Hello EF. I can't take regular metformin 2 x 500mg either. Now take two 500mg Glucophage (Slow release metformin) with evening meal. Works for me.Newly diagnosed t2. So fairlyobsessive about checking bG and diet and exercise. I’m not overweight, I walk dog a few miles most days, have always eaten med. so I was shocked when the nurse told me. No one told me I was prediabetic two years ago. Grr
Can’t take metformin. Would like to know good apps and carb counters etc.
Yesterday I found a little miracle cure for morning high bG. I got up and ran up the drive 10 times. .5 mile. My neighbors thought it was great fun. Then I had a breakfast of chia seeds and banana and half a cup of whole milk and big cup of coffee and the numbers went from 10 to 7. I’d say that’s a win.
Today I woke up at 13 bG, did the run AFTER the chia seed breakfast and the numbers only came down to 11.2. So get heart pumping before eating seems to be the way to go.
Anyone have any ideas?
Pop some Vaseline on yours & Mr K's wrists Krystyna those handcuffs really chafe something chronicI will definitely need you. Will let you know as soon as I see the blue lights outside my house.
They're brilliant geefullater painting will show an improvement
Interesting hope they doBanks credit cards.. May freeze payments.
good morning all
was 4.1 yesterday and 4.3 today
weekly shopping yesterday, we were out first thing and shopping as soon as the shops opened, it was pretty quiet but, of course, still a bit stressful, wipes hand sanitiser etc. to the fore and almost everybody we saw scuttling round to get done.
Asda have laid the store out in a one way aisle system, not everyone was complying yet but fortunately there weren't too many people so early here, there was a marshal at the door too because of the width of the main doors and lobby, not much of interesting job being a human traffic light perhaps (or is that hopefully?)
We had mum's list too and the only things we didn't manage to get were bread flour and yeast which mum wanted, fortunately she does have the makings for another loaf left though, (I forgot to put hand sanitiser on my list, but since there wasn't any available anyway ......).
hope your day will be a kind and tranquil one
@Muddy Cyclist - I'm inclined to be a bit (too much) detail oriented so 'still life' is probably a result of that, my difficulty is becoming more adventurous with colour and more free, I love your landscapes and both yourself and @gennepher have a freedom with colour I love it's one of the reasons I want to learn to do landscapes (we have a lot of landscape/seascape here ).
speaking of which here is a bit of catch up art I intended to post yesterday
the first paints I had were a cheap box from ebay which were a 'stocking stuffer' at Christmas, then I found some ancient paints from my school days (a rather dried up box of Windsor and Newton gouache in tubes and a tiny sketching box of student watercolours with 12 unlabelled colours and an equally tiny brush). At this point I used a Christmas Amazon voucher to get some more paints (I've since learned this was a rookie mistake and I should have ordered some better paper)
number 1 is a small pic done with the new paints - Kuretaki Gansei Tambi - these are Japanese, come in a beautiful cardboard box and are sort of a vibrant hybrid between trad (transparent) watercolour and gouache (opaque).
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no 2 is a dodgy landscape done with the W+N sketching box, on 100gsm A4 paper, it was much bluer/ greyer when I painted it (not better, just greyer) I didn't realise how much the blue in this set fades back into the paper when it dries. I include this as a point of reference so, hopefully, later painting will show an improvement
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Thanks @Krystyna23040 I do hope not, need to keep busy and not give into it which would be very easy, lost yesterday afternoon so then get stressed about all that wasted time, vicious circle.
These are brilliant @geefullgood morning all
was 4.1 yesterday and 4.3 today
weekly shopping yesterday, we were out first thing and shopping as soon as the shops opened, it was pretty quiet but, of course, still a bit stressful, wipes hand sanitiser etc. to the fore and almost everybody we saw scuttling round to get done.
Asda have laid the store out in a one way aisle system, not everyone was complying yet but fortunately there weren't too many people so early here, there was a marshal at the door too because of the width of the main doors and lobby, not much of interesting job being a human traffic light perhaps (or is that hopefully?)
We had mum's list too and the only things we didn't manage to get were bread flour and yeast which mum wanted, fortunately she does have the makings for another loaf left though, (I forgot to put hand sanitiser on my list, but since there wasn't any available anyway ......).
hope your day will be a kind and tranquil one
@Muddy Cyclist - I'm inclined to be a bit (too much) detail oriented so 'still life' is probably a result of that, my difficulty is becoming more adventurous with colour and more free, I love your landscapes and both yourself and @gennepher have a freedom with colour I love it's one of the reasons I want to learn to do landscapes (we have a lot of landscape/seascape here ).
speaking of which here is a bit of catch up art I intended to post yesterday
the first paints I had were a cheap box from ebay which were a 'stocking stuffer' at Christmas, then I found some ancient paints from my school days (a rather dried up box of Windsor and Newton gouache in tubes and a tiny sketching box of student watercolours with 12 unlabelled colours and an equally tiny brush). At this point I used a Christmas Amazon voucher to get some more paints (I've since learned this was a rookie mistake and I should have ordered some better paper)
number 1 is a small pic done with the new paints - Kuretaki Gansei Tambi - these are Japanese, come in a beautiful cardboard box and are sort of a vibrant hybrid between trad (transparent) watercolour and gouache (opaque).
View attachment 39922
no 2 is a dodgy landscape done with the W+N sketching box, on 100gsm A4 paper, it was much bluer/ greyer when I painted it (not better, just greyer) I didn't realise how much the blue in this set fades back into the paper when it dries. I include this as a point of reference so, hopefully, later painting will show an improvement
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One of my favourites too. Who is he! Brilliant. Love the guitar.Lovely @True Blue thank you for reminding me of this pieces.
One of my favourites and the first classical piece I learned on my guitar and sounds fantastic but actually very easy to play is a Romance in Major and Minor keys. Whilst I play it reasonably I'm nowhere near as good as this fellow, enjoy....
Poor Popeye and on his own territory. Are you able to bathe the wound and is it somewhere he can get his tongue!This week has raced. I didn't realise it was Thursday again.
So I had to prepare some art for my art group.
I wasn't feeling up to it because a vicious feral cat shot into the kitchen and attacked Popeye as I opened the door to take my recycle bags out for collection today. He is now injured again and was bleeding last night.
He is in my bed between the blankets and has no intention of coming out.
A second feral cat came and attacked the first, and then they went rolling down the hill locked in a horrendous screaming battle.
I have reported it.
This is my daily painting offering for today. A digital painting. (I was going to do a portrait but was unable to mentally complete it, so I used the sketch club app to create this)
I suggested to my art group that they could do a painting on their feelings this week.
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Hugs for poor Popeye. So pleased you reported it.I wasn't feeling up to it because a vicious feral cat shot into the kitchen and attacked Popeye as I opened the door to take my recycle bags out for collection today. He is now injured again and was bleeding last night.
He is in my bed between the blankets and has no intention of coming out.
A second feral cat came and attacked the first, and then they went rolling down the hill locked in a horrendous screaming battle.
I have reported it.
@dunelm I have 2 words for you.
Cader Idris.
My mountain-climb of choice. Except that I can see a lovely mountain just out my window. Only right now it is 4 degrees out there, and probably even colder on the mountaintop.
The temperature will have a lot of climbing of its own to do if it's to reach its predicted 19 degrees by suppertime!
He had only just got his appetite full back from last time. Now off his food again, so tempting him to eat.The wound on the leg he can reach. But I have cleaned and treated that. But he cannot reach the one on the back of his neck, So I am cleaning that and treating that also.Poor Popeye and on his own territory. Are you able to bathe the wound and is it somewhere he can get his tongue!
Thanks for the art to me its like a very pretty silk headscarf.
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