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Group 7-day waking average?

Spireite72 said:
Good morning 4.6 becoming my regular morning fasting figure. off swimming today my rehab team are encouraging my to do as much exercise as I can now.
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You can do some of mine Spireite
 
Vince_UK said:
Good Morning Everyone.

Codefree say 5.8
At 7.10 am.
Taken when up.
Lie in this morning, getting old.
Coffee ready.

Will take the Chinese to the airport then in the words of William Wallace “FREEEEEEEEDOOOOOM”.
Take care everyone and have a great day.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway
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You'll miss them when they've gone Vince...you know you will.😉
 
Kaylz said:
Morning folks 🙂
Awful night, neighbours making a racket, sounded like they were pogo sticking around the house, woke up at 5:30 with a really sore back then fell sound asleep for an hour until the alarm went off 🙄
6.8 for me this morning
Have a lovely Sunday peeps and Happy Fathers Day to all the dads on here hope you are all getting spoilt rotten 🙂 xx
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Asked my youngest Archie if I got breakfast in bed today. Answer “No” so I asked why and reminded him it was Father’s Day. Answer “yes I know but you’re not lazy” couldn’t really find an answer to that one 🙂
 
Good morning everyone. Ribble Valley covered in wet looking cloud, normal for Lancashire. Doesn’t stop me sitting on the balcony, which is covered, drinking a coffee and bumping up the morning 4.9 with Brekkie. Well, brunch. It’s Sunday, no kitchen fitters, all peace and quiet, and no worries.

Except for footie. Great game between Argentina and Iceland, and well done the commentator for not laughing at the Icelanders names. everyone on Iceland has to have a patronymic, so they are all somebodyorotherson. And most of the players made Messi look like a dwarf.

That’ll be the rest of the day sorted then...
 
mikeyB said:
Good morning everyone. Ribble Valley covered in wet looking cloud, normal for Lancashire. Doesn’t stop me sitting on the balcony, which is covered, drinking a coffee and bumping up the morning 4.9 with Brekkie. Well, brunch. It’s Sunday, no kitchen fitters, all peace and quiet, and no worries.

Except for footie. Great game between Argentina and Iceland, and well done the commentator for not laughing at the Icelanders names. everyone on Iceland has to have a patronymic, so they are all somebodyorotherson. And most of the players made Messi look like a dwarf.

That’ll be the rest of the day sorted then...
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Living the Mediterranean balcony lifestyle in the Ribble Valley Mike. Can’t be bad! 😛
 
9.9 after late night hypo. Another grey wet day and off to a rowing regatta with my daughter. Usually love these but just not in the mood to get soaked today:(
 
Just tested again and it's now 11.3.Crazy!
 
Edgar said:
Just tested again and it's now 11.3.Crazy!
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Hi Edgar, do you test in the evenings at all, either before you go to bed, or two hours after you evening meal? It might help narrow down what's happening. You could be high before bed, and you're actually falling a bit during the night, or if you're at a reasonable level before bed, it could,be the Dawn Phenomenon, when your liver starts putting glucose into the system from about 4am to gear up for the coming day. Until you know what might be causing it, it's difficult to address the problem. ( and if you're really keen and want to take it a stage further, setting an alarm for 3am and testing to see what's going on overnight might be an option. Or investing in a Libre to give you a complete overnight trace)
 
I test when I get up then two hours after breakfast and then before I go to bed. My main meal is at lunchtime and I just have a snack in the evening.
 
Edgar said:
I test when I get up then two hours after breakfast and then before I go to bed. My main meal is at lunchtime and I just have a snack in the evening.
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What do you have for breakfast? What do you snack on in the evening? x
 
Breakfast varies but this morning I had porridge with an orange in it and a slice of homemade granary bread with whole earth peanut butter and a glass of tomato juice. Tonight I'll have some soup with a slice of dry bread
 
Edgar said:
Breakfast varies but this morning I had porridge with an orange in it and a slice of homemade granary bread with whole earth peanut butter and a glass of tomato juice. Tonight I'll have some soup with a slice of dry bread
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I wouldn't be surprised at all with the levels your experiencing then to be honest, that's not meant nastily but we've explained before that many diabetics don't cope well with porridge at all, let alone adding fruit, a slice of bread and a glass of tomato juice, do you count the amount of carbs you consume? Do you weigh your portion of porridge? Fruit? Measure your glass of tomato juice etc? xx
 
I do measure the porridge and i also have the recommended measure of tomato juice which I have every day. I must admit I don't count the carbs as my go suggested that I could limit the carbs by having small portions
 
Gp even!
 
Edgar said:
Breakfast varies but this morning I had porridge with an orange in it and a slice of homemade granary bread with whole earth peanut butter and a glass of tomato juice. Tonight I'll have some soup with a slice of dry bread
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Depending on the size of the bowl of porridge and how big the bread was, you could have exceeded 75 grams of carb there for breakfast Edgar. I tolerate carbs well on a morning but always try to keep it below 40 grams of carb. Could explain the high post breakfast levels I think.
 
Edgar said:
I do measure the porridge and i also have the recommended measure of tomato juice which I have every day. I must admit I don't count the carbs as my go suggested that I could limit the carbs by having small portions
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How much porridge do you have? Counting your carbs would be a good idea as I would imagine with the things you've mentioned your intake would be a fair bit at the moment, do you know how much carbs are in your slice of homemade bread? what brand of tomato juice are you using? what is the recommended size, is it 200ml? xx
 
Edgar said:
Breakfast varies but this morning I had porridge with an orange in it and a slice of homemade granary bread with whole earth peanut butter and a glass of tomato juice. Tonight I'll have some soup with a slice of dry bread
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Hi Edgar, may i make a suggestion for your breakfast?
Ditch what you are currently having and try something very low carb than see what your BG's do.
Try some bacon and eggs, high meat content sausage perhaps or an omelette with mushrooms or fresh tomatoes. Maybe even some smoked mackerel, couple of boiled eggs.
No bread or fruit juice or porridge.
Then test after the post 2 hours and see what your levels have done.
Just a suggestion.
Being T2 myself your breakfast looks very carb high.
 
I have done a rough work out of carbs. 40g of Quaker oats is 27g (I personally can't manage any more than 30g without spiking), an average orange is 12g carb & an average serving of tomato juice (if it's unsweetened) is 4g carb. I haven't included milk in this, but the total is around 44g carb which would spike me to the moon & back. You could try just cutting back on the portions (if you haven't done so already) say 30g oats & half an orange. The tomato juice probably isn't much of an issue.
 
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