Hello - New T2 here :-(

[dannybgoode]

Your body will try and do what it can to hang on to its fat reserves

Yes, bodies are really good at doing this.

It is why, as you say, it's the long term trend that's important.

This is my 5 year weight chart. Started at 115kg and now hovering around 90-91kg bit lots of peaks along the way.

My 8 year chart is interesting too. Spot the two times I started then stopped antidepressants!

 

[harbottle]

Not a health care professional, so.....
My understanding is that HbA1c of 42 to 47 is technically pre diabetic, 48 and over is diabetic. 41 and under is not diabetic.
However, once you have been diabetic, not sure how your GP would then classify you if you go back under the diabetic and pre diabetic threshold?
I think you may have to have two (three monthly) HbA1c blood tests, that are below the diabetic range, without medication, to be classed as non diabetic. Obviously if you are still on medication then that muddys the water a bit!

If you get a hba1c < 48 without medication, then your medical record will be updated with 'Diabetes (In remission)', which I believe means you no longer have to declare yourself as diabetic for things like insurance. However, the annual checks are recommended as the condition can return. So you're sort of in a half-way house of being diabetic.

I call it Shroedinger's diabetes.

 

[silver minion]

Yes, bodies are really good at doing this.

It is why, as you say, it's the long term trend that's important.

This is my 5 year weight chart. Started at 115kg and now hovering around 90-91kg bit lots of peaks along the way.

My 8 year chart is interesting too. Spot the two times I started then stopped antidepressants!

Very interesting charts. I am not so organised as to keep records on my weight history. To be fair it wasn't really something I needed to worry about until I hit my fifties. Even then if I felt I was getting to heavy I would cut out snacking and move more until I lost the extra weight. Trouble was I wasn't disciplined enough to maintain it. Getting diagnosed with diabetes has made me much more motivated to make permanent lifestyle changes.

 

[dannybgoode]

Very interesting charts. I am not so organised as to keep records on my weight history. To be fair it wasn't really something I needed to worry about until I hit my fifties. Even then if I felt I was getting to heavy I would cut out snacking and move more until I lost the extra weight. Trouble was I wasn't disciplined enough to maintain it. Getting diagnosed with diabetes has made me much more motivated to make permanent lifestyle changes.

Scales automatically upload so such things are made easy for me.

Another 5kg and I'll be bang on target weight...

 

[silver minion]

Scales automatically upload so such things are made easy for me.

Another 5kg and I'll be bang on target weight...

What scales do you use. My old scales have just died so I am looking for some with more functions as well as a nice big clear display.

 

[dannybgoode]

What scales do you use. My old scales have just died so I am looking for some with more functions as well as a nice big clear display.

I use Withings Smart Scales. They feed their own app and also MyFitnessPal.

That in turn feeds Garmin Connect and then, because I hate running multiple apps to see data, that plus all my training data feeds SportTracks which is where these graphs are from.

 

[FredX]

Hi Fred, don't worry about losing weight this week. Your body will try and do what it can to hang on to its fat reserves. As long as the longer term trend is to keep losing weight until you get to your personal target that will be fine.
You are doing all the right things and as your blood glucose reduces and you start feeling better everything else will follow.
Keep us updated with your progress. A lot of us are still on the journey to a healthy hba1c and all the benefits that brings.

onwards and upward 🙂

 

[FredX]

Some monitors can be hooked to third party apps which will work with more than one make.

My Accu-chek Instant does it all by Bluetooth to my phone which is handy as I don't have to remember to update a spreadsheet etc.

Is it useful? I think so - graphs etc are a nice quick way of visualising what's going on and being able to look back and compare stats is nice.

Is it essential? No. Not by any means. Disclaimer too - I got given my BG meters by the hospital and strips on prescription as I'm on insulin so price isn't a factor for me. If it was then I'd be looking at an accurate cost effective meter first and foremost and connectivity as a nice to have.

I was looking at the online shop on here and I was about to order the contour blue plus with a box of strips and some lancets but they don't sell the lancets for the contour. Strange.

I was wondering if the freestyle lancets they do sell would be compatible

I have asked in the devices forum.
I would have thought they would have sold all the part needed.

May have to order them separately.

It would just be easier to get them from the same place and wait for just one delivery.

 

[dannybgoode]

The lancets don't matter. You can use any lancet with any reader - their only job is to make you bleed.

Personally the Accu-chek Fast Clik system does it for me as it is 'height adjustable' so you can dial it on to just the right aggressive to draw blood but not hurt.

 

[FredX]

The lancets don't matter. You can use any lancet with any reader - their only job is to make you bleed.

Personally the Accu-chek Fast Clik system does it for me as it is 'height adjustable' so you can dial it on to just the right aggressive to draw blood but not hurt.

thank you

 

[FredX]

thank you

thank you

i have placed my order on here for the Contour blue so hopefully that will arrive in the next day of so.
I'm having lots of fun creating Excel sheets to monitor how it goes.

 

[FredX]

Scales automatically upload so such things are made easy for me.

Another 5kg and I'll be bang on target weight...

Well, despite my good intentions I have only managed to get to the pool once.
Then it was very busy and a lot of faff so I have given that up as a bad idea.

It's just not sutainable for me, getting up at 6am it's not for me.

I'm a night owl, wish the pools were open until midnight.

I tried to pop in on my way home from work but i couldn't even get a parking space.

So it's not practical.

So I have bought an exercise bike, good old Argos 🙂

Pick it up tomorrow on the way home from work.

No car journeys to the sports centre, not faff, do it anytime i want.

So i will easily be able to do at least 30 mins every night.

Let's see if that shifts some kg, along with the change in diet.

 

[pjgtech]

The lancets don't matter. You can use any lancet with any reader - their only job is to make you bleed.
Personally the Accu-chek Fast Clik system does it for me as it is 'height adjustable' so you can dial it on to just the right aggressive to draw blood but not hurt.

But not all lancets (eg: needles) fit all lancet holders. And as most BG kits come with the monitor and the lancet holder (as well as a few lancets and strips) all in one. If buying spares you therefore need to buy the ones that fit your particular kit. Otherwise you would have to buy a separate lancet holder, can you even do that, are they sold separately?
My wife has an older BG monitor kit and I have a fairly new one, and they do not use the same lancets or lancet holders.
Sorry still relatively new to this myself, so i may be wrong.

 

[rebrascora]

I find running up and down stairs works really well for me and is a good cardiovascular work out and costs nothing. Just 10 mins twice a day can have a significant impact on my BG levels and fitness and insulin needs.

 

[Leadinglights]

But not all lancets (eg: needles) fit all lancet holders. And as most BG kits come with the monitor and the lancet holder (as well as a few lancets and strips) all in one. If buying spares you therefore need to buy the ones that fit your particular kit. Otherwise you would have to buy a separate lancet holder, can you even do that, are they sold separately?
My wife has an older BG monitor kit and I have a fairly new one, and they do not use the same lancets or lancet holders.
Sorry still relatively new to this myself, so i may be wrong.

It doesn't really matter what you use to produce the drop of blood, it is the strip must be the right one for the monitor.

 

[rebrascora]

I have a feeling that the box of 200 lancets that I was prescribed at diagnosis, came with a lancing device included in it, as I think that is what I use now after my original one from my testing kit broke. I also bought a Fast Clix just out of curiosity because everyone raves about them, but I hardly ever use it as I don't find it any better and obviously cartridges are more expensive for it and not prescribed, but the 6 in a cartridge will easily last me 6years when my current "finger bodger" dies!

 

[pjgtech]

It doesn't really matter what you use to produce the drop of blood, it is the strip must be the right one for the monitor.

Yeah I know, but most BG monitors come with their own lancets and lancet holder, so most users will presumably want to use those, and get spares for that one?

 

[rebrascora]

Yeah I know, but most BG monitors come with their own lancets and lancet holder, so most users will presumably want to use those, and get spares for that one?

Most lancets are universal though. I have had some that were a slightly different shape but still fit my lancing device. The obvious exception being the Fast Clix which takes cartridges.

 

[pjgtech]

Most lancets are universal though. I have had some that were a slightly different shape but still fit my lancing device. The obvious exception being the Fast Clix which takes cartridges.

Just going by the two types we have here, my newish ones (GlucoRX) and my Wife's older ones, not sure what make they are, but her lancets do not fit in my lancet holder and vice versa. Buy yes as others have said as long as you can get blood out, thats the main thing, Lol... 😎

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Yeah I know, but most BG monitors come with their own lancets and lancet holder, so most users will presumably want to use those, and get spares for that one?

Most lancets are universal though. I have had some that were a slightly different shape but still fit my lancing device. The obvious exception being the Fast Clix which takes cartridges.

I’m with @pjgtech on this one - of the fingerpricking devices I have each seems to have a slightly different shape/size of lancet that fits it. Some with thin / flat plastic sections that slot into the device, others with cross-shaped ones (of differing sizes. Not forgetting the cartridge style ones.

I’m not aware that I have two fingerprickers that take the same?