hanging my head in shame

savingwannabe

You could see all the !!!!!y people having conversations at my place today. Pretty obvious they are talking about strategies for the future in the cost cutting environment. Am expecting to be shafted financially, being an outsider and regularly bullied with senior management choosing to look the other way for the past 3 years.

I shan't hear for a while though methinks.

At least the weather is nice. how is diabetes. I cannot eat. I get fed up i have chewed 10 bubblegums for supper tonight as just cannot be bothered.

Have 40 quids worth of fresh fruit and veg in the fridge. Can someone kick me really hard and make me follow this diet????

worried_jim

I chew sugar free gum all day, just bought six packs tonight, never skipped a meal for it though. Blood sugar is at a 6.2 7 day average so all good, diet is well and have just discovered Hartley sugar free jelly- at last I can have dessert.
I sometimes have a fridge full of food and just can't be ar5ed to eat it (or prepare/cook) although I am doing good at the moment and have been eating well consistently for the last two weeks. I am finding eating mundane now, eggs for breakfast, chicken or prawn salad for lunch then chicken with cauliflower,green beans and broccoli for evening meal, I have this every single day and am so bored of it. What else can I eat that is carb free, I am losing the will to live.
Have just seen episode one of Southland on more4, at last a decent tv programme I can watch after 24 and the Shield has finished,I am about up to here with Graham bloody Norton and Alan Carr, my wrist are limp just typing there names.

savingwannabe

Jim oh no dont turn into me.

I get bored so i eat the same stuff everyday as i am too busy focussed on work. We are supposed to change food. Woke up as having a hypo now but this was self inflicted as i could not be bothered to eat last night. But i am a screw up so dont be like me, ok?

My blood sugars are awful in work time (overall 3 month average at present is 8.6) but Hbalc goes back to fab 7 during summer hols.

Right mate, you have inspired me to get off my jaksey and make sure i eat porridge (and dried fruit) for brekkie (have been doing that for a while and it helps) and I will try this salad malarkey at lunch today (nicked idea from you - i usually buy sarnies and Tyrells crisps) to see if i feel better as I will be having fruit and veg. I will cook a supper tonight (only do that once a week as can't be bothered) stirfry with loads of carbs. I am short and size 8 (but feel fat at moment as no exercise for 2 years).

Unlike you I am on insulin and I am on a high carb diet since i was 15 as doctors always tell me too fatten up so i have to have carbs but i get fed up with eating every 3 hours. Now the doctors say that i must eat little and often and not force myself so i am going with it and not beating myself up and although i was naughty to have sugary gum last night it is ok once in a blue moon as i have followed a strict high carb diet since 1974!

Live long and prosper my friend. Nannoo Nannoo (you are probably too young to remember Mork and Mindy but i liked him he was a fellow nutter!).

Stay happy. Your food sounds good. You have inspired me. Maybe Jo can tell us what else to improve.

Have a good day pet!

worried_jim

Whooo dried fruit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You might as well just eat a bag a sugar ! That's the one food I've been told never to have, I love how our eating habits are poles apart and I don't eat any carbs. Have a good day eating bread and crisps you lucky bu*ger !

Jo4

Jim did you get your results yet? Can I ask do you not feel weak if you do not eat carbs?

savingwannabe

I agree. It is rabbit food. Have you heard of the plate model. I thought good carbs (wholemeal bread, rice etc) were the things that stopped us from going hypo. I am insulin dependent.

Dont get worried Mr Jim. If you are worn out (and you must be, as that is just rabbit food without carbs) you need to call hospital and ask if they will agree to change your diet (just in case it affects your medication).

Nb my problem is that I only eat carbs (and bad one's like crisps) as i cant be bothered with fruit and veg and that is just plain stupid. I am trying to work on it though. Last night i was just stupid though.

Jo4

I have heard of the plate model. I always thought a little of what you fancy, food wise, didn't do you that much harm if it wasn't consumed that often. I attended a course which explained how you work out your ratio that if you are too high that "x" units would bring your blood glucose down "y" mmol. It was also explained that for every 10g of carbs you needed "z" units. Although I did this at the course I was already doing it at home. The course also explained how to adjust your insulin for alcohol, excerise, holidays, special occassions like Christmas, attending weddings etc.

I personally could not live without the carbs as I would have a light head, be dizzy and weak. It would also give me mood swings.

worried_jim

When you cut sugar out of your diet completely the first 3-4 days are horrible, you can get the shakes/sweats and horrendous diarrhoea. By day 4/5 you feel amazing, full of energy absolutely no food cravings, the ability to work on after you get hungry, a strange sensation, you know you are hungry but there is no lack of energy as your body is burning the supply you have stored. You will also sleep really well and by week two there will be no problems. I do this so I don't have to take those horrible tablets that make me feel so sick that control the pancreas output of insulin, I just take the metformin to control my liver only.
If I have a cheat day or fall of the wagon which is fairly often I know about it with a few hours of eating whatever rubbish I have had as I feel awful. Today my blood has been between 6.2 5.1 and right now 5.7 with a seven day average of 5.8 all done with metformin and diet and none of those disgusting gliclazide/repaglinide tablets. I am a lot happier for it and costing the NHS less, hopefully I should loose some weight to make it easier to manage as well .

savingwannabe

Mr Jim that is fantastic. Well done. I will copy you at lunch and do the salad thing. I am allowed to make changes but i must eat big carb meals at breakast and supper.

Well done. Stay happy. hugs, sw.

worried_jim

Somewhere in East London there is a man going about his business, little does he know that tomorrow his own life, his families and friends and employers life are all going to change all because he had the misfortune to open an a bank account using a fake passport and visa which I have just discovered. The Home Office will be raiding his home at the crack of dawn and Immigration will also be paying a visit to his employer (for those that have seen UK border force on Sky will know what to expect).
He has probably paid £k's to be smuggled to the UK with his family and is thinking that things are going ok, has home, job, bank account, and can work off the debt he owes. Or he is here to commit crime and fraud (which he has already) and I have put a stop to a bad egg going worse and individuals losing money to this conman. Maybe he's already has been to the benefits office and is claiming from the taxpayer already, whatever, it all comes to a stop tomorrow morning. I have the day off and shall enjoy a lie in followed by a trip to the library and beach.