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As mentioned above stress hormones will elevate your readings by blocking the effect of insulin. Same reason your readings go up when sick. Metformin should help prevent your liver dumping glucose into your blood, what dose are you on and for how long? It sounds like you have dawn phenomenon as well, which means your…
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I don’t remember where I saw this but I read 109k for the event somewhere. A ton of folks.
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The general rule is no more than 1% of body weight per week, so if you started at 350 lbs, you’re good, otherwise, might want to tap the brakes. However, weight loss during the first month may be misleading since you are losing water weight, stored glycogen in your muscles, and food and waste in your belly from not eating…
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The OP hasn’t been back since posting, unfortunately! However, many people diagnosed with prediabetes visit these forums so hopefully the thread will help someone. This is pretty good advice, in my experience as a diet and exercise controlled diabetic. Carbs per day isn’t nearly as important as carbs per sitting. For me,…
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Welcome and best wishes. I have lupus and can relate to living through times when eating is the only thing that doesn’t hurt! After a diabetes diagnosis I lost 125 lbs and have kept it off 3 years. It’s certainly tricky with pain and meds but doable. My first bit of advice would be to find non-food sources of comfort and…
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Re: food, it’s been so hot that I’m not running enough to eat like I want to. I thought I was like 300 calories over, which is unusual for me on a run day, then noticed I logged my dessert twice and actually had 10 calories left! Yay! But seriously enough with the heat already.
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As I write this it’s midnight with a heat index of 88 F. It’s just too stinking hot! As I’ve mentioned before I have raccoons living in my storage shed. They are wild but have gotten used to me and I have started putting out water for them, in an old baking sheet because it’s flat and they don’t flip it over. The babies…
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One more day before we are supposed to see a break in the heat. Got out mid afternoon and it was just us and the cyclists. @kgirlhart it feels exactly like a hairdryer in the face, yes! We did 5k very lazy, then a walk to bring it to 10k. Oh, and we saw this tree by the lake, it appears to be a completely natural thing,…
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@shanaber re: the situation with my mom, it’s complicated because she keeps improving, but not quite enough to be on her own. I feel like there will be a downturn at some point and we will have to scramble then so we should probably act now, but there are reasons not to want to upend things. For example, I like our place…
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Yeehaw it’s stupid hot again! Memphis is under a heat advisory from Sunday to Thursday night. Usually we have heat advisories which go from 10 am to 8 pm everyday, but this one is unbroken, including the nights. Last night the heat index never dropped below 90 all night. It was uncanny to step outside into what is usually…
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Happy birthday @skippygirlsmom ! Re: monthly questions. My motivation is keeping my diabetes under control. I was lucky in a way that almost immediately after my diagnosis, my vision went all wonky due to blood sugar fluctuations, which is a common short-term effect of rapidly lowering blood glucose when it’s been very…
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Oh, we’re well past that. She requires a full time caretaker these days. Guess who?
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On the subject of less recently vaxxed folks, my mother keeps bothering me to get her an appointment for a booster shot. I tell her that isn’t a thing yet, and she can’t get it through her head, and ten minutes later tells me to make an appointment with her doctor to discuss getting her a booster shot. It’s because her…
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Yep! We stay very aware of it during this heat (which is all of July, August and September usually) - getting goosebumps is always my first sign that I need to cool down. @skippygirlsmom Yay Skip! I would love to do a tri but don’t swim that well.
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Considering that everyone at that party probably gets a Covid test every 12 seconds, the risk isn’t huge. Also, as mentioned above, outdoor party.
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10k running and nearly 10 miles total. We’re back to being under a heat advisory again. In the 90s and heat index got as high as 101 when we were out running. Comparatively not bad - not as humid, breeze, decent cloud cover most of the way. What we did for water this time was start our run in the middle, run 5k one way,…
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Speaking from my own experience I found that while cutting out those splurge days was painful at first, soon my stomach and expectations shrunk to a normal size and eating that much seemed ridiculous. Continuing to pig out for one day a week seems like it would prevent you adjusting to a normal diet. That said, math is…
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Looking at you, I feel like your current physique would be more improved by adding more muscle rather than getting leaner with the muscle you currently have - just my personal taste and your goals may be different. You have a bit of a lower belly but it looks more like a weak core and bad posture than fat.
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Okay, well, if you aren’t losing weight, eating more food will not make you lose weight. It doesn’t work that way. You have two stated goals which are incompatible. You want to eat more calories and you want to lose weight. You can do either one but not both. In order to lose weight, if you have been maintaining at your…
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Re: my life - very tired right now because my mom’s housekeeper who has been staying nights with her is out of town this week because her grandbaby is running in the Junior Olympics in Houston. The kid is good - her poppa is a pro football player, and the whole family is athletically gifted - and placed 7th in her age…
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@quilteryoyo I think you meant to tag Elise. @swenson19d is there an ancestry service which will do ethnicity sequencing from found DNA like that? There’s a difference between sequencing for forensic purposes, where they just check a few locations to determine identity, and a full sequence in the millions of SNPs.…
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50% chance of a polite and friendly blue-point Siamese. Also olive oil, organic soy sauce, and a six pack of v8.
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My mom has kidney issues and her friend who is a nurse said no soda, including diet. This sounded like baloney so I looked it it up and lo and behold a study found that diet soda drinkers had an increased risk of kidney failure. I’m suspecting the issue is with replacing water with soda rather than just drinking soda, but…
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I was reading an interview with one of the people who tested positive and he mentioned something that no one else has seemingly noticed yet, which strikes me as very significant. He talks about himself and his husband going into a crowded venue which they HAD TO SHOW THEIR VACCINE CARD TO ENTER. If everyone there had to be…
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Just gonna point out you are not meeting recommendations for exercise with your 40 minutes walking. Ideally, you should also be getting some moderate intensity exercise - enough to make you sweat - plus some strength exercise, not necessarily weights, body weight will do, but some strength exercise to prevent osteoporosis…
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I didn’t actually see anything that wasn’t expensive. Tomatoes and peppers are so cheap at the moment that my neighbor keeps sneaking over and leaving bags of them on my doorstep because he can’t use them as fast as they grow, and it was something like 4 bucks for a single large tomato - not a fancy heirloom one, just a…
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@DuchessDiona Welcome from Memphis! Just today my family and I were talking about how impressive the runners from Jamaica were in the Olympics. So, have we had a monthly question this month? If not I have one! Who do you wish you could be at the Olympics? If you could just wake up one day with world-class skills in an…
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I visited the farmers market recently with my mother and was shocked. Our farmers market is horrifyingly expensive, compared to the grocery. And food there is not necessary local or grown by farmers - it’s common for booths to ship in food from big growers and sell it at stalls. But the main thing is the expense, a pint of…
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There are higher calorie foods which aren’t unhealthy fast foods. Healthy fats such as olive oil, nut butter, and avocado are examples. It’s common for people who are suddenly “eating healthy” to swap to a diet high in vegetables which has a lot of bulk and not a lot of fat. Make sure you are hitting all your macros. That…
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Reading local news from Provincetown the area of the outbreak is apparently a notorious hookup scene, and also very liberal. So it may be that a) most people were vaccinated, which is going to mean that more infections occur in vaccinated people, plus b) everyone was swapping spit and large numbers of germs, not just a…
