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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

I haven't had breakfast yet but it will be buttered ryvita with cottage cheese, tomatoes (from the supermarket, sadly) and sweet peppers, spring onions and baby leaves from the garden. I'm going to have four walnut halves before I eat.

I hope to get the wooden compost bays finished today, it was just too rainy yesterday.
 
Well, I don't think the walnuts worked today but it's very hard to say with a few factors - I think I have Covid Lite (I believe I had the new version of Covid a while ago, and I've had some similar but much milder symptoms last night and today, which might have put my BG up (it's currently over 11, more than 2 hours after eating) - it certainly did with the major illness I had before. I've also overeaten a bit, and then had some chocolate. And I've been inactive - the bean processing yesterday must have been more active than I thought.

The other factor is my fingerprick testing - I did one this morning and got 5.3 which I didn't believe, so retested with the same fingerprick site and got 8.6! I've always taken the readings more for seeing a trend rather than taking individual readings as gospel. I might look into budgeting for a Libre.
 
Antje77 said:
Have you used one before? If not, they do a free sample, as does Dexcom.
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Ah thank you! I will have a think about it. It wont be in my budget long term but I could get quite a lot of insight from short term use, I think.
 
jpscloud said:
Ah thank you! I will have a think about it. It wont be in my budget long term but I could get quite a lot of insight from short term use, I think.
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Info on the free ones. Some people use them to gain useful insights, rather than make regular purchases

www.freestyle.abbott

Sampling | Diabetes Care | Abbott

Claim your 15 day free sensor if you have diabetes and have not tried the FreeStyle Libre 2 plus sensor before
www.freestyle.abbott www.freestyle.abbott

www.dexcom.com

The Dexcom ONE+ CGM (Continuous Glucose Montoring) system | Dexcom

The Dexcom ONE+ is our newest Continuous Glucose Monitoring system that is smaller, faster and even easier to use.
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