Quick tip Bubbsie, translate.google.com will translate web pages if you just type the url into the translate box. Here it is done for you to be read in English. (Not always the best translation but give you a general idea.Just checked the link dunelm...it's in French...I do broken English & cockney no aptitude for these fancy foreign languages
Oo la la my head is in a spin...***** ( I wonder if that will get past the moderators?Quick tip Bubbsie, translate.google.com will translate web pages if you just type the url into the translate box. Here it is done for you to be read in English. (Not always the best translation but give you a general idea.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousinade
@gennepher a really good idea to make a half quantity next time. I do think that you are doing really well to stick to the 20g carbs max. I have to do the same also or my BS rocket.Thank you @Krystyna23040
Yes it was a success, but I will make half the quantity next time, and see how that goes.
Thank you for the compliment on my blood sugars. I am working to keep them within range.
I have to say I live on my own, so my day to day life makes it potentially easier, than some people who have spouses and families, to get to this point. It has taken me long enough, but I have got to where I am now.
You always hit the nail right on the head!Not necessarily the core problem Debs...we have/are regularly vilified in the press labelled as somehow self deserving of our condition...there has to be some recognition of the good work that can be/ is being done...we're overlooked...scorned...blamed...in some instances ridiculed & patronised that's what we need to stop...the CCG's have far too much control over who deserves what...the useless courses...the failed advice...so much money is wasted on ineffective treatment & advice & those that misuse public funds are rarely called to account for it...we are dismissed by so many HCP's that's what we need to stop.
I have massive thatched swing envy!!! It truly is magical.View attachment 35780 Just taken a photo of my thatched swing.
It is heavy wood, comfortable, and massive.
J bought it when I moved here in beginning of 2000's.
It had a beautiful waterproof reed thatch, but the high sea winds wrecked that.
I couldn't remotely afford to repair it professionally, it was in the hundreds...
It had been waterproof underneath, so I covered the wrecked thatch in tarpaulin £6 from Lidl) about 6 years ago, and to make it more beautiful and to give an impression of thatch on top of it, I used that heather screening (about £20) you buy from garden centres.
So, this is my beautiful thatched swing
It doubles as an eating place, an office as well (my WiFi is mobile!).
I watch the wildlife.
I watch and identify aeroplanes and helicopters (and private ones), and the airbus almost daily that takes off from the factory near me.
Heaven....
Popeye is asleep on the far end, you can see his white nose.
You may just make out my two red dragons...
My garden is an amazing, magical, mysterious place...
I hope things settle soon for you.I think I forgot to post this morning. Since I get the MiaoMiao readings every 5 minutes I don’t really take a fasting blood sugar reading but at 7am I was 6.7. I think the UTI infection and antibiotics are having their fun with my sugar levels, and my poor stomach. Still working on my Christmas pudding this was it this morning, and as of this evening I have 11 of the 20 brown triangles completed.
Thanks for sharing, really interesting stuff.Fbg at 4:30 am is 6.3
At 1 am when I visited the bathroom I was 5.4 in the night.
It dipped yesterday a tiny bit in the night in the early hours.
This app One Drop, predicting my possible future few hours at any point of time has been accurate or .5 over in the day, or in the early hours at 1 am this morning it was .6 under what I actually was. Otherwise it has been pretty bang on accurate for me. It does say its prediction is an average of what I might be. It gives me future predictions up to 8 hours ahead, so far
So all my readings over a 24 hour period (pre meal, 2 hours post meal, fasting, or others between post meal and the next meal, or between post meal and morning fbg) have all been from 5.4 (in the night) to 6.7 which was a post meal one).
I have never been on this even a keel before with my blood sugars. I am still taking my Metformin, 2 in a morning and one at night.
These results are not achievable unless I take regular vampire pricks on my fingers and check my sugars. And the One Drop app is helping me enormously.
I know I am still in the honeymoon stage with this One Drop app.
Yesterday, I found myself eating to my blood sugars, so if I eat such and such I might bring it down a tiny bit. And it worked for the app’s projected readings, and also in reality.
Today I am going to be eating a bit differently, and see what happens. If my readings go up, then the next meal of a protein meal will bring them back down again.
I have been severely missing milk. Prior diabetes I used to love chocolate milk, and also unpasteurised milk direct from a farm near me.
I do not like almond and soy milk etc.
So last night I was researching some ways I could drink milk (I am assuming just drinking it straight will not help my sugars levels). I do have some low carb chocolate protein powder which I have not tried yet. I also have ground almonds and other pantry stuff. I do have some full fat sterilised milk. I brought some in case when my daughter was here she wanted milk in her tea, but she only drank black coffee. I do have double cream.
So, based on my research last night I will try something with the above.
And with the rest of the sterilised milk in the small bottle, I have enough to try a chia pudding. I have never done that before either.
So experimenting today.
We are promised thunderstorms today. They may or may not materialise. We know how good the Met office predictions are!
I love a dramatic thunderstorm!
Have a good day/Sunday.
Take care.
@gennepher a really good idea to make a half quantity next time. I do think that you are doing really well to stick to the 20g carbs max. I have to do the same also or my BS rocket.
I can't remember when I last wrote a letter...possibly I've lost the artAnyhoooo just writing to my auntie
I don't hear that very often Debs...perhaps that could be my epitaphYou always hit the nail right on the head!
good afternoon all
was 4.4 this morning
mum's little dog has been with us again overnight, we'll probably be having her overnight every couple of days until she has had her x-ray and gets whatever medication the vet feels she needs
mr gee and I are walking more, but, much more slowly than usual, owing to Suzie's desire to sniff every blade of grassShe's eating better and is more lively at least
mr gee is currently out with Suzie whilst I am getting dinner ready to take to mum's, steak casserole today, I tried making some low carb shortbread biscuits whilst I had the oven on, general consensus is that they need work
Hope your day is treating you kindly
I said this morning I have had a craving for milk ever since I became diabetic. I used to drink a whole bottle of milk, especially the unpasteurised stuff, which I can get near here. But since I was aware I was diabetic I didn't drink milk any more because of the sugars, which were too much.
My carbs currently are 20 carbs a day, and I do not go over.
So, with using this One Drop app to record my blood glucose and it giving predictions up to 8 hours ahead, I felt confident just now to make a milk+double cream+Greek yoghurt+Low carb protein powder+more cocoa shake. As a complete meal for my lunch/dinner. I have carefully worked out the carbs. I think it is about 9 or 10 carbs. It might be a bit more or a bit less.
My blood glucose readings have been in the 5's this morning and 5.6 just now before I began drinking it.
I put the carbs for the protein shake into the One Drop app, and it suggests over the next 8 hours I will still be in the 5's but reaching a 6 in about 8 hours. I can't quite see it. I think I will go into the 6's quicker than that.
Now excuse me while I drink my drink of heaven. It is absolutely delicious...
If you hear me screaming in a couple of hours then it means my piece of heaven has raised my blood sugars too much...
But in the meantime I am in heaven....
PRO: I really like the ability to calibrate the results against a finger prick test. (I’m not sure if you NEED the MiaoMiao to do this, there are some 3rd party apps like spike, xdrip, and another I think) I know I couldn’t get the one for iPhone as it needs installing every week by computer which I don’t have access to.I hope things settle soon for you.
Re the miaomiao, I have the libre and reader. Contemplating the miaomiao. Do you think it is worth it, and how much are they? Any info appreciated thanks.
welcome back @PenguinMum ..
hope the hols was a perfect tomic.
sorry the girls are skittish, sure both will settle down once your back around an they settle into there normal routine.
Bg this am..5.4.
an interesting day.
events unfurled in a rather haphazard way today and left me a tad perturbed.
link here explains most of it.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/no-registration-needed-to-view-and-search-forum.168454/
suffice to say, my bad for being so naive..
i simply trusted too much, and in particular the item of my counselling was a matter i agonised over before posting
(glad i want, regret posting about it )
ok posting it up for you guys, not sure i want strangers who just pass by the forum rifling through all my posts and Most definitely DO NOT want those post appearing as a humorous posting on facebook, when i alone should be the arbiter of telling family and friends WHEN i am ready, that i had some mental issues that i needed help with.
(yes, yes i know, i shouldn't feel ashamed or awkward, you are so right but it is how I feel, and isn't that down to me to decide ? )
am currently in the process of going over my old posts and deleting those i feel give too much of me away.
the avatar has gone and i may leave.
it's only to start again under a new avatar or perhaps once my mind settles simply under another name,
but i fail to see how that solves the trust issue i now have with the forum.
On the forum i found hope and kindness,
but on here i also found friendship...so most grateful indeed.
so will not willing throw that way, but i DO need to plan a strategy that resolves this nagging concern with my privacy V the willingness to post openly and honestly.
but if i am honest, i fear the latter will lose.
i will update as i can, for now i am still here, happy bathing in your your own joyous experiences and offering comfort when required..
Love
jj
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