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The Diabetes Industry: Profiteers of human suffering
There is a constant friction/tension I see in online daibetes communities between those who believe in “moderation” and “long-term management” of diabetes, and those of us who believe a strict lifestyle approach is required to achieve remission and optimal health. This tension occurs because standard medical advice is constantly telling diabetics that they can eat…
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Put on 4lbs this week – my pizza challenge disaster continues!
I wrote recently about my “pizza challenge” – an experiment to see how badly one of my former favourite foods, a mainstay in my diet, would impact my blood sugar. It was a disaster. And the disaster kept on going, as it raised my blood sugar levels for four days! Today’s weigh-in demonstrated just how…
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The pizza challenge – part 2
So, on Friday, I made and ate half a homemade pizza. 馃崟 For science, obviously. 馃槒 The results were much as expected – albeit not quite as bad, I saw my largest spike since using my Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) – from a pre-prandial (before eating) reading of 6.3 (113) I shot up to 8.4…
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The pizza challenge! 馃崟
As you know I’ve recently begun to experiment with my blood sugar using my Continuous Glucose Montior – trying out foods to see how badly (if at all) they spike my blood sugar. So far I’ve seen that popcorn is perfectly safe. Today was an experiment that I knew would fail, but I wanted to…
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CGM results seem to be settling nicely
As you’ve no doubt read, I was getting a little concerned about my blood sugar levels as revealed by my Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM). But after 9 or 10 days of use now the numbers seem to be settling down nicely. My average over the last week shows I’m very much in the green overnight…
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Estimated A1c from my CGM
One of the other features of my Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM), which tracks my blood sugar throughout the day, is the ability to extrapolate from those readings to estimate my HbA1c. My HbA1c was 40mmol/mol (5.8%) when last I had it measured, on May 5th, just under two weeks ago, but down from the danger…
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The postive side of my Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis
I know this is going to sound strange, but I’m going to say it anyway:聽There is a potential positive side to having a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis! 馃 Bear with me before you decide I’ve gone totally crazy!聽馃お The fact is, before my diagnosis, I was slowly killing myself – between debilitating fatigue, chronic hypertension…
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The weekly weigh-in (under 100kg again!)
My Saturday weigh-in was, on the surface, a little disappointing. My weight had fluctuated up this week, with Tuesday’s weigh-in showing a completely unexpected increase! While I did cut my Monday 36-hour fast short, I had two 36hr fasts the previous week, and stuck to strict keto principles – as well as increasing my swimming,…
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The Hypertension diary: Why morning readings have been lying to me! 馃搱
Following my diabetic check-up on Tuesday, my clinician asked me to keep a week-long morning and evening BP diary. It has been an incredibly eye-opening exercise. Normally, I only test in the morning. But looking at the full day’s data, I realized my morning readings are heavily impacted by the “morning surge.” As we wake…
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Slightly depressing news about my blood sugar
So, I finally got my results back from my HbA1c after my interim diabetic checkup, and it wasn’t great news. As I’ve discussed, having dropped from a dangerously high blood sugar reading of 79 mmol/mol (9.4%) in December to an amazing 42 (6.0%) on 30th March, I was fully expecting to have continued on that…
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