So sorry to hear your sad news Pootle.

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Pootle I am so sorry to hear about you losing your dog I know it really hurts & feels like losing a friend & one of the family. I’m sure that he very much enjoyed his life with you & your family. Take care of yourself & enjoy your holiday.
Margaret xxx

So sorry to hear your news, Pootle. I know how hard it can hit you. Take care of yourself. xx

Congratulations Heidi on your wonderful achievement. Having a BMI of 27 is incredible! Your hard work has paid off. I would be exceptionally happy with that result! Thank you for inspiring us all.
I haven’t weighed myself for a few weeks but I’m focusing on healthy eating and not scales. I have an interview next week for an exam invigilator position in a sixth form college and panicked that I wouldn’t be able to fit into my smart trousers. I had a try on today and they fit so I am using that as a NSV! Now I am not having my toe op I am feeling positive and have rejoined my choir (not sang with them since pre Covid) and I applied for the job. Interview and task (?) on Tuesday. I hope your trip to the UK to care for your mum goes well. Im ringing the dentist again tomorrow as antibiotics haven’t cured dental pain! It’s better but the nerve is still sensitive! ⚡️
Hope everyone else is doing ok.
ArcticFox- are you ok?
Dawn- hope you’re doing ok and get a date for surgery soon
Mariet- well done on your hand recovery post surgery and also losing weight.

Just popping in to say that I reached BMI 27 today – so technically no longer overweight for 65 plussers. Feeling very pleased. I shall continue to eat healthily though, since there is still some room for manoeuvre! And I enjoy it too.

Now about to face five days of a different challenge as I head to the UK to care for my mother while my father is in hospital. I doubt there will be time to post, but I shall be continuing to cheer you all on. Take care.

Oh Pootle so sorry to read your post. We lost our old lab in July so I know how you feel..big virtual hugs to you both.

Ok, so I slipped yesterday… and my BG showed it this morning! 🫣
Having been so concerned about food on my trip next week, I didn’t see the biggest risk looming!
Yesterday we had to take the most difficult decision to ensure that our 14 year old dog didn’t suffer! He was the gentlest, most polite, well behaved character. He could be mischievous, he followed me everywhere, sitting patiently outside the bathroom and I have loved him greatly!
So I ate my comfort food, tea and toast, then had a ready meal, followed by a chocolate brownie. I nearly always cook from scratch!
As I keep breaking down in tears, and have to pull myself together for work this evening, I am trying very hard not to pick at entirely the wrong food today as well!
At least I am prepared for the trip but knowing husband will be on his own for a lot of the week is a worry in itself!

🤞back on track! K xx

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Lacy sorry to disappoint but the skin doesn’t crisp! The flesh is lovely and soft and succulent though!

Morning all!

CALIFORNIAGIRL don’t worry! You haven’t brought any conversations to a halt. This thread does vary in terms of posting frequency and can go quiet for a while without any one person causing that to happen. How are you doing? I remember your name from my early days on BSD. How is your journey going?

ARCTICFOX I hope you are feeling a bit stronger. Have you managed to restart your online gym yet? And, to echo what CATHY says, I hope your counsellor is able to help you navigate through this difficult time.

CATHY well done for going back to cooking from scratch. Do share any recipes on here. I’m trying to do likewise though has been tricky this week with builders in and out of the kitchen. But we’re getting there! DAWN how is your food plan going?

HEIDI I’m really pleased you are so near a healthy BMI now. That really is tremendous progress! Well done 👏. I’m making very gradual progress but thankfully there is a slight downward trend beginning to happen so I guess I need to be patient and do the traditional Keep On Keeping On thing.

YOWZER, I meant to say in my last post that I was so sorry to read about your mobility issues. You are always so inspiring despite what you are going through. I really do hope that things improve for you soon. To continue our last shingles-related exchange, I’m now getting back into bras, and have found the most comfortable so far is a soft stretchy one from a company called Body and Bra. It’s a bit like a sports bra but softer fabric. Feels nice for a while but it’s still a relief to take it off!!

MARIET good to see you back and I’m glad you are able to do a bit more with your hand now. And well done for further losses both on the scales and measurements – that’s great news!

Hope the rest of the week goes well for everyone. I’m almost at my weight loss target for the week but do need to up the exercise to tackle the dreaded belly fat! Will report back in due course . . . .

Hi all,
Wow, 4 days, Antigone! 40 hours is my longest – I can’t imagine tacking on another couple of days to that. I’m impressed! And good luck with your first goal!
Sorry things didn’t go the way you’d hoped at the doc’s, S-G, but it sounds like you had a very useful discussion. And sometimes that’s all you can hope for. I know where your doctor is coming from, weight-wise. I know they recommend a BMI of 25-27 once you’re 65, but at a BMI of 27 I was pre-diabetic and on BP medication. So it’s a nice idea, but not practical in real life for some of us.
Verano – I love Thai and Vietnamese food, but you’re right – so much sugar in them! And I’ll give your way of cooking salmon a go next time, I do love crispy skin salmon, but it’s often too dry. I think people over-estimate how long fish takes to cook. At the bistro, mine was the last meal out. People had steaks that came out before my fish lol!
When are you heading off for your business trip, Pootle?
Lacy xx

I love how when I post I bring the entire conversation to a halt — mostly because I don’t agree with constant support for poor choices — you all like to think you are “kind” but why is it kind to say “go ahead, ruin your family relationships, it will be good for you”???
It is a very bad idea to ruin family relationships — they are the most important people in our lives, no matter how difficult they are.
We can always find some solution and over time, we can improve the difficult parts and increase the parts that still work (and don’t attack me, I am clearly not supporting sexual abuse or actual physical violence).
Part of getting physically healthy is managing our mental health as Arctic Fox has worked so hard on!
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Hello everyone.

Good news Wendy. Glad all is as it should be at this stage and going in the right direction.

S-g yes you’re right. Here you need a BMI of 40+ and four ‘conditions’! These include diabetes and high blood pressure but not sure what the others are. Just be thankful you don’t qualify!! Listen to Dr gorgeous and don’t worry too much about the number on the scale!

Well, I’ve been really busy lately. We had a dinner party for 8 on Saturday and I made Thai. I always thought Thai was pretty healthy but I actually followed recipes and wow, so much sugar! I always adapt recipes. I make a salmon red curry which has three tablespoons of sugar in the recipe but I only add a scant teaspoon which seems to do the trick.

I’m on hold diet wise at the moment. We are out tomorrow with a fixed menu so for me it will be salmon, undoubtedly it will be overcooked, with fruit salad before and after! Not much to look forward to really but at least it should be a good evening despite the food!

Thursday we are out for a Thai meal with friends. I’m more prepared now! Then Sunday we have family here for lunch which of course I’ll be in control of. So a more difficult, but not impossible, time for staying lower calorie.

Hope you manage during your week away Pootle. You sound really well organised.

Antigone …. 4 days!!! Don’t know how you could do that. I must admit the best I can do is one meal a day and I don’t really enjoy that!

Lacy I wonder why it is that fish is nearly always overcooked? I love fish. A while ago we had friends for lunch and I made salmon and they wanted to know where I buy my fish. I wanted to say, but didn’t , it’s not the fish it’s the way it’s cooked!! I have a foolproof recipe: salmon fillets, skin side up on a baking tray with baking paper, tiny bit of olive oil rubbed on the skin, squeeze of lemon, cook at 180c fan for 10 minutes. Always perfect flaky succulent fish!

We are off to see our son next week for a couple of weeks so it’s ’beat the clock’ here at the moment.

Have a good week everyone!

Afternoon All, not what you were hoping for SG but really good that your doctor gave you all that time to discuss it with you – my (french) doctor allows 5 mins per person! Pootle – organisation is your superpower! Congrats for surviving the food ordeal Lacey 😉 Great news on the knee Wendy/Margaret. My fast is over – went well but I should have broken it more gently! We had some free range (proper) bacon ( not so easy to source in France) and I think I overwhelmed my organs after 4 days of nada – lesson learned. I’ve been super good since and although the scales aren’t quite where I’d hoped, I really feel well and can see less of myself. I have 1.4 kilos to reach my first goal.🤞Seems like September is looking better than August for everyone so that’s a positive. Bon courage…

Hi all, just back from the doctors and I am still on insulin. We had a long chat about semaglutide and I asked him to give me good reason not to go on it. He talked about urinary tract infection and yeast infections and diahorrhea, told him I live with those as I am diabetic, he mentioned pancreatitis. Finally, he went through the criteria which allows him to prescribe it and I am way under on BMI. I have a BMI of 31 and the cut off level is 40 and above. He says it is dangerous for me at 72 to lose too much weight and muscle and he cannot prescribe as I am not obese enough. I think this is the same criteria that I would have to meet if I lived in the UK so I will go along with what he says. Now I have to try even harder to get my insulin down. I also told him I wasnt happy with the other doctor who talked down to me like a child for eating and drinking on a cruise. My doctor would have just laughed at that. I did conceed that we had trouble understanding each other so that could have been the problem. I will make sure I see my own doctor in future.

Finally he said I should stop worrying about my weight so much and just try to keep my BG down. Bit of a catch there as they are connected.

He forgot to give my a new prescription of my 3 monthly blood test but I think it was because I kept him talking for nearly 40 minutes. He is still very nice.

Hope everyone else is doing well, hope your trip goes well Pootle. Not sure what a Korean BBQ is Lace but I dont eat fish or seafood so I guess it wouldnt be good for me.

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Hi all,
Hope the fast is going well, Antigone (or went well if you’ve finished!)
Good to hear things are getting back to normal for you, Margaret. You’ll be back in the swing of things in no time, I’m sure!
🤞for the medical appointment today, S-G.
And it looks like you’re all ready for your week away, Pootle – sounds as though a huge amount of organising was involved, but you’ve aced it!
The Father’s Day get-together was very enjoyable – the food was predictably ordinary (dry/overcook barramundi and soggy steamed veg) but catching up with the family (all from my OH’s side – my lot are in the UK) was great, as I haven’t seen some of them for months. And yes, Korean BBQ is fun, and very much an ‘audience participation’ dining experience 🤣. It’s very popular here, and definitely worth a try if there’s one near you.
Anyway, have a great week everyone!
Lacy xx

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Morning all,

The countdown to my week working away has begun… Clothes for the week were washed and pressed about 3 weeks ago…so now I have to rethink, as I was in ‘hot, dry’ mode and am now in ‘cool, wet’ weather with hot spells!! 😂 So the ‘working’ jeans and t-shirts have been supplemented with sweatshirts and waterproofs and the smart ‘presentation’ gear has been swapped out for more autumnal attire! 🤣
I am armed with frozen broccoli bread for the first couple of days, plus tinned artichoke hearts, tinned sardines, tinned salmon and nuts for snacks. I will be buying avocado, Greek Yoghurt and cooked meats the day before I travel! So I am all set! 🤞
Now have to clean the house and prepare for my GS to visit Husband whilst I am away!

Margaret, great that your right knee is well on the way to recovery…fingers crossed that the left knee stabilises and you don’t need to replace that one!

S-G hope all goes well for your weigh in and Dr appointment today!

Lacy the Korean BBQ sounds fascinating…cooking yourself at the table… Hope Fathers day at the bistro was a brilliant family get together.

Hope you are all having a good week.
K.x

Don’t give up on your family Arctic Fox — they are important to you and there is no one closer than they, despite their difficult personalities.
I have watched family members do what you are thinking of doing and it has only made family relationships worse.
Find a third way,
Best wishes (really),
Julia

ArcticFox
You have been giving 100% effort this last few weeks. You are very scientific in your approach and I admire your tenacity and enthusiasm. You are a very physically active person and I know how hard you have worked to achieve your goals. Like you, I have a lot of determination but I don’t always feel I get the rewards I want. I feel your frustration. This last couple of weeks I have changed my mindset to using food as purely nutrition and fuel. I am making all my food from scratch and cutting out ultra processed foods and trying not to eat between meals. I don’t think it’s fair for us to keep beating ourselves up when we are doing what we can. I am not weighing myself as that for me is a massive trigger . I am sad to read that you’re struggling with low mood and that your family are not respecting your boundaries. You are supported by your counsellor and I hope they are able to help you through this difficult time. I totally agree that stress and raised cortisol levels will have an impact on your numbers. Please be kind to yourself ArcticFox. I hope you will soon feel better. Let’s just try everyday to do our best.

Hello everyone,
Yes, Heidi, 22 hours is not that bad. It is just that I have been doing 36 hours, and getting more benefit from that extra overnight period, whereas eating dinner has been pushing up my fasting glucose. However, because I ate 2 hours earlier than usual, that seemed to help.
However, after another full day of eating my bg is back up to 6.6 this morning. I’m getting very frustrated. I had very low carb meals. Finished the flat bread for lunch and then had konjac noodles with kale and soy free tofu for dinner. I made a carrot cake in the afternoon from almond flour and stevia and had a couple of slices, but it was a failure, so the rest will go in the compost. So quite high protein but still very low carb. I think exercise was key to getting my bg down before and with the smoke and shorter days, I haven’t been getting my evening walk in, so I may have to reinstate some workouts from my online gym in the evening.
I have been struggling with pretty low mood over the weekend. The smoke really socked us in so that doesn’t help, but things just feel tough right now. I was ruminating a lot about the family stuff, as I think from a psychological and legal safety perspective the time has come where I’m going to have to cut ties with my immediate family. I was kind of in denial before and my counsellor was trying to see if I would be able to set boundaries with them first so I wouldn’t have to take this drastic step, but unfortunately, every time I set a boundary, they just march right over them and then say I’m being rude or a bully, so it is just not working. And clearly it is having an impact on my health with by stress and bg levels continuing to be elevated!

Hi all, another week over but not weighing until tomorrow and I also have a doctors appt tomorrow.

Margaret have you tried myfitnesspas. At first you have to enter your foods but after a while they are logged in a list and you can just click on them to enter into your daily food diary. Also counts carbs, proteins etc. Also you can ‘check-in’ and register your weight, measurements, water consumptions, exercise, lots of things. Although these other things have to be put in by you unless you have a smart watch that for example, logs your exercise. Mine used to but I have to put it in manually now. You will soon get used to it and I think a lot of us use it. Glad your recovery is going well and looking forward to getting back to normal life and activity.

Got to get on with cleaning the house now for our sitter although it is very clean already as it is always viewing ready, so just the bathroom, toilet and kitchen to do.

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Hi everyone,
ArcticFox, 22 hours fasting sounds very impressive to me. And the flatbread sounds delicious. Could you share the recipe? I still miss the bread sometimes! Dawn, very best wishes for your food plan this week. It is an excellent idea to be as fit as you can for the surgery. Best wishes to all shingles sufferers, and to Mariet as you continue to recover from the hand surgery. x

I have had another healthy eating week, though have still not embarked on a beginners’ strength training course yet. I hope to have a better story next week! Toda’y I reached 13 kilos discard after 15 weeks since my reboot. So practically no loss this week, but only 0.2 kilos from the top of a BMI healthy range. Although I’ve been telling myself it’s about health and not weight loss, I do feel a bit down when there is little change on the scales! Anyway, I am enjoying slipping on size 16 trousers and wearing the ring-that-didn’t-fit, so NSVs will do.

Have a good week everyone.

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Hi everyone,
I only managed to fast 22 hours yesterday. It was too hot and smoky and I was working hard outside getting garlic cleaned and the fruit trees picked and digging potatoes. I started to feel really woozy around 3pm so came inside and had lots of water with a splash of lime juice while I cooked a cottage cheese and zuchinni flatbread thing that I topped with pesto, roasted garlic, artichoke hearts, olives, rainbow chard and mozzarella. It was delicious. I finished with a cup of hot chocolate made with stevia. I thought for sure that my bg was going to be super elevated this morning, only to find it was 5.2. So low carb is winning over fasting right now, I guess. Eating today and then I will see about tomorrow. I do want to try another week with ADF to see if I can at least make some more progress on having to bring my belt in another hole. That surely has to help with my bg situation in the long term. Then it will be a week of refeeding on a low carb diet followed by a few days of a fast mimicking fast.

Sunny you and your dad are doing really well. I can understand how a week back at home with, what was normality, will really help you.

🌶️🍅🥒 Had 6 friends here for dinner last night. Wonderful to have great company

🛋️🛋️🛋️ Today we’ve just ‘relaxed’! It’s been wonderful!

☀️😀👍 Tomorrow is another day! We just have to make it a good one too!

Hope the coming week is good for everyone.

Lovely to read all the positives. Like you V, I’m 9yrs with this WoE and though I digress occasionally, overall it is my way of life now and there are endless delicious things which we can enjoy whilst sticking to low carbs.

Anyway, my positives are ….
🌸🌼 OH arrived yesterday morning and we took Dad out to a garden centre for lunch. Bonus … I brought back some lovely new plants to take home for my garden.
🌼🌸 I get to go home today 🎉🤸‍♀️ … only for a week, but I’m still looking forward to a dose of normality in my own space and catching up on appointments and so on.
🌸🌼 two weeks on and Dad is coping well (much better than we all expected) and making adjustments following the loss of his wife of 70yrs. Really proud of him.

Following on from my last post, I’ve gone onto the MFP app and see I already have a food plan in place for the next five days, I can’t even remember doing it! No excuses not to stick to it unless the hospital want me in this week.Dawn XX

Hi everyone and thank you Shetland Lace and Mariet. I’m about to do a food plan for the upcoming week as I seem to have in my head the thought that once I’ve had the surgery I can then concentrate properly on healthy eating and it’s doing me no favours:/. Mariet it’s good to hear your hand is getting better. Hope everyone is having a nice weekend.Dawn XX

Hi everyone,
Mariet I suppose it isn’t much different from having to be careful of snakes and spiders. At least bears don’t usually come inside the house!
Anyway, disappointing start to the day after my eating day yesterday with bg at 6.1. Only a tiny bit better than the 6.2 I had 2 days ago and higher than yesterday’s 5.7 after 36 hrs of fasting. I know Jason Fung says that if your cortisol levels are elevated due to stress then fasting won’t help. So I may have to get back to the walks and maybe add some yoga. Or start with yoga this time. We are unfortunately inundated with smoke right now from wildfires. There is a big one near my office that started yesterday. So walking probably not the best for us asthmatics at the moment. I am trying to get my garlic cleaned and packed up this weekend as there is rain and increased humidity in the forecast so I will have to wear a mask while working today. I’m sure the smoke isn’t helping with my bg either.

Dawn, crossing fingers that you get a new surgery date quickly.
Wow Arctic Fox, I can’t imagine living in close proximity to bears! I am sure you get used to it but 😱
I saw my GP yesterday and she is happy with how things are going. I have lost another kilo and a few more cm from waist and belly even though I’m slowly increasing food intake. I’m very nervous though after failing at maintenance last time.
My hand is slowly improving, it’s been a long 6 weeks. Now I’m doing strength training for hand and finger strength- who knew how exhausting hand exercises can be!

I am glad that your results are going in the right direction S-G & wow Antigone I hope your fast went well? I haven’t tried one that long. Good luck Pootle with your Premier Inn stay all you can do is your best but even a few days having to go off track won’t derail for long & you can get back to low carb eating when you get home. I must admit when I am eating out its vegetables I miss because restaurants or caterers seem to offer such small portions but chips with everything that I no longer try regard as a vegetable 😀
I have been signed off by my hospital with a review in a year to look at my left knee which when looking at the X-ray is also becoming misaligned with arthritis & the hint of a bone spur🤔🙁. I really don’t want to have to go through another knee replacement op & recovery. Oh well I am on the mend with my right knee & will have finished my fourth course of antibiotics tomorrow & can then try to get my gut biome back into good order. I’m doing more in the kitchen & gradually getting back to preparing low carb meals from scratch🤞🤞I do need to start again losing weight & weighed today gaining 1.25 lbs which puts me back to the weight I was before my op in July. It feels as though I’m still taking baby steps & was advised I probably won’t be able to short mat bowl again until after Christmas 🙁. I know I am a most impatient patient😂
Oh can anyone recommend a good website for me to easily record weight loss & calorie intake ? My online slimming club that I have used for years is closing down this month! The Fitbit one I couldn’t understand at all & in any case looks like I would have to pay for an upgrade.
Keep going everyone you are all doing brilliantly 👍
Margaret xx

Good morning everyone!
Finally seeing some sun here in Melbourne – still very cold though!
Sorry your BG numbers weren’t ideal, S-G. But they are down, and your lipids are excellent, so take the win! 🎉
It’s Father’s Day this Sunday in our part of the world, and the family are getting together at a bistro to celebrate. I’ve had a look at the menu online and my low carb options don’t look promising – grilled fish and steamed veg yet again 🤣. Oh well, it is what it is! Last time we went out to eat with friends, it was to a Korean BBQ restaurant, which was brilliant for low-carb/keto as it turns out. Lean meat, seafood, zucchini, eggplant and king oyster mushroom slices, all unmarinated, which you could cook on the table bbq, and plenty of cos lettuce leaves to wrap it all in. Absolutely delicious and didn’t blow my diet! Definitely recommend it!
Anyway, have a fantastic weekend everyone!
Lacy xx

Hello all,
So sorry to hear your op was postponed Dawn – hopefully they can reschedule quickly for you. And I just want to send my best wishes for quick recoveries to DCT, Yowzer and CCathy.
Arcticfox – loving your posts – it’s a fascinating glimpse into another world!
Anyway, just popped in to wish everyone a great weekend!
Lacy xx

Hi everyone and thank you DCT and Yowzer. I’m hoping to hear from the hospital in the next couple of weeks and know I should use that time to really stick to a healthy food plan but I’m struggling to do that! I hope everyone has a nice weekend.Dawn XX

FatGirlSlim26… no you have me totally wrong. I’m not a Kate Moss devotee.
You probably don’t know but Pootle lost 5st in 12 months with the BSD and went down many ‘sizes’. I was just saying that she really wouldn’t want to go back up to her old 20….24’s.
As a matter of interest I’ve been following this way of eating for 9 years and yes BSD does have lots of ‘delicious temptations’.

Hi S-G….good news that your BG is going the right way! And your Cholesterol is excellent!!

Good luck with the fast Antigone…I hope you have a positive result!

Have a brilliant weekend everyone..
K.xx

Very good cholesterol numbers SG and positive movement on the BG. I’m 46 hours into a long hard fast..felt a bit tired and grumpy earlier so had some caffeine which did the trick ( normally only drink decaf coffee). Not sure how long I’ll go on for yet. For me its easier to eat nothing than limit meals..see how it goes.
Have a good weekend all.

Just popping in to “Hello”.

S-g your BS might not be as good as you had hoped but yes, as you say, going the right direction.

I think we all have to always remember these ‘numbers’ are arbitrary. A ‘bit ‘ higher a ‘bit’ lower and we’re still OK.

Anyway hope everyone has a good weekend.

Yowzer, no worries. It isn’t very intuitive for people who are not around bears to understand how dangerous they are. We had some Japanese students staying with us once when I was a teenager and we went for a drive up the mountains and saw a mama bear with 3 cubs. They wanted to get out of the car and go up to them so they could take photos because they were ‘so cute!’, and we had to physically restrain them from getting out, because you don’t mess around with any bear, but especially not one with cubs. My mum’s British cousins were here for a visit and they went to Banff National Park and when they came back they said the meanest creature they encountered was a park warden who told them to get back in their car and drive on when they stopped and got out of the car to take photos of a grizzly on the side of the road. They were expecting sympathy from us about that incident and we just sort of intimated that yes, it was a pretty silly thing to do as they could have been mauled or killed. You don’t mess with Canadian wildlife, but it is something that we just grow up with here and we just know how to behave around these creatures, and it is easy to forget that others don’t. Never fear, there is plenty of food for everyone. The country is so vast and people only live in a tiny fraction of it. These bears should be down at the river catching salmon and in the woods eating berries and roots to fatten up right now, but the farmers’ corn fields draw them in and when that gets harvested, they come looking for fruit because it is easier than hunting, but really not very good for them, just like excess carbs and sugar aren’t good for us either. And remember, they aren’t up and about in winter. They are nestled down in their dens hibernating, burning very few calories the whole winter.
Anyway, just a very frustrating 6.2 to report this morning after my eating day yesterday, I think due to having to pull some garlic orders together after I got back from the office and ending up just having a very late dinner of seed crackers and hummus. I was supposed to have a dinner of fish ‘tacos’ with the tacos being swiss chard leaves, which would have been much better, but I didn’t have time to cook and it was quite hot too (35 C) so didn’t want to heat the kitchen up. Put the fish in the freezer so I can have it on the weekend. The chickpeas are still spiking me up. But back on a fast day today, so if my experience over the last few weeks holds, it should start to come down again after a few days of ADF.

Slight delay as daughter rang me and we had a lot to chat about. Grandson had been to visit Glasgow Uni to see if he liked it. He liked the course (microbiology with a specialism in paracytology – ug, worms and germs) but he didnt like the city.

Results are in a although not ideal I am back down 6.7 from 7.3 -usually around 6.3 but heading in the right direction. Cholesterol 2.5 and triglycerides 1.3, so all good. Seeing doctor next week. Bye for now.