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

@Chronicle_Cat you are making such great progress on all fronts. I suppose the upside to the snow shovelling is its good exercise. I used to love snow days (which were occasional) when the boys were little, the sheer joy on their faces and the endless drying of gloves! Not so enchanting now and not where you live I guess.
 

Yes, children love snow. Having worked in the schools, the days it snows they love to be outside. Best of all, are "snow days" where the school buses are cancelled and best of all, when the school itself is closed due to snow. The radio stations do "cancellation reports" here for this reason. They are very rare here in Toronto, they only happen the occasional winter. "Snow days" are more common up north and/or in rural areas. Kids will talk about them years later.
 
dunelm said:
Hi @Mbaker Protein is insulinogenic and can convert to glucose.
You can read about it and ogle graphs here;

https://optimisingnutrition.com/2017/06/03/why-do-my-blood-sugars-rise-after-a-high-protein-meal/
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This highlights why diabetes mitigation can at the low to medium level be generalised, but for the individual perhaps should be tweaked. It is vital in my view to see if the conventional wisdom is applicable in the regime one chooses, as there is always a why. So my why is, on this hypothesis I should have had the worse numbers I have experienced in the last 4 years. I think I read that gluconeogenisis in the context of minimal carbs is short lived, and words to the effect not as impactful if all on total insulin secretion - in any event I have just tested on myself.

My results going mainly LCHF to LCHP over the last 4 or so months (some days totally carnivore, in visual terms maybe 2 massive salmon cuts in the morning, on coconut pancakes, around a whole plate of pork ribs or 2 ribeye steaks, at the end of this long ramble are examples between July 2018 and December 2018):

Within the last month
HbA1c: 35.52 (around 2 weeks ago)
Fasting Insulin: 5.2
HOMA IR: 0.97
HS-CRP: < 0.3
FBG average: 4.2 (my meter reads 0.1 higher than my surgery hospital synchronised professional unit)
When I check my PP it is circa 5.5 or below, and adhoc checks before bed around 4.9.

The HOMA IR result says I am not insulin resistant.

So I have managed my best ever results on an exorbitant amount of protein. Could it be because I weight train, or my protein only comes from whole quality foods, I don't know (don't care). I did my test to see the difference in lean muscle with more weights and to stress test my kidneys (high protein some say damages kidneys, mine were damaged by my initial high HbA1c, but pounding the protein moved eGFR from 63, to 62 - so no change). I have pulled back a bit now as I quite like low carb vegetables and dairy and have kept a mental note that at this time I can go higher protein.

I think in in the context of Type 1, it is interesting that the Type1Grit group promotes LCHP.

I follow the performance end of LCHF / HP via persons such as Dr Shawn Baker, Dr Ted Naimen and Siim Land,
Volek and Phinney. By coincidence I was watching the below this morning where Phinney was happy to promote 1.5 grams of protein per kilo of lean body mass (the same as Ben Bikman on the HPO podcast recently (episode 64). He said they go to a max of 2.0 grams. Some are happy to go up to 4 grams.


Various High Protein Meals consumed at home and Out:
 
FBG this afternoon..(sunday lie in )..was a respectable 5.5

weight on the other hand was a gorgeously insulin resistance dropping (i hope <pray.)
13st 10lbs...

weirdly enough as i alluded to in other posts, i seemed to have stalled at 13lbs...

nothing too odd about yesterday,
just think the body makes it's mind up grudgingly to give up the fats sometimes..

either way..it's a good sunday, from a rain lashed London...
off to work in minute ..wet proofs on, and hoping the wind don't whip me off to kansas.

(well we are already ready living in the Land of OZ..with the odd advice we get,
though it is more like the mad hatters tea party....oops..there goes another down the rabbit hole..:***: )

EDIT: 2nd the vote for best informational forum ANYWHERE.
Life saver ? indeed it is, @Jim Lahey
 
6.4 Sunday morning. I like seeing these lower sixes, especially since I'm also still losing weight.

Unlike @ianpspurs I can't weigh in in my birthday suit since the scales are downstairs in the fitness center, and even when I weigh in with my shoes on I'm seeing numbers going down!

@dunelm, that is a lovely ocean scene.
 

Wow! Thanks for posting the pictures. I've never seen anything like that. What do the costumes represent?
 
Chronicle_Cat said:
Dear Weather Network Canada,

You were wrong.
This is NOT a light snow.

(the edge of my driveway this morning after shovelling.)
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Whoof. Just ... whoof. I mean, I love snow, but ...

We had 9 inches one March in one place where I lived and the entire city was paralyzed. Electricity out, phones out, I was isolated in an island of a house with two aging parents and even emergency vehicles could not manage the roads. And of course no snow plows in town.
 
Well researched and helpful as usual @Mbaker Over on the what have you eaten today thread there was a similar theme from this link http://www.tuitnutrition.com/2017/07/gluconeogenesis.html
 
@Mbaker My grandson eats next to zero carbs but huge amounts of protein the other students at his uni accommodations are at times aghast especially some of the vegetarians and vegans, he is doing it to build muscle though not to combat diabetes.
 

At least we have snow plows, I can't imagine not having them.

The rest of the country laughed at us years ago when our then mayor (not the crack smoking one, one before that) called in the army to clear and truck away our snow. We'd had several feet of snow (there was nowhere left to put it) and the ambulances were having trouble getting down the narrow streets in the older part of the city because of the huge snowpiles. Fortunately no one died because of the army.

Five years ago right before Christmas, we had a massive ice storm with downed power lines because of frozen branches breaking under the weight of the ice. Our house only lost power for several hours but my daughter and son-in-law stayed with us for 3 days because they had no power for 4 days. We all got the flu and their cat was terrified of ours. My husband's cousin was without it for 3 weeks. The city opened up emergency shelters in community centres. Fortunately, my parents' seniors residence had a backup emergency generators for that type of situation. Parts of the city lost over 1/3 of the trees on streets, in parks and ravines. Here's a few photos of what the ice did. https://globalnews.ca/news/1047514/ice-storm-2013-see-the-damage-done-to-one-brampton-street/
 
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Yikes, @Chronicle_Cat ! That sounds like a fairly typical snow storm down here. Emergency shelters opened (not that people could get to them), people told to stay at home because of icy streets and downed power lines, out-of-state power crews driving in to help get the lines back up once it's all over, and warnings on the TV not to light kerosene heaters indoors (not that anyone can hear them because the power's out).

I saw a TV commercial years ago for Blockbuster Video that showed an SUV coming home from a trip to Blockbuster and able to climb over a snowdrift in its driveway because it had 4WD. The only thing I took away from that commercial was that in some places people could not only drive on snowy streets to rent a video but that when they got home they could watch it because the electricity had not gone out!
 
Just to add the best way to determine if you are getting the correct amount of protein is by testing for Nitrogen balance.

This can be done by a BUN test or the urine urea nitrogen test .

"Your body creates ammonia when it breaks down protein from foods. Ammonia contains nitrogen, which mixes with other elements in your body, including carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, to form urea. Urea is a waste product that is excreted by the kidneys when you urinate.
The urine urea nitrogen test determines how much urea is in the urine to assess the amount of protein breakdown. The test can help determine how well the kidneys are functioning and whether your intake of protein is too high or low. Additionally, it can help diagnose whether you have a problem with protein digestion or absorption from the gut."

http://www.csun.edu/~cjh78264/diabetes/calculators/calc_nbal.html
 
Congratulations. This is very inspirational.
 
Chronicle_Cat said:
Dear Weather Network Canada,

You were wrong.
This is NOT a light snow.

(the edge of my driveway this morning after shovelling.)
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Haha...
Ooh..is that some ones house with the chimney sticking out....that snow is HUUUUGE...
 

Interesting. I knew about the ammonia but not how it got there!
 
Excellent and thank you for the video. A rushed viewing as I was distracted but noted the ketone triangle and the stretch along the x axis.
 
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Thank you. It is 10 minutes from the house.
 
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