Type 1s with good BG daily control.

[everydayupsanddowns]

We had this thread of people’s top 5 tips a while back, which you might find interesting?

5 Top Tips for Better Diabetesing

Just found myself absently wondering what I would say to myself if I could go back in time ‘Bill and Ted’ style and offer newly-diagnosed-me some hints and tips for better diabetes management, and a better relationship with my diabetes from future-me. What 5 hints and tips I might offer myself...

forum.diabetes.org.uk

 

[Ali11782]

We had this thread of people’s top 5 tips a while back, which you might find interesting?

5 Top Tips for Better Diabetesing

Just found myself absently wondering what I would say to myself if I could go back in time ‘Bill and Ted’ style and offer newly-diagnosed-me some hints and tips for better diabetes management, and a better relationship with my diabetes from future-me. What 5 hints and tips I might offer myself...

forum.diabetes.org.uk

Thanks.

 

[Inka]

This is exactly how I want it to be for me.
I need to stop being influenced by external things that's I am not in control of.
I shall get there. It is all so simple in theory lol I think half my problem is adapting the fact we actually do not need much food to live. But yet we are bombarded with food stuff all the time. When you break it all down, a daily requirement is not much

I do not eat meat or fish. Love my cheese.
Alison

Someone once said that people now are overfed and undernourished. So it’s not so much that we all need less food, more that we need to choose our food well. But, again, we shouldn’t worry too much about ‘being perfect’. Treats in moderation are fine. I hate to see people beating themselves up because they had some crisps, or deciding to punish themselves because they ate a bar of chocolate. I’m talking about everybody, not just people with diabetes. I also hate to see people boasting about how little they eat. That’s bad not good.

Ease up on your targets, take off the Libre if it’s stressing you - it supposed to be your servant not your master. You’re doing really well - don’t forget that.

 

[Ali11782]

Someone once said that people now are overfed and undernourished. So it’s not so much that we all need less food, more that we need to choose our food well. But, again, we shouldn’t worry too much about ‘being perfect’. Treats in moderation are fine. I hate to see people beating themselves up because they had some crisps, or deciding to punish themselves because they ate a bar of chocolate. I’m talking about everybody, not just people with diabetes. I also hate to see people boasting about how little they eat. That’s bad not good.

Ease up on your targets, take off the Libre if it’s stressing you - it supposed to be your servant not your master. You’re doing really well - don’t forget that.

Thank you.
Yes I agree with that statement of overfed and undernourished. It is a very good way to look at it x

 

[helli]

Someone once said that people now are overfed and undernourished. So it’s not so much that we all need less food, more that we need to choose our food well. But, again, we shouldn’t worry too much about ‘being perfect’. Treats in moderation are fine. I hate to see people beating themselves up because they had some crisps, or deciding to punish themselves because they ate a bar of chocolate. I’m talking about everybody, not just people with diabetes. I also hate to see people boasting about how little they eat. That’s bad not good.

Ease up on your targets, take off the Libre if it’s stressing you - it supposed to be your servant not your master. You’re doing really well - don’t forget that.

Sometimes I wish I had the eloquence of some members on here - this is definitely one of those occasions.
If you ever see me writing "overfed and undernourished" or mentioning the Libre "should be your servant not your master", I hope you'll appreciate that imitation is the greatest form of flattery.

 

[pm133]

I am just wondering if there is anyone on here who has most of the time good libre graphs etc. I just wanted to hear what you do, what works for you etc.

Alison

I'm with @Inka on this.
I eat 3 regular good quality meals each day, reasonably equally spaced out and I avoid snacking like the plague.

Cereal with some added fresh fruit like grapes for breakfast.
Usually cold meat with tomatoes and a bit of coleslaw for lunch.
Then for dinner it'll be maybe diced chicken in a sauce or fish with rice or pasta or maybe just veg. Maybe spaghetti bolognaise, or a homemade curry. Sometime a chicken kiev. I'm not a picky eater so we make full us of all types of fresh meat.
And far more tea and coffee than is good for me 🙂

Sometimes at night I'll have 5-6 fresh strawberries diced with a low fat yoghurt as a snack or a handful of nuts or a bowl of grated cheese. Occasionally, I'll get a 100g bar of chocolate or a tasty bun but I try to limit that to once or twice per week.

I keep a very good eye on portion sizes too.
My HbA1c is 44 right now and I'm 8% in the 3.9 to 10 range with little or no hypos these days. I'll have excursions into the +10 readings for about 1-2 hours twice a day - always at breakfast and occasionally after dinner if I have cake.

 

[pm133]

I am pretty happy with how my BG management is going at the moment. 80%+ in range (4-9) for the last 30 days.

Yesterday was 95% I think (hard to be 100% sure because of how Dexcom shows the days.

This is my 24 hour graph. A few dips into the low 4s, and a brief excursion to about 12 after Eve meal (unexpectedly rose to 10 just before eating). Approx 170g of carbs (plus a few jelly babies on dog walks)

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At this sort of level I am more than happy. I occasionally get 100% 4-9 but those days are rare, and not what I aim for. 70-80% is plenty, as long as my below 4s are few.

There's no vertical scale there but that looks not too dissimilar to my graph.

 

[Ali11782]

I'm with @Inka on this.
I eat 3 regular good quality meals each day, reasonably equally spaced out and I avoid snacking like the plague.

Cereal with some added fresh fruit like grapes for breakfast.
Usually cold meat with tomatoes and a bit of coleslaw for lunch.
Then for dinner it'll be maybe diced chicken in a sauce or fish with rice or pasta or maybe just veg. Maybe spaghetti bolognaise, or a homemade curry. Sometime a chicken kiev. I'm not a picky eater so we make full us of all types of fresh meat.
And far more tea and coffee than is good for me 🙂

Sometimes at night I'll have 5-6 fresh strawberries diced with a low fat yoghurt as a snack or a handful of nuts or a bowl of grated cheese. Occasionally, I'll get a 100g bar of chocolate or a tasty bun but I try to limit that to once or twice per week.

I keep a very good eye on portion sizes too.
My HbA1c is 44 right now and I'm 8% in the 3.9 to 10 range with little or no hypos these days. I'll have excursions into the +10 readings for about 1-2 hours twice a day - always at breakfast and occasionally after dinner if I have cake.

Fantastic. This is what I want to achieve. Can always do 1 mayb 2 days but then I lose it.

 

[helli]

@Ali11782 if you are using the Libre app on your phone and concerned by the peaks and troughs, have you tried turning your phone around?
This probably sounds silly but when we look at our graphs in portrait orientation, the vertical is emphasised and it looks as if our levels are constantly swinging from really high to really low.
If I turn my phone around to landscape mode, the graph is stretched and the peaks and troughs look far less concerning.
The numbers may be the same but the graphs are far less intimidating.

My other thought is around your desire to eat 3 regular good quality meals each day.
I will reiterate my comment from earlier - set yourself achievable targets.
If you can only do this 1 maybe 2 days then set smaller steps.
Focus on doing something like eating breakfast every day and only when this becomes habit think about something else like not snaking until lunch.
But set small, achievable targets and enjoy the wins rather that beating yourself up when you fail.

 

[Ali11782]

@Ali11782 if you are using the Libre app on your phone and concerned by the peaks and troughs, have you tried turning your phone around?
This probably sounds silly but when we look at our graphs in portrait orientation, the vertical is emphasised and it looks as if our levels are constantly swinging from really high to really low.
If I turn my phone around to landscape mode, the graph is stretched and the peaks and troughs look far less concerning.
The numbers may be the same but the graphs are far less intimidating.

My other thought is around your desire to eat 3 regular good quality meals each day.
I will reiterate my comment from earlier - set yourself achievable targets.
If you can only do this 1 maybe 2 days then set smaller steps.
Focus on doing something like eating breakfast every day and only when this becomes habit think about something else like not snaking until lunch.
But set small, achievable targets and enjoy the wins rather that beating yourself up when you fail.

Hi,
Oh my word that's is so helpful. Can't believe I didn't think about that with graph, it makes perfect sense.
So I always enjoy my breakfast and lunch, don't snack in between. Then I find the rest of the day hard. I don't tend to snack before dinner but I start becoming consumed by food thoughts. Have my dinner and then I want to eat and not stop. I know a lot of it is because emotionally I struggle after lunch. Just have to change my mindset. And you are right small steps. And now if I have the effort of working out my insulin at dinner because it always seems to go down even when I bolus at time of eating. Which makes me want to eat more.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

@Ali11782 if you are using the Libre app on your phone and concerned by the peaks and troughs, have you tried turning your phone around?

Doesn't work on Android phones, unfortunately. (Many apps will happily rearrange themselves but LibreLink stubbornly stays in portrait mode.)

 

[Ali11782]

Doesn't work on Android phones, unfortunately. (Many apps will happily rearrange themselves but LibreLink stubbornly stays in portrait mode.)

Just tried alms you are right it doesn't. How annoying.

 

[helli]

Doesn't work on Android phones, unfortunately. (Many apps will happily rearrange themselves but LibreLink stubbornly stays in portrait mode.)

Wow. It works with Glimp, xDrip and Dexcom.
Silly me for making the assumption on LibreLink.

Thanks for correcting me.

 

[pm133]

I don't tend to snack before dinner but I start becoming consumed by food thoughts. Have my dinner and then I want to eat and not stop. I know a lot of it is because emotionally I struggle after lunch. Just have to change my mindset.

It's not necessarily "just" a case of changing your mindset.

If you can't stop eating there will be something driving that and you need to try and think what that could be. Is there something you think about in the afternoon and evening that you don't think about earlier in the day? Are you comfort eating for some reason? Are you busy in the morning but not keeping yourself busy after lunch? Is there some unhappiness which comes on in the afternoon but not the morning. Is there a problem here that you can solve yourself or do you need some external help? Is there a type of food or drink which then triggers a bingefest? That sort of thing.

You obviously don't need to post things you'd rather not share but you need to have a think about these things to see if there's anythng there which can help you get to the bottom of this.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

There's no vertical scale there but that looks not too dissimilar to my graph.

Oh yes!

92% between 4 and 9
Min/Max 4.1 to 12.3
Mean 6.8
SD 1.4