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I've never been a natural early riser since my senior school start time was 9.25am and I reckon I've been fighting that ever since - that's long been my excuse and I've stuck to it!
 
trophywench said:
I've never been a natural early riser since my senior school start time was 9.25am and I reckon I've been fighting that ever since - that's long been my excuse and I've stuck to it!
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I like your style! I have no trouble getting up early but find difficulty tolerating fools before 11 ish. No excuses available to me - I just bite...
 
Glad to hear your update @TinaD

And your levels seem great, especially given the continued steroids.

Huge congratulations on all the positive progress you have made.

Just remember that you ‘fail’ your HbA1c 🙂 , there is no failure, stigma or judgement to getting a high value. It is just information to inform what you might try next - and it sounds like what you have been trying is working really well for you 🙂
 
Thank you. I think I failed myself by not struggling harder for supplies and instead spending most of lock down baking scrummy breads, cakes, puddings etc and then there were all those lovely new potatoes in the garden that found a home...Back to the side of virtue - lettuce anybody? Pak choi? Time to add new seedlings to the hydroponics.
 
Love your attitude @TinaD.

Park the cakes and puddings but as for the new potatoes, the trick is not to eat a pile of them (especially the little ones that you can scoff in one go) but to take a couple of smallish boiled ones, slice them, and saute them in seasoned butter with chopped shallot and some sage. That way you can savour them and the resultant portion looks 10 times bigger than the two measly spuds you started with fooling your brain into thinking you have had a generous amount. Sneaky, eh?
 
Or take the same two new spuds, boiled then quarter them, leave, hidden in the fridge with door shut, whilst you prepare lettuce/pak choi, then add mayo to the cooled spuds and serve the resultant large dollop of potato salad with the leaves. The fat in the mayo (Oh yes - full fat mayo!) slows down the absorption of the carb in the spud shed loads!
 
Get thee behind me Satan - 16g of carbs per 100g. 68 calories. A 100g of potato is so embarrassed it hides under the parsley. Next thing you and Docb will be advocating chips...I'm on 800 cals and 20 carbs a day - no sense in prolonging the agony.
 
I have really enjoyed reading this thread - well done TinaD for a fantastic effort. I shall think of you whilst eating yet another courgette from the garden
 
stephknits said:
I have really enjoyed reading this thread - well done TinaD for a fantastic effort. I shall think of you whilst eating yet another courgette from the garden
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Hello Stephknits - glad to meet another grower. I grew yellow ones this year but all my cucurbits have been poor this year. Sadly the spuds were superb and now all my neighbours are enjoying the fruits of my labour.
 
I feel your pain - I love new potatoes. Lucky neighbours!
 
Freshly dug and just a modicum (well, lots) of good butter...bliss. Don't let me think about it...
 
Pleased I'm not the only one who had a failure with courgettes this year. They have been so abundant previous years, not sure what I did wrong.
I have indulged in a few new potatoes this year having been very restrained last year. After all, new potatoes are lower carb than any other and I particularly like waxy ones (Arran Pilots or Nadines) which are lower carb than floury potatoes so I decided that I would have my annual portion of potatoes when they would do the least damage.... Of course I didn't eat the plateful that I would have pre diagnosis, but more than the piddly 3 little marbles I allocated myself last year.
 
rebrascora said:
Pleased I'm not the only one who had a failure with courgettes this year. They have been so abundant previous years, not sure what I did wrong.
I have indulged in a few new potatoes this year having been very restrained last year. After all, new potatoes are lower carb than any other and I particularly like waxy ones (Arran Pilots or Nadines) which are lower carb than floury potatoes so I decided that I would have my annual portion of potatoes when they would do the least damage.... Of course I didn't eat the plateful that I would have pre diagnosis, but more than the piddly 3 little marbles I allocated myself last year.
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I doubt you did anything wrong. I think it was the weather. Depressing though to see so little return when last year total strangers who stood still long enough were given lots. I envy your self discipline. If its handy I eat it - hence denuding the veggie patch of the lovely murphies, clearing the pantry, and screening the grocery order for anything vaguely carb related. Man, could I eat a crumpet...well, no, I don't have any. Sobs into keyboard...
 
I had no problems at all with courgettes up here in Lancashire but had stupid trouble in germinating almost anything else... beetroot a complete failure, carrots sporadic, salads poor. My spuds were hammered by slugs. Really weird. Just put in some onion sets........
 
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I had no problems at all with courgettes up here in Lancashire but had stupid trouble in germinating almost anything else... beetroot a complete failure, carrots sporadic, salads poor. My spuds were hammered by slugs. Really weird. Just put in some onion sets........
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Peas, runners: excellent; asparagus OK, salads brilliant - but I do those in the hydroponics. Courgettes, butternut, cucumbers and spaghetti squash: dire.
 
Ok - a little advice please. Weight still going down nicely. FBG first thing seems mostly to be around 5 to 5.4. However finding when taking pre-meal test it seems to be around 9 to 9.9 although it doesn't go screaming up 2 hours after. Last night for instance it was 10.2 at 2 hrs post food. Ideas for squeezing that before meal figure down? I am taking a good deal of slow, steady, exercise (gardening) but cannot do speed because of COPD. Is this just the steroid effect as it is, apparently, an artificial cortisol which operates in flight or fight stress. Doing my best to avoid other stresses.
Found some brilliant garlic on line and some elephant garlic. The great midden removal is booked for next week so will be able to plant out the over wintering strawberries and get the garlic in.
 
TinaD said:
Ok - a little advice please. Weight still going down nicely. FBG first thing seems mostly to be around 5 to 5.4. However finding when taking pre-meal test it seems to be around 9 to 9.9 although it doesn't go screaming up 2 hours after. Last night for instance it was 10.2 at 2 hrs post food. Ideas for squeezing that before meal figure down? I am taking a good deal of slow, steady, exercise (gardening) but cannot do speed because of COPD. Is this just the steroid effect as it is, apparently, an artificial cortisol which operates in flight or fight stress. Doing my best to avoid other stresses.
Found some brilliant garlic on line and some elephant garlic. The great midden removal is booked for next week so will be able to plant out the over wintering strawberries and get the garlic in.
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Being on steroids can increase blood levels, and would think if you are going up into the 9's and 10's, then that is quite good for someone on steriods.
 
Sounds like you are doing really well @TinaD

I suspect you may be right about the steroids :(
 
Thanks - very reassuring. I am on a massive dose of steroids which I am slowly reducing. Terrified the COPD will worsen and the palindromic arthritis will again confine me to bed with pain when the dose gets really low or ends. Can only take opiates for pain (which I won't do as no desire to be addicted but am on blood thinners which prevent use of NSAIDs\) Rather feel that diabetes is the last straw. On the good side I may end up a svelte and elegant figure as I ply my trowel - this keto lark is certainly working - I keep having to hitch up my trews.
 
TinaD said:
Thanks - very reassuring. I am on a massive dose of steroids which I am slowly reducing. Terrified the COPD will worsen and the palindromic arthritis will again confine me to bed with pain when the dose gets really low or ends. Can only take opiates for pain (which I won't do as no desire to be addicted but am on blood thinners which prevent use of NSAIDs\) Rather feel that diabetes is the last straw. On the good side I may end up a svelte and elegant figure as I ply my trowel - this keto lark is certainly working - I keep having to hitch up my trews.
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Good luck.
 
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