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

shelley262 said:
Good morning all
5.7 this am another in a run of high ones for me - it’s not bad food choices as very low carb again over past few days it’s simply stress I think so I’m bringing out the stress management tools again today and hoping for some more level days.
Hope everyone has a good Sunday - I’ve got an online food delivery later but I’m also determined to do a very long walk in the forest - I believe from something I read that the Japanese call walking in the forest ‘ forest bathing ‘ for its calming experience and I always find it helpful. We are very very lucky as although we don’t have the sea nearby like some of you such as @OrsonKartt - whose morning beach walks for coffee I envy - but a very large forest starts 2 mins from our house. I take a flask of coffee with me and perch on a tree trunk !
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Sounds like that is going to be just the tonic :-) enjoy. Hopefully things will calm down now with Christmas and birthdays behind you. Your reading is still great @shelley262
 
Goonergal said:
I’m with you on the generally being active bit and that’s the foundation for me. So enjoy walking and just look for opportunities to fit it in wherever I can. I use the gym for weights - i.e. equipment and activity that I can’t do for free elsewhere and I do enjoy it once there! Am lucky to have joined a new gym when it opened and got a staggeringly cheap (especially for London) monthly rate of £12.99 so figure its worth holding onto, especially as the gym is open 24 hours so it fits in with my ridiculously early starts. And I did make it this morning....



Thanks for the encouragement. Can only aspire to your levels of activity.
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What a bargain!!! I might even be tempted at that price:)
 
dogslife said:
Morning all. Up again to 8.1. No proper meals yesterday just bits and bobs of snacks on the go including some carby ingredients. :( Really hungry and an uncomfortable tum this morning.:happy: At home all day today so should have more control over what I eat. Enjoy the rest of the weekend folks.:)
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Hope you are ok
 
Goonergal said:
I’m with you on the generally being active bit and that’s the foundation for me. So enjoy walking and just look for opportunities to fit it in wherever I can. I use the gym for weights - i.e. equipment and activity that I can’t do for free elsewhere and I do enjoy it once there! Am lucky to have joined a new gym when it opened and got a staggeringly cheap (especially for London) monthly rate of £12.99 so figure its worth holding onto, especially as the gym is open 24 hours so it fits in with my ridiculously early starts. And I did make it this morning....



Thanks for the encouragement. Can only aspire to your levels of activity.
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I have actually reduced my activity as I am bio-hacking. I am found so far my max for fasting should be just 2 days as I loose muscle mass after this, so this is locked in for me, I am honing the mix of sleep, additional protein (via meat / fish), cardio and resistance training, and loving this n of 1 testing.
 
Goonergal said:
I’m with you on the generally being active bit and that’s the foundation for me. So enjoy walking and just look for opportunities to fit it in wherever I can. I use the gym for weights - i.e. equipment and activity that I can’t do for free elsewhere and I do enjoy it once there! Am lucky to have joined a new gym when it opened and got a staggeringly cheap (especially for London) monthly rate of £12.99 so figure its worth holding onto, especially as the gym is open 24 hours so it fits in with my ridiculously early starts. And I did make it this morning....


... £12.99 sounds like a bargain, and gyms are so clean and warm .
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Mbaker said:
I have actually reduced my activity as I am bio-hacking. I am found so far my max for fasting should be just 2 days as I loose muscle mass after this, so this is locked in for me, I am honing the mix of sleep, additional protein (via meat / fish), cardio and resistance training, and loving this n of 1 testing.
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Finding out what works as an individual is a long term project I'm finding. I'm a skinny so and so and I find a 24 hour fast challenging at this stage of the project.
 
No numbers as I am determined to have a break and focus on 1 pillar at a time which seems @Mbaker like and highly sensible. Slept until 9.40 today so that has been a year long target hit. @Goonergal great price for gym membership and I assume you walk. The fees are one thing but the faff of driving to and from is too much. I have bought all the equipment I would use - exercise bike, rowing machine, weight machine, free weights, dumbells, kettleballs, bags - so I can go when I want e.g. Christmas day. (Key piece of equipment is big tv and sky q - hours of American Civil War docs, great NFL games and similar) Maybe an idea for you @OrsonKartt once all work is done but splitting logs beats the lot.
Long post but I do agree with the deconstruct and analyse approach - that is January's aim.
 
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5.6 after a late start. I’ve been reading a book for days and suddenly got into it last night so had to stay up til I’d finished it, after 2am.
@shelley262 ‘forest bathing’ even sounds relaxing. Don’t think about the mud.
@Goonergal that is a fantastic price fot a gym - even here in the sticks it’s £34 and only open 6-10.
 
Good morning all,
4.6 for me.

I did my weekly weigh in as well. I lost another 2.4 lbs (1.09 kg) this past week.

With this loss, I'm finally under 200 lbs at 197.8 lbs (89.72) for the first time in over 32 years :)

My total loss so far is 75.79 lbs (34.38 kg) or 5 stone 5.79 My BMI has gone from 48.0 to 34.0
 
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Hello all -- a bit late posting today. Late night, slept in and then lazed around. So, quite a successful day so far I would say.

@Goonergal -- a really good deal on the gym membership. I am with @ianpspurs on this, though, I enjoy the ease of a workout at home. Have bought a refurbished professional elliptical trainer several years ago, which is giving me a good workout most days.

@Freema, @OrsonKartt and @Charis1213 -- I am a bit envious of living close to the beach -- I grew up close to the ocean, but now it's quite a long drive from where I live. @Charis1213 -- Great job on the progress with your blood sugars.

@shelley262 -- Sounds like a very busy and stressful week. Hope you can take some time out to relax.

Blood sugars this morning were 5.1.

Have a great Sunday, all.
 
@shelley262 "forest bathing" is a lovely expression. I had never heard of it before but I think I know what it is like ... that is a perfect way of describing the day I spent in the woods last time I was in England. Just me and the trees, and occasionally other people, some with dogs. A wonderful day.

I have happily spent time tromping around in horse pastures too, one misty Christmas Eve I was out checking on a friend's horse, all layered up from wellies to hat with ear flaps. I love tromping around in the mud among horses all snug with their round bales and turnout blankets.

It is a five-hour drive from here to the "nearest" beach and very pricey to stay once you get there. But the ocean is worth it, and I love road trips.
 
I have always until recently lived by the sea it's what I miss the most now being in the midlands when I lived in Plymouth had the Sea or Dartmoor to choose from every day of the week could walk on a beach in the morning and treck Dartmoor in the afternoon or evening or visa versa.
 
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