What was your fasting blood glucose? (full on chat)

Annb said:

Another low alarm from the Libre around 01.45. Not too low (3.7) but had a couple of fruit pastilles to stop any further drop. 6.8 on waking - 6.3 by the time I got through to the kitchen. Not happy about having to take so many fruit pastilles these days. I used to like them, but don't any more. Not sure if that is my tastes changing or the recipe for the sweets changing. Not sure what the ingredients used to be but I notice that there are one or two extra processed sugars in them now, as well as plain sugar. Still, I don't have to enjoy them, they just have to work.

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Probably the recipe has changed @Annb I rarely eat sweets, but they seem to leave an aftertaste in my mouth now...maybe I am not used to sugar/sweet stuff now...
I still fancy them in my mind (emotional memory), but the taste in reality is wrong now.
Is there a different sweet you could try now?
I don't have your problem, so I cannot advise, although I can empathise.
Hugs xx

A quick 7.0 this morn.
No idea why so high.

Weather changing quickly from rain, to bright sunlight, then cloudy and windy. But warm. Around 20-25 degrees.
Rain later.

Be back later.

Krystyna23040 said:

I also love sea bass baked whole and sea bream. I think that they are more tender and moist when baked whole.

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Sea Bass taste good when it fried in a little butter very lightly. Too much cooking seems to spoil it just a few minutes is enough cooking.
Now I do salmon the same way!

Marjorie used to bake it in the oven but I think it loses it taste.
But it may be different when you can get whole fish.

gennepher said:

That's sad @Annb I don't think nature knows what to do this strange weather...
Thank you

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The white variety came out in May with Pinks and was a flower of the cliff tops. The red variety was a flower of the hedge row.
D.

ianpspurs said:

Thank you for sharing the wonderful art and the earlier cartoon. I need to look around NYT to see their humour. As for sedentary, that can't be an absolute based on step count. The rest of us must be pretty sedentary compared to Noah Lyles and my METS now aren't the same as when I was 25. Have a great day.

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Thank you @ianpspurs

Lamont D said:

A quick 7.0 this morn.
No idea why so high.

Weather changing quickly from rain, to bright sunlight, then cloudy and windy. But warm. Around 20-25 degrees.
Rain later.

Be back later.

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A 7.0 is always better when it’s quick

Its around 21 in Cumbria today and mild in light rain.
D.

It around 21 in Cumbria today and mild in light rain.
D.

gennepher said:

Probably the recipe has changed @Annb I rarely eat sweets, but they seem to leave an aftertaste in my mouth now...maybe I am not used to sugar/sweet stuff now...
I still fancy them in my mind (emotional memory), but the taste in reality is wrong now.
Is there a different sweet you could try now?
I don't have your problem, so I cannot advise, although I can empathise.
Hugs xx

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I prefer toffee or lemon sweets but actually, I'm probably better sticking with a sweet that I don't really like. No temptation to eat them except in emergencies then. I recently asked Neil to buy me some potato crisps to see if I could use them - I used to like plain or ready salted crisps but they don't taste the same either - actually unpleasant. Must be my retrained taste buds kicking in.

When America sneezes the world catches a cold was originally framed by Prussian diplomat, Klemens Wenzel Furst von Metternich as when France sneezes, the whole of Europe catches a cold. The idea was later applied to the USA, especially Wall Street and the American banking system cf 1929 and 2008. By electing Trump they caught something far more sinister. Countries can print money but not lives. There is a direct line running through the attached to our decades long racism, culture wars and the dog whistle of Reform inciting the rioters and Tories using immigration issues to try to save themselves. The attached is both what KH has to deal with and what lies behind the current riots. Even our sainted royal family exhibit racism as in the nonsense over the colour of Archie’s skin. Full article here but it is a long read. The same power - class really - based identity rules apply in Britain. Personally, I’d also fiercely dispute Rupert Lowes’ self-serving assertion that the UK is a christian country.

JohnEGreen said:

Have you thought of buying a cooling jacket with fans built in may help keep you cool.

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I googled but they were rather expensive without many good reviews @JohnEGreen
Some garments with fans, some with pockets for ice. I am sure I could fill ziplock bags with ice and pin them to my body.... I have an ice maker...

Then I remembered, I used to have bandana tie thing which you soaked in water, squeezed then put round your neck. It worked but needed replenishing often.

I used it on Cat Popeye when he had a heatstroke. Then again on Cat Jade when she collapsed presumably with heatstroke in 2022. But that was the last I saw of it. She disappeared with it on, and returned later without it...

So, I ordered a pack of those, and a pack of cooling towels. We'll see..

I was hoping to sit on the swing, but the air is too warm and thick outside making it airless and hard to breathe. So I think it is about time l shut doors and windows and put my misters and fans on indoors and get the ice maker going... I'll do that in a minute...

I hope you had/are having a good day.

ianpspurs said:

When America sneezes the world catches a cold was originally framed by Prussian diplomat, Klemens Wenzel Furst von Metternich as when France sneezes, the whole of Europe catches a cold. The idea was later applied to the USA, especially Wall Street and the American banking system cf 1929 and 2008. By electing Trump they caught something far more sinister. Countries can print money but not lives. There is a direct line running through the attached to our decades long racism, culture wars and the dog whistle of Reform inciting the rioters and Tories using immigration issues to try to save themselves. The attached is both what KH has to deal with and what lies behind the current riots. Even our sainted royal family exhibit racism as in the nonsense over the colour of Archie’s skin. Full article here but it is a long read. The same power - class really - based identity rules apply in Britain. Personally, I’d also fiercely dispute Rupert Lowes’ self-serving assertion that the UK is a christian country.

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I haven't read the article.
But the US is blatantly racist.
And it stems from slavery, slave owners and the power brokers. The idea that the protestant church is white and demands on the political class has been white and of substantial wealth.
Before the civil war, the republican party was one of progressive reform, the whigs and democrats were the conservatives and land gentry, particularly in the south, where the plantation and slave owners were the political backers.
Lincoln became president, without even being on the ballot paper in quite a few southern states.

The royal family is the church of England. The Anglican church.
Henry started it off.
We have our own religion, if you get right down on the reasons for it!
Yes, protestant Christian, but English.
I don't believe that religion now is a big thing in attendance.
But the diversity is significant.
Before the recent influx of middle eastern asylum seekers, there was the Asian countries of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the influx from Africa, the West Indies, and back to the fifties, where the after effects of WWII, when we needed our empire, then commonwealth peoples to help us recover and grow.
However, the ruling hierarchy and establishment, never found it possible to accept that we were the cause of the racist policies. The country, those in power and control, treated those that came to our shores as second class subjects of the empire. Always have and possibly still do.
If it wasn't the muslims, it would be the asians, if not theasians, then the coloured, then, if there wasn't any of them, it was the Irish, or the Jews, or before that the Catholics, and the white trash has always been the cause of everything, if there is no one else to blame.
Sacrificial lambs are an acceptable excuse for the ruling class.
Hence the tories unacceptable behaviour, not accepting responsibility for anything! Blaming Europe.
It is part of British society.

The americanisation of the world, along with the British empire dissolved after WWII.
This is why, along with the capitalist world now, driven by American and multi nationals, are troubled when the market twitches.

We are little Britain now, we have not the standing as we once did. Our power has diminished in the world.
We still believe that we do.
And our ruling class, as per the class wars and the privileged are still there, even though the majority of the country don't believe it should be so. And the puppeteers are the ones we need to go after.

I had absolutely no energy at all yesterday afternoon and evening,
Just felt scary, a bit too scary.
Checked all vitals, oximeter, temperature, blood pressure, blood glucose. All within ok parameters.

Then I was about to register one of my postcrossing postcards, and the lady, from USA, said she drank 4 litres water today because it was so hot.
So, I thought how much did I drink..I fill all my daily bottles full of water, and as I drink them I throw the empty bottles at the end of the bed, so that tells me how much I drank, and I had also drunk a mug of coffee, and a mug of lemon balm tea and most of my litre thermos of tea (I always drink that flask tea every day). There was just 4 half litre bottles water at end of bed...usually there are 6 half litre bottles by evening, so there was a bit of a deficit there for me. So I remedied that, and put a tiny
pinch salt in each. Sucked a wetheralls butter candy because my mouth was parched dry as if I had been trekking in the desert. Mouth felt full of sand. Fell asleep on the bed with minimal clothing. Woke up about 20 minutes ago (3 hours later) at the time of midnight. Surprised I wasn't cold with all the fans and humidifiers etc on in my bedroom. I feel ok now, I don't want to go back to sleep, but I am.
Was I just that tiny bit short of water? But it made me feel like I was at death's door.
I'll log in next time I wake up...

Room temperature is 25C, more in from of bungalow, outside temperature is 22C...night night...

ianpspurs said:

My mum had a friend whose surname was Campion. I never knew there was a wildflower called Campion, possibly because anything not part of a cash or food crop was considered a weed to be eliminated asap in my homeland.

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We have bladder campion, red campion and white campion in our native flora @ianpspurs.

Vernacular names are often misleading, but not in this case. These perennial wildflowers are different species, but they belong to the same genus.


Monday's FBG 4.3 mmol on waking at 6.00 am.

5.3 this morning at 5:30 am.
I have an appointment with a Tissue Viability Nurse later today at the GP’s surgery as the wound on my back remains stubbornly unwilling to heal and the nurse who has been sorting out the dressings feels she needs someone with more experience of wound management to have a look at it.

Good morning...woke up to Fbg being 7.1
Feel like I have been dragged through a hedge backwards...
I probably didn't drink enough water earlier in the day...must pace myself with water today.

As well as putting a tiny pinch of salt I, I might put a pinch of lemon powder, or vit c powder in the water bottle, because I don't much like water from the tap....

For breakfast this morning I am having a chocolate protein shake, but not the full serving, just half a serving, diluted a bit more. I find if I sip a half protein shake serving very slowly, it doesn't impact on my blood sugar levels at all.

Catch you later...

JohnEGreen said:

5.3 this morning at 5:30 am.
I have an appointment with a Tissue Viability Nurse later today at the GP’s surgery as the wound on my back remains stubbornly unwilling to heal and the nurse who has been sorting out the dressings feels she needs someone with more experience of wound management to have a look at it.

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Hope your appointment goes well @JohnEGreen

Good morning everyone from a deliciously quiet start to a bright and sunny day here in the dark and dangerous north. 5.8 again this a.m. My meter thinks it’s Lionel Richie singing Stuck on You. Some rain last night. So that’s the garden sorted. Art bit - blobs of ink. My day is already a good one, maybe yours also. I do need some koffy.

lindisfel said:

Sea Bass taste good when it fried in a little butter very lightly. Too much cooking seems to spoil it just a few minutes is enough cooking.
Now I do salmon the same way!

Marjorie used to bake it in the oven but I think it loses it taste.
But it may be different when you can get whole fish.

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Yes, overcooked sea bass not nice at all.

5.8 this morning.
Good news. Resolut replied to my email at last.
They are going to sort out the unauthorised bank account opened at my address. They were very apologetic that this has happened.

I think that the magic words in my email were - 'I have informed the Financial Ombudsman that you have refused to sort out the issue of this unauthorised person using my address to open an account '.

I feel so much better now this is being sorted.