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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning all. A disappointing 9.6 for me, though i stayed in target all night. Self inflicted, i had chinese food takeaway for a treat last night. Bolused for it but it still gives me a spike. Hey ho...i enjoyed it. Have a good day everyone
 
6.4 this morning. And what feels like the start of a cold :(
 
4.4 for me this morning but once again I hypoed through the night. Went to bed earlier last night so set alarm for 4am to check levels, but woke up at 3.50am on 3.5. Had 3 dextrose tablets and a drink of water and checked half an hour later to see a nice 7.6 with an upward slanted arrow so confident to sleep for the rest of the night but then surprisingly dropped again to wake up at 4.4 this morning. Still no evening Levemir on board and have cut my daytime Levemir down to 14units, which will hold me reasonably steady through the day if I get plenty of exercise. Not sure what else I can do!

@freesia I had Chinese last night too. I bolused 2 units and had to eat carbs and protein before bed to bring levels up and still hypoed. Arrgh! Maybe we need to swap menus. What did you have?

@Anitram .... a slightly begrudging and jealous congrats. 😉 Will be sending the HS police round to do a raid and recover your stash so that they can be redistributed! Actually make that the DF.... far more scary than the police making a visit! That should stop your HS antics!

@Michael12421 I hope you are OK after your damp trip to the vets. Pleased you got everything sorted for Missy but concerned your heating is on the blink. Please keep warm and dry as best you can and hope you get it fixed soon. X
 
rebrascora said:
had Chinese last night too. I bolused 2 units and had to eat carbs and protein before bed to bring levels up and still hypoed. Arrgh! Maybe we need to swap menus. What did you have?
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Paper wrapped spare ribs, beef szechuan and boiled rice. The ribs and the portion of rice were split between the two of us with me having the smaller amount of rice. I weighed the rice and ribs and added a little bit extra and split my insulin, taking half before i ate and the other half 40 mins after. Still had a spike up to almost 12! If i do cook rice myself i don't get such a high spike so who knows what caused it. Maybe the DF doesn't like me having a takeout. I did enjoy it though so it was worth it. What do you order @rebrascora? Maybe i should have what you have 😛

@Anitram congratulations on the HS
 
@freesia Thanks for that. Sounds a bit high end for our local Chinese takeaway...Haven't even heard of paper wrapped spare ribs?? Am I right in thinking szechuan is spicy and sweet? My partner is unfortunately not good with spice and I try to avoid sweet.
We had Char Sui with ginger and spring onions, a portion of stir fired veg and fried rice. I have all the stir fried veg, 2 dessert spoons of the rice and maybe a quarter of the main dish. We have this about once a month and I love it. There is enough rice and pork left over for my partner to have it for lunch the next day. I have 2 units of Fiasp for it bolused 15-20 mins in advance and that generally works great for me. I had quite a bit of exercise yesterday which is why the 2 units worked out a bit much last night. Last time he got chicken and sweetcorn soup and prawn crackers as well, so I had about 10 crackers and a third of the soup and added an extra unit to my bolus ie 3 units, which again worked well. It was heavenly having a few prawn crackers! I was so disappointed last night when he didn't get any. :( Knew I should have gone with him to get it.... but I did get to watch some of Strictly whilst he was out, so that was a nice bonus!
 
rebrascora said:
.Haven't even heard of paper wrapped spare ribs?? Am I right in thinking szechuan is spicy and sweet
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The ribs are fried then wrapped in paper with chilli, ginger, garlic, onions and peppers. Yum. The szechuan is spicy but i wouldn't say sweet. I use the carbs and cals book to work out the carbs. Maybe that is it though, maybe its the szechuan. I'll try what you have next time. I must admit i'm struggling with exercise atm though. At work all day then its dark when i get home. I'm still wary about going to a gym, even when they do open up. I try to go for a walk at the weekends but often find my levels just plummet even though i've eaten/had a snack. A walk once or twice a week isn't enough though. Roll on the times when we can get back to normal
 
@freesia Thanks for that description of your meal. Sounds delicious to me but wouldn't suit my partner unfortunately and couldn't justify 2 different meals.
I exercise after dark a lot of the time now, both walking and running. Street lights are pretty good but I have a head torch for the unlit sections of my route if I need it. Sometimes the moon is enough and more enjoyable than the torch.
 
Afternoon all. Dank here. Bad weather coming. Hope we get a white Christmas. Happy Advent Sunday. 🙂

6.5 @ 10am happy with that after all the goodies I ate yesterday. 😳 I drew the line at macarons. We only do an Iceland shop once a year, it was heaving. Pandemic, what pandemic?
 
Evening all,
6.1 again this morning, late on parade!

Blessings Snowwy
 
Michael12421 said:
Good morning - 8.1 and it is very, very cold.
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Have you got your heating sorted out yet Michael, if not 8 hope the engineer is coming very soon. Get the hot water bottles and blankets out, if necessary hat and gloves as well x
 
Starting the week with a 5.7. I hope everyone has a good week.
 
Morning all,
A 6.1 again for me today and an average of 5.8 for the month of Nov.

Exciting and eventful F1 yesterday, motor racing is definitely dangerous. Glad all ok...

Contemplating a run soon

Blessings Snowwy
 
Morning

Like Michael very cold, my bedroom side of the house hasn't warmed up since window and front door was wide open most of Friday 🙄

Better 5.4 this morning after an absolutely shocking day yesterday of higher levels with no earthly idea why
xx
 
Morning everyone. 7.1 from very dark Staffordshire this morning. Have a good day whatever you are planning
 
07:10 BS 6.9. 🙂

I’ve been sitting here trying to think of something to say but, there’s nowt! 🙄

Except to say that I’m listening to the lovely voice of a young Welsh lad I discovered on Classic FM recently & bought his debut album on iTunes: Cai Thomas released in March 2020. I’m very chilled out, mellow, smooth & soothed by his lovely voice; Seren is the album & it’s beautiful!

Here’s a sample:-


A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉

A VERY chilled out Lanny, if a bit distracted but, in a good way! 😛😎😉
 
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