Debt free and staying that way while I re-evaluate life and keep blood sugar levels down

Humdinger1

Thanks @jwil; that's exactly what I'm thinking.   I am going to widen my diet (yet more good stuff) which might cost a little more, especially with food prices rocketing.  I won't go berserk, but there's no point being the best-looking horse in the glue factory, from a financial point of view or any other really.  Planning a big read up of all sorts of recipes and have butternut squash roasting to make soup and possibly to stuff with nuts, anchovies, tomatoes and garlic.  Upping flavour healthily.  Love Humdinger xx

lucielle

You can do this!
L

Humdinger1

Thanks @lucielle! I will keep posting and just hope it's not too gloomy love Humdinger xx 

Sun_Addict

Not what you wanted to hear but you’ve done it before so you can do it again. Great news about the other results though. 

The best looking horse in the glue factory 🤣🤣

beanielou

You can do this 😊🌻

foxgloves

Awww, bum to that news, @Humdinger1. You know what to do & I have full faith in you. I have been slacking with weight loss in recent weeks & need to be a bit more careful between now & Christmas so as not to re-gain, which is very easy to do post-menopause. Bodies! Honestly, who'd have one?!
They are simultaneosly amazing wonderful things....but also a damn nuisance. Mine has mostly been in the latter category this year. 
Don't be too disheartened - you have the dietary knowledge & I would think it is perhaps not that unusual to slip in & out of diabetic range if one is quite near the cusp.
F x

Humdinger1

Thanks @foxgloves @Sun_Addict and @beanielou! Feeling much more cheerful this morning. 2 missions this weekend: find cottage cheese and fillings (separately so i know what I'm eating) that I like; and work out packed lunches for when I'm not working at home that are portable, tasty and low- carb.  Maybe lentil bhajis, if such a thing exists?! Plus give thanks for all the good things.  Love Humdinger xx 

joedenise

I've tried cottage cheese from various supermarkets and the one I like the best is the Tesco one.  It's a bit lumpier than some of the other ones which I much prefer.

savingholmes

Sorry you slipped back into the diabetic range - good that you know what to do to reduce it's impact and hopefully get back out of it again. Good luck - not an easy time of year for it - but you've done it before... I'm sure you'll win this battle again.

Humdinger1

Thanks @savingholmes and @joedenise.  So, to mark the start of the New Campaign, I've cleared out the freezer.  Ice cream is GONE! Not that I ever ate it but it's freed up space for healthy stuff. All home made but some dates back to the first lickdown (OK lockdown but that slip is too appropriate to correct; a darn good description of what many of us were doing, no?!)....pineapple ice, anyone?! Sugar added must be off the scale as would the mango; tropical fruit is off even before sugar. I'm also - now I've fully recovered from Covid - decided to join the pool again.  Annual membership £270...gulp, but better that than yet another DD.  Add that to walking and we should soon see much better results.   I have a 3-month window to see what i can do before drugs probably need to start again.  Anyhow, for those reading @foxgloves' diary, you'll see that back in the day I swerved (only just) buying a £500 pair of black patent thigh-high boots when a matching bag appeared costing £300! That was in 2007...pool membership is less than the bag, 16 years on, and very good for my health.

Will post more soon with thoughts re my whole regime: time allocation, paid work, voluntary work, just being.  Off out with dog shortly.   Onwards and upwards love to all Humdinger xx