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

Aww @Cumberland Ive just seen the photo of Banger he is adorable, I’m in love.
Hope you have a better night tonight hypo- wise though I expect it might not be calm and peaceful.
 
Cumberland said:
Rough night hypo first thing 3.1

Been ok since

Let me introduce you to Puppy who came to live with us today
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@Cumberland I hope you have a good night's sleep with no hypos. The little guy is adorable, are you still going to call him "Banger"? Let us know how he adjusts to his new home.
 
jjraak said:
i'd say training is for those who NEED to know something.

to get there i'd say Your guys first WANT to know something,
Your task, as i see it is to engage, interest and THEN educate .a tall order, but with your can do attitude & enthusiasm, you'll make a good fist of it..
But Don't be too disappointed, i'd say a take up rate of 1-2 people SHOULD be classed as a success
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@Debandez you may also run into those people who know about the effect of high carb foods on blood glucose but refuse to modify their diet.

Although my best friend is also a lower carber who's controlled her Type 2 diabetes by modifying her diet (she inspired me and helped me initially), we know several people who refuse to change despite knowing what carbs do to blood glucose.

Particularly depressing is a couple we know who are both Type 2 diabetic. He has always refused to change his diet in the slightest. She tried eating low carb for a while but has given up completely. At a recent event we attended, they brought and ate multiple sandwiches with white bread, potato salad and apple crisp and drank multiple cans of regular Coke. Neither test their blood glucose at all anymore and both are on multiple meds which are increased every time they have their hba1c checked as it has continued to rise. She's a very bright woman who's well read and knows about low carb. She ate low carb for a while (despite her husband) and then decided to take medication so she could have bread, that has now expanded to not excluding anything including sugar, regular soft drinks, potatoes and other high carb foods. She has put on an additional considerable amount of weight very quickly recently and her insulin resistance has probably worsened. It's very sad to be around them yet ironically they pity those of us with well controlled blood glucose levels because we watch what we eat and won't join them.
 
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Morning all. 5.0 @ 4.20 - insanely early for no reason and not even the reward of an especially good fbg level. And so it begins for another 6 months. Looks like I undid some of the damage done from March to June re Lipids with a minimal - .1 - hit to BG. Next part of the journey needs to keep the Lipids in order optimising BG a little more - 38/5.6 is not what I am settling for - bit of a blot on the CV right now. Have entirely spiffing days.
 
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Morning, or good night if you're off to bed.
Fed up to be honest and don't feel like smiling. OK so I know I had coquille for lunch yesterday, slightly bad for me but only veg and chicken for supper, very good for me. Then messed that up with a couple of glasses of rose and 5g of chocolate, very bad.
Madam woke at 5am @ 7. I wonder if I can blame it on not testing immediately or if I should hold my hand up
Well done @ianpspurs your numbers are great.
 
SueJB said:
Morning, or good night if you're off to bed.
Fed up to be honest and don't feel like smiling. OK so I know I had coquille for lunch yesterday, slightly bad for me but only veg and chicken for supper, very good for me. Then messed that up with a couple of glasses of rose and 5g of chocolate, very bad.
Madam woke at 5am @ 7. I wonder if I can blame it on not testing immediately or if I should hold my hand up
Well done @ianpspurs your numbers are great.
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Woah there young lady. Cut yourself some slack. As far as i can see no hypo or hyper and a smart cookie such as yourself can sort it easily. Relax, you got this.
 
Debandez said:
Bit late posting today as fully engrossed in sorting hubby's Christmas presie. All sorted and sent off to the north pole!

6.4 today. And my little bit of chat won't be as little as it should be but you know me :) I expected my BS to be in the 6s as i was out for a meal last night, so I'm not in the slightest bit surprised. The diabetic group Xmas night out. Which was full of surprises! Ive only been to one meeting, Octobers. Novembers i couldnt make as it was my wedding anniversary. And Decembers was in actual fact last nights meal. We met at a really lovely restaurant that is renown for a cracking carvery. About 20 of us. And on a Monday its BOGOF. So 2 for £8! Everyone is really friendly. Some partners were there. My hubby was invited. He is a great mixer and before long we were chatting with everyone and anyone whilst perusing the menu. I got excited. Halloumi fries in the starters section. I'm in! I plumped for the carvery. The safe option. I will tell you a bit about the food first.and what was eaten. Most had starters. Many had prawn cocktail. This came with 2 slices of crusty white bread on the side. I wondered if this might be left to one side. Indeed not. Well, it is xmas. Everyone went for the carvery option. Now I'm not one to watch what others eat. Well i should rephrase that. I never used to be! Til dx. I couldnt help but notice everyones plates were full.... to capacity. 2 yorkshires in many cases and enough roasties/potatoes to sink a battleship. Lots of veg, stuffing, gravy etc. Then dessert options. A few went for the caramel ice cream (large). Others the xmas pudding with custard. I was full. No cheese board anyway so i wouldnt have bothered. I would normally love to see people enjoying their food. And bye God they were. But I felt really really sad. At this point i had mingled and chatted with quite a few of the group around and about me. Diabetes came up as you would expect. No they dont monitor their BS. Even the insulin dependent ones 'not that often'. Told not to bother. Their diabetes has been progressive. Many taking 2 or more meds just for diabetes. Others saying they 'rattle' with the amount of tablets they take. Do you know your hba1c I asked a couple but they didn't. They just put their lives in the hands of the medical team. Apart from 3 of those there (myself included) all were extremely over weight. No doubt over weight due to the insulin! And they eat what they like, apart from cutting back on 'sugar'. I brought up carbs being sugar. The 2 ladies in on this conversation had no clue how much sugar was in bread, pasta, pots, rice. They have been diabetic for many years. Probably never been on a DESMOND course. I told her i dont eat those high carb foods, or extremely rarely. One of the ladies reacted with a shocked expression 'what, you dont eat any of those things, what DO you eat'. I said mainly eggs for breaky. Another horrified look. The lady was warned off eggs due to cholestrol being high. She doesn't touch them for that reason. I could go on. It was the exact opposite of the diabetic dining experience I thoroughly enjoyed in September in Birmingham which made me very happy and very proud to be a part of a group of such focused individuals taking back control of.l their health. These poor people still put their faith and health in the NHS who ate letting them down and in fact slowly killing them.

The organiser who has been t2d for over 15 years who says hers is 'progressive' has asked me to talk about my journey at the next meeting in January. I was looking forward to it. Kind of thinking about structuring it like a training session until some of the kind forum members advised me against this. Rightly so. Gently does it. It's going to be extremely challenging! I want to be as helpful in my 30-40 minutes as possible. But after last night I can see what I'm upnagainst. They are all so lovely and have been through so much on their journey (the lady opposite me is registered blind, she has liver problems due to tablets she took in 2008 which she thinks gave her t2d). She is so very tiny now and in very poor health. She hasn't been out since July. She was so enjoying her food and the chats. My heart felt so heavy. Wanting to help and offer guidance on controlling BS and helping them feel better, yet knowing I'm going to be going into what they really should not be eating to regain health. This particular lady was 76, lives on her own and is frail looking too. I'm going to talk about my journey (@xfieldok is on board, we will do it as a team which i think will work really well). Going to hand out leaflets with useful info on. Not sure exactly what useful info at this point but @Rachox your fab BS leaflet will be one of the handouts! If one person gets something out of it it will be worth out. And the word might spread.
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Great post. Thanks for sharing. I think in your position I’d have found all that incredibly frustrating. But if there’s only one thing I’ve learned in recent years it’s that people fiercely defend their dietary choices. Any advice or opinion you offer about your own will just be perceived as evangelism and preaching.
 
Jim Lahey said:
But if there’s only one thing I’ve learned in recent years it’s that people fiercely defend their dietary choices. Any advice or opinion you offer about your own will just be perceived as evangelism and preaching.
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I think I would modify that somewhat bearing in mind this community is almost entirely composed of people who have very much altered dietary choices. Holding yourself up as an example is nearly always a bad move IMHO - especially if one has been a success. No one is going to accept that they will go from couch potato to Usain Bolt in one giant leap, for example. Softly softly catchy monkey??
 
ianpspurs said:
I think I would modify that somewhat bearing in mind this community is almost entirely composed of people who have very much altered dietary choices. Holding yourself up as an example is nearly always a bad move IMHO - especially if one has been a success. No one is going to accept that they will go from couch potato to Usain Bolt in one giant leap, for example. Softly softly catchy monkey??
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I’m possibly misunderstanding you somewhat, but that was kind of my whole point :)
 
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