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The other thing I meant to say in my blurb was that I am going to redo my meals and recipes with T2D equivalents and newer logging. It is an unholy mess so that will keep me amused for a while!

Rozzington Bear's Basics in order of priority - Here is what I will be monitoring and logging in here and with emojis to spare, hahah! Not at all a resolutions kinda gal but I have enjoyed seeing people's formats for logging in here, so this is my set of stats for the Monthly thread. When I first joined MFP it was to lose…

Can I just take a moment to wish everyone in my new and honestly quite brilliant MFP family (if I may be so bold) a Happy New Year. Not posting for a couple of days and taking some much needed days of DVD/Blu-ray watching and a rare chance to have downtime before the tennis season starts and before I embark on a number of…

29/12/20 Rats... woke up to a message from person I am having a business call with to bring to forward so slight change of plan to the day/week - working on Weds and then Fri and then back at it proper when the world goes back to post Chrimble and New Year normal! FBG: 5.8 ➡️ 🟢 - In the green all night and no jump at…

28/12/20 Happy Post-Christmas all! Bank Holiday here in Blighty but had a business call today (and another tomorrow) so was doing my physio at 7:30 and on the treadmill for just after 8 and just about done and ready for the call. Same again tomorrow (C25K on spin-bike) FBG: 6.7 ➡️ Workout: ✅ Treadmill (C25K W3 session) 🟢🟠🔴…

Swipey said: 4.6 ➡️ Spin Bike ✅ Most likely the last session for the week. Merry Christmas one and all and catch you all on the flip side of the wrapping paper!

My Fitness Coach and Wii Fit on a Wii (heh obvs). Will probably get rid of the other Wii games (except maybe sports resort etc) as it has relocated into my home office/home gym at the moment

23/12 FBG Adventures with Swipey: 6.4 ➡️ Up early to get prepped for last day of tournament coverage and aiming to do spinbike tomorrow to get C25K variant done so that next week I can repeat as planned. Gave in to an Indian takeaway yesterday and didn't actually finish work until 21:30... hopefully today will not be as…

I stopped using MFP to count calories and started to count carbs - I set my carbs to a little over 100 and if I come in under that then I consider it a good low carb day. With time to understand that (certainly pre COVID) my working circumstances made it impossible to be totally low carb with only diet and exercise as…

22/12 Swipey 4.6 ➡️ Having felt so chuffed with my run on Monday.. In the rush to get prepped for work covering a tournament, I forgot to put Osteoflex on them after icing and a shower and was zonked last night - woke up in agony so no Spin bike today and icing them as I type. In fact probably going to give them two days…

21/12 NEW SWIPEY! Sensor went on late Sunday and was a 5.7 ➡️ this morning. Today was close-out a full C25K session where it was 5min Warm up, and intervals of 1m30s run and walk and then 3m run and walk... and I did it! And what gave me more joy (apart from waking up the cave-dwelling lodger because I have a very rare 4…

Oh I HATE when that happens... always when I do a strengthening exercise for my golf/tennis elbow Been swipey-free so putting a new Libre sensor on Sunday. Picked up some writing work for 4 days (starting Sunday) so hopefully can fit in training and will be checking in next week.

14/12 Adventures with Swipey - 5.5 ↗️ Treadmill ✅ Carbs: 107g Thankfully had started a new cycle of my broken-down C25K on the Tready and SpinBike last week before my world caved in, so I can do the second week and then next week is the full week's session so I am pleased about that. Slowly getting back on the horse after…

Been absent after a job set-back for a role I had been chasing for 18 months. So have felt pretty fed up with the world. Not sure what to do next as there is no freelance work on the horizon, and getting sirely tired of well meaning folk sitting in well paid jobs or with ther pension cheerfull telling me that next year is…

8/12 Swipey a lot better behaved this morning coming in at 6.1 ➡️ Exercise: Spin-Bike ✅ Logging: ✅ <150g today and I freely admit that I would consider today as a Lower-Carb day and under my absolute upper limit of 150g, rather than under 100g which I would consider a decent LC day. I have tried to find a LC alternative…

7/12 Swipey the Libre sensor said 7.2 ➡️ this morning - still in the green and a restless night because my knees were painful as heck after two rounds of golf in the weekend. Reaction to a more carby than usual supper having not eaten since the morning, and a cherry wheat beer so I can't say I am shocked at the number, but…

6/12 Swipey says: 6.4 ➡️ and that was on top of sharing a plate of chips with my friend after golf, and half of a proper Napolitan pizza (super super thin) for dinner. So I will take that gladly. 18 holes of golf today so probably a good 4-5 miles of walking, chasing a bright green ball and cursing a lot. It was cold…

Today (5/12) Swipey says: 6.3 ➡️ after blood-letting day. So now I have that 5-7 day wait for the results to get to the GP and then I need to ask for an appointment with the nice GP and not the ....-hole who diagnosed me and then told me basically never to monitor my blood sugar, and when I told him I had brought my bloods…

Obviously slept A LOT on Swipey - tons of lows through the night, which just shows me how much I toss and turn and sleep on both sides in the night! All the more reason not to rush for the new Libre 2... although the alarms when I go high would be more useful I think. But for now I am happy using the Libre 1 and don't…

Swipey (Libre sensor) drew me pretty pictures of mountain ranges yesterday despite normal low-carb options... which was... vexing. Settled down with a well-placed Metformin about half an hour before bed-time... Jardiance did not seem to make ANY difference at dinner time. And it's pretty solid strength so... that will make…

No training yesterday because I had to get up early to take the car for its MOT - cost me £100 for the test and new wiper blades which was... irritating as they seemed to be working just fine as I drove down there but hey ho! The little beast of burden is at least legal for another year so let's be thankful for small…

And done - another 30 seconds added to the longer part of my C25K broken down session... and my lord that was a toughie, especially for the second part of that run. Another week of that on the tready and spin bike and then finally the session as it should be ... This at least seems to coax my knees to hang on in there for…

Loving this thread. I steadfastly stayed with MFP to carb count rather than switch apps to some carb-related one. I especially love the bacon hack - I usually buy a couple of packs of Sainsbury's Bacon medallions but by the time I get to my fortnightly shop I might have half a pack soo to go out of date so... that is going…

Thanks @baconslave (which by the way is THE BEST handle ever). My GP still harbours a fear that I am actually Type 1.5/LADA (basically the adult version of T1). My dad was diagnosed when he was about my age and was put straight on insulin. So we'll see because even sometimes with steady control my pancreas decides to go…

Don't know what country you are in but I bought a foldable treadmill (ex 400m hurdler having to rehab thanks to no cartilage left in my knees). I spent about £300 (I am sure you can work that out in $ if you need to) and I bought it years ago together with a refurbished ex-gym Kaiser M3 spin bike. They have been…

Brief history. Diagnosed the same year my mother died. In that time I lost about a stone and half rather quickly and put it down to the stress and the grief... dropped about a stone when my dad died so didn't think any more of it. Was working a tennis tournament (sports journalist by trade) and was constantly thirsty, and…

Anyone else using this? I use the Libre 1 (in the UK) and have to self-fund. Developed an allergy to the adhesive so now I basically operate on myself and the sensor to be able to use it but have recently been a convert to the iPhone app and logging stuff through there. The algorithms seem to be a bit more up to date than…

Did a fortnightly grocery-shop last week so plenty of fresh food and veg to get through... Cauliflower & Broccoli cheese for tonight - will use a 1/4 head of cauliflower, and split it over two days so will be lunch tomorrow.

I have my stuff split between my room (in a loft extension) for when I do my knee rehab and physio exercises (no cartilage in my knees anymore) And the Spinbike, foldable treadmill and Wii for Boxing, Yoga, Wii Active workouts) are all in my office. That way I only cross paths with my lodger as he is getting ready for work…

Hi Just joined the group but November Goals still valid. I have no cartilage in my knees so continuing to break down a C25K program and increase the running incrementally within a week's program and repeat twice (I do the session on a treadmill and spin bike) and then the rest of the week I do cardio boxing and resistance…