Diabetes thread for Fall and Winter 2025
 

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Scale is up again, to 181.4. So unhappy. I had ice cream yesterday and a lot of bread. I didnt cook and we ate sandwiches. I need to do something but im slightly out of control. I need to get back to meat and vegetables.

The other issue is back. I cant say No.

Carol Sue My weight is up too but I'm not sure why because I'm not eating a lot of calorie or carbs. Weight 173.2 lbs. I'm only eating 2 meals a day and less than 1200 calories. In fact, most days I barely eat 1000 calories. I think the exercise does more for me than I realize. I remember when DS was in rehab for her knees that they put her on a stationary bike, so I plan to start using it again next week and ease back into my usual exercises as the knee heals.

Lab this after noon.

Hope that chip doesn't causes Brodi any problems. As for the other habits are hard to break.

scale stayed the same 181.4. We didnt eat dinner at the casino. we were not hungry. I ate a lot yesterday.

I still havent started exercising. My recumbent bike always helped my knee. A woman onlinectold me about it, thats why I bought my first used one. Now I have a good new one.

I still have not done my first injection. I have to do it soon. i will watch a video online or go to Walmart Pharmacy and ask for help.

I heard from my friend yesterday and a couple friends. I get people texting me using different name but I think its him because of words and phrases that are used. I think he thinks I will ytell them something different than I tell him. He no longer texts every day.

My weight was 173.8 this morning. I started back with exercise today. I didn't do a lot of each one, but I did do a minimum amount of it. It took about 7 minutest to get my knee to stop hurting. It has made it so much easier to walk and without pain.
I will slowly work myself back up to full exercises. I also have gone to a very low carb breakfast.

I don't know how you take the monjaro but when I took Trulicity, I just injected it in my stomach. I think you could also use your thigh, but that could be insulin. Not sure. You should be able to google it since there are so many people taking different types of those meds.

I guess I am too careful, but I wouldn't trust just anyone online these days. Too many crazy things going on these days.

Have a good day.

I went to Walmart pharmacy and a tech showed both DH and I how to use the pen. I came home and injected it. It was easy. I had a bit of potty issues a couple hours later. Very minorr. I dont take it again until next Saturday. I dont understand how it keeps blood sugar low for a week. I was surprised that they filled my Glimiperide. I thought it said online not to take both together. I will check blood glucose often to see what is happening.
I dont trust peiple online either but this person doesnt know much about me. I told him I dont believe he is who he says he is. Its really funny.

This Mounjaro has me confused. For me,its,supposed to lower blood sugar and help with weight loss. If a person takes it for weight loss but they dont have high blood sugar,does it lower their blood sugar? Is it one of those drugs that only lower blood sugar if its high? Ive been testing and blood sugar was very high when I took the injection. 300+. At bedtime it was 270. Middle oF the night it was 199 and when I got up it was 219. That was probably the dawn phenomenon. I could probably get it into a good range with G but I wantvto see what this drug does on ites own.

Weight today was 183.4 up 1 lb. I expected the Mounjaro to work instantly!

Carol Sue I need to ask my DN about that since she takes Mounjaro. I know the other day I was telling her about DS MIL went to ER and her BS was high around 368 because she forgets to take her insulin and DN said "Oh I thought you were going to say it was higher". She didn't think of 368 as being all that high.

Weight this morning down a little bit to 173.2 lbs and FBG was 95. I haven't had a 95 reading in a long time, but I didn't eat a lot yesterday. Breakfast was 2 eggs and 2 sl bacon and dinner was half a frozen lasagna with meat sauce. Calories were less than 700.

Knee feels so much better today. I am so thankful for that.

Hope everybody has a really good day.

Trish, it says online that you should go to the ER if blood sugar is over 300 and cant be brought down with treatment. Sovthecwoman who missed her insulin should have taken her insulin when she remembered, I guess. Its,neber wrong to go to the ER to be safe. We call the ambulance and they advise us if we need to go or they treat us at home.

Im scared about my blood sugar but I dont want to go to ER. Tomorrow we will go to Walmart and I wuill ask the pharmacist.

I understand how it helps weight loss. It slows digestion. I was so stuffed today. I ate dinner even though I was stuffed. In the future I wont eat if not hungry.

Scale is the same today. 182.4.Brodie likes my scale. When I get on it he comes over to look. Its like he's reading it My throat no longer hurts but I have a stuffy nose and congestion. I think it's just a cold. Im not testing for anything. I don't know if Covid is still around. I don't have a fever.

Weight this morning 172.2 lb and FBG 101. I started out just eating 2MAD and now that has become the way I eat. Yesterday and today, I noticed that my calories seem to stay between 1000 to 1100 calories and carbs are low. Not keto low but low around 50 g or less and protein up where I need it to be.

Carol Sue I'm sorry the mounjaro isn't working like you expected. Hope you get the answers you need,

I started exercising today. I'm doing half of the amount that I did before the knee problems. I don't plan to go to the store with DH this week because we walk in the store too long for me to walk on the knee. It is so much better and I don't want a relapse.

Have a good day everyone.

Scale was down to 181.4, 1 lb lower than yesterday. The mounjaro keeps me feeling full, with no hunger. i have to remember not to eat til Im stuffed, but only until im no longer hungry. That has always been part of my weight problem. I cant wait til I get back into the 170s, and lower. My blood sugar is lower than it was the first few days but still higher than itcshould be.

Carol Sue I'm glad the Mounjaro is working for you and your weight and bs is coming down.

My weight was the same as yesterday 172.2 lbs. I hope my eating 2MAD is going to help me keep losing weight. FBG was 99 this morning. No exercise today other than just walking around the house. DH suggested just walking around the house because I suffered terribly with the knee yesterday after the exercises I did. When I first started walking again, I had a routine of walking through the house so that I could get my steps up. I will go back to doing that and stop when it starts hurting. DH apologized last night because he talked me into getting in the tow truck. I was doing so good walking before I got in that stupid truck. I told him it was my fault too because I knew I couldn't do it and I should have called my DBIL to come take me home.

I only had a protein shake and my collagen coffee for breakfast because DH is going to Sam's and local store to get groceries and he will bring home KFC. This way I can keep calories and carbs low. I'm finding this can be done; it just takes planning.

Hope everyone is doing well and have a great day.
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Tracking meals on MFP. I had 2 thighs, half serving of coleslaw, half serving of cottage cheese with Dannon serving container of yogurt, small amount of blueberries, 1 kiwi and 1 rectangle of Graham cracker broken into it so it feels like a dessert and a glass of milk. All this came to 1128 calories and 65 g carbs. I use the cottage cheese to get the extra protein that I need on immunotherapy.

Scale stayed the same today, 181.4. Better than up.

I want to go back to tracking. I havent done it in months. I would like to do like you do, 1000-1200 caalories. acarbs under 100.

Today we are going to the casino even though Im still sick. Im going to.test for covid but our tests might have expired. I hate the thought that Im spreading this to others, but someone spread it to me. Im feeling a lot better but I get worse,as the day goes on.

Scale stayed the same for 3 days now at 172.2 lbs. FBG 95 and bp 125/58. Calories for today will be 1169 and carbs 61 grams. My new woe is working very well.

Carol Sue I hope you will feel better soon.