Will I drop or will I rise? Play the game now!

Nicola M said:

This is like playing a game of how long is a piece of string nonetheless still fun though to try and predict diabetes!

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If you have no idea what you're doing you can at least have a bit of fun with it!

And fall or rise (or that one vote that I'll stay magically level), I'll simply deal with it. And it being a 6 week course, I'm likely to get better at managing over the weeks.

Paul_ said:

The person voting this is the type of person who bets everything on 0 when playing roulette in a casino!

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And here I thought someone really expected diabetes to behave perfectly!

RoughcutAU said:

This of course coming from someone that just a decent walk drops my BGL significantly.

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Same for me. As is true for swimming/playing in the water up to being slightly out of breath or even a little more. But not for serious exercise in the gym.
So the question is, will my body count this as water play (drop) or gym (rise)?

RoughcutAU said:

Ohhh I like this one.

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So do I!
Whatever happens on monday morning, lots of fun has been had already with this thread!

Zhnyaka said:

my bet: a drop of 3 points

just because my coach once started bringing candy to my workouts

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What a nice coach!

I'll put my Libre reader and an apple on the side of the pool where I can reach it without having to get out of the water.
The reader will be pretty useless for absolute numbers because it A: reads too low anyway and B: is too slow to catch sharp drops or rises. But it will likely be able to tell me if something is going on where I need a slight nudge up with my apple or have to get out to do a double check with a fingerprick.

becca59 said:

Shall think about you when I’m doing my 45 min crawl tomorrow morning @Antje77. Enjoy!

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Thanks!
Can you crawl for 45 minutes? How?

My crawl now doesn't look to bad (I think), but doing just one lap leaves me out of breath. I'm not the fittest, but I'm a pretty decent swimmer otherwise so my thinking is that the issue is lack of technique.
When I see other people do front crawl lap after lap there always seems to be a steady rhythm I never found; for me it feels like doing a funny thing to see if I can manage for a whole lap, not much different from doing a lap swimming backwards, or a lap with an arm and a leg hooked in those of a friend. Great fun, but not real swimming.

JoKalsbeek said:

Do put the apple in a container, you don't want it to get Athletes' foot (Zwemmerseczeem).

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I've never even had zwemmerseczeem on my feet while going barefoot during all my PE lessons in school, and pretty much everywhere else too, so my apple can fend for itself on the dirty edge of the pool.


The results are pretty boring, which is of course good from a diabetes point of view but somewhat disappointing in the light of this thread.
All results below are fingerpricks.

9:30 5.4 (Upon waking, took 2 units for FOTF instead of the 6 I would have taken without swimming.)
10:55 6.9 (Right before swimming.)
11:55 4.4 (Right after getting out.)
12:40 5.1
13:30 4.7

16:15 3.7 (Not sure if this one's still relevant here. Was out all day and forgot to bring something to eat, so at this point I had my first meal.)

So initially I dropped by 2.5 points, followed by a rise of 0.7.
After that I kept dropping slowly until hypo, over 4 hours after my swim.

So everyone who voted drop, congratulations, you've won!

Special mentions for:
@DEBBIESCOTT , who was very close with predicting a fall of 2.6.
@RoughcutAU , who predicted a drop of 2.1 which must have happened between my 12:40 and 13:30 readings.

@Zhnyaka and @Hopeful34 were pretty close as well.

And of course there's an extra prize for the 3 people who voted I'd stay magically level for friendliness and hopefulness!

Thanks everyone for joining in on this lighthearted thread on serious diabetes management!