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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Sunday started with a walk with a friend, fasted other than cwc

L: was celebrating a birthday at a carvery. Starter of cold collation, then roast beef. By swerving all the carby stuff and only having 1 white wine with soda, I still had a lovely tasty meal and bg stayed nicely in limits.
Oh I did have 1 profiterole!

Nothing since, and will try to stay that way until tomorrow
 
I did it!

Glucose testing on the tow float was a hassle, ad it makes you cold from not moving while juggling glucose meter, teststrips, towel, pricker and taking care to not drop anything in the water, but it worked!
I went in at noon and arrived at my destination at 1:40 pm, I have a feeling Google Maps isn't that accurate on short distances and I may have swum more than a nautical mile.

Either way it went just fine and I'm very happy today! :joyful:

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Antje77 said:
I did it!

Glucose testing on the tow float was a hassle, ad it makes you cold from not moving while juggling glucose meter, teststrips, towel, pricker and taking care to not drop anything in the water, but it worked!
I went in at noon and arrived at my destination at 1:40 pm, I have a feeling Google Maps isn't that accurate on short distances and I may have swum more than a nautical mile.

Either way it went just fine and I'm very happy today! :joyful:

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Congratulations. Sounds as though you even enjoyed it. I still think you must be mad!
 
MrsA2 said:
That's an impressive 1 hour 40 minute swim, for someone who thought it might be an hour ! !!
How did the bg behave? Did you have to inject?
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The bg behaved much as I expected (and definitely no injections needed, swimming drops me and so does insulin).
I usually inject 4-6 units before getting out of bed to counter the foot on the floor effect or liver dump, and I even take this insulin on a lower dose on swimming days.
Today I decided not to, and let foot on the floor cover the first half of my swim. I woke up at 10 am with my bg at around 5. FOTF gave me a short peak up into the 8ths or maybe low 9s shortly before starting my swim.

I had my first break at 40 minutes in, but only used my phone to check my sensor. It said 6.9 at that moment, which I didn't quite believe because of the time lag, I suspected to be in the low 5's already.
So I ate a piece of apple and went on, trusting the apple to keep me safe for another 30 minutes or so.
Next stop I did use a fingerprick, 5.9 so I thought I'd be fine until the end.
I was, but when I came out I'd dropped to 4.3, so I should have had something more to eat to create a bit of a safety buffer (no matter how happy I was with that 4.3), the last leg was longer than I thought.

And then in my festive spirit I messed it all up at home of course, spending time with neighbours in the garden and having a beer barley smoothie for breakfast to celebrate without even bothering to check my bg. :hilarious:

All worth it though, even though it kept me in the 7's for a couple of hours even after injecting. Back to a nice and stable 5.2 by now so all is well. :joyful:
Annb said:
Congratulations. Sounds as though you even enjoyed it. I still think you must be mad!
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Definitely!
On all aspects of your post. ;)
 
Antje77 said:
The bg behaved much as I expected (and definitely no injections needed, swimming drops me and so does insulin).
I usually inject 4-6 units before getting out of bed to counter the foot on the floor effect or liver dump, and I even take this insulin on a lower dose on swimming days.
Today I decided not to, and let foot on the floor cover the first half of my swim. I woke up at 10 am with my bg at around 5. FOTF gave me a short peak up into the 8ths or maybe low 9s shortly before starting my swim.

I had my first break at 40 minutes in, but only used my phone to check my sensor. It said 6.9 at that moment, which I didn't quite believe because of the time lag, I suspected to be in the low 5's already.
So I ate a piece of apple and went on, trusting the apple to keep me safe for another 30 minutes or so.
Next stop I did use a fingerprick, 5.9 so I thought I'd be fine until the end.
I was, but when I came out I'd dropped to 4.3, so I should have had something more to eat to create a bit of a safety buffer (no matter how happy I was with that 4.3), the last leg was longer than I thought.

And then in my festive spirit I messed it all up at home of course, spending time with neighbours in the garden and having a beer barley smoothie for breakfast to celebrate without even bothering to check my bg. :hilarious:

All worth it though, even though it kept me in the 7's for a couple of hours even after injecting. Back to a nice and stable 5.2 by now so all is well. :joyful:

Definitely!
On all aspects of your post. ;)
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Well done you!
What does FOTF stand for, please? @Antje77
 
LivingLightly said:
Okay, I've answered my own question @Antje77, It must mean 'foot on the floor'
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Yup. It's where your helpful liver senses you're getting up and chips in with some extra energy in the form of glucose as soon as your feet hit the floor when getting out of bed.
I appreciate the gesture, I seem to have a very friendly liver that likes to see me having a good and energetic start of my day. Too bad it missed the memo on diabetes.
With diabetes this is of course a pain in the ****, except on rare days like this one where I got to use it to my advantage.
 
Antje77 said:
I did it!

Glucose testing on the tow float was a hassle, ad it makes you cold from not moving while juggling glucose meter, teststrips, towel, pricker and taking care to not drop anything in the water, but it worked!
I went in at noon and arrived at my destination at 1:40 pm, I have a feeling Google Maps isn't that accurate on short distances and I may have swum more than a nautical mile.

Either way it went just fine and I'm very happy today! :joyful:

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Well done on your mad outdoors swimming adventure -what an amazing achievement - that's quite a distance!
 
Another spicy chicken burger with 4 slices of tomato and 2 fried eggs for breakfast.
Going out this afternoon and will be sharing a meal with some others (pot luck). I'm taking some cauliflower and coconut rice with some mixed vegetables mixed through plus a tomato and aubergine tarte tatin. I can eat the cauli rice dish, if there's nothing else suitable going, and even the filling from the tarte, so I shall have plenty to eat, if I feel like eating by the time I get there.
 
Fasted before a 09:30 walk with friends.

However we couldn't see one of them at the meeting point only to discover she'd had been there but the other side of the same tree :banghead: .
So off we set again for the other friend to then fall flat down hard on to a tarmac path. Very shocked but only bruising, but then a few yards later she fell again but we caught her this time. Good detective skills showed it was a slightly larger loop than usual on her bootlaces that was the culprit. She's not young so was very lucky albeit shocked and shaken
Then towards the end of the walk the 3rd friend said she thought something was wrong with her boot and when she touched the sole it just disintegrated in hundreds of pieces, swiftly followed by the other boot. So she ended up walking home in bottomless boots that got very wet and muddy.

We all needed coffee after.!

L: Bacon with a chaffle sort of thing using up an egg, some mozzarella and some cream cheese. Followed with plain yoghurt and chopped 85% chocolate

Afternoon was some mild gardening, mainly snail crushing. Blighters are munching my tomatoes, beans and grapes. Luckily there were a lot of raspberries to pick.

D: cold pork with runner beans, cabbage and tomatoes . 2 small scoops ice cream. A glass rose wine

It was supposed to be an easy Monday!
 
MrsA2 said:
Fasted before a 09:30 walk with friends.

However we couldn't see one of them at the meeting point only to discover she'd had been there but the other side of the same tree :banghead: .
So off we set again for the other friend to then fall flat down hard on to a tarmac path. Very shocked but only bruising, but then a few yards later she fell again but we caught her this time. Good detective skills showed it was a slightly larger loop than usual on her bootlaces that was the culprit. She's not young so was very lucky albeit shocked and shaken
Then towards the end of the walk the 3rd friend said she thought something was wrong with her boot and when she touched the sole it just disintegrated in hundreds of pieces, swiftly followed by the other boot. So she ended up walking home in bottomless boots that got very wet and muddy.

We all needed coffee after.!

L: Bacon with a chaffle sort of thing using up an egg, some mozzarella and some cream cheese. Followed with plain yoghurt and chopped 85% chocolate

Afternoon was some mild gardening, mainly snail crushing. Blighters are munching my tomatoes, beans and grapes. Luckily there were a lot of raspberries to pick.

D: cold pork with runner beans, cabbage and tomatoes . 2 small scoops ice cream. A glass rose wine

It was supposed to be an easy Monday!
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Your friend was lucky to escape with bruises @MrsA2. You can easily do yourself a mischief falling on a hard surface like tarmac.
 
MrsA2 said:
Fasted before a 09:30 walk with friends.

However we couldn't see one of them at the meeting point only to discover she'd had been there but the other side of the same tree :banghead: .
So off we set again for the other friend to then fall flat down hard on to a tarmac path. Very shocked but only bruising, but then a few yards later she fell again but we caught her this time. Good detective skills showed it was a slightly larger loop than usual on her bootlaces that was the culprit. She's not young so was very lucky albeit shocked and shaken
Then towards the end of the walk the 3rd friend said she thought something was wrong with her boot and when she touched the sole it just disintegrated in hundreds of pieces, swiftly followed by the other boot. So she ended up walking home in bottomless boots that got very wet and muddy.

We all needed coffee after.!

L: Bacon with a chaffle sort of thing using up an egg, some mozzarella and some cream cheese. Followed with plain yoghurt and chopped 85% chocolate

Afternoon was some mild gardening, mainly snail crushing. Blighters are munching my tomatoes, beans and grapes. Luckily there were a lot of raspberries to pick.

D: cold pork with runner beans, cabbage and tomatoes . 2 small scoops ice cream. A glass rose wine

It was supposed to be an easy Monday!
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Don't know whether to put a hug or a funny!
 
MrsA2 said:
Fasted before a 09:30 walk with friends.

However we couldn't see one of them at the meeting point only to discover she'd had been there but the other side of the same tree :banghead: .
So off we set again for the other friend to then fall flat down hard on to a tarmac path. Very shocked but only bruising, but then a few yards later she fell again but we caught her this time. Good detective skills showed it was a slightly larger loop than usual on her bootlaces that was the culprit. She's not young so was very lucky albeit shocked and shaken
Then towards the end of the walk the 3rd friend said she thought something was wrong with her boot and when she touched the sole it just disintegrated in hundreds of pieces, swiftly followed by the other boot. So she ended up walking home in bottomless boots that got very wet and muddy.

We all needed coffee after.!
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I'm curious to know the brand of hiking boots friend No.3 was wearing @MrsA2. Walking home wearing boots with no soles sounds painful.
 
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