Thanks for your support everybody. I'm back on track again. Had a normal food day on Sunday and a good day yesterday (Monday), including a reasonable session at the gym. Attended my first NHS "Waist Winners" session yesterday. It's an eight week "food education" programme run by an NHS dietician, takes an hour a week, and they weigh you to provide an incentive to stay good. It's free. As always with the NHS, it runs to a formula (I've been on a couple of different courses) and caters to the lowest common denominator (does anyone in the world still think you can drink full fat Coca Cola and not gain weight?). Also, the dieticians are always skinny young girls who would just can't comprehend the eating habits of their 60 something plus, obese clients and whose brains would literally explode if they ate a Big Mac Meal with extra fries. Despite all this, I'll be going for the eight weeks, because the thought of getting weighed each Monday will hopefully keep me honest over the weekends.
In other news, my two hour BG readings are coming down but only very slightly. I've moved to doing a 2 hour and a three and a quarter hour (just the way it worked out first time) a few evenings a week. I'm looking to get below 8.5 at the two hour point. Last night's 2 hour was 10.3, and the 3 hour+ one was 8.8. Although still not good by any stretch of the imagination, this is an improvement on where they were late December ( 13.6/9.4 on Christmas Eve). Blood pressure is also responding slightly. LOts more work to do though if I'm to get that HbA1c down (my primary goal).
