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

good morning all

4.8 today

a quiet morning at home, a bit of a walk to deliver the final three village Christmas cards and collect mr. gee's small loaf and then later this afternoon Christmas dinner at the charity we volunteer at, I've been promised turkey, sausage and veg and will take my own version of tiramisu

Made more chocolate hazelnut cake yesterday and the latest version of 'Christmas cakeish' which smells wonderful but is obviously much lower carb and lighter than trad cake (I'll post the ingredients if anyone is interested).

Hope your day is treating you well

@Bubbsie lovely pile of baking, makes my efforts look pitiful
 
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Ooh yes yes yes please geeful...I'd love the recipe thank you.
 
jjraak said:
For heaven's sake, bubbsie.....JUST STOP.

Some of us have vivid imaginations...

It won't do for me to be drooling and fantasising about your food all day...


As Ian says, does does look delicious...
and almost shop bought presentation..5 stars.
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Just as well I didn't say I'd popped an extra slug of wine & brandy in each jar before I sealed it jjrak...it may have tipped you over the edge
 
Nonsense geeful it sounds fabulous...I'm waiting for the recipe...might give it a go this weekend.
 
@Bubbsie, everything looks so yummy! What does the pretty wooden tray say?

@ianpspurs you are right, He can be seen in all sorts of places.

@OrsonKartt I just mailed my cards and presents yesterday. I will get 2 more cards in the mail today. My Episcopalian friends didn't even put up their trees until Christmas Eve and sent out cards once Christmas begins - on the 25th.
 
Results day for me. OK but suitably unimpressed - although December's are always worse and these are a little better than last year
Hba1c = 38 - hugely disappointed there but whatevs; * I have a, perhaps wrong, idea about this
Serum cholesterol level 4.1 mmol/L down from 4.8 in summer with no cream in tea etc
Serum triglyceride levels 0.76 mmol/L [0.3 - 1.8] down from 1.3 in summer as above
Serum HDL cholesterol level 1.86 mmol/L
Serum LDL cholesterol level 1.89 mmol/L
Serum cholesterol/HDL ratio 2.2
Serum non high density lipoprotein cholesterol level 2.24 mmol/L

All seems a bit MEH but I ain't in any danger I would say. Remains the case that I don't like this WOE but it doesn't seem to be actively harming me.

*I need to know more about the effect on the normal Hba1c test of these little darlings
Haemoglobin concentration; Haematocrit; Mean cell volume because at the back of my mind is an article which I think explains why my own numbers will always look a long way out. Any help would be useful before I do damage chasing lower numbers on next 6 month test. Overall 3,5 year average fallen .01
Thanks.
 
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alf_Josiah said:
Love the card and the others, but I am chuckling over the Seagull one.
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.. at present I have a one legged seagull friend. About 3 years ago he got some fishing wire tangled in his leg. Eventually it withered. So every morning he swings by and sits near the window and I feed him dried cat food. ...Oh yea I loved reading Jonathan Livingston Seagull in my youth....I'm glad you like them !!
 

I would kill to get an A1c reading as low as yours.

I have views on long fasts, that thy are dangerous in the long term and disrupt a very complicated chemical factory. Before a few of you start start taking issue with me on this, it is only my view and not based on any medical facts, the same as your long term fasts. We all differ and can agree to differ.
Take care foot the ball fan. Keep posting when you can. Must go got a bacon sarnie to eat hehehehe
 

Check out Neil Diamond's sound track to the film.
 
jjraak said:
Hahaha....that will do for me.

( Interesting site..yours ?
Liked the wing & a prayer. )

Oh, and a warm welcome to today's Seal Team 6.
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Thanks for the warm welcome ! ...Sometimes a wing and a prayer is all there is....
 
Thanks @alf_Josiah. I have no intentions of longer fasts and also think my actual levels may be nearer my meter readings but need some sleuthing to either confirm this or prove me deluded Looking again, I am basically back to where I was last December but a kg lighter so perhaps an OK year.
 
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I've had 3 hugs so far from my results - crikey I didn't think they were that awful but now I am getting worried - should I be.?? What am I missing that is so bad that you guys see so clearly???
 
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@ianpspurs I’ve only just noticed your old post about stopping testing fbgs for a while. Don’t go away though will you? You’d leave too big a gap.
 
One of my college boyfriends gave me Jonathan Livingston Seagull the book one year. I found the LP a few years later when looking for "Free Bird." The book introduced me to Richard Bach which was also great a few years later when I was dating another guy, who was into planes.
 
ianpspurs said:
I've had 3 hugs so far from my results - crikey I didn't think they were that awful but now I am getting worried - should I be.?? What am I missing that is so bad that you guys see so clearly???
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The results are amazing!! My hug was for you feeling meh about them
 
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