Mad - Are you on any other diabetes meds beside Metformin? I am only on Metformin and I have never had a low. The lowest my BS has ever gone is 85. Maybe I just never get dehydrated or go long enough without food to have it drop lower.

Mad Glad you are feeling better. Sounds like you and DH may have caught a bug. Hope you continue to feel better.

Carol Sue That is great that you do all that exercise. It really makes a difference. I didn't know about the slow rather than faster although I have heard that leisure walks actually any walking is just as good if not better than fast or jogging. I think it is because it is easier on the joints.
I think I need to take that idea and go at a slower pace. I didn't do the bike yesterday because my left knee was acting funny so thought I needed to give it a break. I had done a really vigorous 25 minutes the day before. So maybe it just can't handle going that fast and that long. I use to help my joints not to injure them.

DGS is here until Sunday when he moves back to college campus. Things can get back to normal again. I plan to change my exercises up some nest week. I want to start doing the bike 3 days and my Walk Away the Pounds 1 mile 20 min dvd again. It was so good for my posture and my joints.

Ruthie Thought of you when I got on the scale this morning... up .4 lbs which is really nothing, I know, but it is just the idea of how my weight bounces back and forth. Hope you meeting goes well.

Hope everyone else is doing good. I know some are busy getting kids ready for school etc.

Have a wonderful Wednesday.:)

Trish, I don't know if I could find that article again, it has been a while since I read it. It did not say that intense exercise was a bad thing, so don't think you were doing something wrong by working out at a high intensity. It just seemed that it worked for me. It could have been something else that did it, maybe dietary changes. I don't want to mislead you.

I cant find the article I read about triglycerides. I did find this one but it's about raising HDL. It says to exercise longer, even if it means going at a lower intensity. So I guess it's not necessarily recommending that you go slower, but to do so if it helps you go for a longer period of time.

http://heartdisease.about.com/od/cho...L_exercise.htm

I don't want you to change what you're doing based on my information, which could be wrong. Do what works best for you.

Carol Sue Actually, I was thinking more about my knee. I did it just a little slower, but still got the 2 miles I wanted and it was much easier on my knee. I will be adding more exercise though. Thanks for thinking of me, but you weren't misleading me. Going to be making some more tweaking on a lot of things with diet and exercise next week when DGS goes back to school and after we see our doctor for better health and hopefully better weightloss. I'll be working for the next 3 months for better blood work numbers next time.

Carol Sue: i am only on Metformin. I have always had issues with low blood sugar, most of my life. (many type 2 diabetics have a history of hypoglycemia before becoming diabetic, and when I do the 2 hour blood glucose test, I have a low 2 hour and get shaky shortly afterward. )
The low sugar was likely the result of not eating and only drinking ginger ale for a while, and of course it was just diet ginger ale, so I had virtually no calories after breakfast, for about 8 hours. I am not worried about it.
Today, I had 2 good 30 minute walks. ate pretty well too.

Just checking in. Delighted to see 189 again this morning - now to keep it in that decade or lower. I have my usual busy day but will be gearing down later to get ready for a whole weekend at my son's cottage with the emphasis on relaxation and chatting with my grandchild Tayler who suddenly is 13! I know the food will be good as my DIL, Wendy, is a very health conscious cook.

I hope everyone is well. See you Monday.

Ruthie Glad you are back down in the 180's and pray you will be able to keep it too. I am so tired of seeing my weigh bounce. I will be so glad when my weight stabilizes and then starts going down. I think I'm going to have to start watching the foods that are too salty. I'm just retaining water too much lately. Sounds like you are going to have a great visit with your son and family this weekend and get much needed R&R. Enjoy. :)

I finally have DH working with me to get his and my bs down to normal. It will be more fun working together to plan meals etc than it is for me to do it by myself especially since he is so picky.

Y'all have a great weekend.

Ruth, i am delighted for you. I need to find a way to resist when there is food I shouldn't have around. Last night I had some bread with supper. Didn't need it, but I had it anyhow because it was on the table.
Today was better.

I have yet to get under 180 again, but won't do it this weekend. Today is an annual family picnic, and I will eat a butter tart and enjoy some wine. (I am not driving home.)
I did make a "potato salad" using cauliflower and used dreamfields pasta in my macaroni and tuna salad, however. I hope you all have a lovely weekend as well.

Trish - I finally made my beef jerky. I watched a couple videos on U-tube showing how to cut the meat and how to marinate and arrange on the dehydrator. I marinated it overnight and put it in the dehydrator this morning. I used your marinate recipe as a guide, tweaking it a bit, using a little less of the worcestershire sauce, and changing the amounts of seasoning to my taste. I didn't use the hot sauce, but I put a shake of cayenne in it. Depending on how this turns out, I might put a dash of hot sauce in it next time, just to give it a bit of a kick, but not too much. This one is more of an experiment. My meat was London Broil. Next time I think I will try Eye of Round roast, which someone on U-tube recommended because it's really lean. I am anxious to see how it turns out.

I bought this dehydrator at a yard sale for a couple dollars, probably 20 years ago. Back then I was buying everything I saw, whether I needed it or not. I've never used it, but it doesn't look like the previous owner used it much either. It is so old, I can't even find it anywhere online. But if it works, it's ok by me!

Congratulations to you, Ruth, for getting back in the 180's. Good job! Hope you had a nice relaxing weekend with your family.

Mad, I have the same problem with bread. It just jumps right up into my hand!! I can eat a big meal, but my body still craves that bread and doesn't seem satisfied without it.

Survived the picnic without totally pigging out. Drank a lot of water and diet soda, but only peed once in 8 hours. Even though we were in the shade, apparently the heat had its effects. Good time had by all. At home today, have a teleconference tomorrow and then back to the island for a last holiday week. Will have my Dad there, and hope to take him to see an aging cousin for a bit. otherwise all quiet.

Oh my! DIL Wendy cooks healthy at home but not at the cottage! Ribs, corn, rolls, peach crisp - not very healthy stuff. I was glad I had brought along tomatoes! Weight up a wee bit but I know it'll go back down as soon as I low carb.

Took my friend Donna to a medical appointment this morning and then we went to lunch at Pizza Hut! I could not believe what she ate although I try very hard not to be judgemental. She made four trips to the pizza buffet and came back with three pieces each time! I had a salad with some chicken in it. Sorry but that just shocked me as we are both supposed to be dieting and eating lower carb. At least we didn't have a beer. ** Sigh **

Mad I think you handle the picnic very well. Congratulations.

Ruthie Good choice at Pizza Hut.

DH and I had our 3 month doctor's appt. today. Good visit. We didn't know if he would think he had to put DH on insulin (he had mentioned it before), but his FBS was down to 7.8 from 8.3 I think not sure. His triglycerides were up, but his good cholesterol was up and bad was down some. His heart was good etc. He told him that he wants it down below 7. I told him I was learning to cook again as I was trying to get more fiber into our diet and switching to good fats.

My FBS down to 6.8 from 8.? last time. My triglycerides were down from 152 last time to 144. I told him I had been putting coconut oil in my morning coffee because I had heard that it lowers triglycerides. He said, "Well, it worked". Although my good cholesterol was up 1 pts, my bad cholesterol was still a little higher than he wants it even though it is considered in the normal range. We both had lost weight and I had lost 4 lbs since last visit. I told him that the weight comes off so slow, but I'm trying to remember that at least it is going down and not up. He said he would be happy if I lost 4 lbs each time that I come in. He said with the diet change and the exercise we're doing, that the cholesterol should continue to improve. He was extremely pleased and so was I.

Oh yes, I'm finally back down to 233. Loss has slowed down to .2 lb each day for the last 2 or 3 days. Extremely slow, but as long as it goes down that is all I care about. LOL

Patty, good work on weight and bloodwork for you and DH. I'd take even .1 a day at the moment!.

I seem to be in another gaining cycle, probably carb related! I guess I have to bite the bullet and get back onto Atkins or South Beach Phase I. Yesterday I put away some summer clothes that I know are too tight. Sure hope they'll be loose next time I see them.

Been working away at stashing food for winter - so silly as we can buy fruits and veggies in winter. I think it's my pioneer ancestry! I have dried kale and other veggies for winter stews and casseroles and have peaches drying right now. I did freeze some but dried ones are good for snacking. I just have to count the slices. I did NOT dry any strawberries this year. Last year I snacked away a small bag and realized - next morning - that I'd scoffed a 4 liter basket! I don't dry bananas either - too easy to eat the equivalent of several.

Once again I've not made it to town for bloodwork! When I get up, I head for coffee first thing. I think I'll hide the Keurig tonight or tape the bloodwork requisition to it!

Happy Hump Day!