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I've half-given-up looking at the sugar results - at the end of the day whether they're from fruits or sugarcane or broken-down-complex-carbohydrates, it ends up as glucose that's either burnt or stored. So if I'm watching my calorie intake, and my sugar result is "too high", I'm pretty-much-guaranteed to be down on one of…
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Like pretty much anything in the world, in moderation it'll be fine. And anyway, cortisol is more of an appetite-stimulant than something that will *directly* cause weight gain, so if you're controlling your food input you shouldn't have a problem. Patients on prednisolone don't necessarily gain weight, but we do have to…
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Do a manual check to see if the machine is accurate. There's absolutely no reason why a 6-second or a 15-second count should be any less accurate than a 60-second count - unless your heart is in an irregular rhythm (not impossible) in which case you definitely should see a doctor (irregular rhythm can be normal (sinus) but…
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I'd suggest eating the vast majority of the "exercise calories" as the body needs fuel to function and preserve muscle mass. If you effectively drop your calorie intake by say 1200 below baseline instead of 500 below baseline, because you for example did 700kcal worth of exercise, you're effectively starving your body so…
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Great work! A real reminder that perseverance pays off.
