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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.
 
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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Last night I had fish cakes and fish fingers with salad from the garden for tea. Not the healthiest but I needed comfort food and to avoid having a takeaway.

I'm still maintaining the weight loss, and have lost another four pounds over August - might be due to eating more vegetables and salads and a bit less junk food, and being active in the garden. I've been more active and mobile generally since I started a high dose of vitamin B12, on my own prescription, a few weeks ago. I was extremely fatigued and had terrible restless legs with neuropathy pains at night - that's stopped too. My blood test showed higher B12 than normal but it's not one that builds toxicity, so I will take the improved energy and no restless legs/neuropathy pains gladly!

I didn't get the compost bays finished yesterday, and I might not have a chance over today and tomorrow with all the showers predicted. I'm planning to tackle my dreadful indoors clutter and mess if it rains all day, starting with the kitchen and living room.

Breakfast will be boiled eggs with buttered ryvita and baby leaves and spring onion from the garden.

If it's an indoors day I might fall into the snacky trap - I'll try not to but if it happens I will just have a salady tea.
 
A handful of walnuts and some Greek style yoghurt for breakfast.

BG a bit on the high side compared to a few days ago but my insides are still not right either. Wouldn't be the walnuts causing that, would it? Even so, in the region of 7 it's not desperately high and I've not taken any bolus insulin.

2nd meal will be mushroom omelette with some simple salad stuff.
 
Chinese takeaway on the bridge, second day. :hungry:
I found two dishes that are pretty low carb and that I like a lot, a small sized portion from both lasts me for two days, perfect for when I'm too busy to prepare proper food.

And busy I have been!
I had a 7 day stint on the bridge last week, saturday through friday. Which is tiring enough all by itself, but on wednesday I had my wallet with ALL my cards stolen (bank, driving license, car registration, health/car insurance, and various minor cards), and my only car key.

Free bit of unsolicited advice: Don't forget your key in your car door when you work in a city.

I only found out at 8 pm after work, and after injecting for the two beers I was going to have when I got home. Not my idea of a nice evening.
Blocked both bank cards (both had been used already but the bank payed me back) and got a friend to pick me up and bring a bicycle lock to lock the pedals to the steering wheel so my car wouldn't be stolen at night.
Contacted more friends to find a way to get to work in the next two days, and realised I had gotten groceries, including beer during my break. Sans car I wasn't going to drive anyway so I drank beer while waiting to be picked up, I had injected for it after all! :cool:

Thursday and friday were for finding a way to get new car keys (so glad I have time for those kind of things during my work day!), and I finally got to go home in my own car at 9:15 pm after my 7th day on the bridge. Exhausted is an understatement.

On monday on the bridge I made all the other phonecalls needed (very funny to call with police/bank/library and tell them "let me put you on speaker while I open a bridge"). On tuesday I started to recover, and found myself a moderator again just before the end of my shift. :joyful:

Good thing there's not that much traffic on the water anymore, today I spent most of my shift reading around to start getting the hang of moderating again, which will take some time.

Tomorrow I'll sleep in, then have my cleaner, an appointment to get a new drivers licence, and a date!
A real traditional one this time, he's taking me out for dinner, never did that with a date before. :hilarious:
It's a second date, we already met once in april and had a very enjoyable evening with lots of talking, so I'm looking forward to it!
 
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