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

@shelley i hope you don't mind, but i saved and cropped pic/article



A lovely pic, and a marvelous story and inspiration to us all.

Bravo...and a Happy New Year to you and all my OLF's on the Forum.

May the new year bring you & and your families, as much joy & happiness as you could wish for...x
 
ianpspurs said:
And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:

“Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”

Happy New Year
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Can't match you guys for your implicit knowledge of so much stuff...

BUT....this rings true.....

"We will not go quietly into the night!

We will not vanish without a fight!

We're going to live on!

We ARE going to survive!"

President Thomas J. Whitmore
 
I had to Google Thomas J. Whitmore. I had never heard of him before. But I never saw that movie, either.

That quote reminds me a lot of Dylan Thomas.Who also wrote:

All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky ...
 
Happy New Year all!

@Ziggy2017 you made it to later than me - 7.30pm bed for me last night, absolutely shattered!

@JohnEGreen first FBG of 2019 also a bit higher for me at 5.4. At least it leaves room for improvement!

Thanks for all the good wishes yesterday. Doc has ordered x-rays and a raft of blood tests.
 
Happy New Year prick-and-tell massive. Still on my end of season tour so no fbg but this tool @ziggy_w pointed me towards may be helpful http://www.burnfatnotsugar.com/TyGIndexCalculator.html
As it is US you need these values in mg/dl since this is a U.S. website. So, here's also a link to a cholesterol converter: http://www.onlineconversion.com/cholesterol.htm and a link to a glucose converter: https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blood-sugar-converter.html.
Very useful for setting targets/seeing how the 2 work together. Mine was in normal range due to trigs more than bg so emphasised importance of both to me.
 
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Thanks Ian. Used today’s higher than normal fasting reading and trigs from last blood draw and fell into the normal range.
 
SaskiaKC said:
We had to memorize Kipling's "If" at school every year for at least four years
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Dr Kipling wrote about intermittent fasting?

Mr Kipling sure didn’t! (That might be a UK centric reference).
 
FBG. After seeing in the new year with a top up of the 'Paddy' and raising a glass of Guinness to those sadly lost and very much missed,
was an honourable 5.7 on the Geiger counter...

( I rather think I'm going to live another Day.. )

Have a good one, all
 
Morning...an horrendous day at work yesterday...finally got home at 11:30pm...follow up phone calls meant a 02:30 bed time...no work today...having my coffee & relaxing...woke to a fluke 4.9...I intend to put my feet up for the first day of 2019...Happy New year everyone.
 
Morning everyone started of the new year with a 4.4 and a slice of cold pizza for breakfast. Have you got any plans for today? We are not doing much but we are having a Christmas dinner for New Years still not feeling quite at myself but I won’t object to staying in and reading my new book I got for Christmas happy 2019 all
 
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