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Group 7-day waking average?

Morning all - many thanks to you all for the messages re my HbA1c. Greatly appreciated as have been all the comments, advice and support I've received since joining the forum.

A 5.6 at 07:57 this morning. A very cold morning in West Berks - grass was white with frost when I went over to let the chickens out.

Having worked my way through Norman Musa's book "Amazing Malaysian" (a must buy if you like South East Asian flavours) I'm now starting on a Thai cookbook. I did Stir-fried Chicken and Vegetables on Sunday night and last night did a Chicken and Bok Choy Green Curry. It was the first time I've made a fresh green curry sauce and it was surprisingly easy and very tasty as well!
 
Bloden said:
These big groups make me wonder too @ColinUK. There’s a group of lycra-ed ladies, about 8 of them, that are out most mornings, running and chatting. They can’t all be related / in a bubble / exempt from the rules, surely?o_O
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On our walk yesterday, it was if the pandemic had never happened. Large groups of “families” spread across the path, lots of them with Tier 3 or 4 accents. The signage all along the trail clearly stated stay left, that wasn’t happening much. Wasn’t a very pleasant walk in that respect. Won’t be doing it again in a hurry which is a shame as it’s a fabulous accessible path. TBF Cumbria strongly rumoured to jump straight from Tier 2 to 4 after today’s announcement. I wonder why?
 
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adrian1der said:
Morning all - many thanks to you all for the messages re my HbA1c. Greatly appreciated as have been all the comments, advice and support I've received since joining the forum.

A 5.6 at 07:57 this morning. A very cold morning in West Berks - grass was white with frost when I went over to let the chickens out.

Having worked my way through Norman Musa's book "Amazing Malaysian" (a must buy if you like South East Asian flavours) I'm now starting on a Thai cookbook. I did Stir-fried Chicken and Vegetables on Sunday night and last night did a Chicken and Bok Choy Green Curry. It was the first time I've made a fresh green curry sauce and it was surprisingly easy and very tasty as well!
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Were having homemade Thai crab fish cakes tomorrow with sweet chilli sauce and noodles.( I’m on insulin! ) I love all spicy food and love experimenting. Thai can be a b**l ache but I refuse to buy ready made pastes.
 
Michael12421 said:
Good morning. I could not get on for 6 hours! Paid the price this morning after a surfeit of chicken Tetrazzini (Not lampreys) with an 11.0. Serves me right but oh did I enjoy it.
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Good for you Michael. Pleased you enjoyed it, especially as you seem to have been struggling with your appetite recently. The odd double figure doesn't do us any harm, so don't worry about it.
 
Morning all and it was a 6.3 for me.

Went to the pharmacy this morning and collected a bag full of libre sensors plus a bonus 7 litre sharps container which I hadn't ordered.

Need to get new battery for car as the recent cold snap has just about done for the current one. It can't be more than 14 years old. Don't they make stuff to last me any more

Have a good day everyone.
 
eggyg said:
Were having homemade Thai crab fish cakes tomorrow with sweet chilli sauce and noodles.( I’m on insulin! ) I love all spicy food and love experimenting. Thai can be a b**l ache but I refuse to buy ready made pastes.
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Sounds good! I have only ever cooked Thai with jars before and not for a very long time so the green curry was great! Red curry next.
 
A late post today. Could t get on at 6am. 7.6 for me today, I’m going to take myself by the scruff of the neck in the new year. Just wish I liked veg, would make my life much easier.
Anyhow be careful everyone we have had more of our patients contracting Covid in the last couple of days than in all the time the pandemic has been around (though I know it is easier to get a test). Just be vigilant at all times please.
Have a good day, what’s left of it x
 
A nice 5.6 this morning with a nice flat line all night. Going to eat more Mexican tacos again a couple of taco shells, lots of salsa and only 30g of Carbs.
Have a great day everyone!!
 
Anitram said:
That's a great result, Adrian. Pleased for you. Keep it going, mate.
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Thanks @Anitram I am speaking to my GP on the 11th and want to discuss coming off metformin. Fingers crossed!
 
Good afternoon all. I'm perished and the heating is on full blast. Agh. The snow won't melt. I had to pull socks on over my shoes to go across to the grass and leave stuff for the birds. I'm so scared of falling. There's a kind of freezing haze or maybe the windows want cleaning... brr.

6.3 @ 7.15am dunno why I'm in the 6s, I must rocket out of the stratosphere and then back down again, I'm a moron. Do birds eat chocolate? I'm tempted to turf out the lot, there's tons and tons of it and Christmas cake too. 🙄 We're just gonna have a chippy tea and then be good all next year...

Our posh road around here, The Avenue, had a party going on, at least 50 peoples carousing. Lemmings!
 
Good morn...sorry afternoon folks.
@rebrascora, i nearly beat your first post. I was up at 1.30am correcting, sat feeling sorry for myself, cold and tired and tried to get on forum. Wouldn't connect!

Anyway, yesterday was a horrific day with my levels. Corrections not working, levels going up into low teens. At bedtime, i had another correction, upped my basal by half unit and went to bed but couldn't sleep. Eventually, feeling awful at 1.30am, i got up, sensor showing 14.7 and going up. Had another 2u correction and went back to bed. This time it worked but extremely slowly. Usually it drops suddenly then stays level but this was a very gradual drift to 7.6 at breakfast. Then, while doing insulin for breakfast, i noticed that the expiry date is January 2021. No idea if this has been the cause as levels have been rising over the last few days, peaking with nothing working last night. Anyhow, i've got a new pen out and have just tried it with lunch. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

I know what you all mean about seeing so many people about. I've not long got back from Sainsburys doing the weekly shop. The car parks at the retail park were rammed, in the shop i was standing back until there was space but others just pushed their way through. I had to smile to myself (or grimace!) as over the tannoy they were thanking everyone for shopping on their own. I looked around, most were couples, young and old. I suppose we'll find out later about the tiers/lockdown. I hope we don't go to tier 4, my roots are awful and my hair needs a cut again!

Wow, just realised this is a really long post. Sorry x

Hope you are having a good day everyone
 
I just couldn't log on this morning. The web site seemed a bit broken.

However this mornings reading was 5.5 and this evenings reading was 5.4
 
Morning all... 🙂
Well it was when I wanted to post at 5am...?
A 6.0 for me then and I see the website was broked!
A longer run this morning but dry if only 1 degree!

Welcome to tier 4 for those joining us tonight

Blessings Snowwy
 
6.1 this morning. 6.2 yesterday but website awol.
3° outside but apparently feels like -3°. We’ve missed the worst of the weather here.
 
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