Thank you for your kind words Verano, Today is a new day and I’m back tracking my food on my fitness pal, and I’m being accountable for all I eat and drink. I have done what you suggested and have brought two 800ml bottles of water with me to work to consume them by home time then another one when I get home during the evening with a cup of tea before bed. I have had Greek yoghurt, homemade granola with berries for breakfast and a chicken salad (no dressing) for lunch, with raspberries and strawberries for extra fiber. I have also switched to slow release metformin in the hope that helps with the high morning readings – we shall see. I’m in the UK and my GP/DN does not want to see me until my annual review in December, I guess I could ask to have a repeat HBA1C blood test done, or I could pay to have it done by Boots at home, like you say just to see if things are as bad as I think they could be. I have increased my carb limited as you suggest but as a total upper limit not to be reached or exceeded more as a buffer, and I will do my best, I faired much better with the strict 800 diet but that was not enough calories to keep me going with the exercise that I do, so I think logging it is definitely the way forward.
SG – I’m sorry to hear about Vienna, I’m pleased you have managed to get a refund on the concert, it will all click in to place when you and your daughter book it up again, and you never know more things may be available for you to do along your adventure. Hope the gardener has done a good job in the heat today. I don’t like how phones now listen in to every day conversations and start showing you ads for what you have been discussing, it’s all a bit too much like big brother for me. Any house news?
All advice greatly appreciated, thank you all, now back to work I go, enjoy your afternoons xx

Well done MixnMatch on your 60 mile challenge. You must feel so proud and it’s been so hot here too. Well done also for your continued weight loss- 2lb in a week is fab. Hopefully the daily walking will continue to help you feel fitter. I have been enjoying my walking pad but had to see a physio last week as I have been having pain in my good leg and she thinks I’ve got a partial tear of my medial meniscus so i am doing exercises. She said it’s ok to keep walking. She will arrange an MRI if the exercises don’t help after six weeks. We have had a lovely family weekend away and today when i weighed I was 140lb so i am pleased ive not put too much on. I did eat all the naughty things i like but I am back to basics now. We did a lot of walking and so I think that helped! I have my cruise to look forward to in October and my plan is to keep my weight down and I am aiming for around 138 lb. I am still subscribing to the online programme and hope to use the exercise programmes more over the summer. I have a tendency to be lazy so that is something I want to address.
Looking forward to catching up on the thread and looking forward to reading about your progress.

Hi Verano and Newbie. Newbie glad you have come back. I am a bit tired right now and only just seen your post – I have been busy. But I will come back on tomorrow to have a chat with you and see if I can be of any help.

Had a bit of a day of it. Booked concert, arranged housesitter then today tried to book 3 nights in Vienna – nothing, ziltch. I wrote to one hotel to ask about prices and availablity and they said they were not taking bookings for that week as it is the week of Congress and every hotel in Vienna is chocker. Just my luck. Tore my hair out for a while then realised the concert is refundable and the housesitter was only booked yesterday so probably wont have made any drastic arrangements (they were driving here from Germany). So I just cancelled everything. I intent to rebook for the week after when my cancellation has gone through and daughter will help with hotel as she was in Vienna for a few days last month and said some that I was looking at were 30 to 40 mins walk from centre and I need something closer. She talks to Google and they do everything – it even remembered when she asked about an exercise programme for me to loosen fascia and this time it said it remembered my age and suggested being close to the main attractions. I find it a bit spooky. However, we have left it for now.

We have the gardener here tomorrow so I will just be sat around (dont like to swim when we have company) so I will get back to Newbie and see what we can sort out.
Night night.

If you are using the BSD then it depends on what you are making. If it says serves 2 and 270 calories the recipe is enough for 2 people getting 270 cals each so you have to divide it in half either before you make it or after. Put a portion in the fridge for another meal later. If it doesnt mention serving more than one then it is just for one.

We are all on 800 cals and around 50g carbs and can manage that whether we are male, female, sporty or not. Just advice at the start is to not worry too much about exercise for the first couple of weeks as you will feel knackered. Once your body gets used to firing on fat burning you will be able to manage exercise. Unless you are T2 then you will have to be more careful about getting enough to eat in which case you can add a little more – but you dont say you are.

If you are eating enough protein you wont need shakes. We eat plenty of meat, chicken, fish, cheese etc.

If you want to reply just add onto this thread in the box below where it says Reply to Protein Powders. it will continue.

Lost about 4 inches off stomach now!

Spike you can just click’ on your original post to carry on your conversation. You don’t have to start a new link each time! Sorry I can’t help you with your query but best of luck with this way of eating.

NB normally the recipes specify the number of portions!

Thanks for the reply sunshine-girl
bit unsure how it works at the moment
I am eating about 700 to 750 calories carbs anywhere between 20 to 40 its quite difficult to make it work on 2 meals a day, also the meals for 2 people are the calories for the meal divided by 2 or is it for each person ?
Many thanks

Hi Newbie. We have all been there, done that and eventually found our way back on track. It happens and the last thing you need to do is beat yourself up and definitely don’t feel either ashamed or disappointed with yourself. We are all human.

None of us are perfect and there is no need to look for perfection. Just doing the best you can when you can is enough. I honestly don’t know of a formula to get back on track it just clicks when it clicks. Maybe try taking baby steps again. Possibly start with water and just concentrate on drinking 6 glasses a day then 8. Then move on to another step, maybe saying ‘no’ to crisps. You will find a sense of achievement when you reach small goals and hopefully that will soon give you the impetus to get back on track.

Unfortunately, this way of eating is just that when you have T2 and not a ‘diet’ to stop and start. We all have periods when our blood sugar rises and the only thing I can say is look at the alternatives to healthy eating. I first started eating this way 10 years ago. A friend of mine with uncontrolled diabetes had just had a toe removed. I was on the highest dose of metformin and was being threatened with even more drugs. Then I found Michael Moseley and his Blood Sugar Diet. He saved me. No I’m no angel and yes I do have periods when I go off piste but the thought of drugs, and more drugs, and maybe losing toes is enough to keep me from throwing in the towel completely and eating just anything. Maybe you could be a little kind to yourself and set a higher limit for your carbs. How about 125g a day which is still much lower than the average person has in a day?

Hopefully others will add their coping strategies and you will soon be back on track. BTW when is your next HbA1c due? If it’s a long way off you could ask for an earlier one. Things might not be as gloomy as you think!

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Good evening all, I have just read all of your messages, SG I’m sorry to hear about the house and hope a new buyer will show themselves very soon, your trip to Vienna sounds like a real adventure and lots of fun. Well done on your 1kg per month loss and getting under 75kg thats great work.
Margaret your cruise sounds lovely and I’m sure you will lose the holiday weight in no time, holiday washing is always such a drag.
Verano the nhs program sounds great and it’s good that you know some of the advice already. I hope your cataract op goes well.
Sorry I’ve been absent, my triathlon went really well, shaved 33mins off of last year’s time so I’m extremely happy with that. But I hate to say it I’ve fallen off the wagon and finding it extremely hard to get back on it and feel ashamed and disappointed in myself for allowing it to happen and I guess I didnt want to admit it, not to you guys, but then I remembered that you are all here with a listening ear and lots of wise words and advice. I don’t know where to go with it, I’ve put so much pressure on myself, and my family strongly feel I can reverse my diagnosis but as you all know it’s just so hard, I got on a slippery slope and just kept sliding 🥲, I’ve eaten crisps, dairy milk, cereal, bread, potatoes, crackers, alcohol free beer, not all in one day but I need to snap out of it, and I guess go back to basics, my working day is normally ok, I take my breakfast, lunch and berries for a snack, if my colleagues don’t tempt me i’m really good, the other half has slipped and is now buying crisps and chocolate so he’s had a severe telling off. Please tell me how do I get back on track?? I’ve lost my way. I’ve contacted nutritionists for advice but they dont reply or I need a gp referral. Can I ask, I’m on metformin 3 tablets a day but my fasting readings in the morning are quite high, what can I try? I try to stop eating by 7pm but worry that as I don’t eat breakfast until 10am my overnight fast is causing problems, anyone else experienced this?
Anyway thats enough of me whittling on, wishing you all the best, and I do appreciate the thread but also understand where you are all coming from, i hope you all sleep well now it’s cooled a little x

Thank you Verano & the Douro river cruise is next year because we can’t afford another one this year 😂 I may also have to have my other knee operated on following a review this September 🙁
All the holiday washing has been done now thank goodness & back to the routine of preparing supper!
I hope your NHS slimming club works well I am now on WhatsApp with a crowd of oldies from The Rosemary Conley online slimming club that closed down & am currently recording my calories etc with Nutracheck which is quite easy to use listings lots of brands & quantities of food easily saved to a daily diary.
Oh well onwards we go 👍
Margaret xx

Well three days since I posted and thought I should post again….

So happy to have cool/normal English summer weather back! Never thought I would say this but it’s quite nice to see some grey sky!

Hoping to get my new planters ‘planted up’ tomorrow. We had a wall painted and the existing planters had to be moved. One collapsed! Two have been badly misshapen for the last 5 years from when we had roof work, so great excuse to replace them all.

Waiting to hear from a new gardener, fingers crossed he will ring tomorrow…. we are desperate!!!

Hope you have some positives too.

Margret so pleased you had such a wonderful time and you have something to look forward to for September. I would particularly love to do a Douro river cruise but river cruises just won’t work for me with my level of mobility. So, I’ll just have to continue to ‘put up’ with the amazing service, food etc etc on an ocean cruise!! In fact we have one booked in the Med for November. I doubt the weather will be great but the rest should be marvellous so we’ll just take our Rummikub with us, just in case!

S-g that sounds absolutely wonderful. Like Margaret I always watch the New Year’s Day concert. It’s a wonderful way to start the new year and I’m sure you’ll be blown away by your experience.

Quite happy to keep posting here. It would be sad to just ‘disappear’ into the ‘ether’.

So, I have joined an NHS online weight management program. I thought ‘being accountable’ might just help me. As it so happens it’s based very much on lower carb and reducing ultra processed foods. So I’m already 90% of the way there but nonetheless I’m going to go with the flow and give it my best shot. It’s a 12 week program and as I have nothing planned, apart from my second cataract operation, I thought this would be a good time. It reminds me a little of the slimming clubs of yesteryear but we will see!

Much cooler here now and so feeling more ‘normal’. Hope the heatwave has disappeared for you too.

Sounds wonderful seeing the Vienna Philharmonic S-G we always watch the New Years Day concert on tv & used to have a season of the Royal Philharmonic in a nearby theatre that has been cancelled since covid with only one yearly concert now & a few quartets. We have booked another Viking Douro cruise next September for ten days with two spent in Lisbon & had some discounts booking whilst onboard which we can now look forward to. However I have now got to get back to losing lots of weight in the next few weeks 🤞🤞
I am continuing to wade through our pile of holiday washing & am already missing the view of the river from the ship & the attentive service from the staff. It’s so easy to get used to being spoilt 😂
Margaret xx

Hi Spike64 are you saying you dont get up to 800 and 50g or are you saying you cant keep to that level as it is too low. As for protien powder I use Purition but it is a meal replacement rather than a protein booster. You do know that going keto on this diet you can get as much protein as you need and it keeps your carbs down.

Hi Margaret, glad you enjoyed France yes it has been hot but cooled down to 28 today. It was me who said I didnt want to keep going with the monthly thread. Verano, thinks we should just let this one keep running as it doesnt imply any start or end date. I agree with her and hope more people dip in.

Verano, lets keep this one going and see how it goes.

I had a mad idea yesterday and being impatient put it into action. We are going to drive to Vienna to see a concert by the Vienna Philamonic. 2 overnights to get there, 2 full days there and 2 overnights home. Booked. We have found a housesitter so now just have to look at some hotels en route in France and Germany and a base in Vienna. It will give me something to do and look forward to in the coming months.

Had 30 mins in the pool this morning.

Nearly at the end of June, and I have completed the two 60 miles in June challenges I set for myself, so feeling quite proud. Dementia UK has just been completed yesterday, the donations for that one are understandably a bit lower as many are donating to the other one as a tribute to Ed, and the Pancreatic Cancer challenge donation total is nearly at my target of £220 to get a medal too, although the Facebook fundraiser went faulty a couple of days ago so I now have a JustGiving page in the team page as well 🚶‍♀️🚶I believe the collection window doesn’t close until the end of July now so plenty of time to get the last £4 in! Weight wise I had a ‘pre-birthday’ party yesterday so had a slight rise, but am about another 2 pounds down for the week. I will be trying to keep it up for most of the rest of the year, but will have some intermittent fasting weeks and maybe some ‘eat what you like’ weekends to try to keep my body guessing. Feeling a lot fitter after all that daily walking so will try to keep that habit going forwards.

Hello & we returned after our cruise yesterday & I have just weighed & gained 4.75 lbs. It is much cooler here & now we have to get back to more restrained eating 😀. I ate breakfast each day with fruit, an omelette & on the last two days French toast with berries which was delicious & then of course lunch & dinner each day with wine & most days also wine tastings. All this of course meant many more carbs than usual but my husband only gained two pounds!. We walked as much as the weather permitted & one day I walked 10000 steps a record day for me. Our cabin was at the far end of a corridor so lots of steps going to the restaurant but I did use the lift not the stairs to the lounge except a couple of times climbing outside stairs to the open top deck but nearly every day it was too hot up there even in the evening. The most memorable days for me were a wine tasting at a family estate & chateau with the owner who then sat at our table for the included lunch à la famille for lunch. He had told us all about the family history during Bonaparte & then both world wars with the estate confiscations & recovery etc. After we left we were told he is a Baron & he was an amazing sprightly 88 years old with excellent English & very welcoming. The other day was when all the guests were taken to another chateau where we were treated to a four course dinner with accompanying wines for each course.
Thank you S-G for your recommendations in Bordeaux & unfortunately when we returned there last Friday the trams & buses were cancelled because of the heat & it was too far to walk but we did go to a smaller wine museum based in a former wine traders home & cellars that was very interesting & included another wine tasting 😂. We also visited three Bastide towns on the river but I did opt out partly through one & returned to the ship because of the steep climb needed to get up into the town bastions. Overall it was a lovely trip & throughout we had dinner with two other English couples we had met who also flew from Gatwick but the majority nationalities on board were American with English the overall language spoken by staff.
Regarding the continuation of this thread I understand the hesitation in continuing with so few of us but I still enjoy posting but will understand if you don’t want to continue Verano🤔
I hope you are all keeping well despite the recent heat wave 🤞
Margaret xx

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There are cupcake recipes in the Sweet Treats Book and some cake recipes in the backs of the other books, i.e. Fast 800 Easy and Fast 800 red top but that’s not the reason for the BSD book – that’s to get your blood sugars down.

It worked for me but now I do try some of the cakes and have made the blueberry and ginger muffins that are in the Sweet Treats book. However, the cake recipes that I have tried take far, far longer to cook that the recipes say, i.e. the orange almond cake and the spiced apple teacake so take some of the timings with a pinch of salt if you try them.

Hello
Starting the 8 week tomorrow. looking at the recipes in the book and struggling to get to the 800cals and 50g carbs because I only eat twice a day also I will be going to the gym so protein is also looking very low can anybody recommend a protein powder good enough to use to boost to recommended level
Many thanks

Hi s-g I think I missed a post where you mention ‘threads’. I agree that a thread running for just 4 people is maybe not be worth it which is why I set up this thread rather than another monthly thread as I thought it would just ‘run’ and die a natural death as and when???

I guess now is the time for people to speak up. There are really only three or four ‘active’ threads on this site now and I think it’s amazing that the website has stayed open given the new website with the paid for facilities. I for one am thankful that this site remains ‘live’ but for how long?

Hi Verano, I say that because we are the only ones posting, besides occasionally Newbie and Wendy1947 who is currently on holiday. Is it really worth running a thread just for 4 people.

I am happy to set up the thread for July (going back to the month at a time) but unless it picks up it will be the last one for me. Any thoughts and anyone else want to comment.

We had a massive storm here, just what we needed and today it is a lovely cool 30 degrees. Yes cool. After 44.6 anything is cool.

I have a job to do today. I have about 5 years of Slimming World magazine. Tried giving them away and will take some to my hairdresser. Doctors surgery no longer allows them for germ prevention. So I am sorting them into years and months and going to go right back and read the correct month for the time of year (so recipes will be the right season) and when read they are going in the recycling. I have cancelled my subscription and the last one ends with July/August. What an exciting life I have.

Keep cool and keep on keeping on…

Hi s-g I don’t think there’s anyway I could start my day with ‘frogspawn’!

I don’t eat brunch until about 11/11.30ish. I’m impressed with your low carb foods and I do agree that ‘fooling’ the body with higher carbs here and there definitely works. I’m sure, although I have no proof apart from myself, that throwing in a few goodish carbs here and there actually does shake the body up. I’m sure if you keep to the same ‘routine’ day after day the body almost ‘switches off’. New food type, woweee says the body, let’s get merry!

I think we are all so different and we just have to work out what works best for ourselves to stay healthy and well.

Verano, chia seeds end up like tapioca (school dinner frogspawn 🙂 ) and is gloopy. If it is glue like maybe a little more water although I didnt measure, just 2 of chia 2 of blueberries and 1 of cinnamon and topped up a jam jar. And, no it doesnt taste of anything really, although you can put in some stevia – I have liquid stevia to mix in the puddings I hardly ever make.

You asked on the Positives thread how I stayed sub 20g carbs. Every day I start with the tablespoon of frogspawn) Diet for that day was all keto – 2 boiled eggs, homemade bone broth (I cant buy it in France) for dinner I grilled steak and had it with a salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar – came in at 720 cals and 12g carbs. Next day I had 2 boiled eggs and a lunch of grilled bacon and hallumi salad, again with olive oil and balsamic as a dressing. Dinner was 2 chicken thighs with skin on roasted with garlic and lemon and a plain salad (obviously olive oil and balsamic dressing). Cutting the salad cream or mayo saves about 5g carbs. Being mainly keto helps keep the carbs down – only taken 10 years to trust the process. Then yesterday I tried the high carb to trick my body but my carbs came from a peach (15g carbs) and yoghurt (8g carbs) although I did have a few chips with my dinner (28g carbs). I guess the trick worked as I have lost another half a kilo this morning.

It is experimental right now and I will report how it goes. I didnt have to chia mix this morning as I couldnt swim yesterday for fear of an upset stomach so I gave it a miss today and had a swim. It does keep you regular but I understand your body gets used to it and settles down.

Cooler today – 36 degrees but the air feels heavy – we need a good storm to clear it. Take care everyone.

Thank you for the tip s-g a great idea. The plants I ordered have arrived today so hope to plant them out over the weekend… positive no: 1

Out for lunch today and had a very restrained sea bass with a veloute and samphire. Passed on the potatoes,

I’m really pleased with myself this week for finally getting back to low carb eating. S-g very impressed with your less than 20 carbs a day…. secret please?

You know I only tried chia seeds once and they were like glue. Was I doing something wrong? Soaking overnight sounds good or does it just expand the chia into even more ‘glue’?

DCT my appointment was good. All bloods fine but HbA1c at 42 so not great. Weight: well that’s another story! All in all good but I know what I need to do!

Hope everyone is coping with the warm weather. Tonight we have a breeze!!!

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Just looked back on the last 3 days of food (since my GLP-1 chia seed hack) and I have been keeping to sub 20g carbs. Never done that before.

Hi there, great you have completed Sunny-B. Things take so long in Europe (or even Asia). Our house has been on the market for about 1 year but that is nothing and we are trying to take things as they come but daughter is very impatient. We think it could be another couple of years but we are holding fast.

Verano, shame about the tree. The house we are moving to in UK has 4 large trees and daughter says they take all the light out of the garden. Anyway, jasmine. Little tip, buy 2 – a spring/summer flowering and a winter flowering, you will have sweet smelling jasmine for most of the year.

Positives – lost the monthly 1kg I pledged to – so 2kgs since mid April start. I am pleased with that as it will be 8/9 kgs by Christmas and not much effort.

Cant think of anything else except we are both keeping well and after my exercise test on a bicycle the cardiologist said my heart is strong than it was 2 years ago. I put that down to healthly living, strength training and this diet.

You are doing so well, keep up the momentum. I have been on this diet for 10 years and it had kept my diabetes in check even to the point of reducing some meds – just cant seem to get off the insulin but I keep trying. My weight came down by 24 lbs but slowly crept up after a cruise and a Christmas and now dithers around a 16 lb overall loss but I still keep going. I still want to lose 10 kgs.

Hi Verano, thanks for the heads up, I have the picture chart of carbs from Dietdoctor in a file somewhere. Might take another look before it comes down.

Like you I have realised that one thing effects the other, in my case my weight is not massive (although easily 2st over) but worry more about BG. We have to work to get both down.

I have been trying some interesting ‘solutions’ for women of a certain age. One, stop doing aerobics, swap for strength training, just 20 mins 3 times a week – and it doesnt have to be heavy weights. My weights are 1.5kgs but a couple of cans of beans will do. Second, do hiit 3 times a week which helps with fat burning and continues up to a few days after doing the exercise. The other tip is to fool your body by giving it ‘clean carbs’ (pasta, rice, potatoes) every few days so it doesnt think it is being starved. I for one will not do that trick due to my BG but it is worth knowing as when I have had a bad day or two getting back on the diet I can lose fairly quickly.

Do you keep seeing solutions on reels or tik tok saying you can lose weight by mixing vinegar, ginger and cinnamon – even Ophra Winfrey has used it and lost 100 lbs in 10 weeks (yeah like heck) then you come to the end of the presentation and it something you have to buy because it has to be exact and pure ingredients. I am not a dietician or doctor so I can only report on what works for me and I have found a hack that seems to be working. Mix in a jam jar or any container 2 tbls chia seeds, 2 tbls blueberries (I use frozen) and one tbls cinnamon, mix with water to top of jar and leave overnight in fridge. Now eat one large tablespoonful in the morning before any other food and leave for a while before eating – just half an hour. It expands even more in your stomach and creates a plug to your intestine causing food passage to slow down. Doing this for the last couple of days and I cant believe I have lost hunger and desire to eat. Yesterday I had 2 boiled eggs then a bowl of homemade bone broth for lunch and didnt want anything else all day. I had to force myself – due to my diabetes – to eat something in the evening as my BG was getting low. This is what all those miracle tablets do but cost a fortune and you dont know what is in them. It is also like Ozempic in that it increased GLP-1. Only drawback so far is toilet needs – chia seeds do make me go.

If you are still reading, I have lost some weight and now under that pesky 75kgs. I can report that my pledge to lose 1kg a month has been met for May/June although 3 days late. So 2kgs down and looking forward to losing my slow 1kg for June/July.

Stay safe in this heat, it is getting me down now and even though we have dropped under 40 degrees it seems to be muggier. Hey ho and we still have summer to come.

So, went and weighed myself this morning as I near the end of week four and I am now 82 kg, so I’ve lost 10 kilos! That’s down from 14 stone 6 to 13 stone!

VERANO thanks for letting us know. I don’t use those sites myself but have heard them mentioned before on here, so thanks for the heads up. And thanks for your encouragement earlier in the week too xx. How did your appointment go this week?

MIXnMATCH how are you getting on with your walking? Not easy in this weather. Good luck with the rest of your fundraiser.

No loss to report from me this week I’m afraid. My eating has been pretty much on plan, but the hot weather has resulted in me being out in the garden with a cold glass of wine or two just that bit too often I’m afraid. I justify this to myself along the lines that it is extraordinary heat and won’t last long, and as I’m not going away anywhere this summer I’ll treat it like a holiday. Queen of excuses as always 🙀. But I’ll get back on track next week.

On a positive note, I’ve been to the gym every day and have been trying out new things including more work with weights. I think I’m beginning to look more toned, especially my arms, and I do feel firmer and stronger. Just waiting for the scales to catch up 😂. I’m not good at taking measurements – I\m sure I measure a different part each time – but I noticed some shorts that wouldn’t button up a few weeks ago now do. So there’s hope for me yet . . . .

Hope everyone else is ok, and that you all have a good weekend.

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Thanks s-g for reporting Mistant. Why do they bother!!!

So I saw my nurse today and apart from my raised HbA1c, which she realised was due to my overindulgent holiday, everything else was good, apart from my weight! When I look back I’ve gradually ‘expanded’ over the last few years. I think I’ve fallen into the trap that because my HbA1c is stable my weight isn’t an issue … it obviously is!

Yes I know what to do so will just settle down and do it just in case my weight really is affecting my blood sugars! Better to be safe than sorry!

Hope you’re all coping with the heat. My remedy is to stay inside, curtains closed, a few windows open and a fan! Working so far!

I dont know who you are Mistant but what gives you the right to come onto a diet site and talk about airlines. You have just put me off EasyJ for life. It has been reported.

Still very hot here, hit 44.3 degrees yesterday and had a bad night. I dont know if it is the heat bomb we we have lost most of our TV stations. We dont subscribe so have freeview channels like BBC, ITV, channels 4 and 5. Totally scrambled.

Had a nice swim this morning before it got too hot but it was still 38 degrees, then cooling in the shower and sitting in my bureau with a fan on my face.

Stay safe everyone.

High SunnyB, we had 44.3 here in SW France yesterday, forecast for 43 today but might get hotter, so my positives are –

had 30 mins in the pool early but it was still 36 degrees outside – followed by a cold shower.
lucky to be retired and dont have to do anything we dont want to – staying in the house with all the windows and shutters closed.
looking forward to it cooling down tomorrow – top temp should be around 38 degrees.

Seems that at present the temps across Europe are higher than here in Turkiye …. stay safe and well hydrated people.

My positives are ….
🌴🌴 a lovely day of retail therapy with a close friend
🌴🌴 caught up with old friends at the weekend
🌴🌴 new fly screens fitted this morning and a new fan purchased for our bedroom.

We only have a few days left before we begin out road trip home to the UK … bitter/sweet that our stay here is almost done.

As this is top of the page again I feel bad not adding to it!

🌤️🌤️🌤️ Yes it’s hot hot hot here but also cloudy on and off so really quite oppressive. I haven’t been out for three days!

🥬🍅🍓Tonight I was going to b-b-q but just too warm so I have a spatchcock Korean chicken in the oven which will be lovely with salad.

🌲🌳🌲 My neighbour cut down a huge conifer type tree in the autumn and we now have this huge empty space between her and us and a great loss of privacy. So I’ve just ordered some fast growing jasmine to plant. Unfortunately, we have no soil on our side of the fence so we are experimenting with planters. Fingers crossed the jasmine will thrive?

Hope you have some positives. If you can share them that would be a bonus.

I think 42-48 is pre-diabetic but you know they keep changing the goal posts and sometimes you wonder if the figures are just arbitrary. Ever since I have been having blood tests my overall cholesterol has always been 5.2. Slightly over the then ‘standard’ but then they lowered the goal posts years ago to 4.6 I think, and wanted me to go on statins. I resisted. Over the last ? 50 years I have stayed with my number there or thereabouts. My breakdown is good and my ratio is great so I have no problem even if the medics don’t like it. More pills more money???

I think you are so right. Had we not found this way of eating I’m sure our health wouldn’t be as good as it is. I despair every time I hear of yet another person with ‘foot problems’ because they don’t control their diabetes. When you think about it it’s not that difficult to give up doughnuts to save a toe! Guess it’s a bit of ‘head in the sand’ together with ‘it won’t happen to me’ mentality. As you say we just have to keep on keeping on ……..

Not too many positives as we are confined to the house. Here goes –

pool in the garden if I can be ar-ed to swim – it is a bit too hot.
daughter booked to come and see us in September – just her, no-one else wants to come – just too grown up and have their own lives.
Saying that is a positive as they are all well and life if good for them – 20 yr old has a steady job and in final year of apprenticeship, 18 yr old off to Thailand with his Thai friends for a last fling before uni. Received his trust fund and put it all in an ISA – sensible boy – letting us pay for the holiday 🙂

Hi Verano, your numbers are a bit like mine after a holiday, my HbA1c was 7.2 which is the highest it has been for years. Dont worry too much, just stick to the low carb and it will come back down. Emphasise to your diabetic person that you have had an extended holiday and know you have had things you dont normally eat but will be a good girl for the next 3 months and get it down 🙂 Although I thought 43 was still in the pre-diabetic range. Dont understand the conversion chart.

I know where I would be, more meds, ill health, problems with eyes, kidneys, heart etc – whereas right now my body is as good as it was 10 years ago, not even worse due to just age. Heart stronger which I put down to strength training. My only problem is asthma and going up hills or stairs – I am okay on the flat and can swim with no problems. Keep on keeping on…

Yes warm here too s-g. We complain when it rains, we complain when it’s cold and now we complain about the heat!

Anyway, my blood test results are back and I’ll be seeing the nurse tomorrow. All my markers are down, even my cholesterol for which she wanted to give me statins last year. My HbA1c is a slightly different story though… up to 42! It hasn’t been that high for over 10 years although in 2021 it did reach 41. So, I’m not too disappointed as we were away for nearly 5 weeks over April/May and I expected a high figure. Nonetheless it did make me stop and think. If I hadn’t found this way of eating 10 years ago I would now be taking insulin and goodness knows what else. I’m pretty proud that I’ve managed to control my blood sugars for so long but do realise that I need to cut down on the carbs again to get back into the 30’s. It’s amazing how ‘carb creep’ occurs so silently and T2 is always so close, just hiding around the corner.

So “how am I doing.”, pretty well I think and hope you are too.

Dropped a few 100g and it is hard to eat in this weather. Didnt get in the pool this morning at upset stomach and it will be too hot later today. Yes it can be too hot to go swimming – we have no shade so the sun is pounding down. Will try again tomorrow morning or if it is football on tv tonight I might get in around 10pm.

Thats great – keep going

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