therower
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Wow you work at an airport washing jets!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll get my coat and nip to the gym.
Wow you work at an airport washing jets!!!!!!!!!!!!!Just about to start jet washing at work but thought, as I cant just pop indoors for food and tests because I will be wet through, I'd test now and brew.
7.2
and my brew is perfecto.....
I find jet washing, particularly when getting paid, quite therapeutic.
Tony
How has your morning been? Any stressful emails? Stressful spreadsheets? Is there such a thing about an unstressful spreadsheet? (Sorry that last question is irrelevant to BG levels.) Has your computer crashed? Has your phone been ringing non-stop? Is your favourite calming colleague not in today?
A stressful meeting can send my BG rocketing and then, when it is over they come back down to earth again.
But don't worry it's National I Care About You Day today and as a diabuddy, I care.
It is also National Greasy Foods Day and World Pasta Day but, even today, there is no excuse for deep fried macaroni cheese.
How has your morning been? Any stressful emails? Stressful spreadsheets? Is there such a thing about an unstressful spreadsheet? (Sorry that last question is irrelevant to BG levels.) Has your computer crashed? Has your phone been ringing non-stop? Is your favourite calming colleague not in today?
A stressful meeting can send my BG rocketing and then, when it is over they come back down to earth again.
But don't worry it's National I Care About You Day today and as a diabuddy, I care.
It is also National Greasy Foods Day and World Pasta Day but, even today, there is no excuse for deep fried macaroni cheese.
We Scots love to deep fry everything, allegedly. However I have never seen or tasted a deep fried mars bar.
I have had deep fried ice cream when I was in Turkey on holiday and it was delish
I appreciate your suggestions.
However, I have experimented a lot with my insulin for the gym and worked out what works best to keep my BG level during and after exercise.
For an hour session, I need to reduce my basal by 30% about 40 minutes before I start and continue for an hour post exercise.
If I reduce it by more (e.g. remove my pump), my BG goes up.
If I forget to reduce it, I hypo.
If I have any bolus insulin on board, I hypo so a pre-exercise bolus would not be a good idea.
The problem is not my BG it is the physical position of the pump. Hence the question where others undertaking similar activities find to put their pump.
Any chance of a photo?
It sounds like a pump belt (which I have tried) but find it gets sweaty. But I may be wrong.
The only time I've had Scots battered haggis was the summer of the year I got T1D, we'd gone to a scooter rally in Dunbar, 17 years old on a 125cc Lambretta, discovered a beer called 'heavy' and then discovered the pubs didn't shut at 3pm (they did in England back thenI had deep fried haggis way back when the T1 signs were beginning to manifest - haggisfest - it was lovely and filling. The hotter the fat is the less that’s absorbed, always hot before elf an safety
Morning all.
Woke up with post gym hypo (forgot to set my temp basal).
Which remind me - what do pumping gym goers do with their life source?
I ask because Pumpy and I are having regular falling outs at the gym.
I clip him to the top of my leggings (there aren't many other options).
He does well at the back when I am running - out of the way of my flailing arms.
But then has to move to the side when I do bench presses (and other lying down stuff) otherwise I lie on him.
The side is no good when I do bicep curls (and other arm weights) because I keep knocking him with the dumbbells so he gets moved to the front.
And then he has to move again when I do ab crunches to avoid him being ... crunched.
I tried clipping him to my top but it moves too much when I run and gets in the way with some weights.
I tried taking him off but my BG rose too much.
If I use a pump belt, I have the same problem of where to actual put the solid blighter. And get sweaty under the belt.
I'd like to do circuit training but I'd spend half my time moving Pumpy.
Like the idea that Pumpy is "he" my BG is "she". Is this anthropomorphism at it's best/worst?Morning all.
Woke up with post gym hypo (forgot to set my temp basal).
Which remind me - what do pumping gym goers do with their life source?
I ask because Pumpy and I are having regular falling outs at the gym.
I clip him to the top of my leggings (there aren't many other options).
He does well at the back when I am running - out of the way of my flailing arms.
But then has to move to the side when I do bench presses (and other lying down stuff) otherwise I lie on him.
The side is no good when I do bicep curls (and other arm weights) because I keep knocking him with the dumbbells so he gets moved to the front.
And then he has to move again when I do ab crunches to avoid him being ... crunched.
I tried clipping him to my top but it moves too much when I run and gets in the way with some weights.
I tried taking him off but my BG rose too much.
If I use a pump belt, I have the same problem of where to actual put the solid blighter. And get sweaty under the belt.
I'd like to do circuit training but I'd spend half my time moving Pumpy.
Like the idea that Pumpy is "he" my BG is "she". Is this anthropomorphism at it's best/worst?
It makes them part of the family like cars (mine has a female name that just sprang to mind when I first saw its number plate), boats (no, I don’t have one), and the wonderful Somerset usage that gives you everything a ‘he’ e g the kettle - you just ‘put him on’. And of course pets, horses, chickens. . .
I love the idea of Pumpy being a he, and Madame BG.
Wow you work at an airport washing jets!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll get my coat and nip to the gym.
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