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Whoohoo on the 96. Your weight loss has been impressive too!

Every 6 months I go back for the mole inventory. She always finds something to cut off. I get the tutt tutt about sun exposure and spf 50. My sympathies on the ticks. I am in an suburban environment and actually contracted Lyme from a tick. Can't be too careful…

The rescheduled doctor's appointment is really frustrating. We had a little snow, and I had an appointment rescheduled. This was back in January. First available was July! This was the dermatologist who keeps an eye on my moles, and I think her office is pretty busy with botox and all.

Welcome to the forum. Happy to have you here!

@patriciafoley1 He says, "That is a heck of a thing." There are various possible explanations - stress in dreams triggers a glycogen dump from the liver or my body clock is giving me a little extra to start the day. There are fancy names for reasons this happens to people. I don't really need to understand it. It simply…

119 is about as low as mine EVER is in the morning.

You are making great progress!

It does seem that legitimate medical device companies are working on this.

I have a sneaking suspicion that these watches do not work. I looked on Amazon thinking there might be some reviews, and any of the devices which claim to have "no-prick" glucose readings seem to be missing the feature or broken in some way with reviews.

At the end of the day, the weight loss is all about lifestyle. I have known folks who had the bariatric surgery, and 5 years later they were back where they started.

it is a puzzle for sure. In theory, I should be losing according to the charts. In reality, I have been maintaining instead since 2018.

I am considering taking one for the team and trying one, you know, "just for science." One of the challenges with these things is you look to the reviews, and you don't know to what extent they are "astroturf."

I say take any progress you get.

Judy - you have a lot going on. Best to stay on top of that pancreas. Your team is looking out for you. Congrats to the grand-daughter! I wish I had some wisdom about the daughter. I have one on a GLP-1 right now. That A1C sound pretty good to me all considered!

Good to see things moving again…

I did some research, and the FDA says they don't meet requirements for reliable readings. I am still interested.

@patriciafoley1 "Grok also told me that eating too much of a percentage of protein can also result in a high BS, as the body turns protein into carbs. I aim for 50 net carbs a day. I never or rarely go over the recommended grams of protein a day (which varies as exercise calories are added which I don't generally eat many…

@patriciafoley1 "so finally, after two weeks of 1200 calories or less a day, and 15-20K steps a day, I broke my "plateau" and lost 2/10 of a pound. 155.4. BS this am 128. Not as low as it has been, but I guess its progress." Sometimes you take progress as progress even if it is slower than you want.

At one point (like from 2016 to 2018), I made my own "sports drink" that had some amount of ACV, epsom salts (for the magnesium) and lite salt for the sodium and potassium in a half strength Crystal Light base. I forget the exact amounts, but I made a gallon every morning and drank that during the day. Let us know!

Sometimes you just have a plateau with the weight loss. Goodness knows I did. I don't stress any more about the fasting bg when I wake up. It is just a "thing." At one point people were giving me advice about it on the forums - ounce of cheese before bedtime and that sort of thing. Nothing helped and I decided to roll with…

Everyone is different in their response. One of the issues with diabetes treatment/medication is that doctors, nutritionists, etc. have this one-size-fits-all approach. In reality, I think we all have general guidelines and need to figure out how we are responding. This is why frequent bg checks are key. A few quirks for…

The scales can be difficult with irritating long times when you seem to be in a holding pattern. I would not be too discouraged here. I am no expert on this, but there may be stores of glycogen in your liver that will eventually be exhausted. I would suspect the walking would be (very) good in the long run.

@patriciafoley1 I can eat it, but I am not so much the fan. I have a little romaine or iceberg in a salad when I eat out, but it is not really something I am going to go to much effort to have around. Now - cabbage I like. I eat cooked greens like collards a couple of times a week.

I would like to be able to eat spinach salad, and that is a fact. Spinach, arugula and cucumbers seem like good goto's.

I get the same permission problem when I try to quote. The challenge is keeping an eye on the trends. You will get one reading, and it will look terrible, but it is the average you are going for. Having said that, there is the hiker's adage: "Take care of the ounces and the pounds take care of themselves." You want to…

Exercise brings mine up too. In the long run it is good and part of overall fitness, weight loss, etc. The immediate BG reading can look scary when you have been making progress overall.

@patriciafoley1 Mine came on somewhat abruptly as well. I was always a fan of spinach salad, and then suddenly a bad reaction. I thought it might have been a batch that did not get washed properly or something in the dressing. I cautiously tried small servings from different sources and with different dressings. It was the…

I get the allergy/bad reaction thing. I am that way with spinach.

I want to know how things are going too.

Broccoli, brussel sprouts and cabbage are sources. Net carbs are minimal. I take a multi vitamin.