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

6.7 this is it really Tuesday today, today?
Visitors from family from yorkieland this afternoon.
Clearing up and chores getting done, so that is why I'm early.

Finally got Mrs L to her put around midnight.
And still there, though I have sorted to get her meds taken.
Be back later tonight.

Have a pleasant valley ruby.
 
Good Afternoon all

I needed a highish blood sugar reading this morning so I could drive Mrs J to the hospital eye clinic, an early doors appointment and was successful with the highish reading, my reading was not that high, but above the minimum recommended driving limits. My reading was a 6.8, same as yesterday.

The drive across the grate metropolis of Reading was without incident, I never got flashed, hooted at, fists shaken at me or hastily over taken by impatient white van drivers. The journey home was just as uneventful.
Hence I feel an abject failure.

Stay safe all, if needed I can be contacted in my shed sulking.
 
Fbg 6.9

Raining
Sun shining
Raining
Sun shining

Oh dear..it rains each time I go out in that garden, but sun comes out as soon as I come in...

Wildlife nighttime video
Night of Badgers
56 secs

Those darned badgers had been at my wormery last night. Got the lid off, but the upturned heavy plant pot inside stopped them digging any further. So far it is wedged in so they can't tip the heavy bin over. I still feel ai need to anchor it better...

Creative is my one line scribble of a person crossing the road where I park my car....I am only just realising how many people wear padded jackets and long coats round here

Have a good day.

Tine for a cuppa...

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Lamont D said:
I hate Chinese cos it is as bland as some English cooking.
Mind you I have been told by doctors I'm weird!
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So I am not the only weird one. That's great to know.
When we were first married we often had friends around and the highlight of everyone's evening (except mine) was the Chinese takeaway.

As a child I was often the only one left with un-eaten food on my plate. I was not allowed to leave the table until I had eaten it all.

The moment no-one was looking I would slip out and throw it between the shed and the hedge. It always disappeared - the wildlife must have loved me. My parents had no idea what I was doing.
 
Good Morning from California. 4.66 This morning. I have been cooking regular food almost all my life, and I still cook for the family. I cook separate fresh meals for myself and I call it diabetic meals. That’s probably one reason my BG is well controlled. The bad part is I repeat the same meal again, but still fresh. Have a nice day everyone
 
Hi @Omar51 .

I think I may have fallen into the same trap in many ways.

DX disrupted my random eating to a big degree, and I think I'm much better for it.

I never really got the " mum type menu for the week", but now I see so much merit in it

I buy the thing I know I eat and what Lauren will eat too

We do still step outside that comfort zone in the hope of adding a delicious meal to our menu, sometimes it lasts, other times it's meh, after a meal or two

Which is fine, because it lets us hone the 'magic' ingredients of any recipe / meal we do enjoy into something just that little bit more special each time .

Boring ...no no no
Enhanced, Improved, Elevated.
Definitely.

Less waste, more taste I reckon.

Long live boring.
 
And while on the food should be enjoyable theme

I'm not a fan of kimchi ..
(So sorry @dunelm ...)

But I think I should be.

I like pickled veg, red cabbage, pickles, onions, gherkins

But I have a mind block over kimchi..( yeah, I know..but it is what it is... )

A lady on here @shelley262
who was kind enough to give of her time to me, when I was a struggling newbie, has just started a thread re kimchi-ish.

Think I'm gonna give this idea of hers a go as well

She been pretty spot on most things she's sent my way

Thought Id just point it out if others might be interested as well

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Krystyna23040 said:
So I am not the only weird one. That's great to know.
When we were first married we often had friends around and the highlight of everyone's evening (except mine) was the Chinese takeaway.

As a child I was often the only one left with un-eaten food on my plate. I was not allowed to leave the table until I had eaten it all.

The moment no-one was looking I would slip out and throw it between the shed and the hedge. It always disappeared - the wildlife must have loved me. My parents had no idea what I was doing.
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jjraak said:
Hi @Omar51 .

I think I may have fallen into the same trap in many ways.

DX disrupted my random eating to a big degree, and I think I'm much better for it.

I never really got the " mum type menu for the week", but now I see so much merit in it

I buy the thing I know I eat and what Lauren will eat too

We do still step outside that comfort zone in the hope of adding a delicious meal to our menu, sometimes it lasts, other times it's meh, after a meal or two

Which is fine, because it lets us hone the 'magic' ingredients of any recipe / meal we do enjoy into something just that little bit more special each time .

Boring ...no no no
Enhanced, Improved, Elevated.
Definitely.

Less waste, more taste I reckon.

Long live boring.
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When dating and having a treat at weekends for a take out it was always an indian. Trying different restaurants and meals.
The local chippy which was named as the Greeks but actually Italian was a favourite hereabouts.
They used dripping not vegetable oils.

Less waste more taste
Long Live Weird eh? @Krystyna23040?
 
Krystyna23040 said:
So I am not the only weird one. That's great to know.

As a child I was often the only one left with un-eaten food on my plate. I was not allowed to leave the table until I had eaten it all.
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For reasons, as a young un, I just wouldnt, couldn't eat many traditional English dishes, especially when there wasn't much.
And going to school, in the infants, I wouldn't no matter whether the dinner ladies tried to force it on me, or called me a waster and so on. Eat some of the usual school fayre.
Into my junior years, and acknowledging my lactose intolerant, the people who fed me decided that I didn't need to eat some of those awful foods I just wouldn't have. But they still couldn't understand my reluctance to eat cooked vegetables. In fact, I was treated like royalty, when I refused the main meal.
Then the battle in grammar school. Dear lord. Talk about Victorian dogma.
It took a doctor's letter and a visit to the headmaster, cloak and mortar board, not the cane either this time, to get some, not all, the hostility to my intolerance to bear fruit.

Gotta love some people.
 
jjraak said:
Hi @Omar51 .

I think I may have fallen into the same trap in many ways.

DX disrupted my random eating to a big degree, and I think I'm much better for it.

I never really got the " mum type menu for the week", but now I see so much merit in it

I buy the thing I know I eat and what Lauren will eat too

We do still step outside that comfort zone in the hope of adding a delicious meal to our menu, sometimes it lasts, other times it's meh, after a meal or two

Which is fine, because it lets us hone the 'magic' ingredients of any recipe / meal we do enjoy into something just that little bit more special each time .

Boring ...no no no
Enhanced, Improved, Elevated.
Definitely.

Less waste, more taste I reckon.

Long live boring.
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Hi @jjraak

I may have fallen into the trap too, as long as fresh made food (no can food at all).

I like it, it's good for BG, overall health and good for metabolism!

Never developed a taste for Kimchi, never tried, Mona loves it.

It probably takes a couple of months to develop taste, at this point in my life I don’t miss anything.

As long as I breathe without medication, life is good. Thanks for the response! Omar
 
Lamont D said:
For reasons, as a young un, I just wouldnt, couldn't eat many traditional English dishes, especially when there wasn't much.
And going to school, in the infants, I wouldn't no matter whether the dinner ladies tried to force it on me, or called me a waster and so on. Eat some of the usual school fayre.
Into my junior years, and acknowledging my lactose intolerant, the people who fed me decided that I didn't need to eat some of those awful foods I just wouldn't have. But they still couldn't understand my reluctance to eat cooked vegetables. In fact, I was treated like royalty, when I refused the main meal.
Then the battle in grammar school. Dear lord. Talk about Victorian dogma.
It took a doctor's letter and a visit to the headmaster, cloak and mortar board, not the cane either this time, to get some, not all, the hostility to my intolerance to bear fruit.

Gotta love some people.
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Yes, school dinners were a nightmare. tapioca pudding was especially yuk.

Thank goodness that you were able to prove that you had intolerances but really sad that this didn't totally stop the hostility. Our headmaster also wore a cloak and mortar board. He actually was a very kind man.

I have been plagued with IBS for the whole of my life - but not since I started low carb - unless I really overdo the inulin. I do have a wheat intolerance (but not gluten intolerance) and can only have milk if it has been fermented.
 
6.2 this morning. Bedtime reading was really really low so liver has released some glucose for the morning dog walk. Really good that it is being used rather than staying stored in the liver.

Had a really low carb day yesterday and feel very virtuous. Also dropped calories as I want the get rid of the 2lbs I put on over Easter - which I assume is being stored in the liver.
 
Morning all from Little America where the rain has gone awol for now and one only needs 786 layers. Yesterday's extensive blood results showed fbg to have been 4.2 when lab analysed later which will do me. Feedback on the full panoply is on Friday. Interesting link to @shelley262's fermented foods thread @jjraak , thanks. I do buy sauerkraut and kimchi - this one is my favourite and I did make fermented veg when we grew plenty. @Lamont D @Krystyna23040 and any others hugs for food intolerances and antediluvian attitudes back in the day. I think my wheelhouse is Mediterranean food - lots of tomatoes, basil, garlic, pulses and good bread - is that the anti-keto way?. Very interesting for a Fen boy raised on a diet designed for large manual workers. I definitely couldn't be doing with a carnivore diet but we are all different. Have a good Wednesday - just smile and wave at the awful parts.
 
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5.8 at 03:30 today. Up a bit after the first cup of tea to 6.4 but down again to 5.4 before breakfast. Currently 5.1 after breakfast.

We have 4 days left to get ready for the builders coming and the container loading isn't going as quickly as hoped. Now DIL's new press for the laundry has been delivered (weighs 150 kg but Neil co-ordinated getting it into the laundry and it went smoothly enough) and it has to be wired in. So Neil's been spending hours doing that and has to go back today to finish. Unfortunate timing. I suppose that as long as the loft is empty, whatever is downstairs can be taken out after Monday.

Had a scammer on the phone yesterday. She told me that somehow our IP address had been changed from Private to Public and I would need to change it. She could, of course, talk me through it. I told her that I couldn't deal with it and would call my son to talk to her (he was out at the time, doing my shopping) upon which she put the phone down. She was very convincing sounding, but I was suspicious although I didn't really understand what she was saying. Someone trying to take advantage of a batty old woman! But be careful folk, she was, after all very convincing.
 
ianpspurs said:
Morning all from Little America where the rain has gone awol for now and one only needs 786 layers. Yesterday's extensive blood results showed fbg to have been 4.2 when lab analysed later which will do me. Feedback on the full panoply is on Friday. Interesting link to @shelley262's fermented foods thread @jjraak , thanks. I do buy sauerkraut and kimchi - this one is my favourite and I did make fermented veg when we grew plenty. @Lamont D @Krystyna23040 and any others hugs for food intolerances and antediluvian attitudes back in the day. I think my wheelhouse is Mediterranean food - lots of tomatoes, basil, garlic, pulses and good bread - is that the anti-keto way?. Very interesting for a Fen boy raised on a diet designed for large manual workers. I definitely couldn't be doing with a carnivore diet but we are all different. Have a good Wednesday - just smile and wave at the awful parts.
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Really good fbg. I definitely couldn't be doing with a carnivore diet either @ianpspurs but it does really suit some people. It is interesting that we are all so different.
 
Annb said:
5.8 at 03:30 today. Up a bit after the first cup of tea to 6.4 but down again to 5.4 before breakfast. Currently 5.1 after breakfast.

We have 4 days left to get ready for the builders coming and the container loading isn't going as quickly as hoped. Now DIL's new press for the laundry has been delivered (weighs 150 kg but Neil co-ordinated getting it into the laundry and it went smoothly enough) and it has to be wired in. So Neil's been spending hours doing that and has to go back today to finish. Unfortunate timing. I suppose that as long as the loft is empty, whatever is downstairs can be taken out after Monday.

Had a scammer on the phone yesterday. She told me that somehow our IP address had been changed from Private to Public and I would need to change it. She could, of course, talk me through it. I told her that I couldn't deal with it and would call my son to talk to her (he was out at the time, doing my shopping) upon which she put the phone down. She was very convincing sounding, but I was suspicious although I didn't really understand what she was saying. Someone trying to take advantage of a batty old woman! But be careful folk, she was, after all very convincing.
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A pity the new press came just at the time the container needed filling. Well done on politely dealing with the scammer. As you say - and also in there. I don't know who said it - someone here certainly did - but I echo the sentiment: everyone needs a Neil. Just don't all expect the poor man to be everywhere at once. Take care.
 
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ianpspurs said:
A pity the new press came just at the time the container needed filling. Well done on politely dealing with the scammer. As you say - and also in there. I don't know who said it - someone here certainly did - but I echo the sentiment: everyone needs a Neil. Just don't all expect the poor man to be everywhere at once. Take care.
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That's his problem. He is so useful and helpful that he could easily overstretch himself. He's good at walking away from confrontation but a cry for help he has to answer. He was described to me once as "an angel" by a lady who lived near his last home and I know quite a few folk who had the same opinion. Of course, the woman who met him on a narrow track in a car certainly didn't share that opinion - she should have pulled in to a passing place when she saw someone else on the road, but didn't. She expected him to back off quite a long distance to the next passing place. He didn't. He just sat in his car and waited ("patience of a saint") - after about 20 minutes while she became more agitated and he remained calm, she backed off. Perhaps not gentlemanly but she was in the wrong and he was stubborn. She still talks about it so it must have seriously rankled. :D
 
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