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Morning all. Sorry I’ve been MIA again!

I’m really struggling to stay motivated and haven’t been eating well. I slept terribly last night and wonder if it was because of my levels. I’ve woken on a 12.4 so goodness knows what they’ve been like overnight.

I just don’t know how to get my levels back down at the moment. Starting the day this high is just a recipe for disaster. I don’t know what to eat for breakfast. I don’t like eggs, avocado or porridge. Everything I would contemplate eating is too carby. I think I’m going to have to resort to eating plain quorn for breakfasts again which I hate but seemed to work back when I first started out on this journey.

Safe to say I feel rough and pretty miserable this morning. All night my head was buzzing snd I felt sick...no wonder.
 
Morning all,
A 5.8 today.
Good to hear from you @merrymunky , sorry it's not going as you hoped. Perhaps as you say a change of diet, what about low fat yoghurt and fruit or is that a banned substance?
How is the little one?

Blessings Snowwy
 
Snowwy said:
Morning all,
A 5.8 today.
Good to hear from you @merrymunky , sorry it's not going as you hoped. Perhaps as you say a change of diet, what about low fat yoghurt and fruit or is that a banned substance?
How is the little one?

Blessings Snowwy
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Qi don’t have any yoghurt in at the moment. I will have to grab some. I am not a fan of natural yoghurt so it makes it tricky to enjoy it even with fruit. I might have to have just one slice of toast with marmite until I have the appropriate supplies in.
Oh she’s doing very well thank you. Changing every day. Her personality is really coming out now. She’s great fun. 9C5D8B4B-9AA0-48EB-9489-57CC3522FEE0.jpeg
 
6.9 for me today. Work is calling.
@merrymunky i know exactly what you mean, I now don’t eat breakfast - takes the problem away. Good to hear from you and Erin is growing so fast x
 
Oh dear :-( I can certainly sympathise!
I'm just up chugging loads of herbal tea to try and lower my equally as ridiculous BS level before I go to sleep.

I have been having a Purition shake made with unsweetened almond milk for breakfast many days, this last week. Would those be suitable?

I also eat eccentric things for breakfast, such as edamame bean salad or one day just an entire head of iceberg lettuce with half a tub of houmus. For me, the iceberg lettuce was a big hit in terms of blood sugar.
 
Purition shakes:

www.purition.co.uk

Natural Protein Powders & Meal Replacements - Fitness Food

A small meal when you don't have time to cook. Healthy protein shakes and meal replacements using only the very best clean and natural ingredients.
www.purition.co.uk www.purition.co.uk

ETA No idea why it says only six flavours are available. They have absolutely loads of options, including an impressive vegan range which is almost identical to the main one.

ETA2: Sorry I'm half asleep. They're saying you get to pick six options for their discovery box. There's loads to choose from though and imo they're quite pleasant.
 
I am finding that my waking BS will just remain at 9-10mmol/L or whatever it starts at, for literally hours if I skip breakfast.

It's driving me to distraction.
Fingers crossed it's just dehydration.

Maybe have the toast and Marmite, but also drink loads of herbal tea and water? Sorry not sure what else to suggest (I'm totally avoiding bread myself until I get my BS down again)
 
5.5 this morning.

Finally there’s movement on the legal case as we’re making an application to the High Court. Waiting for a date for the application to be heard but solicitor confirmed that no need for anyone other than counsel to be in court when the judge rules on the application.
It’s a technical point but it’ll force the other side to actually produce a defence rather than endlessly request more time.

And heard back from two mortgage companies regarding remortgaging properties in the estate to provide funding whilst assets in the U.S. are still tied up because of endless red tape. The latest being that one bank now needs probate to be notarised in the U.S. even though it’s been granted here. Because of COVID obviously can’t travel to the U.S. to get that done in person so the route is via the US embassy. In person. But due to COVID they’re not allowing in person appointments and this can’t be done electronically. The U.S. embassy suggested travelling to the U.S. and making an application to the state Court in each state where there’s an asset. But you can’t travel to the U.S. at the moment and even if you could the Court houses aren’t accepting in person appointments and recommend filing online. Which the courts won’t accept for applications of probate. So they suggested going to the US embassy. In person.

Oh and up nice and early today but can’t go anywhere as I’m waiting for a third attempted redelivery of a parcel.

No doubt I’ll be in and out of the forum all day so I’ll catch up with you later 🙂
 
Leaderofthecats said:
I am finding that my waking BS will just remain at 9-10mmol/L or whatever it starts at, for literally hours if I skip breakfast.

It's driving me to distraction.
Fingers crossed it's just dehydration.

Maybe have the toast and Marmite, but also drink loads of herbal tea and water? Sorry not sure what else to suggest (I'm totally avoiding bread myself until I get my BS down again)
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How about noshing a bit of cheese maybe?
I find that if my BG is running a little high then a piece of cheese can help nudge it back down reasonably reliably.
 
5.1 this morning.

Surprising, as we had a terrible day yesterday. My wife was very very upset. I just hope things settle down again today. The consultant was very good and decided to recommend that she stay on the meds which upset her. A few things happened later on in the day that upset her even more. So the day was dreadful and yet successful in regard to her treatment.

Considering the stress I expected my BG to go awol but it was fine. However, strangely, I lost 0.5Kg weight!!!

Not sure how my wife is yet this morning as she is asleep. I just hope she feels better.
 
Gwynn said:
5.1 this morning.

Surprising, as we had a terrible day yesterday. My wife was very very upset. I just hope things settle down again today. The consultant was very good and decided to recommend that she stay on the meds which upset her. A few things happened later on in the day that upset her even more. So the day was dreadful and yet successful in regard to her treatment.

Considering the stress I expected my BG to go awol but it was fine. However, strangely, I lost 0.5Kg weight!!!

Not sure how my wife is yet this morning as she is asleep. I just hope she feels better.
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You know that when someone is needing to take meds that sometimes it’s the last thing they want to do and can be hugely resistant at the time. Eventually she’ll see that you and the consultant do have her best interests at heart and will understand that everything you do is driven by love.
 
Colin: deliveries!!!! And returns!!! I have just spent days trying to get Amazon, via a Hermes pick up, to return an item. In the end, just as I was about to give up on my umpteenth call, to customer services, they gave up and refunded the money with no return needed. But it was a lot of stress at a time when I already had too much stress going on. But good one Amazon....in the end.
 
Thankyou Colin, an Orkney Oatcake or two with cheese and lots of homegrown cress are my absolute favourite go to option when I'm trying to get regular healthy carbs. Toss in a few baby plum tomatoes and it's even nicer. 🙂

It turns out that I must indeed have been incredibly dehydrated and never realised.

I've been sat on my bum studying Japanese and talking to you lovely people or catching pokemon in pokemon go at my home spawn for hours (definitely not eating, certainly not any exercise!) and just tested it again.

From 4:10-6:30 I managed to keep down 2 mugs of homenade herbal tea and 3 pints of those fancy herbal tea cold infusions. The result is absolutely remarkable. It was 12.2, now is 8.3.... And this was well past any drop related to post exercise BS reallocation. Without this massive amount of extra water I think it would have remained static. Or dropped a pathetic amount, like 0.5 mmol/L.

I'm extra glad I'm not taking those horrible Metaformin pills now. I really don't need to be pouring fluid from every orifice like some kind of horror film demon, especially if I'm dehydrated!

I'll be peeing for ages yet, so I'll just carry on drinking water and watch a ridiculous fun show or two I reckon, or maybe play a computer game.

🙂 Proper chuffed actually.
I didn't realise mild dehydration could have such a shocking effect on blood sugar until pretty much now. This is quite an intense learning experience, but worthwhile!!!
 
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5.7 this morning.
 
Leaderofthecats said:
Thankyou Colin, an Orkney Oatcake or two with cheese and lots of homegrown cress are my absolute favourite go to option when I'm trying to get regular healthy carbs. Toss in a few baby plum tomatoes and it's even nicer. 🙂

It turns out that I must indeed have been incredibly dehydrated and never realised.

I've been sat on my bum studying Japanese and talking to you lovely people or catching pokemon in pokemon go at my home spawn for hours (definitely not eating, certainly not any exercise!) and just tested it again.

From 4:10-6:30 I managed to keep down 2 mugs of homenade herbal tea and 3 pints of those fancy herbal tea cold infusions. The result is absolutely remarkable. It was 12.2, now is 8.3.... And this was well past any drop related to post exercise BS reallocation. Without this massive amount of extra water I think it would have remained static. Or dropped a pathetic amount, like 0.5 mmol/L.

I'm extra glad I'm not taking those horrible Metaformin pills now. I really don't need to be pouring fluid from every orifice like some kind of horror film demon, especially if I'm dehydrated!

I'll be peeing for ages yet, so I'll just carry on drinking water and watch a ridiculous fun show or two I reckon, or maybe play a computer game.

🙂 Proper chuffed actually.
I didn't realise mild dehydration could have such a shocking effect on blood sugar until pretty much now. This is quite an intense learning experience, but worthwhile!!!
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Think about it logically. If we’re dehydrated then there’s less fluid so blood becomes “sticky” and the concentration of anything in it skyrockets.
And trust me because I once kissed a doctor so I know these things!
 
Morning. Sooo monday i went to bed on 6.1 and needed glucose to get in the shower yesterday morning as it went to low 4. Last night it was 6.1 at bedtime so i had a very small handful of nuts. Stayed in the 11s all night and woke to 7.7!! I can't win 🙄 . 7.7is ok for me but the 11s have shot down my TIR.
Have a good day folks.
 
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