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

Wouldn't mind betting that I'm the only one who got the McGarrett pun?
 
PenguinMum said:
Agree Tracey but @ianpspurs how are you and Julie today?
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Very kind of you ask @PenguinMum but that thoughtfulness is hardwired into your DNA. Julie is gradually getting back to normal (for London birds) thank you. She is off to our DIL's baby shower with her 89.4 YO mum. (just what those events are all about is beyond me). I am well thanks - intermittently testing so no numbers this AM - just tweaking all the dials to hit the elusive sweet spot where what I enjoy doing and eating overlaps bg control. I was there last April but experimented with fasting and it has been a year of effort to get back. That is one reason I am concerned that you be very careful with IF.
 
Morning...despite being up just after 6am I'm late posting...spent some time making myself presentable which took longer than I thought & wasn't entirely successful...then spent a couple of hours playing a game where I flattened anyone who has irritated me of late (HMRC in particular) very cathartic...woke to a 5.8
 
Absolutely certain you are several quantum leaps beyond presentable both inside and out - so chill your beans young lady.
 
@ianpspurs good to hear Julie is on the mend. I have never been to a baby shower so well done MIL and GMIL for being so out there! I dont know what I think about IF myself but am concerned about the upward FBG trend for a while now. What were your reasons when you did it and you obviously dont think it helped?
Will check in again later, meanwhile there is a carpet of spent magnolia blooms to rake.
 
I still do IF. last year was full days of fasting, bone broth cream in tea stuff. There was a trend last year. I wanted to bring HbA1c into line with my finger prick tests. Bgs plus ketones were really good (3.9 and 3.9), weight down to BMI 21.6. June test was same 5.5 I can get without all that effort but lipids freaked me out - sorted in Dec. Messed my sleep patterns and ever since I almost default to food avoidance. In general now I will aim to eat around 1.00 for lunch and 6.00 for evening meal supplemented normally by lots of tea and either coffee or cocoa with some cream. I ran trials of bg with and without breakfast, levels no different (marginally better fasted) - best results are with slow steady cardio followed by, say, cream in coffee/cocoa. I concluded it (breakfast) was wasted time, effort, food, fuel, cals and carbs. re Magnolia blooms - do you not leave them as free mulch? Farmers and fruit growers hereabouts make no effort to clear leaves, ditch clearings, hedge cuttings etc - works for them. Hope that answers your questions and is not too long.
 
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Traceymac23 said:
A nice 6.2 this morning.........technically when converted that equates to my last HbA1c test.......really not too shabby when considering the gauntlet my poor carcass has been put through
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5.9 pre lunch reading........very unusual for me to lower bg between wake up and pre lunch......although I did have a very unusual breakfast which was a smoothie consisting of:
1 bag spinach
2 courgette
1 thumb sized piece ginger
1 yakult

Then cracked 2 eggs into it and gulped that bad boy down

Had an orange and a cappuccino too in this time gap



May well cut back on the bran flakes although they may well be 'keeping me regular' against inevitable morphine constipation
 

B*gger...you have taken that news exceedingly well.

Not sure I wouldn't of had a little rant at having to endure a much longer fast..:***:

God speed the next one is successful.
 
Morning/Afternoon all! Woke up at 7am to a 5.1 which is perfectly fine with my current state of things, ended up losing a pound and a half since last week so steady goes it till next week when it's really going to feel the sting of my ire.

Hope you all have a great weekend and look after yourselves.
 
P1ckle said:
Very disturbed night. Called out to mum as dad needed help. Not slept more than 1 hour and didn’t eat supper due to situation.
Gobsmacked to see 9.8 this morning!!!
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I am wishing you all the best to yourself and your Dad there too. Do try and take it easy when you can.
 
It’s a noisy wake up this morning as someone has decide that across the road is the perfect place to have a construction site. Loads of banging, crashing and shouting. Looking out of the window and Carnegie Hall is now obscured by a safety enclosure inside which, I expect, a very small hole will be dug, left for a week in order to fill with litter, and then filled in.
The so called FMAD must have been just a meal too far for my delicate disposition (I usually only do TMAD) and the wheel of confusion, heartache and sorrow confusingly got extremely upset by the whole deal and spat it’s dummy out with a loud 6.3.

A reunion of sorts today. Friends coming over by train for a day’s catch up.

Have a great day if you can, ponder on whether FMAD could include a four or a five if you can’t. FLA’a can be so baffling. AS AR.
 
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Don't TLA's just pea you orf.
 
@ianpspurs thanks for the info re IF. I am going to try breakfast late say 10 or 11 (of course thats not always going to be practical and eat main meal at 6pm. My DP keeps on rising if I dont have something and the evening meal is just going to be tinged by the loss of eating with OH at 8pm. We will be like ships that pass....etc.
I was interested that you were trying to make your HBA1c and testing square up. That isn't something I have had to worry about so far thanks to the Codefree. I am not convinced the HBa1c is a good marker anyway. I suppose its not going to get any easier this woe what with ageing etc in the mix. I defo do not do enough exercise unless you count cleaning windows, raking leaves. Btw magnolia tree is centre of front lawn and house is on the market. Finally, one of my red lines is never put cream in tea, just wrong! Best wishes to you all.
 
Good morning all,
4.9 for me today.


I'm sure you'll d be fine after it's over.

Yes, there MAY be a genetic component but not always. If you show a family pattern especially in close relatives (which we do with me and and my mom) - then there probably is a genetic component.

My mom has NO family history of any cancer of any kind at all and NONE of the lifestyle risk factors. None of her family have ever had any cancer of any kind to our knowledge. Hers is considered a random occurrence without any genetic predisposition. A colonscopy would have caught her polyp in time before it became cancer (like mine was caught), certainly before it reached stage 3. Usually it takes 10 years for this rare dangerous kind of polyp to become cancer, colon cancer is usually slow growing. This is why screening (a colonscopy) is so important, it really prevents cancer (they remove any polyps found during the colonscopy, it's painless and most people sleep through this). The vast majority of polyps that people have are totally harmless and never will become cancer. Polyps become more common as you get older which is why they suggest colonscopies for most people after age 50 or so. Only a very tiny percentage of people will ever have the surgery I had.

Their current theory is that when my mom was conceived, a copy error was made in cell division and this copy error in her DNA predisposed her to form those rare dangerous polyps. None of us including her knew she carried this error, this has only been realized as a result of her history and my history. Unfortunately I probably inherited this copy error since I also form this same kind of rare dangerous type of polyp. Ironically one of my dangerous polyps was in the exact same spot as her cancer, at the top of the colon where they' have no symptoms at all and where before colonscopies they were impossible to detect. Every year as they discover new genes linked to colon cancer risk and they test me for these newly discovered genes but our mutation may be rare and possibly unique to our family and they haven't identified it yet. So far, I've tested negative for about 7 genes linked to colon cancer risk.

If and when they do find a gene, my daughter and sister will be tested for it (if my sister also has the gene, then her children will also be tested). In the meantime, my daughter, sister and I have colonscopies more frequently than other people because of our high risk factor.
 
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Glad you're in McGarrett-land while still on that other beach!
 

I'm interested to read what you think about the HBa1c. It's encouraging to me. And about aging -- that's similar to what I've been thinking about BP as well.
 
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