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Hi my name is Bobby , living on the coast of England. I have a Hearing Dog as I am am severely deaf. but can speak - conversing can be tricky. My dog listens for sounds at home eg alarm clock. doorbell, pill alarm . He lets me know which one it is. He has to go into country or park to be off the lead each day. So i enjoy walking , finding country or beach spots and new places to go. I garden a little and love to watch birds, fox, and flowers grow. We had primroses in September which bloomed round to April.
Im hoping to find some fellow diabetics who experience some or all of these ; Hb1ac 51 - satisfactory. Metformin and one dose insulin; Low weight 45kg - 49kg (but increase desired) Hypers, Hypos, and Generally very puzzled about managing my diabetes and my day to day diet and my weight
My family and I , plus dog visit our local church regularly, we host a small group once a month . Being in our home its possible to mange the sound quality. One member is a type 2 bu thats related to weight more than mine is. At some point hearing from others with diabetes condition like mine would be good but maybe not when saying Hi

Antje77 said:

Hi @Bobby105 , nice to meet you!

Have you found any patterns relating to your food or the timing of your insulin with the hypers and hypos?
Have you ever used a continuous monitor like freestyle libre to help finding patterns? They do a free trial if you've never used one before.

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Hi ,Thanks, I did have a pattern but became unwell, so the readings are only just reurning to ''norm''
The most normal occurrence was 7-9 on waking at 7am. but 13-15, 2 hours after breakfast . Breakfast being egg or fish, 1 wholemal slice of bread. 11/2 decaf tea Maybe once a week bowl of 25-30g of porridge in water with a dash of milk and a splash of soya cream.
Today the reading had returned to 7.8 at 6.40a.m , 2 x poached eggs with one slice wholemeal toast and decaf tea. By 10am the reading was 13.5 , but I cant workout the reason for this reular jump. I'll post about my unusual type 2 so that mote type 2 folk can read it too

@Antje77 thank you for the link to the long article..... Im always reluctant to give up bread or my handful of potato. I only weigh between 45 and 49 kg. I get very hungry an hour after breakfast . Recently when unwell i slipped from 49 to 45kg in 2 weeks. I will try again and look again at the article re fats and protein.
On 2 days i played around with the egg , bread, meal doing without breaad one day but the result was the same. Maybe 2x eggs and a thick plain yogurt might be better.

Thanks I'll come back to you. A private dietician gave me some ideas. I will fish them out and share. And reply about breakfasts too

Antje77 said:

What about having a full English, minus the beans and toast?
Bacon and eggs, tomato, mushrooms, all fried in butter may fill you up better than that slice of toast.
I tend to get hungry when my blood glucose is high, which makes sense because the glucose sitting in the bloodstream isn't being used for energy.

Both Aldi and Lidl have a very nice 10% fat plain Greek yoghurt, it's the fat content that makes it filling, you need the calories.

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Hi . I went to bed at 14. Not u usual. This a.m I awoke to 6.8 (. Prior to being unwell this had become the norm.)
7.50. I tried 1 poached egg, tofoo, mushrooms and a piece of seeded Ryvita with benecol spread & low salt marmite. (No bacon at present) Cup of decaf tea.

9.45. 8.5 So this has stopped the usual 6 point rise, waking to breakfast . suggesting Morrisons Wholemeal sliced bread to be the culprit.
On Thursdays we usually have 4x cod fish fingers (mostly fish, a little wheat, potato starch coating) and fat. And go for Ryvita again .
It looks as if one issue might be solved, but needs trialling again.

Antje77 said:

What about having a full English, minus the beans and toast?
Bacon and eggs, tomato, mushrooms, all fried in butter may fill you up better than that slice of toast.
I tend to get hungry when my blood glucose is high, which makes sense because the glucose sitting in the bloodstream isn't being used for energy.

Both Aldi and Lidl have a very nice 10% fat plain Greek yoghurt, it's the fat content that makes it filling, you need the calories.

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Hi , I've been using Fage 5% or Fage 2% , mixed with skimmed milk.Milled seeds. And tspn plain cocoa powder. A dietician suggested mixing 1/2 banana or dspn strawberry jam. But I became afraid of any high sugar products so rarely added this.

Antje77 said:

Full fat yoghurt tastes better, and is a lot more filling as well. Half a banana would spike me into the high teens, and creamy plain yoghurt tastes fine to me. If you like adding something to your yoghurt, you can try nuts, nuts don't have many carbs.

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