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Type 2's: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning?

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After several weeks in the 5s, a nice surprising 4.6 this morning at 06:30. A later start than normal though as I'm on holiday this week.
 
7.6 but yesterday was not your usual day. Skipped meals, didn't drink enough, a lot of anxiety and a rather large tub of local blackcurrant and liquorice ice-cream to celebrate the safe arrival of my first grandchild - a darling little girl Blae (rhymes with hay and is Manx for flower - very fitting since she is so dainty and was unfolding before my eyes when I was allowed to see her 30 mins after her arrival into the world)

What a way to get on the right side of her grandma than to arrive within hours of me turning up on the doorstep, ensuring we have maximum time and cuddles together during our 2 week stay!

My new challenge is to avoid the wonderful specialist ice cream shop selling such wonderful flavours :)
 
dianagrace said:
7.6 but yesterday was not your usual day. Skipped meals, didn't drink enough, a lot of anxiety and a rather large tub of local blackcurrant and liquorice ice-cream to celebrate the safe arrival of my first grandchild - a darling little girl Blae (rhymes with hay and is Manx for flower - very fitting since she is so dainty and was unfolding before my eyes when I was allowed to see her 30 mins after her arrival into the world)

What a way to get on the right side of her grandma than to arrive within hours of me turning up on the doorstep, ensuring we have maximum time and cuddles together during our 2 week stay!

My new challenge is to avoid the wonderful specialist ice cream shop selling such wonderful flavours :)
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BIG CONGRATULATIONS to you all Diana!! Enjoy your special time with your precious little bundle x x
 
dianagrace said:
7.6 but yesterday was not your usual day. Skipped meals, didn't drink enough, a lot of anxiety and a rather large tub of local blackcurrant and liquorice ice-cream to celebrate the safe arrival of my first grandchild - a darling little girl Blae (rhymes with hay and is Manx for flower - very fitting since she is so dainty and was unfolding before my eyes when I was allowed to see her 30 mins after her arrival into the world)

What a way to get on the right side of her grandma than to arrive within hours of me turning up on the doorstep, ensuring we have maximum time and cuddles together during our 2 week stay!

My new challenge is to avoid the wonderful specialist ice cream shop selling such wonderful flavours :)
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What a lovely day, Diana. If you set yourself a limit of visiting the ice-cream shop each time you become a granny, you won't have gone too far wrong. ;)

When my mother became a Granny, my brother and sister-in-law were staying with Mum, so that the baby could be born on mainland UK, and be a Scot. To quote my brother: "If this baby is a boy, he has to be eligible to play rugby for Scotland". For the first short while, every time my niece cried, my Mum cried too. That rather set the tempo of their very special relationship. My Mum loved, loved, loved being a granny.
 
No and frustrating. But I'm only 3 weeks in and my readings were 15 in the morning. I'm into an average of 6.0 in the day so slowly its coming down. My bg was 4.5 before dinner. I've lost nearly ten pounds and I feel good..never hungry. Now if I could just kick out the liver dump fairies from under my bed........??
 
alliebee said:
10.2 today. Went bed on a 6.3. Nothing to eat after 7pm
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Allie, have you tried having a little snack before going to bed - some nuts, cheese or small glass of low carb milk (I use lactofree fullfat)? Sometimes not eating before bed can make it worse as your liver will pump out more sugar to cover it. x
 
alliebee said:
Aha!!! Now that makes sense....thankyou. will definately try that tonight....wil try anything in fact...:)
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Try to aim for less than 5g carbs. one of my favourites is cheese and a gherkin! I had really good results with 100ml of the lactofree. I also hate eating dinner too late, if I have dinner about 6 and then have my bedtime thing about 4 hours later, that seemed to work. This produced results of 4.9 on 3 consecutive days, but I changed it up a bit the past few days and I'm back to 5.6, which will keep rising:banghead:
Another thing that should help is make sure to eat something as soon as you wake- I have a few almonds, or try to have breakfast within a hour of waking. These tips I have learnt from The Diabetes Miracle by Diane Kress (saw that Brunneria was using it).
Hope it helps;)
 
Dibbles1 said:
Bummer! Think positive though @alliebee Your liver took energy/fat stores from in or around the liver to make that glucose dump. Which leaves less of it around your organs each time. So it all counts towards getting to where you want to be. Even if we do wish it didn't raise bs levels soooo much :banghead:
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That's interesting, I didn't know that, so maybe a liver dump is a good thing? When eventually most fat from round there is lost, would the liver dumps then cease?
 
Wow I didn't know that....I already do the 2 brazil nuts as soon as I wake. I'm sure that's why my bs drops like a stone during early part of the morning. Even if I wake up high. I'm around 6 before lunch. God I love all of you and your helpfull suggestions
 
4.3 before dinner
shot up to 6 after one hour but back to 5.2 after 2 hours
5.4 fasting
Had an appointment to see the doc yesterday and she was happy with my numbers but suggested strongly to test only once or twice in a month as metformin will take care of glucose so dont need to check it everyday.
Few days ago I got a call from my surgery asking me to do tests regularly
God save NHS
 
kimbo1962 said:
5.4......ok but really wanted that 4 again!
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Now now Kim, don't get greedy! Yesterday you were even thinking about 3s (although not for fasting)!

Seriously though, you've done really well in such a short time. LCHF rocks huh?

6.2 here, settling down again after the body clock disruption.
 
@dianagrace CONGRATULATIONS to you and all concerned. Enjoy this time, it's very special. My grandchildren are aged 19 and 16, so I'm now looking forward to the next generation! You deserved that ice cream. It sounds delicious.
 
dianagrace said:
7.6 but yesterday was not your usual day. Skipped meals, didn't drink enough, a lot of anxiety and a rather large tub of local blackcurrant and liquorice ice-cream to celebrate the safe arrival of my first grandchild - a darling little girl Blae (rhymes with hay and is Manx for flower - very fitting since she is so dainty and was unfolding before my eyes when I was allowed to see her 30 mins after her arrival into the world)
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Congratulations Diana - I was wondering where you'd travelled by land and sea, now I understand! I think you're entitled to a bit of a treat, lovely name by the way.
 
Yesterday (all fairly typical)
fasting 5.5
before lunch 5.5
after lunch 6.7
before tea 4.9
after tea 6.3
bedtime 5.4
4am 5.8
8-50am 5.8

This is why I was a bit disappointed with my HbA1c yesterday, which equates to an average of 7.4mmol/l. On that sort of average I should have been seeing a lot of numbers in the 8's or 9's and I haven't! (an odd one or two 1hr after a meal, but not lots, and when I have it has usually dropped again by 2hrs.) I think my red blood cells live forever and I still have some very old glucose in my blood stream. Lol ;)
 
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