Bluetit1802
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@Fleegle Your determination is awesome. I also have my fingers crossed your levels will start to drop.
Well done Fleegle. Keep up the good work.Week 3 day 19.
I woke this morning to my Libre telling me I was 3.4 and when I checked my bloods I was actually 3.9. Low for me - typically around 4.5-5.5. But dinner was 16hours previous so a long fast. However - good news.
Then Sunday morning so off out on my bike and I put my all in to it - it is more like a 40min intense training than a cycle. Before I went I had my shake to try and give the body something to burn.
By time I got home and showered - my BG was 8.9... Now that is unusual. I always find the combination of any of these three toxic so perhaps all three, intense exercise, hot shower, 25g of carbs was a bit heavy.
Decided to do a walk - and I was really impressed with the rapid decline. I went from 8.9 - 5.4 in about 25mins and within the two hours. The decline was rapid and early in the walk - not usual so I wonder if I had just given it time and waited the two hours who knows.
Then lunch was a non-event - which was good. BG below 6.5 in two hours, and Tea which includes veg so at least 30g of carbs was below 6 (which I think is a first for me) within about 90mins.
I have found before exercise has this effect - both really high BG followed by day lows, and I know that the exercise will help me for at least three days. It is a shame that work does not allow me to do a bit more but I will fit it in.
All in all - much happier today than at any time in the last 19 days.
I use the Libre and calibrate using finger pricks to know where they are.Well done for battling all this with a cold, which won't be helping your levels or your motivation. You are doing brilliantly.
Are you doing any weekly averages for FBG, pre and post meals, and are they trending downwards?
Normally I am too. A spreadsheet for everything.If I were doing this (and I am so glad I'm not!) I would be recording everything from FBG, all pre-meals and post meal peaks and bedtimes on a spreadsheet, and averaging each occasion each week, watching very carefully for trends. I would also be putting them in graphs with a trend line. This would be my personal motivation. I would then add notes about exercise, stress, illness, other factors. However, I am a data freek. Some might say just a geeky freek.
I feel the same way. I am not expecting much change until I am close to or at the very end of my diet when I hope the pancreatic fat will be gone. Some of what I'm losing at the moment isn't even liver fat , it is subcutaneous fat. I can see.Normally I am too. A spreadsheet for everything.
But because of everything I have read I know that this is not a progress thing - more like a big change late in.
In his videos he talks about people thinking in week 2 they are reversed when in fact it is simply clearing the liver.
I have all of the Lire data which I use and I record when I ate and how many carbs.
So I have lots of data to mine later and my thread here tells me what every day held.
Fleegle I have been trying to think back to work out how long I have had T2 and what my weight was when I first got it. That I think is a good guide to what my personal fat threshold will turn out to be. I can remember going to the doctor because of constant tiredness in Jan 2014. She asked me when it had started and I said I could only remember back as far as June 2013 when I had taken the lift for the first time to attend a dental appointment on 2nd floor, because I had felt too tired to walk up. So far I can't remember being weighed around that time but I do know that I was then inside (just inside) the "normal" BMI range. So some people, possibly you included Fleegle, have a personal fat threshold in the normal range.Week 4 day 25 weigh in.
So this week I lost just over 2lbs but I only count whole pounds. So my total weight loss since ND is give or take is 16lbs.
Interestingly when I undertook this ND I thought I had lost broadly enough weight and losing a further 15% would be ludicrous.
Yet less than 4 weeks in I have lost about about 8-9% of when I started the ND phase. Surely that cannot go on?
Waist now below the top of the ideal line. BMI now dropped well into normal healthy range.
Overall I lost more muscle than fat this week so I really do need to start thinking about that now.
BG update tomorrow - packed day today and this evening - a wedding.... tricky but I will get through it.
but LO is less than 2.9
@Bluetit1802 = no I mean the words LO not the graph low. I have changed the target ranges so I can see that my levels are always in my defined range (or not on this diet ). But I think it goes LO when below 2.8 maybe I am not sure and I don't think I changed that anywhere. In any case, I wasn't 2.8 More like 5 would be my normal morning FBG although I have seen as low as 3.9 (test strip) whilst doing this but not a constant. It all seems to have recovered now - sitting here on a flat 4.4 which again given the time since food would be in the range +-.5mmol which is what it typically comes in at. This sensor had been the weirdest one so far - low lows and high highs compared to test strip and when on 5.6 it is aligned.It is 3.9 on the default setting, unless you changed it yourself.