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Group 7-day waking average?

Well I can tell you from my perspective of many years in the restaurant business that about 90% of our customers had their steaks well done: some positively burnt, REALLY burnt; but, that’s more to do with the Irish preference more than anything else! 🙄 It used to drive my youngest brother mad as he’s always been a gourmet foodie & enjoys his steaks very rare, VERY rare, like the French: always asking for rare & getting what he would call medium & grumbling about it whenever he ate out when he’s here; been a Londoner since his uni days! 😱 I’m with @rebrascora in that I prefer a low, slowed cooked steak that’s just cooked all the way through with slightly pink being JUST about ok with me but, mostly got very well done to charred most of the time when eating out so, would order medium sometimes to avoid overly burnt!🙄 But, I don’t like fat so, always go for fillet steak, only occasionally sirloin, cutting the fat off, if fillet isn’t available & never any of the fattier cuts: it’s the taste of the fat that I don’t like; maybe something to do with being a super taster but, beef fat smells & tastes of cow’s no. 2’s, to me!😱 But, oddly enough don’t have that problem with lamb fat: one sister, on the other hand, doesn’t like lamb for the same reason saying it’s like sheep no. 2’s when she loves the fat on beef steaks; everyone’s preferences are different, I suppose!🙄:D
 
rebrascora said:
Sorry guys but I enjoy it well done as well as medium rare. My preference for a sirloin or rib eye is actually done quite low and slow in the oven in lamb fat with mushrooms and then browned off in a hot oven to finish. Told you I am a Philistine!
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Not at all. Each to his own. There’s a lot of willy waving in the fb bbq groups about this which pees me off. Some pretentious restaurants refuse to cook steaks well done, which is ridiculous - the customer is always right.
 
Lanny said:
everyone’s preferences are different, I suppose
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Hallelujah to that. I owned and ran a restaurant in London some years ago and, yes, a lot of people like their steak well done. One regular customer used to bring in a bag of crisps and pour them onto his plate. I’m into my barbecuing, cast iron pans etc, and like my steak the rare side of medium rare. But so what. I hate the pretentious people who say that they uninvite vegetarians, vegans and people who have their steak well done.
 
Evening all. 6.1 @ 10.30am Night night God bless all. 🙂
 
Lanny said:
always asking for rare & getting what he would call medium & grumbling about it
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That, though, I agree with. If you are paying to have your steak cooked for you you’re entitled to get it the way you want it. At least it seems he doesn’t denigrate other people for liking their steak well done.
As an aside, I hate it when the menu says “sautéed mushrooms” and the chef drops them in the deep fat fryer to save time and effort. I always send them back.
 
04:12 BS 7.3 🙂 Pretty happy with that as I’m pretty sure I got the basal right now: previous few mornings my BS fell without anything at all after waking when it always rises usually at the rate of 1mmol/hour; fell roughly 2 to 1mmol/hour the last few days.o_O

Midday basal yesterday did indeed give me a clearer picture & now working on tweaking boluses now that I’m NOT fighting a constant downward trend in BS from too much basal! Yes, after breakfast yesterday was a bit low but, I think it was the tail end of the slightly overlapping 2 basal doses. Only ate twice yesterday which was actually a bit of relief after the closer than I’d like meals, one after the other due to too much basal! I ended up just a bit high with only 18 units of NR for lunch yesterday 08:26 BS 4.9 that resulted in BS 8.5 at 12:51 before going to bed. Woke up 03/12/20 20:06 on BS 7.8. Waited about an hour without anything to see if I dropped to test the midday basal earlier before bed & 21:09 BS 7.1 pretty steady given meter variations & went back to sleep. Didn’t react fast enough to midnight alarm so, nodded off again & woke for LR just before 2am 04/12/20 02:00 BS 9.3. Ok, since I was 2 hours late & basal is definitely not sending too low! Went back to sleep after bunging in LR & woke JUST outside of target range but, not by much! 🙂 I’m staying conservative, relatively, with bolus doses as I don’t want to undo all the hard work & go back to heading off hypos again: if high, I can add corrections; until I get a clear picture of what bolus I need in relation to my current basal doses?🙄

Hey! What fun it is to juggle insulin doses? 🙄 (Roughly sung to the tune of “Jingle Bells”:D😛😉) But, the juggling is almost done & just a few bolus tweaks now that I know basal is correct!:D😉

An early Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day! 😉
 
Morning all,
A 5.9 for me today, contemplating a run a bit later but it's wet.
Hope the rain stops as it was nigh on biblical yesterday.
Going back to read the forum posts of yesterday, lots of activity.

Blessings Snowwy
 
Having read back I see there has been much talk about steak!
Along with poor @SueEK, sorry you are poorly.

We had steak last night, scored 11 out of 10!
It was the best we ever had as we buy 'big daddy' steaks from Aldi, well one actually as we cut it in half as couldn't manage one each!
Very good value at £4.99 I think.
Cooked medium by me with mushrooms, finished of in the meat juices while steak is resting, fresh baby tomatoes and a small jacket potato with Philly on and french mustard on the side.
Can't show a picture though as clean plates all round.
Getting hungry just writing about it!
 
5.6 this morning.
 
Good morning. A very surprising 10.0 for me this morning. No idea why but had a high jagged line all night. New sensor but finger prick confirmed.
Another year older today! Wish i had the day off. Have a good day whatever you are doing. Keep warm x
 
6.1 for me this morning.

Checked before bed and was 5.7 so not at all bothered by the moderate morning effect.
 
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