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Group 7-day waking average?

Northerner said:
Hi @JHB, Those numbers all look good, and are all within the non-diabetic range, so it looks like you are doing well 🙂 Have you tried testing a couple of hours after eating your breakfast? This is often when your levels can peak after eating, so it will show you whether your levels are climbing higher and then coming back down to more normal levels 🙂 If so, that may account for your average appearing higher than the 5-6 you are seeing when just testing prior to eating 🙂
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Hi will do as you suggest - just been able to get my HBAC1 blood result - 53. My eating during the time of the two tests was heavy on carbs - it isn't now. The morning thing perplexed.
 
rebrascora said:
New HbA1c is 48. Woohoo!!!

Feeling on top of the world and Libre sensors are being added to my prescription this week.
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Well done! :D and congratulations on both parts of your news!

Regarding forgetting to eat and pre bolusing etc, I'm lucky that at tea time I can inject and eat straight away but for breakfast and dinner I'll set an alarm on my phone after injecting so I don't forget lol xx
 
5.9 for me.
5.9 seems to be my new 'normal' as it seems to be staying there or thereabouts now even after eating which has put new heart into me after a couple of weeks back in the early Summer when I was more stuck around the 7.00 - 9.00 mark. I think having a regular exercise regime now has made the difference.
 
Kaylz said:
Well done! :D and congratulations on both parts of your news!

Regarding forgetting to eat and pre bolusing etc, I'm lucky that at tea time I can inject and eat straight away but for breakfast and dinner I'll set an alarm on my phone after injecting so I don't forget lol xx
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That is a good idea but I am sometimes parted from my phone and the timing is so variable from one day to the next. Things are not generally too bad in the evening and I rarely have lunch but it took 2 hours the other night and my plate of food got cold and I even fell asleep waiting for levels to drop enough to dare eat it. Sometimes I can eat after 20 mins but I went 3 hours the other morning! No lumps and bumps at my injection sites so really don't know unless it is just that my insulin pen is getting to the end of the cartridge and that is affecting activity speed. Looking forward to going back to Fiasp and knocking those time scales down a bit
I usually keep scanning every 10-15 mins on a morning but with not having a set time for my telephone appointment I had a lot to get done this morning to be free for that 9am-1pm slot and it just completely went out of my head that I hadn't had my breakfast! Will be back to a more leisurely omelette and salad tomorrow and bolus for the protein later.
 
A good BG reading this morning but high BP. My HF nurse has been ramping up my Losartan dose - from 25mg to 50mg to 100mg. The GP’s pharmacist told me she’d synchronise the new prescriptions with the rest. Ultimately it’s my responsibility and I thought I’d checked it. But I’ve run out and the high BP is evident to me. So I phoned the cardiac rehab unit and excused myself from today’s session. I’ll go long and gently on the exercise bike instead.

For lunch I had a few very thin crackers with the new marmite peanut butter. It’s not to my taste. I like both peanut butter and marmite but together it doesn’t work. Rather than enhancing the flavours they cancel out. Also, very oily.
 
HenryBennett said:
For lunch I had a few very thin crackers with the new marmite peanut butter. It’s not to my taste. I like both peanut butter and marmite but together it doesn’t work. Rather than enhancing the flavours they cancel out. Also, very oily.
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Good to hear I'm not the only one. Like you I love both products but really didn't like the two combined when my wife got a jar for me.
 
I too like both products but not sure I could bring myself to even try the combination of the two, especially as I like dark chocolate with my peanut butter.
 
Has anyone tried Marmite bread? That’s really yummy! We both love it even though my husband doesn’t like Marmite. The recipe came from The Sunday Times’ article on the young girl who now has her own bread shop in Watlington. Before anyone reminds me I know I probably shouldn’t be enjoying bread but needs must when the Devil drives!
 
Annemarie said:
Has anyone tried Marmite bread? That’s really yummy! We both love it even though my husband doesn’t like Marmite
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I’ve not, but would like to try it. Toasted, with lashings of butter?
 
Michael12421 said:
I hate peanut butter with a vengeance.My brother-in-law will eat a jar full at a time but I won't have it in the house, the smell is nauseating. He doesn't come here any more.
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:D :D:D
 
I was just thinking, as I was typing, how abandoned my jar of Marmite must feel since I stopped eating bread. I think I may have had a scrape on a Ryvita a couple of times since diagnosis but otherwise the jar has remained untouched for 20months. Wholemeal toast, butter and Marmite was a comfort food staple for me but I just couldn't stop once I started and 4 slices of toast would just disappear before I knew what I was doing and at the time I thought that was a reasonably healthy choice!
 
@rebrascora I used to love marmite on cheese on toast - really great combination.
 
Annemarie said:
Before anyone reminds me I know I probably shouldn’t be enjoying bread but needs must when the Devil drives!
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Your Type 1, if you can get the insulin correct for it not to spike too much then why not enjoy it? I eat a sandwich everyday, during lockdown I asked if anyone knew the carbs to a bread to which an idiot replied I shouldn't be eating bread as a diabetic, it really upset me due to my eating disorder and it really boiled my blood too xx
 
Not a fan of marmite personally but peanut butter is my thing! LOL, my mum doesn't like marmite but liked the marmite crisps, have you guys tried the marmite cheese (like babybels) or the newer hummus? xx
 
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