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What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)
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pavlosn
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Just back from my morning walk, 6 km today in 58 minutes, bringing my total distance for the month to 191 km; that 200km target is within touching distance now, hopefully tomorrow!
As it usually does, the walk helped improve my glucose levels from 5,9 mmol/l fastilng down to 5,5 before breakfast.
Carrying on with the horticultural theme of recent photographs, here is a photo from my own garden featuring the spectacularly spikey yucca rostruta.
I have a fondness for palms and other exotic looking plants so I managed to collect a few in the garden. Not everything I plant survives our climate but I try!
Enjoy the weekend everyone!
Pavlos
As it usually does, the walk helped improve my glucose levels from 5,9 mmol/l fastilng down to 5,5 before breakfast.
Carrying on with the horticultural theme of recent photographs, here is a photo from my own garden featuring the spectacularly spikey yucca rostruta.
I have a fondness for palms and other exotic looking plants so I managed to collect a few in the garden. Not everything I plant survives our climate but I try!
Enjoy the weekend everyone!
Pavlos
karen8967
Master
Do you really want an answer to that mr d
karen8967
Master
Morning...after five attempts at resetting my password I've finally managed to log in...if I hear the phrase 'your password is incorrect' one more time'...perhaps I should change my password to incorrect...one way to remember it...woke to a 5.5.
Ymdawd
Well-Known Member
Just back from my morning walk, 6 km today in 58 minutes, bringing my total distance for the month to 191 km; that 200km target is within touching distance now, hopefully tomorrow!
As it usually does, the walk helped improve my glucose levels from 5,9 mmol/l fastilng down to 5,5 before breakfast.
Carrying on with the horticultural theme of recent photographs, here is a photo from my own garden featuring the spectacularly spikey yucca rostruta.
I have a fondness for palms and other exotic looking plants so I managed to collect a few in the garden. Not everything I plant survives our climate but I try!
Enjoy the weekend everyone!
Pavlos
Have to admit Pavlosin that i look forward to your photos every morning. It sure brightens up my day. Thank you
Kentoldlady1
Well-Known Member
Morning all. I.was 6.4 at 05.45. But I had been awake for a while before that. If you should see a headline saying "old kent lady arrested for murdering her snoring husband" you will know why I have had to stop posting.
Kentoldlady1
Well-Known Member
Just back from my morning walk, 6 km today in 58 minutes, bringing my total distance for the month to 191 km; that 200km target is within touching distance now, hopefully tomorrow!
As it usually does, the walk helped improve my glucose levels from 5,9 mmol/l fastilng down to 5,5 before breakfast.
Carrying on with the horticultural theme of recent photographs, here is a photo from my own garden featuring the spectacularly spikey yucca rostruta.
I have a fondness for palms and other exotic looking plants so I managed to collect a few in the garden. Not everything I plant survives our climate but I try!
Enjoy the weekend everyone!
Pavlos
Your garden looks fab!!! I really love your photos each day.
Cumberland
Master
Good morning peeps
5.9
Have a nice weekend and just in case you have not been reminded the clocks go back one hour at 02.00 in the early hours of Sunday morning
5.9
Have a nice weekend and just in case you have not been reminded the clocks go back one hour at 02.00 in the early hours of Sunday morning
Jodiej1913
Well-Known Member
Morning everyone how are you all today. My big this morning was 8.0
Freema
Expert
6.0 at 10:00
My latest HbA1c was 34 , and I am so happy with that But now my GP wants me off metformin and I know my levels will be much higher then , and I cant eat this level of carbs anymore as I do now , I am so sad because I found it so wonderfull that I have been able to eat around 200 grams of carbs daily and have space for some wonderful treats of the sinful kinds ... hmm I did convince her to let me stay on metformin another 4 month But then she’ll take me off or lower me to take only 1 pill of 850 mg ... she also wanted med to down in levothyroxine again and seems to not care that metformin can make thyroxin stimulating hormon too low creating a false picture of how high the bodies metabolism rate is ...
I am not pleased because this will also highten my general blood glucose. So it seems I need to go lower in carbs and because of much raised cholesterol I also need to go lower fat , it seems an unrealistic road to go leaving space only for more proteins which I am already high in
My latest HbA1c was 34 , and I am so happy with that But now my GP wants me off metformin and I know my levels will be much higher then , and I cant eat this level of carbs anymore as I do now , I am so sad because I found it so wonderfull that I have been able to eat around 200 grams of carbs daily and have space for some wonderful treats of the sinful kinds ... hmm I did convince her to let me stay on metformin another 4 month But then she’ll take me off or lower me to take only 1 pill of 850 mg ... she also wanted med to down in levothyroxine again and seems to not care that metformin can make thyroxin stimulating hormon too low creating a false picture of how high the bodies metabolism rate is ...
I am not pleased because this will also highten my general blood glucose. So it seems I need to go lower in carbs and because of much raised cholesterol I also need to go lower fat , it seems an unrealistic road to go leaving space only for more proteins which I am already high in
Kentoldlady1
Well-Known Member
I am having exactly the same argument with my gp about metformin and levo. She didnt even know that there was an interaction and was not interested when I told her that there was a problem, just insisted that she knew what she was doing. She told me that my problems with onging hypothyroidism symptoms was down to chronic fatigue syndrome. I did manage to get a referral to an endo from her, but I think they will cancel.it.
It is so depressing when we really do.know more than the gp but they refuse to admit they have got it wrong.
Freema
Expert
Yes both depressing and anoying hmm
ziggy_w
Well-Known Member
Good morning all. Blood sugars were 4.8 today.
Looking forward to a very nice dinner tonight at a place called "Wine on the Rhine" for an early birthday celebration. If we are up to it and provided that we will be able to keep our eyes open until midnight, we will go for a drink afterwards. I remember there was a time when it wasn't a problem to stay up until all hours.
@Freema -- Congrats on your great Hba1c -- really well done. By the way, did you have a look at Keto Dave's video. He did a lot of self-experimentation (and also collected data from others) and seems to believe that the more fat we had in the three days prior to your cholesterol test, the lower our cholesterol numbers. It is really a fascinating watch. So, maybe the relationship between eating fat and cholesterol is more complex than we think (provided that higher cholesterol numbers are even really a problem). Also, some forum members report that they have seen a positive impact when they substituted some of the animal fats with olive oil.
Looking forward to a very nice dinner tonight at a place called "Wine on the Rhine" for an early birthday celebration. If we are up to it and provided that we will be able to keep our eyes open until midnight, we will go for a drink afterwards. I remember there was a time when it wasn't a problem to stay up until all hours.
@Freema -- Congrats on your great Hba1c -- really well done. By the way, did you have a look at Keto Dave's video. He did a lot of self-experimentation (and also collected data from others) and seems to believe that the more fat we had in the three days prior to your cholesterol test, the lower our cholesterol numbers. It is really a fascinating watch. So, maybe the relationship between eating fat and cholesterol is more complex than we think (provided that higher cholesterol numbers are even really a problem). Also, some forum members report that they have seen a positive impact when they substituted some of the animal fats with olive oil.
