I can do this!!!!!!!

[Northerner]

Ooooooh yes forgot to say how good I was today. After hospital appointments I walk past the bakers on my way to the taxi and usually I pop in to get my favourite roll - cheese topped with egg mayo and sausage, yummy. But not today, today was straight home to my healthy WW counted lunch

Well done! 🙂

 

[LeeLee]

Thanks for the reminder, I'm looking forward to posting them on Friday Why don't you think you will make much of any impact? You have already done so brilliantly and you're my inspiration🙂

Thanks for the vote of confidence Amanda, but at this stage the slightest slip makes a big difference - and I went off-plan on Saturday. I've been good the rest of the week, so I might scrape in with a small loss.

 

[AJLang]

Thank you Alan🙂 LeeLee I hope that you are able to post a weight loss this week but even if you don't it is only one week and you've done brilliantly so far🙂

 

[AJLang]

BG is rinning high today currently 12.5 but I'm going to use this as an opportunity to basal test my diet without risking a hypo. My average BG for the first 8 days of the diet was 6.0 which meant a few hypos, a lot of testing and using TBR quite a few times so I couldn't identify a pattern. hopefully today will give me an idea of what is happening. Great that I can set up a basal programme just for dieting days so if I have a "naughty" day I can switch back to my other basal programme but of course I won't have any naughty days🙄

 

[shambles]

BG is rinning high today currently 12.5 but I'm going to use this as an opportunity to basal test my diet without risking a hypo. My average BG for the first 8 days of the diet was 6.0 which meant a few hypos, a lot of testing and using TBR quite a few times so I couldn't identify a pattern. hopefully today will give me an idea of what is happening. Great that I can set up a basal programme just for dieting days so if I have a "naughty" day I can switch back to my other basal programme but of course I won't have any naughty days🙄

haha everyone needs naughty days! What's the point otherwise?

 

[AJLang]

I don't seem capable of being naughty at the moment. I've got 21 spare WW points to use by Thursday and I don't know what to do with them (I've already allocated some to wine each day)

 

[Cat1964]

I don't seem capable of being naughty at the moment. I've got 21 spare WW points to use by Thursday and I don't know what to do with them (I've already allocated some to wine each day)

Allocate them to MORE wine!

 

[AJLang]

Now that sounds a VERY good idea

 

[AJLang]

Glad that I've done my basal testing - I was 10.7 at 11am and 7.1 at 4pm - I've done hourly testing and made some changes. I find it slightly strange that my basal is different when dieting compared to when I eat normally but guess that is because there is less food for the gastroparesis to leave hanging around. I will do more basal testing tomorrow. It would be lovely to not need to keep putting on a Temporary Basal Rate or be afraid of Hypos - then I can Enjoy (!!!!!!!) the dieting

 

[AJLang]

I never thought that the diet would take so much basal testing and alterations!M I've been cutting my basal rates but still dropped from 5.7 at 9am to 4.0 at 11.30am. Abandoned the basal test at that point to have three jelly babies to avoid a hypo. Looks like more basal testing tomorrow.

 

[AJLang]

I hope this doesn't go wrong. I have 30 WW points available so I'm going to have a Chinese takeaway - spring roll, small amount of crispy chilli beef and prawn foo young. I hope I don't regret it.

 

[Northerner]

I hope this doesn't go wrong. I have 30 WW points available so I'm going to have a Chinese takeaway - spring roll, small amount of crispy chilli beef and prawn foo young. I hope I don't regret it.

Hope you enjoy it, and the food gods are kind to you 🙂

 

[AJLang]

Thank you Alan🙂

 

[shambles]

You deserve a treat! You've been working really hard at it!

Hope the chinese doesn't send you sky high though xxx Fingers crossed! I've not dared have a take away from anywhere since January I miss fish and chips!

 

[AJLang]

Thanks Shambles. I really didn't know how to calculate the carbs so underestimated to avoid a hypo. Ended up at 12 this morning so not too bad as my average BG since starting the diet has been 6.9🙂 so I can afford the occasional high. The Chinese was really lovely and I'm sure that I had enough WW points saved for it. I stood on the scales this morning and they claimed I'd lost more weight. But as my weight fluctuates from day to day I won't say anything more about my weight until tomorrow which is weigh in day🙂

 

[AJLang]

It's the end of week two and I've kept to my WW points. Had beef stew and dumplings for dinner, it was very nice. Didn't eat hardly anything during the day as I didnt have an appetite.

 

[Northerner]

It's the end of week two and I've kept to my WW points. Had beef stew and dumplings for dinner, it was very nice. Didn't eat hardly anything during the day as I didnt have an appetite.

Ooh! Haven't had dumplings for ages! Well done on keeping on track Amanda 🙂 You reminded me of a poem I wrote:

http://diabetespoetry.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/ode-to-dumpling-dear.html

 

[AJLang]

Thanks Alan🙂 The early hours of this morning were a nightmare. Woke up at 4am to a horrible 2.2 so had five jelly babies. 15 minutes later it was still only 2.8 and I had a major hypo craving so two more jelly babies and a creme egg😱 Can't decide whether to include them in my WW allowance for the week, which would depressing, or to ignore them and prepare for a slightly slower weight loss this week. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? PS I weighed myself this morning, three hours after the hypo incident, and had lost another 2 pounds. Now down to 14 stone 7lbs🙂

 

[AJLang]

OK positive thinking head on. It's the start of week 3 and I've often failed by this stage! I've typed into my WW calculator the hypo food that I had this morning. I've got a load of ready meals arriving from Tesco in a little while to keep point counting easier and portion control more manageable. I've typed a plan into my WW software for every day in the next week and I have quite a few spare points that haven't been allocated. Now I just need a lot of self discipline and determination🙂

 

[AJLang]

Now my self discipline is being tested...I've needed more jelly babies