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T2s: What was your fasting BG this morning, and what did you eat yesterday?

Friday 06/09/2019

07:30: Oven Cooked Omelette
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

Cycle to work and back home
One black coffee and one Green tea at work

19:30 Dinner: Chicken Curry
Sweet potato, Courgette, Red peppers
Salad and Papad
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

Saturday 07/09/2019
FGB(6:30) 7.4
 
Saturday 07/09/2019

08:00: Oven Cooked Omelette
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

17:40 Blood sugar before dinner 7.6
18:00 Dinner: Chicken Curry
Sweet potato, Courgette, Red peppers
Salad and Papad
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

Sunday 08/09/2019
FGB(6:30) 9.1
Busy whole day walking, gardening and decorating
Left with stuffy nose due to new paints and not slept well
 
Sunday 08/09/2019

10:20: Raspberry smoothie

13:30: Lunch: Chicken fry
Cauliflower and broccoli rice
Dal and Methi green leaves curry
Salad and Papad
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

20:00 Dinner: Panner curry with peppers
Left over Cauliflower and broccoli rice
Leftover Dal and Methi curry

Monday 09/09/2019
FGB(6:30) 8.3
Still stuffy nose and not slept well but busy day
 
Monday 9/9
FBG (05:30) 4.3
Snack (5.30am): Banana {66 Cal / 15.0g Carbs}
……...…...……...……………2 mile run
……………………………….7 x 500m [sprints, 1 minute rests] on rowing machine

Breakfast (8am):Porridge (almond milk), plum, blueberries, walnuts {274 Cal / 36.5g Carbs}

Lunch (12pm): Sweet potato, coconut & chilli soup {99 Cal / 15.1g Carbs}
Beef, fig & avocado salad {318 Cal / 10.5g Carbs}
Peach, raspberries, yoghurt, pecans {119 Cal / 9.0g Carbs}

Dinner (6pm): Butternut squash, fennel & pancetta risotto {283 Cal / 44.4g Carbs}
Cherries, strawberries, yoghurt, hazelnuts {134 Cal / 13.5g Carbs}
……………………………….4 mile walk

Snack: Toast (one slice, seeded), peanut butter {159 Cal / 12.2g Carbs}

4 cups of coffee (3 of them decaf)

Calories 1531
Carbs 167.0g
Protein 66.6g
Fat 59.7g (Sat Fat 13.0g / Trans fats 0.4g)

All food cooked from scratch, if you would like any recipes please just
 
Monday 09/09/2019

07:30: Two Boiled Eggs
Asparagus and mushrooms pan fired with butter
Rubberises Smoothie
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

Cycle to work and back home
One black coffee and three Green tea at work

19:30 Blood sugar before dinner 6.7
19:30 Dinner: Pan fried Chicken
Cauliflower and Broccoli rice
Salad and Papad
Dark chocolate

Tuesday 10/09/2019
FGB(6:00) 8.8
Slept well and no cold still Blood sugars high
 
Sapien said:
I read your post from December 2017 on you successful journey. It seems you got your fasting level below 5 in only six weeks. In your posts on your meals it appears that you are now consistently in the low 4s and sometimes 3s. How long did it take to get consistently levels in the low 4s?

I am eating rather similar to you but my fasting level is still only in the high 4s or sometimes low 5s, only occasionally in the low 4s. (I had a good two weeks at the beginning of August.) My fasting had only gotten up to 5.9 so I haven’t been diagnosed with DM but after testing I saw that after some meals I would go above 7.8. I am currently eating about 100-140 grams of carbs/day and limiting portion size at meals. I only reached low pre-diabetic levels before I reduced carb intake and don’t have weight to lose. I exercise daily and I would like to put on more weight (as muscle).

I am a bit envious of your success.
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Hi Sapien

Just checked my records and after 3 months I was averaging 5 in the morning, It took 6 months to average 4.5 and 12 months before 4 to 4.5 was routine first thing.
I kept carbs to 100-140 myself for a year (calories about 1600 on average) until I had lost all the weight that I wanted to lose. Overall I went from nearly 18 stones to exactly 11 stones in that year. I am pretty muscular so this is pretty thin (30 inch waist!). I then upped cals and carbs (1800-2000 and 160 to 180 respectively which has maintained my weight..
I am not very keen on fatty food, preferring fish and game as my protein sources (and yes I do like to fish and shoot my own food where possible), so whilst I don't overdo the carbs keeping them to about half the recommended levels.
I also do plenty of exercise bow. However, when losing weight I found that 30 minutes brisk walk twice a day was all that was needed.
Your levels are just fine. Just keep at it. How soon after a meal was that 7.8? If this was a peak level it is fine, The important measure is 2 hours after first bite. Eventually that should be down to about what it was before starting to eat.

If you post some menus with when reading were taken any issues would become clearer.
 
Tuesday 10/9
FBG (05:30) Not measured today
Breakfast 1 (5.30am): Porridge (almond milk), nectarine, blackberries, walnuts {292 Cal / 36.8g Carbs}
……………………………...2 mile run
……………………………...5 km on rowing machine [22 min 41 sec]

Breakfast 2 (8am): Mackerel, toast (one slice, sourdough)/ Juice from one orange {226 Cal / 19.4g Carbs}
……...…...……...……………2 mile run
……………………………….7 x 500m [sprints, 1 minute rests] on rowing machin

Lunch (12pm): Celeriac & apple soup {76 Cal / 9.4g Carbs}
Chicken & avocado salad {345 Cal / 15.1g Carbs}
Plum, strawberries, yoghurt, hazelnuts {144 Cal / 13.5g Carbs}

……………………………….2 mile walk
Dinner (6pm): Duck & mushroom stroganoff, linguine {434 Cal / 45.7g Carbs}
Pineapple flambed in rum, ice cream, passion fruit {228 Cal / 28.9g Carbs}

4 cups of coffee (3 of them decaf)

Calories 1824
Carbs 179.6g
Protein 109.2g
Fat 65.8g (Sat Fat 12.9g / Trans fats 0.4g)

All food cooked from scratch, if you would like any recipes please just ask
 
midnightrider said:
Hi Sapien

Just checked my records and after 3 months I was averaging 5 in the morning, It took 6 months to average 4.5 and 12 months before 4 to 4.5 was routine first thing.
I kept carbs to 100-140 myself for a year (calories about 1600 on average) until I had lost all the weight that I wanted to lose. Overall I went from nearly 18 stones to exactly 11 stones in that year. I am pretty muscular so this is pretty thin (30 inch waist!). I then upped cals and carbs (1800-2000 and 160 to 180 respectively which has maintained my weight..
I am not very keen on fatty food, preferring fish and game as my protein sources (and yes I do like to fish and shoot my own food where possible), so whilst I don't overdo the carbs keeping them to about half the recommended levels.
I also do plenty of exercise bow. However, when losing weight I found that 30 minutes brisk walk twice a day was all that was needed.
Your levels are just fine. Just keep at it. How soon after a meal was that 7.8? If this was a peak level it is fine, The important measure is 2 hours after first bite. Eventually that should be down to about what it was before starting to eat.

If you post some menus with when reading were taken any issues would become clearer.
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Thanks for looking back to see how long it took to get the blood sugars down to the low 4s. I am just over 3 months eating low carb. I don’t have much weight or waist to lose. I need to build back some muscle that I have lost. My waist is about 30in now as well and I think it looks a bit too small, but the biggest it ever got was 33in.

Hopefully my body adjusts to lower blood sugar (homeostasis), without me becoming less carb tolerant than before.

Most of readings that topped 7.8 were at 1/2 hour or one hour after eating. I did however have two that stayed above 7.8 at two hours after I had been eating low carb for about a month. It seems eating low carb has reduced my carb tolerance.

Since I have replaced carbs with protein and fat, my blood sugars are more stable, but they also don’t seem to drop as quickly to pre-meal as before, especially at breakfast.

Previously eating more carbs without much fat the blood sugar would go higher, but also drop back to pre-meal level quicker. In some cases, if I only tested at two hours , I would have thought the carbs didn’t have much effect at all, but in fact there was quite a spike in between.
 
Tuesday 10/9.
0640: Coffee with sweetener & double cream.
1550: Two Rich Tea biscuits, tea with sweetener & milk.
1700: Some pistachios.
1820: Chicken biriani. Raspberry tart with double cream.
2030: One 440ml can Guiness. 3 Irish whiskeys. Cheddar.

Fbg today 6.5
 
Tuesday 10/09/2019

07:30: Oven Cooked Omelette
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

One black coffee and three Green tea at work

18:30 Snack: Couple of Olives, peppers and humus in biscuit
Couple of Stir fry Chicken in soya souce
Couple of Smoked Salmon with cream cheese with crackers

Wednesday 11/09/2019
FGB(6:00) 7.3
No exercise and but Slept well blood sugars are coming down
 
Wednesday 11/9
FBG (05:30) 4.3
Exercise free day today

Breakfast (8am): Scrambled eggs, mushrooms, baked beans, toast (one slice, sourdough)/
Juice from one orange {385 Cal / 27.7g Carbs}

Lunch (12pm): Beef & barley broth {96 Cal / 11.5g Carbs}
Prawn & avocado salad {299 Cal / 10.4g Carbs}
Peach, cherries, yoghurt, walnuts {138 Cal / 14.9g Carbs}

BG (6pm) 4.0
Dinner (6pm): Moules frites, sourdough (1 slice, to mop up the juices) /
Muscadet (4oz) {468 Cal / 39.2g Carbs}
Banana & pecan loaf [hot from the oven], ice cream {167 Cal / 24.9g Carbs}

4 cups of coffee (3 of them decaf)

Calories 1612
Carbs 139.4g
Protein 82.4g
Fat 61.9g (Sat Fat 14.1g / Trans fats 0.6g)

All food cooked from scratch, if you would like any recipes please just ask
 
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Yesterday (11/9)
0820: Coffee with sweetener & double cream.
1230: Two poached eggs, 1 slice buttered wholemeal toast. Tea.
1600: One Rich Tea biscuit, tea with sweetener & milk.
1835: Chicken biriani, OPPO choc & hazelnut ice cream.

Fbg today 7.9
 
Wednesday 11/09/2019

07:30: Two boiled eggs
Mushrooms, pepper and Asparagus pan fired with butter
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

Cycle to work and back home
One black coffee and three Green tea at work

19:00 Dinner: Prawn curry
Cauliflower and Aubergine curry
Salad and Papad
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

21:20 Juice from one Grape fruit

Thursday 12/09/2019
FGB(6:00) 7.2
 
Thursday 12/9
FBG (05:30) Not measured today
Snack (5.30am): Banana {62 Cal / 14.2g Carbs}
……...…...……...……………2 mile run
……………………………….7 x 500m [sprints, 1 minute rests] on rowing machine

Breakfast (8am) Porridge (almond milk), peach, raspberries, pecans {283 Cal / 35.3g Carbs}

Lunch (12pm): Celeriac & apple soup {105 Cal / 13.8g Carbs}
Duck, pomegranate & avocado salad {375 Cal / 13.4g Carbs}
Pear, blackberries, yoghurt, walnuts {143 Cal / 15.6g Carbs}

Dinner (6pm): Cottage pie [squash topping, added adzuki beans], green beans {372 Cal / 43.9g Carbs}
Plum, strawberries, yoghurt, hazelnuts {123 Cal / 10.0g Carbs}

Snack: Toast (one slice, seeded), peanut butter {173 Cal / 13.1g Carbs}

4 cups of coffee (3 of them decaf)

Calories 1715
Carbs 170.1g
Protein 80.9g
Fat 66.4g (Sat Fat 12.3g / Trans fats 0.6g)

All food cooked from scratch, if you would like any recipes please just
 
Thursday 12/09/2019

06:00 2 miles morning run

07:30: One boiled eggs
Mushrooms, spinach and Asparagus pan fired with butter
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

One black coffee and three Green tea at work

19:10 Blood sugar before dinner 5.4
19:10 Dinner: Chicken curry
Leftover Prawn curry
Leftover Cauliflower and Aubergine curry
Salad and Papad
pineapple and almond roule cheese about 30 grams
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

Friday 13/09/2019
FGB(6:00) 8.6
(pineapple and almond roule cheese is likely cause of high blood sugar, but had this before need to check this again some other time)
 
Friday 13/9
FBG (05:30) 4.3
……………………………...4 mile run
Breakfast (8am): Scrambled eggs, avocado toast, mushrooms, tomatoes/
Juice from half a grapefruit {401 Cal / 25.9g Carbs}

Snack (11am): Nectarine, macadamias {105 Cal / 10.4g Carbs}
……………………………...2 mile run
……………………………...5 km on rowing machine [22 min 19 sec] PB by 4 seconds

Lunch (12pm): Cottage pie [leftovers], green beans {361 Cal / 39.7g Carbs}
Plum, strawberries, yoghurt, hazelnuts {140 Cal / 13.1g Carbs}

……………………………...3 mile walk
Dinner (6pm): Pollock in breadcrumbs, sweet potato fries, baked beans {473 Cal / 39.0g Carbs}
Blackberry & apple crumble [leftovers], ice cream {166 Cal / 20.8g Carbs}

4 cups of coffee (3 of them decaf)

Calories 1725
Carbs 159.8g
Protein 89.2g
Fat 70.2g (Sat Fat 16.0g / Trans fats 0.9g)

All food cooked from scratch, if you would like any recipes please just ask
 
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Saturday 14/9
FBG (05:30) Not measured today
Snack (5.30am): Banana {64 Cal / 14.6g Carbs}
……...…...……...……………2 mile run
……………………………….7 x 500m [sprints, 1 minute rests] on rowing machine

Breakfast (8am) Porridge (almond milk), plum, raspberries, walnuts {279 Cal / 34.8g Carbs}

Lunch (12pm): Tomato & lentil soup {130 Cal / 18.3g Carbs}
Chicken & avocado salad {260 Cal / 6.9g Carbs}
Pear, blackberries, yoghurt, walnuts {143 Cal / 15.6g Carbs}

……………………………...3 hours gardening
BG (6pm) 4.1
Dinner (6pm): King prawn, squash & mango curry, paratha {466 Cal / 37.5g Carbs}
Pineapple, passion fruit, yoghurt, pistachios {134 Cal / 15.6g Carbs}

4 cups of coffee (3 of them decaf)

Calories 1541
Carbs 148.4g
Protein 82.6g
Fat 60.0g (Sat Fat 16.5g / Trans fats 0.1g)

All food cooked from scratch, if you would like any recipes please just
 
Friday 13/09/2019

07:30: Oven cooked omelette
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

Cycle to work and back home
One black coffee and three Green tea at work

19:00 blood sugar before dinner 7.2
19:00 Dinner: Panner curry
Cauliflower and Broccoli rice
Baby sweet corn and courgette stir fry
Salad and Papad
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

21:20 Juice from one Grape fruit

Saturday 14/09/2019
FGB(6:00) 7.3
 
Saturday 14/09/2019

08:10 breakfast : Oven cooked omelette
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

One black coffee in afternoon

19:00 blood sugar before dinner 6.9
19:00 Dinner: chicken curry
Cauliflower and Broccoli rice
Baby sweet corn and courgette stir fry
Salad and Papad
Nuts Mixture and Dark chocolate

21:00 approximately 50 grams of fresh pineapple

Sunday 15/09/2019
FGB(6:45) 7.0
 
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