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Group 7-day waking average?

Happy Boxing Day, my favourite day in the festive calendar. Very happy with a 5.8.
I didn’t overindulge, I actually can’t, as overeating makes me really unwell and it’s not worth it. For the first time ever, we didn’t have starters, I’d planned twice baked Gruyère and cheddar soufflés but when time came to make them we decided not to bother as Mr Eggy really wanted a pudding and decided to forfeit the starter. I was happy with that. Even with small portions of everything I couldn’t finish my turkey dinner and I definitely didn’t have a pudding. I’d made sticky toffee pudding for the first time ever, one of Mr Eggy’s all time favourites if we’re out for a meal. I was going hyper making it! Super, super sweet, he had it with his favourite ice cream of all time. Vanilla Haagan Dazs. I had half a teaspoon full, wow, far too sweet in my humble diabetic opinion. It would have surely tipped me over the edge if I’d had a full teaspoon full!. As it happened I had a steady line just over 8 from 6pm until I went to bed at 11pm when it dipped down to just over 7. I’ve woken up absolutely starving! :rofl:

Today’s (only) job, if I chose to take it, is to play freezer Tetris and somehow squeeze in six sticky toffee puddings and half a cooked turkey! The rest of the day will be spent doing a big fat nowt!

Hope you’ve all had the best day and can now relax for the first time in weeks.

We had two Santas visit us yesterday to bring us presents. <3
 

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Morning everyone
hope everyone had a good safe day Special thoughts/love to those on their own and missing the people they love
6.8 for me This despite the blow out i had yesterday 14.4 reading at 732pm I guess the diabetic fairy was being good to me this morning
I have the same xmas hoodie on i wore yesterday, its so warm and comfortable a second day will not matter will it?
you all take care and have a good safe happy day. I know i am my OH is coming about 9am so guess who will be a happy bunny We are watching Gavin/Stacey together online cant wait
Take care
love to every on of you my online family
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Gail
 
Morning All - Just coming up for air before the rest of the family arrive today (daughter & boyfriend who spent it at his parents yesterday and daughter-in-law flying in from Paris). Yesterday was lovely but strange with some of them missing - still six of us though and it did feel easy! Hubby and two sons did the Lake District equivalent of a quick walk up in the hills that they used to do in Oxfordshire ... Striding Edge on Helvellyn! Rather them than me but it was rather nice having the house to myself to do all the lunch prep and we ate at 3pm. Have a lovely Boxing Day, whatever you're doing. Eldest son makes Beef Wellington today which will be delicious (or should be judging by how much Cranstons charged me for the fillet of beef!). xxx. Oh and I was 8.1. Did actually overindulge yesterday but as I didn't have supper I didn't do an evening bolus - should have bolused my lunch instead but didn't think about it and it was sensor change time last night.
 
Snap, @Northerner , 6.8 for me too.
I did better at guesstimating my insulin for yesterday evenings blowout of Goose, Xmas pud and rum sauce, followed by Thornton’s Choccies, than I did at lunchtime when I had a touch of the Himalayas after smoked salmon sandwich and a glass of Cava (think the bread was thicker than I realised, then I had some fruit afterwards)
 
zippyjojo said:
Morning All - Just coming up for air before the rest of the family arrive today (daughter & boyfriend who spent it at his parents yesterday and daughter-in-law flying in from Paris). Yesterday was lovely but strange with some of them missing - still six of us though and it did feel easy! Hubby and two sons did the Lake District equivalent of a quick walk up in the hills that they used to do in Oxfordshire ... Striding Edge on Helvellyn! Rather them than me but it was rather nice having the house to myself to do all the lunch prep and we ate at 3pm. Have a lovely Boxing Day, whatever you're doing. Eldest son makes Beef Wellington today which will be delicious (or should be judging by how much Cranstons charged me for the fillet of beef!). xxx. Oh and I was 8.1. Did actually overindulge yesterday but as I didn't have supper I didn't do an evening bolus - should have bolused my lunch instead but didn't think about it and it was sensor change time last night.
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Blimey, Striding Edge on Christmas Day. The furthest I walked was to the recycling bin!

Re Cranston’s prices! I get family discount and I still need to remortgage to buy a lump of beef! I will speak to my insider.😉

Enjoy your day. Xx
 
A surprising, but very welcome 5.5 this morning for me. I did need a correction bolus at 1:30am to achieve this though! All in all a reasonable day with BG yesterday despite having more than normal and a little bit of grazing in the evening (but we did miss lunch as the cooked breakfast kept us going until the Christmas dinner at around 4pm).

Nothing today until we go to my daughter’s in the evening.

Congratulations @littlevoice359 on your HS today!

Have a good day everyone!
 
Morning

4.2 this morning and stayed below 8 at all times yesterday, enjoyed my Christmas dinner but was too full so no mince pies or Christmas pudding. For me today will be a bigger challenge food wise as all the snacks, nibbles and chocolates around will be tempting, other than resisting that temptation I will be mostly sitting around watching all the programs we recorded from yesterday. Hubby was originally supposed to be working today so I didn’t make any plans, but at the weekend he was offered the chance to take today off.

I hope everyone had the kind of day they wanted, and for those that have plans to see family and friends have a wonderful day.

Congratulations to @littlevoice359 on your HS today.
 
A 6.2 for me this Boxing Day Morning. 🙂

Dez
 
7.7 for me, blood-sugars behaving yesterday to a point(!) They were flat-lining all night around 6-8.

We have friends around today as is traditional in our house, although not as many as in the past.
 
Emerged from Christmas comparatively unscathed compared to other Christmases over the last 32 years.
6.0 on Christmas morning, 7.7 on Christmas night before bed and 7.0 on Boxing Day morning. Might even have porridge for breakfast as a holiday treat ( with a dollop of Novorapid of course.)
 
A 7.4 for me this morning. I left Deep Thought to do his thing last night after an initial (fairly generous) bolus for Christmas Dinner. This is one of the strategies my rep recommended. On reflection I should have added my mop-up bolus about 2 hrs after the meal, because as the late evening wore on and my digestive system continued to work through the onslaught, my levels rose to about 12 (I am assuming because the pump’s boluses arrive later and after the rises start, rather than being taken earlier and being ready for action when needed.

Things came down gently overnight, and importantly not too far. That’s been one of the biggest differences I’ve noticed between the algorithms - I’m needing far fewer glucose nudges to avoid lows. So much so I’ve actually lost about a kilo!
 
A 5.7 for me today.
 
Morning all. 10.5. I managed really well nearly all day yesterday, staying around the 6s all day. Then after a tiny tea (i wasn't hungry) i had a stubborn hypo which when treated, just before bed, shot to 14. I had a correction but it still didn't come down below 10. Its now finally 7 and dropping.
 
Morning all. Very dull and grey.

5.3 whoo hooo. I did hit 18.1 yesterday. That was after the canapes I served with the 2 glasses of Espresso Martini for consumption whilst opening presents. The Espresso Martinis came ready mixed in a bottle we were given a while ago. I correctly dosed for the canapes - lovely shrimp and scallop ones from Sainsbury's - but I guess the Espresso Martinis were full of sugar. After that I managed nicely with dinner including Xmas Pud and went to bed on 7.1. Plenty of leftovers for today including some of the Chateaubriand and all the blooming veggies.

Was woken by an alarm, apparently the sensor and pod had lost touch. So I switched to manual and went back to sleep. It occurred to me later, Hubby had his hand on my waist over the pod!

I got some curious presents from OH, including a walking stick! It is a very elegant one but do I really need it? I know I have an arthritic knee... but?

Enjoyed Wallace and Grommit.

Congratulations to @littlevoice359 on your HS.

Have a lovely Boxing Day everyone.
 
5.8 for me this morning, but that involved an overly generous correction just before 4am and then 3JBs about 5.30am. The high felt far worse than the low, but very happy waking up to to a nice in range number and very grateful to Libre for helping me negotiate my night time turbulence with confidence.
Off to my sister's this afternoon for my favourite meal of the year.... Boxing Day leftovers! Hope everyone has a lovely relaxing day.
 
4.6 this morning not feeling great sore throat and dizzy feeling, felt it coming on last night didn't have much to eat either
Lamb today, not till this evening, I had 2 slices of white toast this morning its all I wanted and surprised to see BS has only gone up to 6 after 2 hours have a good day everyone x
 
Elenka_HM said:
Hope everyone had a nice one, whatever (if anything) you celebrate. I had a traditional celebration for the first time in a few years and really, really enjoyed it. Big family meals, lot of lovely food (and not really carby this year, except for dessert), admittedly more alcohol that I regularly drink... I got to open presents which was exciting, the past few years I was away in this dates so my family sent money and that's very practical and appreciated, but I missed the surprises!

In my family Christmas Eve is the big deal, when we all dress up in our finest and have special food. We started after 9 pm, waited just 15 minutes into Christmas Day to open the presents, stayed at my grandparents until almost 3 am. Loads of chat and laughs, and a funny situation with Secret Santa where two of my aunties received the same model of handbag, each of them was bought by one of my parents, they did NOT know they've chosen the same! My mum had shown me the bag she got for Auntie A, and when I saw Auntie B open her bag I thought there was some mistake.

I managed dinner very well until the sweet selection came around, BG stayed fine for a while, then at 2 am I literally told my Libre to go F itself because it said 16 and rising. I apologised later, I know that's just shooting the messenger. Yes, I realise the Libre is an inanimate object, all that was me being silly after a few glasses of wine 😛

Christmas lunch was a more relaxed affair, in comparison, and the relatives that came from other cities went back home after. My parents, brother and I ended up going to my other grandma's house for coffee and got to see some other family members. Then we had a light snacky dinner and watched "Love actually" at home (none of us had watched it yet, believe it or not!). All in all a very complete, festive day 🙂
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That sounds fantastic. Except for the cheating with the early presents, you are supposed to wait until the morning of the 6th of January.
 
was going to say Good morning but it’s well & truly afternoon isn’t it :rofl: was 8.8 (omg) on waking at around 9am today, I was up ate (healthy breakfast) took meds etc
since have been quite busy outside, until just now and right now my BS is still showing as 8.1

hope everybody had a wonderful day yesterday, ok Christmas isn’t just the one day, I know it’s a time to enjoy the company of family & friends Or for some of us just some time to chill & relax on our own

I was quite surprised yesterday evening, as had a spike as I went to bed, ok I had had a few chocolates & some crisps in the evening, but it shows when I used to do that everyday (once upon-a-time in a previous life) why I ended up with a Hba1c double what it currently is 🙄
yesterday just before midnight my levels went up into mid teens the highest shown on the Libra was 15.4 although a FP test on BGM showed was actually 11.2

Today I have received a text from my surgery, in response to the non-urgent request I made on Christmas Eve, they’ve made me an appointment for a F2F appointment with my GP on the 7th (I’m glad this will be in person rather than the usual telephone consultation because I want to speak to him regarding Anxiety)

I haven’t fully read through the posts but, Congrats to the HS producers both yesterday & today
I’ve loads to catch up on here regarding what everyones posted, but a quick scan (whilst winking through one eye at my iPad) I noticed @eggyg ’s playing “Freezer Tetris” that made me :rofl:

Happy Boxing Day to all 😎
 
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