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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

Good morning 6.2 today.Off to see consultant later.Hoping the X-ray says everything is healing and I don't have to have an operation.Even better if I have some idea when the plaster will be off!........I'm getting impatient and feel I've "done"snow and broken bones,now it's time for something different!!
 
@SueJB way to go, confuse her with alliteration. Maybe see her as exotically gallic Madame Malefactor and shrug shoulders?
Very good, did you mean "malefactor"? There could be the other possibility of having forgotten to press the space bar. Swimming and shrugging
 
Hello all. Blood sugars this morning were 4.9. Still suffering from a cold, which unfortunately has gotten worse. Felt too weak to exercise yesterday, but haven't eaten since 5:30 p.m.

@Granny_grump_ -- I agree with @geefull. It is best to have something available when you feel a sweet snack attack coming on. I usually have either have a low-carb cake or low-carb chocolate mousse prepared (most have somewhere from 1g to 5g of carbs per 100g. Yesterday, I also made my own caramel-coated pecans (caramel prepared with erythritol and cream). So, I am not tempted by something much worse. If you are not so much into baking, high cocoa-content chocolate also works. The one I prefer has 85% cocoa content with 16g of carbs per 100g. So, even if I get carried away and eat half of the 80g bar, it is only about 7g of carbs. On my glucometer, this hardly makes a bump. Of course, there are also the savory go-to snacks such as cheese, nuts, pork rinds, and olives.

@ianpspurs -- I have seen my fasting glucose go up by about half a mmol to one mmol in the last year -- so obviously a bit worried about this. It seems this sometimes happen when you have a low-carb or ketogenic diet and is called adaptive glucose sparing. I found this an interesting read https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/fasting-blood-glucose-higher.

@HarrisonK -- Brilliant progress with your fasting levels, they are coming down quickly.
 

@ziggy_w Thanks for being so helpful and encouraging to so many other users - the world needs more like you. I am just wading through information about fasting mimicking, autophagy and trying to relate it all to what I want to achieve. I will put that link into the mix and come up with a cunning plan - so cunning etc
 
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@geeful thank you that would be lovely! K
 
6.8 for me have a great day all
Hi Karen how's the short break been your BG is doing fine by the way in spite of your holiday,I usually don't test when I go away I'm on holiday from it all, but being type1 you obviously can't do that,anyway hope you found time to chill out and relax! K
 
@Glenmac wishing you good luck with your x-ray I'm a little behind everything today had a few appointments that took up most of yesterday hence just catching up with everyone at this unholy hour 4-30 am been awake since 3 am.
More appointments today and dressings changed should be home if I'm lucky this afternoon,have a good day! K
 
@ziggy_w Thanks for the ideas I need a kick up the bum to get me back on track,I'll give the chocolate a try really been very busy lately and not much time for myself but hopefully it will get easier! K
 
@ziggy_w Thanks for the ideas I need a kick up the bum to get me back on track,I'll give the chocolate a try really been very busy lately and not much time for myself but hopefully it will get easier! K

Hi @Granny_grump_

You are up early today. Hope everything is going well. Usually the Lindt 85% or 90% chocolate is quite good, though definitely not as sweet as regular chocolate.
 
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