wins ;), brazen cheating! All part of the fun!

I find that if I'm feeling a little tired, I just make things easier and do a workout. If I don't feel even that will let me get through it, then I just take a rest day. Too much sitting at a desk for work all day means I feel that I have to try and do something most days.
 
Good morning FBG lying Larry 9.1, contour 7
Yesterdays food
B/ mug of tea & egg & bacon (first thing, really didn’t want it but trying to stop d/p in morning)
black coffee & coconut oil to take to work
L/ alpro yogurt with coconut, dessicated coconut, flaked coconut, sunflower seeds, almonds & blueberries, 2 cheese strings
D/Lincolnshire sausages, homemade cauliflower cheese, ramekin of salted peanuts & 6 cherries (all eaten far too late, didn’t get home from work till 8pm surprised FBG wasn’t worse
Exercise
2.05 mile walk before work
No further exercise too tired
Hope you’re mums ok,
Think I may have a coconut & marmite addiction, got through Christmas without a single chocolate, mince pie or any other goodies
 
FBG: 7.0

B: Greek yoghurt, protein powder, peanut butter and walnuts
L: Took the family to a buffet lunch, nephews and daughter went mad. I was restrained, no starches for me, chicken tikka, paneer, onion bhajis, lamb chops. I had a tiny dessert, a 1 inch cube of pistachio cake!
D: Thai green curry and cauliflower rice

Activity

~10000 steps
That was it .. body said "Take a day off!" so I did

Mum is good, had a great day out with the family, especially at lunch. She's 87, has a few health issues but nothing life threatening. Hosp appointment was just for a diagnostic scan.

Hope your cold is not too bad and you recover soon.

Have a great NY eve!
 
Good morning, happy new year
FBG libre (new sensor) 6.7 contour 6.4
B/ spinach frittata
Skipped lunch, was busy & not hungry
D/ bacon & cheese toastie on homemade keto bread & hot milk & brandy (still not hungry)
Exercise
1.03 mile run
Intermediate plank workout
500 hoola hoop rotations (250 each way)
Steps 9,149
Was actually a lot more as have a new garmin & took it of your wash my car
 
Great FBGs Debbie!

FBG: 6.8

B: Yoghurt, sugar free protein powder and assorted nuts
L: 3 poached eggs and an avocado
D: Haloumi and chickpeas, with roasted aubergines, salad with sumac, olive oil and pomegranate seeds, homemade sugar freee dark chocolate ganache, a keto ice cream bar, and some sugar free sweets and diet sodas to fuel the late night

Activity
~15000 steps (in the park with daughter and nephews playing with frisbees)

No workout .. will be getting a good one in today though!

Have a great New Year!!
 
Good morning
FBG libre 9.7 contour 8.2 (no medication for a few days now, think it needs a top up, can only have 1/12th of a dose)
Yesterdays food
Breakfast/ cream cheese pancakes with blueberries
Lunch/ celery with crunchy peanut butter
Dinner: roast beef, homemade cauliflower cheese, broccoli & carrots
Supper/ d/g cheese, handful of walnuts
Exercise/
1.04 mile dog walk with daughter
Intermediate plank workout
600 hoola hoop rotations (300 each way)
Planning a run when it stops raining
Thank you for the courgette recipe, going to try it tonight
 
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