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Group 7-day waking average?

Northerner said:
Bear in mind that food isn't the only factor in determining your blood sugar levels, your body has a whole system of maintaining a certain level of glucose in your blood in order to keep your heart, lungs, digestive system etc. fuelled when you are not eating (your liver releases variable amounts of glucose in order to achieve this). Also, there is essentially no difference between a fingerprick of 5.1 and one of 4.5, since there is variability in each drop of blood and variability in the accuracy of the testing strips/monitor 🙂 I remember years ago taking three tests from a single drop of blood and got three different results - all were within the degree of accuracy expected from the meter system I was using 🙂
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I'm not worried and like you say meters are not 100% accurate, but since I managed to remove the excess glucose stuffed in every corner of my body and pretty sure I did manage to deplete my livers store of glucose a while ago (but my body keeps sneaking more into storage) - my reading have been very related to my carbs intake. Obviously my body will make some glucose from food/ stored fat (which i still have plenty) also and I will see a bit of a bouncing of my BGs for a few days. My main aim is all reading in 4s or 5s which I have so far managed after week 1 so I am pretty happy with how its going so far.
 
karloc said:
I'm not worried and like you say meters are not 100% accurate, but since I managed to remove the excess glucose stuffed in every corner of my body and pretty sure I did manage to deplete my livers store of glucose a while ago (but my body keeps sneaking more into storage) - my reading have been very related to my carbs intake. Obviously my body will make some glucose from food/ stored fat (which i still have plenty) also and I will see a bit of a bouncing of my BGs for a few days. My main aim is all reading in 4s or 5s which I have so far managed after week 1 so I am pretty happy with how its going so far.
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Our sneaky bodies will also make glucose from protein and fats, it’s just harder for it.
 
Veenorthants said:
Has anyone heard from @SueEK. Have noticed I've not seen anything from her for a while. Hope all is ok x
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She must be keeping an eye on us as profile states she was last seen today, hope your ok @SueEK ❤ xx
 
Morning all, a night of no sleep, so feeling pretty rough

5.9
 
Veenorthants said:
Good morning, haven't had access to computer till now. its a 7.3 for me this morning.

Has anyone heard from @SueEK. Have noticed I've not seen anything from her for a while. Hope all is ok x
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Thanks @Veenorthants and @Kaylz . Am still following posts but not in the right place to be of any help to anyone at present. Hopefully will be back posting fairly soon xx
 
Good morning a massive 13.4, who forgot to take his night time Basal.😳 Wet and miserable no not the loo, outside🙂 its chilling down only 18.0 C may have to put longer shorts on.😎

Thanks for replying @SueEK, sets ones mind at rest.🙂

Still no Hobie or Lanny.:(

Have a good day folks, take care.🙂
 
Ljc said:
Our sneaky bodies will also make glucose from protein and fats, it’s just harder for it.
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That's gluconeogenesis, and it's supposed to be the main feature of T2D generally that the bod finds it too easy - hepatic insulin resistance means that the liver doesn't get the message to stop doing it & it keeps chugging out glucose built from amino acids & trigs etc particularly while you're asleep. Hence high waking/fasing levels, not necessarily all that much to do with carbs.
 
Good morning 🙂 6.1 for me today 🙂 I can tell autumn is really here because my insulin requirements are increasing rapidly - I was down to 8 units at one point during the summer, yesterday I needed 18 😱 Last winter I was up to 40 units!
 
Morning all 🙂 and the score today 4.7 🙂. And hit the 1st 7lb weight loss :D in 5 weeks. BMI finally hit the fat range just 29.9 😎.
 
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