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

Good morning all
5.7 this am another in a run of high ones for me - it’s not bad food choices as very low carb again over past few days it’s simply stress I think so I’m bringing out the stress management tools again today and hoping for some more level days.
Hope everyone has a good Sunday - I’ve got an online food delivery later but I’m also determined to do a very long walk in the forest - I believe from something I read that the Japanese call walking in the forest ‘ forest bathing ‘ for its calming experience and I always find it helpful. We are very very lucky as although we don’t have the sea nearby like some of you such as @OrsonKartt - whose morning beach walks for coffee I envy - but a very large forest starts 2 mins from our house. I take a flask of coffee with me and perch on a tree trunk !
Sounds like that is going to be just the tonic :-) enjoy. Hopefully things will calm down now with Christmas and birthdays behind you. Your reading is still great @shelley262
 
I’m with you on the generally being active bit and that’s the foundation for me. So enjoy walking and just look for opportunities to fit it in wherever I can. I use the gym for weights - i.e. equipment and activity that I can’t do for free elsewhere and I do enjoy it once there! Am lucky to have joined a new gym when it opened and got a staggeringly cheap (especially for London) monthly rate of £12.99 so figure its worth holding onto, especially as the gym is open 24 hours so it fits in with my ridiculously early starts. And I did make it this morning....



Thanks for the encouragement. Can only aspire to your levels of activity.
What a bargain!!! I might even be tempted at that price:)
 
Morning all. Up again to 8.1. No proper meals yesterday just bits and bobs of snacks on the go including some carby ingredients. :( Really hungry and an uncomfortable tum this morning.:happy: At home all day today so should have more control over what I eat. Enjoy the rest of the weekend folks.:)
Hope you are ok
 
I’m with you on the generally being active bit and that’s the foundation for me. So enjoy walking and just look for opportunities to fit it in wherever I can. I use the gym for weights - i.e. equipment and activity that I can’t do for free elsewhere and I do enjoy it once there! Am lucky to have joined a new gym when it opened and got a staggeringly cheap (especially for London) monthly rate of £12.99 so figure its worth holding onto, especially as the gym is open 24 hours so it fits in with my ridiculously early starts. And I did make it this morning....



Thanks for the encouragement. Can only aspire to your levels of activity.
I have actually reduced my activity as I am bio-hacking. I am found so far my max for fasting should be just 2 days as I loose muscle mass after this, so this is locked in for me, I am honing the mix of sleep, additional protein (via meat / fish), cardio and resistance training, and loving this n of 1 testing.
 
I’m with you on the generally being active bit and that’s the foundation for me. So enjoy walking and just look for opportunities to fit it in wherever I can. I use the gym for weights - i.e. equipment and activity that I can’t do for free elsewhere and I do enjoy it once there! Am lucky to have joined a new gym when it opened and got a staggeringly cheap (especially for London) monthly rate of £12.99 so figure its worth holding onto, especially as the gym is open 24 hours so it fits in with my ridiculously early starts. And I did make it this morning....


... £12.99 sounds like a bargain, and gyms are so clean and warm .
 
I have actually reduced my activity as I am bio-hacking. I am found so far my max for fasting should be just 2 days as I loose muscle mass after this, so this is locked in for me, I am honing the mix of sleep, additional protein (via meat / fish), cardio and resistance training, and loving this n of 1 testing.
Finding out what works as an individual is a long term project I'm finding. I'm a skinny so and so and I find a 24 hour fast challenging at this stage of the project.
 
No numbers as I am determined to have a break and focus on 1 pillar at a time which seems @Mbaker like and highly sensible. Slept until 9.40 today so that has been a year long target hit. @Goonergal great price for gym membership and I assume you walk. The fees are one thing but the faff of driving to and from is too much. I have bought all the equipment I would use - exercise bike, rowing machine, weight machine, free weights, dumbells, kettleballs, bags - so I can go when I want e.g. Christmas day. (Key piece of equipment is big tv and sky q - hours of American Civil War docs, great NFL games and similar) Maybe an idea for you @OrsonKartt once all work is done but splitting logs beats the lot.
Long post but I do agree with the deconstruct and analyse approach - that is January's aim.
 
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5.6 after a late start. I’ve been reading a book for days and suddenly got into it last night so had to stay up til I’d finished it, after 2am.
@shelley262 ‘forest bathing’ even sounds relaxing. Don’t think about the mud.
@Goonergal that is a fantastic price fot a gym - even here in the sticks it’s £34 and only open 6-10.
 
Good morning all,
4.6 for me.

I did my weekly weigh in as well. I lost another 2.4 lbs (1.09 kg) this past week.

With this loss, I'm finally under 200 lbs at 197.8 lbs (89.72) for the first time in over 32 years :)

My total loss so far is 75.79 lbs (34.38 kg) or 5 stone 5.79 My BMI has gone from 48.0 to 34.0
 
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Hello all -- a bit late posting today. Late night, slept in and then lazed around. So, quite a successful day so far I would say.

@Goonergal -- a really good deal on the gym membership. I am with @ianpspurs on this, though, I enjoy the ease of a workout at home. Have bought a refurbished professional elliptical trainer several years ago, which is giving me a good workout most days.

@Freema, @OrsonKartt and @Charis1213 -- I am a bit envious of living close to the beach -- I grew up close to the ocean, but now it's quite a long drive from where I live. @Charis1213 -- Great job on the progress with your blood sugars.

@shelley262 -- Sounds like a very busy and stressful week. Hope you can take some time out to relax.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.1.

Have a great Sunday, all.
 
@shelley262 "forest bathing" is a lovely expression. I had never heard of it before but I think I know what it is like ... that is a perfect way of describing the day I spent in the woods last time I was in England. Just me and the trees, and occasionally other people, some with dogs. A wonderful day.

I have happily spent time tromping around in horse pastures too, one misty Christmas Eve I was out checking on a friend's horse, all layered up from wellies to hat with ear flaps. I love tromping around in the mud among horses all snug with their round bales and turnout blankets.

It is a five-hour drive from here to the "nearest" beach and very pricey to stay once you get there. But the ocean is worth it, and I love road trips.
 
I have always until recently lived by the sea it's what I miss the most now being in the midlands when I lived in Plymouth had the Sea or Dartmoor to choose from every day of the week could walk on a beach in the morning and treck Dartmoor in the afternoon or evening or visa versa.
 
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