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

5.8 today. Pleased it is within the 5's but absolutely no idea why. Wished I knew what has bought about the recent lows as I would continue the same routine but nothing has changed for me during past weeks. Just like the unexplained and annoying highs we all experience I am having similar unexplained lows which on the face of it is good but need to know why in order to make it sustainable.
 
Ryhia said:
6.5 today. I need some tips on how to lose some weight. I lost 35 kilos in the first year after diagnosis but for the past couple of years I have been living with anxiety and my weight is just going up and up. I've put on 10 kilos and gone up 2 dress sizes. This weight gain needs to stop as it makes me uncomfortable I feel it does have a negative impact on blood sugars. However I can't remember what I did to achieve the weight loss in the first place it seemed it was done without effort. I do remember being careful what I ate and being very motivated and the weight just dropped off. I am still very careful what I eat it's just the motivation I'm struggling with. Losing weight this time round is going to take much more effort.
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Have you tried increase activity levels maybe take up regular swimming? Lots of walks maybe will help too especially if just after meals it will likely have advantage of muscles using some of that glucose up. If you have a smart watch/fitness app on your mobile calc the carbs you eat a day and try aim activities to use more than you eat should help. Application for mobile device 'carbs and cals' should help gl
 
Ryhia said:
6.5 today. I need some tips on how to lose some weight. I lost 35 kilos in the first year after diagnosis but for the past couple of years I have been living with anxiety and my weight is just going up and up. I've put on 10 kilos and gone up 2 dress sizes. This weight gain needs to stop as it makes me uncomfortable I feel it does have a negative impact on blood sugars. However I can't remember what I did to achieve the weight loss in the first place it seemed it was done without effort. I do remember being careful what I ate and being very motivated and the weight just dropped off. I am still very careful what I eat it's just the motivation I'm struggling with. Losing weight this time round is going to take much more effort.
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Hi @Ryhia
Your story mirrors mine at the moment
early 2018 diagnosed and initially hit the ground running.. loosely followed the 8 week blood sugar diet book by mike mosley and the weight fell off ,found this forum and posted fbs on this and the low chat one and also posted weight on Friday weigh in (or something like that)
the weight loss made me more motivated and fitter to work /exercise
Not sure what made me fall off the waggon but stopped testing exercising and weighing myself bit of depression i guess as well
I've looked back on posts from 2018/19
My morning fbs were 5s and 6s mainly
And now 7s and 8s
I'm now only working part-time mainly
Following fast till 11ish , mainly low carb
I manage to be around the 6s before evening meal , don't test before bed
I remember you posting back then as well.
I think the seven years we've added to the total must also make things harder!
 
Diawara said:
Hi @Ryhia
Your story mirrors mine at the moment
early 2018 diagnosed and initially hit the ground running.. loosely followed the 8 week blood sugar diet book by mike mosley and the weight fell off ,found this forum and posted fbs on this and the low chat one and also posted weight on Friday weigh in (or something like that)
the weight loss made me more motivated and fitter to work /exercise
Not sure what made me fall off the waggon but stopped testing exercising and weighing myself bit of depression i guess as well
I've looked back on posts from 2018/19
My morning fbs were 5s and 6s mainly
And now 7s and 8s
I'm now only working part-time mainly
Following fast till 11ish , mainly low carb
I manage to be around the 6s before evening meal , don't test before bed
I remember you posting back then as well.
I think the seven years we've added to the total must also make things harder!
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Added to say since the heady days of 2020 93.5 kg
Now back to 115 kg
 
5.0 Dexcom, 5.3 blood prick
Good numbers again, super happy with that. For the past four days my glucose number throughout the day are significantly lower than “normal”. I used to sit in the sixes, always and now it’s the fives, and usually low fives. Lots of 4’s yesterday too. I keep double checking with blood pricks and they are always pretty close. Don’t know why, the only thing I’ve done differently is bike riding instead of walking at the gym. Eating is very low carb but I have had a bite of nectarine here and there, a few nuts and some pickles.
I am anticipating it to return to my normal, but love these numbers right now!
 
grantg said:
Have you tried increase activity levels maybe take up regular swimming? Lots of walks maybe will help too especially if just after meals it will likely have advantage of muscles using some of that glucose up. If you have a smart watch/fitness app on your mobile calc the carbs you eat a day and try aim activities to use more than you eat should help. Application for mobile device 'carbs and cals' should help gl
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Thank you for responding with your helpful suggestions. As regards walking, I used to walk a lot more that I do at the moment. I am just carrying a bit of a leg strain at present. I walked too far one day and started having pain behind my knee. Doc reckoned it is hamstring tendonitis and he told me to rest it. I was trying to walk through the pain which was making things worse. I am on the mend now though so I am gradually increasing the amount of walking I am doing.

As regards swimming, I used to swim regularly many years ago but got out of the habit, when i tried to take it up again for health reasons, I found I was totally out of practice and could hardly swim a breadth. So was having to learn again. I also have neck issues which made it very uncomfortable for me. I could only comfortably manage back crawl or old English breast stroke but I couldn't see where i was going and I kept bumping into people. I had to give it up as a bad job just too dangerous for the other swimmers around me.

Diet: I try to stick to around 10gms carbs per meal but admit I sometimes snack over and above. I probably need to start writing everything down to gain better control, I do wonder if I could be eating too much protein as well which may be converting to glucose, I'm investigating that one. Anyway thank you again for responding.
 
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