Trish, another thing for your fasting sugars: when do you take the metformin? Are you taking one pill at 1000mg or 2 - 500 mg pills? If so, try taking them at different times of day. If you take the 2nd one with supper and the first with breakfast, you should find that you can keep steady most of the time.

BTW everyone, I realized that my fasting sugars went up when I starting taking the metformin earlier in the day. I had started in the am, but had more digestive problems, so I swtiched to supper time, and the gas and bloating were less with that time slot. But over time I have been tolerating it better, and was taking it with breakfast again, so that explains why the fasting sugars were higher again. BUT, I have no trouble using diet to keep the sugars steady during the day, so the metformin needs to be taken in the pm. I switched back to supper time and voila, am sugars are just fine.

Still haven't made it to the lab for my A1c, I would do it at work, but the doc wants a few things that we don't usually do, so I have to find out what tubes to use!
Anyone else have a vitamin D level done? It seems to be the in thing, though I doubt I would have any trouble with it.

My doctor has me taking a single 1000 mg metformin at my biggest meal. However, now that I'm doing low carb, I really don't have a biggest meal. I tried the eat a few bites of something when I woke up a little after 3am, but my am reading was 132 mg/dl. So that didn't work out to good for me. I am trying to do Atkins Induction of 20 g carbs a day. But today I bought some whey powder to make a 3 g carb shake in the evening. Our main meal is around 2 pm. I just don't care to cook etc just for me in the evening. My sister who had lapband surgery in December has lost 75 lbs mostly eating protein. Of course, she can't eat much at a time any way. She uses a whey powder she gets at Walmart but the carbs were to high for me so I found one today at Bi-Lo grocery that is on 3 g carb per serving and it is made with water instead of juice or milk.

fatmad - My doctor checked me for Vitamin D. I thought I was getting plenty with my Multi and calcium... about 800 units a day. He told me that I needed to be taking 2000. So I got D3 at Walmart that is 2000. I read that the D3 has a better shelf life. I remember when they said you could get too much D so be careful. Now they say we don't get enough. So it is good to have it checked.

What I found interesting in my blood work is that my bad cholesterol was okay, but my good cholesterol was too low. I was not surprised to find that the triglycerides were high because of the diabetes. Seems that goes with it.

Hope everyone is doing well and has a great day.

Well, this morning the FBS was 115 mg/dl. Just hope it stays there. Have to go get my pnuemonia shot today when DH goes for his PT blood test for the coumadin. Dr. marked on the bill and told me I needed to get it last week when I had my physical then we both forgot it.

Hope everyone is having a great day.

Hello, everyone! I hate that I have to meet you all this way, but that is the way it is, I guess. I have a huge history of type 2 in my family and I had gestational diabetes while I was pregnant. I don't want to have type 2 and recently I was told I had pre-diabetes and I should monitor my diet. So here I am.

Hey, Trish! Nice to see a familiar face. IE just wasn't for us, I suppose. I still like the principles, but it just doesn't work when you have blood sugar problems. Great job on your FBS! Mine today was 94! That's the lowest it's been since I started checking, so I'm happy. I know it could be better, though. I had readings in the 80's when I was pregnant, but that was almost 7 years ago.

Nice to meet everyone else!

theCandEs Hi, I also loved IE principles too. Great on getting your number to 94. I don't want to be diabetic and deal with the problems that come with it either. I hope to be able to get it under control. I've been reading some on Primal Blueprint on line, but I didn't by the book. Although I can't go the raw meat, I can buy the fact of eating protein, fruits and veggies. Hope things go well for you. Are you on meds or just doing it with diet and exercise?

to our group, CANDES ~ glad you found us over here; we are on different plans, but we are working towards similar goals.


TRISH ~ those were good numbers this morning; congrats to you!


I had to go for testing at our hospital for my sugars and iron, etc. I did a pre-test and was 5.0/80 this AM; and that is without any Metformin. Don't mind me, while I cheer myself ... I had an ounce of cheddar cheese and a tea at 9 pm last evening, so that is probably why. Didn't get to eat my breaky until 11 am, so I was very, very hungry by then! I was in control -- and just had a raisin bran muffin and a coffee at TIMMY's ...

We had another one today, but it is cooling off now. We had turkey drums with roasted veggies for dinner; and I got some walking in today as well as we had to go do some pick-ups and errands today twice.

Hope you all have a Fabulous Friday tomorrow ... Rosebud

I finally did my A1C today, LOL, my co-worker did the blood draw in her car before we went into breakfast at a diner this morning. I realized I didn't have time for the next couple of days to get to the lab, so we decided this was the best way. I was worried someone would see us and think we were doing drugs or something. I will get the results at the office by saturday tho, so I won't have to wait long.
Fasting sugar was 5.5 on my glucometer at the time. So switching back to supper metformin has been fine.
A little NSV last evening, was driving home from a long work day, ( got called out at 5 am, going home at 7) and was already justifying going through mcdonalds or tim hortons drive thru. I had eating good snacks and lunch on plan, but was really needing supper then, but home was still 25 min away. BUT, I did it! I did not eat junk, I went home, and found hubby had made ww spaghetti. I could eat the meat sauce over some stir fried zucchini. It was great. And I did fine. Then went to bed.
Also, I know I talked about it on the atkins thread, but after the first 3 months of atkins was fine, since late march I have struggled with constipation problems. Decided to go with NSA metamucil and all is well. It seems to have kickstarted the weight loss again too. I will believe I am down to 171 if the scale is still there on Monday.

Wellcome to new friends. HOpe we can all have a good summer.
Holidays start on MONDAY!

Good morning! Weight is up a bit because I was in town late yesterday after a day from **** and found myself at the Chinese buffet! Bad choice! I really DO have an addiction. Strangely enough I tried to talk myself out of it. That's never happened before. Maybe next time the results will be different.

The Delta Fair is on until Sunday but I have no problem avoiding Fair Food. I actually usually lose weight from walking around checking things out. (I'm a Director.) We fed our judges yesterday at noon - darned potato or macaroni salad plus ham which seems to be the norm in the country! I suggested 3-bean salad and got shot down. Some things will never change.

Let us know how the A1C turned out when you find out! Good luck.


Also, I completely understand about constipation. I NEVER had it before going lower-carb. And even when I eat lots of veggies, which I do, I still have days when it's not very comfortable. I don't do Atkins, per se, but I limit my carbs to fewer than 100 net a day, so it's much lower than the SAD.

I add ground flax meal to my cottage cheese or yogurt in the morning, or eat a teaspoon of chia seeds with a glass of water. Sometimes I use Metamucil, but I don't like the texture very much. All of those help a lot.

My FBS was 115 mg/dl again this morning. While I want it to keep going down, I am thrilled to have it the same low number 2 days in a row. I stayed up late and woke up early. I was so tired when I went to bed that I forgot to eat my little snack before I went to bed and too tired to get up and eat it when I was in bed and remembered it. So hopefully things everything is coming together for me. My BP is back down to normal for me it was 116/68 this morning. I've added a little bit of fruit to my low carb diet. As I wrote before, I read about the Primal Blueprint on line. I can do protein, fruit and veggies. I don't even miss the junk food any more. I bought some low carb protein whey powder and drink the shakes. The chocolate one takes the place of the ice cream I used to enjoy. I've made a lot of changes that seem to be automatic with no stress doing it. It's like I'm ready for the changes.

synger & fatmad - I struggled with constipation before too. I take a Potassium/Magnesium that DH takes for atial phib and the magnesium took care of that. Now that I take Metformin and drink the shakes, I'm trying to figure how to adjust the potassium/magnesium because I either get too much magnesium and end up running to the potty or end up constipated when I cut it back too much.

Rosebud - Congratulations on the low fasting numbers and for staying in control yesterday. Great accomplishments. Let us know how your tests turn out.

Ruth - Enjoy the fair. It is hard to get people to fix healthier foods. I find that most people at church gathering always bring more fattening foods even those I know are on diets themselves. Sometimes what some people call healthy, isn't healthy for us.

Y'all have a great Friday and weekend.

I love to do this with leftovers as well; sometimes, instead of pasta -- I serve my sauce and/or meatballs and sauce over long string green beans, or sauteed string cabbage or slaw or zucchini thins (cut in long strips). I am finding new ways to eat things that taste great as time goes on ...


YES, I will keep you posted on the results of all my tests; it is nice to see so much improvement over time. I am learning what things I can resist and what things I can't, but I am also going to enjoy this life too. I am fortunate that I have never been a big sweets nut; so I can go into Tim Horton's occasionally, and just buy coffee OR a coffee & a bran muffin with no problem (they even have low-fat versions here) ...

The doctor gave me a prescription for some stool softening gel pills; I have metamucil here too, but only use it now and then. He is pretty sure that constipation caused the blood in my stools a while back (but I still have to have a colonoscopy becuz of my age and a family history of colon cancer, just to be on the safe side). I am pretty sure too as I forgot to mention some soreness and tenderness on and off. He said that he could see evidence of a tag, so I gotta watch that now that I am eating so differently ...

Have a wonderful weekend and a great vacation for those on there way ...

A1C results are in, 5.7, a nice healthy number. My fasting was 5.0 by lab, but 5.8 on my glucometer, which means I am more than 10% off, which my diabetes educators says I shouldn't be. So maybe I am a bit lower than I think when I test. BTW, my vitamin D was low! So I will be adding more of a supplement again. I had cut back on the supplement with the warm weather, I was out in the sun almost everyday, and not so well covered.

Thanks for the warm welcome! I'm not on meds or anything. I'm just trying to keep the BS down through diet and exercise. Things are going well. I was really stressed at first, but now I think I can do this. FBS was 94 again today, so that is good.
Very tired. Need to go to bed. Everyone have a good weekend!

Plugging along. This has been a very stressful week but, aside from one incident, I'm sticking to my eating plan. There has been lots of walking at the Fair but I'm planning to get back to the gym on Monday. I need to make ME my priority for a while! BGL has been just great!

Hello everyone,
I am new here and have been on the Ideal Protein Plan for 2 weeks. It had done wonders for my glucose levels. I can not wait until I go in August for my bloodwork.
I look forward to learning more here and getting to know some of you.
Thanks,
Tina Lou