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Group 7-day waking average?

Carolg said:
I have been catching up on posts, and don’t quite understand the phrase “eat to feed the insulin”. Think I am a bit dense. I will have a good lunch before I go out, so hopefully no hypo this time.
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It's just when you take a little bit too much insulin the whole time, ie, having your basal set a bit high, or always rounding up your bolus, so you have to keep snacking to stop yourself dropping into hypo territory. If you do this, you tend to put on weight, which is why it’s often quoted, ‘insulin makes you gain weight' and the answer given is 'Well, not if you don’t eat to feed the insulin'
 
Carolg said:
Good morning. Cold but sunny here.

6.7 for me, so pleased with that. Going for a looooong walk this afternoon so will no doubt up the distance. Seeing bits of Leven and surrounds that never seen before, plus lots of mud and glore. And lots of chatter.

I have been catching up on posts, and don’t quite understand the phrase “eat to feed the insulin”. Think I am a bit dense. I will have a good lunch before I go out, so hopefully no hypo this time.

Have a good day all.
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In the early days when I was first put on insulin they were fixed doses. They were a bit high, despite them starting off conservatively, & made me hungry! So, I ate more & that’s what eating to the insulin is. It should be the other way round; adapt the insulin to what you eat!
 
Robin said:
It's just when you take a little bit too much insulin the whole time, ie, having your basal set a bit high, or always rounding up your bolus, so you have to keep snacking to stop yourself dropping into hypo territory. If you do this, you tend to put on weight, which is why it’s often quoted, ‘insulin makes you gain weight' and the answer given is 'Well, not if you don’t eat to feed the insulin'
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Thanks for this. I am on a mixed insulin so fixed doses.i have put on a stone in weight since early December but that is good. Look and feel healthier.
 
Lanny said:
In the early days when I was first put on insulin they were fixed doses. They were a bit high, despite them starting off conservatively, & made me hungry! So, I ate more & that’s what eating to the insulin is. It should be the other way round; adapt the insulin to what you eat!
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Thanks Lanny. See the other reply to @
Robin please
 
Good morning everyone🙂

5.5 this morning, straightish line overnight, so dull and boring🙂

Flipping heck, it’s a bit breezy this morning. Cold, too. It’s not a day for sitting for two hours at Ewood Park, but I have to go. It’s one of the big local derbies - Preston North End. Not quite as visceral as playing Burnley, historically, but should be a decent crowd. There won’t be any bother, for sure. No family conflicts.😉

Deepdale, Preston’s home ground, is the oldest continuously occupied ground in the country. You’ll never guess why they are called North End. It’s because the ground is in the North End of Preston. It’s not far from the first ever Spar shop in the UK. Robin knows it well, she’s wed to a Preston emigrant. That’s healthy enough, Prestonians aren’t as inbred as Burnley denizens.:D

Have a good day folks- I will, for sure🙂
 
Morning all, an 8.2 for me today.
Question - am I allowed an eccles cake if it's my pets birthday? My little Tigga is 4 today.IMG_20190224_054127.jpg
 
Chomp away Stitch.:D Good morning a 9.7 forgot my evening Basal,😳 woke up in the recliner at 04:45 this morning, Greek music playing half a glass of Retsina unconsumed, not for long🙄.

Lanny said:
😱:D 04:20 BS 5.2. Yippee!😛:D Only the second House Special I’ve had in a year of being on this forum! I’m ESTACTIC!😛:D😎🙂😉 I’ve forgooten what it’s like to wake with a DECENT BS. The Diabetes Fiary is STILL being nice to me!🙂
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Well done @Lanny great result, I`ll even forgive the spelling, life can only get better.🙂

Take care folks, you keep me alive, enjoy your day.🙂
 
Good morning. 6.8 for me after a small can of full fat Coke in the early hours when I was 5.2 I’m glad that I pre-emptied a probable hypo 🙂
 
KARNAK said:
Chomp away Stitch.:D Good morning a 9.7 forgot my evening Basal,😳 woke up in the recliner at 04:45 this morning, Greek music playing half a glass of Retsina unconsumed, not for long🙄.



Well done @Lanny great result, I`ll even forgive the spelling, life can only get better.🙂

Take care folks, you keep me alive, enjoy your day.🙂
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Oh dear!😱 I’ve always been a bad speller & auto correction keeps getting it wrong so, I turn it off!o_O Add to that, I was SO excited this morning so, add typos to the mix too!😱:D

I cop to the charge Mr. spelling police officer, SIR!😉
 
mikeyB said:
Deepdale, Preston’s home ground, is the oldest continuously occupied ground in the country. You’ll never guess why they are called North End. It’s because the ground is in the North End of Preston. It’s not far from the first ever Spar shop in the UK. Robin knows it well, she’s wed to a Preston emigrant. That’s healthy enough, Prestonians aren’t as inbred as Burnley denizens
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Well, good result! Or not, depending on your point of view. OH took his 97yr old uncle to see Preston play at Ewood a couple of years ago. (so, when he was a mere 95) Uncle is very independent and sprightly, but frail, and insisted on sitting in the general stand. OH was so impressed with the stewards who watched out for him, and helped him get out of the stand and into the lift afterwards that he wrote to the club to thank them.
 
Yipee, wish I could put lots of pictures on. 5.2 for me this morning, and now going back to sleep.have a good Sunday all.
 
05:49 BS 7.2. I’m ok with that!🙂 I’ll explain why? I realised yesterday with BS 4.8 & 4.5 at about 3.5 to 4.5 hours after meals & being hungry again, I’ll have to start reducing insulin or I’ll be hypoing! Of course I’d reduced my bolus for those meals because of the low BS but, I was still lower than I’d like. So, I reduced my basal at midday & midnight too. So, after all those reductions I’m ok with a 7!🙂

I had a monster sleep session & slept like I haven’t done in ages: after midday Levemir, brief awakening for midnight Levemir & finally to now; 18 hours!😱

I’m now ravenously hungry!🙄 So, no more gabbing! I’m off to have breakfast!😉

Have a wonderful, easy, lazy Sunday everyone!😉
 
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Carolg said:
Yipee, wish I could put lots of pictures on. 5.2 for me this morning, and now going back to sleep.have a good Sunday all.
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Congratulations Carolg
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Madeline said:
10😱

Woken up wheezy with a sore throat and a mouthful of our birdy friend, so not surprised really.

Congrats on that HS @Carolg :D:D:D
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I hope you feel better soon. Ugh that horrible birdy friend.
 
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Good morning folks. Woke to 7.6 a bit higher than I like, probably due to too much snacking on prawn crackers and walnuts last night, went to bed on 7.2 My graph was fairly even so I am not unhappy with my level.
 
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