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

5.4 today..


ianpspurs said:
. Also, those weight and body fat numbers nail the idea that weight and fat are all that explain T2.
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I realize that weight is not a big issue for all Type 2s but for me and others I know it has been. My numbers are posted not to say that it explains Type 2 but because it's been a struggle for me to get closer to a normal weight for 50 years. For many of us, it is IS a big factor.

Carrying over a 100 extra lbs has had a big impact on me. Every single medical professional I've ever dealt with all of my life has told me about the risk of my morbid obesity to my heart, my joints and my body in general. I have tried unsuccessfully for 50 years to lose it.

Now I've lost a lot of it, I find daily living so much easier, going for walks, going up and down stairs, even bending down to pick up things off the floor. Do I have the body and fitness of a 25 year old? Obviously not but I am healthier now than I have been in many years.

I'm strongly considering not posting here anymore because of this negative judgmental comment that applies to my signature and my posts..
 
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Very different from what a "teachers' rest room" means over here. Here it is a teachers' lounge where you go for coffee, chat, and to lounge -- a rest room is just what I think y'all call a toilet -- it would certainly have at least one in it.



I charted at 6.4 this morning, and on this sunny day y'all have got me thinking of a little advertising jingle that also racked up a 9 on the charts:

 
@Chronicle_Cat you have achieved so much and only someone who has walked in your shoes understands just how hard that has been. I sincerely hope that you will stay with us.
 
This to me is the most friendly and supportive thread on the forum. HOWEVER there is a little bit of disquiet creeping in and I dont like it. I know it is about posting FBG with chat but that chat should be anything that we want it to be. There is such variance between our individual levels, aims, HBA1c, diet, damage, side effects, levels of carbs that we are happy with and so many other things that Diabetis throws at us. Whether we are aiming lower, struggling with higher, have weight to lose or weight to conserve lets all be friendly and tolerant. Best wishes.
 
I hope you don't think my post was judgemental regarding your signature. It was meant in exactly the opposite - for people not to get into a blame game. Please don't leave this thread and if you took my post as pointing that way I will happily delete it.
 
johnpol said:
) and have broken my little toe!! Cue lots and lots of swearing and a blackened toe nail and a very swollen toe!! Oh how I laughed!
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Ouch john...I've broken several toes...painful and there's nothing much you can do with them!
 

I've seen the disquiet too, @PenguinMum , I don't like it either.
 
Chronicle_Cat said:
I'm strongly considering not posting here anymore because of this negative judgmental comment that applies to my signature and my posts..
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CC I had another read of the post that offended you...there is a lot of ambiguity in it however I think it is meaning that weight is not the only determining factor in T2 diabetes...often we are portrayed as lazy obese sloths who bring this on ourselves therefore it's somehow deserved (by those who know little about it possibly Daily Mail readers...apologies in advance to any D>Mail readers here.)..there are other factors in developing T2 such as a genetic pre-disposition... a family history...while not very subtle I don't think the post was aimed at you or anyone else here...or meant to be accusatory...it looks like a misunderstanding to me...please don't take it personally.
 
Rightly or wrongly I assume as @Chronicle_Cat quoted my post it was mine that offended. I hope I am always supportive of your amazing weight loss CC and highly impressed by your bg control. My personal journey has been LC is very effective for weight loss but disappointing for bg control and anything else. As per an earlier post I was tying to highlight that many factors other than weight contribute to T2 - the popular UK view is blind to anything other than weight. Hope that helps clarify things. I enjoy reading of your and any other member's progress in losing weight and the palpable benefits to your wellness and wellbeing that brings.
 
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@Chronicle_Cat I would be sorry to see you leave the thread.

I've just spent several minutes scrolling up and down through it, and rereading @ianpspurs post, and I didn't see anything in his post that gave me any idea it was directed at you or at anyone else.

I wish I could lose more weight, as you have. Losing weight has helped bring my BP down.
 
Chronicle_Cat said:
Apparently I'm NOT welcome to post about my weight anymore...
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I don't understand! For what reason @Chronicle_Cat ? So many on here do the same, me for one until I reached my goal. I felt amazing and wanted to share my success. And weight loss info is in the signatures of so many forum members so I dont get it!! Who has said that?

Isn't it wonderful for you 1) to have an online record 2) to show how effective this way of eating can be not just for controlling blood sugars and 3) as an inspiration to others.

I love to see your results and look forward to your updates.
 
@ianpspurs like you I found LC very effective for weight loss. In my case it also helped my BG numbers, bringing my A1C down 20 points in 10 months. But -- like your "anything else" -- it didn't lower my BP numbers, and it didn't help my cholesterol numbers at all. So I quit it.

I started trying a modified version of the DASH diet. Now my BP is nice and low, the lowest it's been in 6 1/2 years of checking it and taking BP meds. And my A1C only went up a couple of points.
 
Bubbsie said:
Ouch john...I've broken several toes...painful and there's nothing much you can do with them!
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Its more painful when I wear my shoes, but slippers are frowned upon at work so I just sit in agony (just looking for sympathy now)
 
johnpol said:
Its more painful when I wear my shoes, but slippers are frowned upon at work so I just sit in agony (just looking for sympathy now)
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I wore sandals. The kind with the thong between your toes and just enough leather to hold the sole to your foot. It wasn't exactly the sort of fashion statement that workplace was about, but they let me do it. I didn't have to meet members of the public or anything, just run the student library.
 
johnpol said:
Its more painful when I wear my shoes, but slippers are frowned upon at work so I just sit in agony (just looking for sympathy now)
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Take your shoes off john...there's not much you can do for a broken toe but it's important to keep them straight & supported...the last time I did it I broke my big toe and the one next to it...they have been difficult since then...take your shoes off...they should be flexible & grateful you went into work TBH.
 
It is such a shame that the thread is being derailed for what appears to be a misunderstanding.
The thread is for recording fasting blood glucose, and has allowance for a bit of chat, too. My understanding of that is that posts should state fasting BG, and for those who wish to have a couple of sentences sharing chat about whatever they choose. (Within the spirit and ethos of forum, of course).
Which brings me to a little moderator reminder of forum rule A6:

‘This is a Forum of many different personalities – if you disagree with someone then start a constructive debate or use the Private Message (PM) system to have a conversation. It is unhelpful to have to read miles of disagreeing posts, and can deflect from the purpose of the thread (i.e. thread derailing).’

Please stay on topic folks, and save me from the need to get out the big eraser.

Edit: Of course if anyone is seeing posts that are not made within the community ethos and forum rules, https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/community-ethos-forum-rules.50278/, there is the report button.
 
Pipp said:
if you disagree with someone then start a constructive debate or use the Private Message (PM) system to have a conversation
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I believe this issue has started a constructive debate, evident by the responses posted which hardly constitute 'miles of disagreeing posts'.
 
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