• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

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

I had the same and gave up finger 5s 6s and Libre 15s 10s off the scale. Drove me nuts with a sore arm and really down thinking I was a failure. Just not for me.
 
Morning All. Very pleased with a 6.6 but no reason whatsoever, nothing different to any other day. @Pipp I find the Libre useful for trends and always wear one when on holiday (when available food might be unknown) , am currently on the last day of one. This one has generally measured lower than finger pricks whereas previous ones were higher. I agree wouldn’t rely on it all the time. It has never hurt on my outside upper arm. Have a great day everyone.
 
8.1 - Roast Chicken dinner - 2 roasties and two Roasted Parsons! Oh yeah, a new drug, Tramadol. Totally numbed the searing breast pain, which means I can get better sleeping healing.

Lubberly day out there, gonna catch some Rays.
 
8.1 - Roast Chicken dinner - 2 roasties and two Roasted Parsons! Oh yeah, a new drug, Tramadol. Totally numbed the searing breast pain, which means I can get better sleeping healing.

Lubberly day out there, gonna catch some Rays.
Hope you didn't eat the noses - nor dog collars Excellent news on the Tramadol effect for sleep.
 
Last edited:
Morning all, fbg 6.8 and bed was 6.0 . Did a treadmill run yesterday and 1hr post had a 4.1 so something is working just my fasting that's annoying. Enjoy your day folks
So does your BG go down after exercise? Mine actually goes up, sometimes as much as a meal spike, and stays up for some time. 4.1 is enviable at any time, I have yet to achieve that even fasting.
 
So does your BG go down after exercise? Mine actually goes up, sometimes as much as a meal spike, and stays up for some time. 4.1 is enviable at any time, I have yet to achieve that even fasting.
For me , walking , running, cycling drops my levels but weights has opposite effect.
 
So does your BG go down after exercise? Mine actually goes up, sometimes as much as a meal spike, and stays up for some time. 4.1 is enviable at any time, I have yet to achieve that even fasting.
We are all different if my BG goes under mid 4's I feel really ill ...so for me around the 5 mark is a happy number .... not that I have had one recently .Also about an hr after exercise ie a long walk my BG drops .
 
FBG 5.9 this morning - Definitely still a work in progress.

So I had a Dr Atkins low carb protein bar for lunch, supposedly 2.7 gms of digestible carbs - bloods were 5.4 before lunch - it was a new food to me so thought I would test after an hour, forgot and just tested now after 2 hours - bloods 7.7!! dread to think what they would have been after an hour. I guess its no more Dr Atkins bars for me.
A couple of places we go to lunch with our seniors group I have had a talk with the staff to have a meal for me. I am vegan and eat low carb so usually they will do a nice salad or vegetables for me.
When I cook lunch for my 20 lunch club clients I have tried to encourage them to tell me what they like or don't like. For example, I have someone who doesn't like chicken but does happily with a vegetarian meal or salmon that day. We have another couple of people who don't eat pork so I will do a substitute for that as well. So long as I know in advance that they are attending I am happy to prepare something else. Probably the only person I don't accommodate is a guy who is diabetic and whilst I have offered to cook low carb for him, when I went to the effort to do that, he ate the low carb option, then went back for seconds to eat the carby stuff followed by a very sugary dessert. He just gets the same as everyone else now.
 
Last edited:
Yep some people you just can’t help, when they don’t bother themselves. I would be loving to eat at your restaurant.
 
I understand it can be hard. I broke out and had chips with a vegan schnitzel and salad for lunch at the club yesterday. I did make it my only meal for the day and just had some mixed nuts for a snack in the evening..
 
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn More.…