- When attending your Diabetes Review mention about the Metformin not agreeing with you. The Diabetic Nurse CAN write you a prescription for the SR Metformin.
@Providence 62 - Hi
Sorry to appear dense, but I'm still pretty new to all this. How does fasting all day help reduce your BG levels ? Doesn't that encourage your liver to release more glucogen?
Cloudy and hot here.It's the opposite here
Sunshine
Set to change tomorrow
Ahhh, I wonder if that might be why my BGs are higher over the last couple of days, too...? I've not been eating anything different, but I didn't think about the effects of the weather...
I'm dense too. I have no idea, only that it works for me. After my walk for lunch I recorded 5.4 and now 90 mins after an 8oz rump steak, salad of webbs lettuce, baby spinach and beet leaves, rocket, cherry toms, spring onion, black and green olives danish blue cheese dressed in basalmic/olive oil/cider vinegar, oh and a bratty cos it was there. a mere 5.7. I guess the liver can only release what available, and if I can supply it with nowt thats all it can dump into my blood stream??? I dunno
Thank you! And, yes the complications too should be my motivator, I watched my grandmother ( she bought me up ) die from those complications, and to say it was unpleasant is an understatement. I think I because de-motivated when I had a little slip one day, out for a meal and 'just a sweet this time' turned into oh well its ok I will just have a few chips, or a little rice, which consequently turned into just going back to eating more or less the way I used to but without the giant share sized bags of maltasers or popcorn in the evening when watching the TV, somehow in my head i figured because i wasn't consuming masses of sweet things I was still doing ok ( in the back of my mind though I knew I wasn't ). I saw the DN today and had my bloods taken, I have a follow up appointment in two weeks time to find out the results, at which point I suspect they will say I need to start on the Metformin they allowed me to go without in place of three months diet/exercise.
I don't, and won't ever fast. I don't believe it does your body any good and when I was in my early 20s had a spell at buying slimming magazines there was an interesting article about studies with groups of people ones who fasted one day per week and ones who didn't. Those who didn't lost weight faster and the conclusion was that fasting put your body into starvation mode so it used the next lot of food more efficiently. It also applied to people who kept going on ultra low calorie diets too
Thanks, I'm ok, you take care of yourself, take care in this heat (hug)
Good job your not a Muslim & live in Iran! It was hell all covered in dark colours, usualy black, head to toe, 50/60 deg, so humid! & a month of fasting. Good old England. Evian water every where
I have found the opposite to be the case, when fasting I get my best BG levels. I think its because you give your pancreas a rest.. you're not eating anything so there is nothing to prompt a rise in blood sugar. I'm sure that's a very simplistic explanation of an extremely complex process but hey it works for me.. I had an FBG of 4.5 on the last day of a 4 day fast and a 4.1 just before I ate at the end of it.
The fasting must be hell when it's long days but at least there is eating dusk to dawn ... I guess Muslim workers on the night shift are laughing (not meant in a derogatory way) being able to sleep through the fast....
Not that simple, not much night shifts there only hospitals & you have the 5 daily prayers at certain times, you can do a two in one at one of prays, imagine when the water & electric keeps going off for hours, norm in Iran even now, I had only one hour of water occasionally during the war, pardon me but did I stink some times!!!! You had to quick fill containers up to save some water! Stories I could tell, rats were as big as dogs, I must have been nuts then
I'll stick to good ole rainy England.
Nice to see you around. Just pop in when you can .. fasting seems to be the hardest one. Sometimes there seems little or nothing we can do about it. Some try various snacks before bed that work for them but not other people. Just keep the others under control and the fastings should eventually take care of themselves....
