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The "Just Say What's on My Goofy Mind" Thread. Feel free to participate.

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#1 · (Edited)
I think I'm going to change my signature. I am going to replace LCHF with KETO. The Consonant, Vowel, Consonant, Vowel sounds less monotonous than Consonant, Consonant, Consonant, Consonant. My LCHF is KETO, but Keto just sounds less bland as a descriptor.
 
#4 ·
LOL, maybe, as long as they are not written in cursive
 
#8 ·
I'm waiting to turn right at a red light.
A young guy is standing at the curb with his head down, texting on his phone.
The light turns green & says "Walk," but, of course he doesn't notice.
After I wait a few seconds, I start my turn, then he looks up & jumps in front of my car, then gives ME a dirty look when I hit my brakes.
I was thinking, 'Well, he looks around 18...I wonder if he'll make it to 19....'
Reminded me of that video in China. A young woman was walking outside, texting & she walked into an open manhole & disappeared. I don't think they ever found her.
 
#12 ·
ROFLMAO

As Larry the cable guy would say, "now that there's funny, i don't care who you are."
 
#20 ·
My Apple Watch told me to stand up and move around for a minute, so I got up and got on my bike, after getting a beer and some mixed nuts from the kitchen.
 
#25 ·
Hmmmm.

Does your Dr. tell you where you need to get the "mosquito" to "bite", or can you pick any place?

I know a lot of people think your fingers are the only places you can "get bit", but I use the fatty part of my palm. I don't feel it, and it heals over pretty fast, considering I don't heal as fast I used to. Thing is, I have to have the lancet turned all the way for maximum depth.....which still isn't too deep and I still don't feel it.

I've also read you can get it off your upper leg or thigh.
I have a spot on my upper leg thats always been numb all of my life. Once my palms have been used up, I will switch to that.


Also.....if I get a paper cut or accidentally prick myself during the day, I will grab my meter and test some blood that way too.
 
#27 ·
There is a bigger delay in the readings doing alternate site testing. Your lancing device may have a clear attachment that came with it for this purpose, my last 3 new meters did not come with the attachment for their lancing devices.

I used to do my forearms when I first started testing, but now its finger tips all the time. Most of the time it is on the side of the finer tip and occasionally it is the actual tips. Majority of the time it is painless, but every now and then there is an ouch.
 
#31 ·
I might prick my middle finger sometimes so the index can get a break.
By all means, use all your fingers! You don't always have to pick the same one.

Quick question: Approximately how many prickings can I do before a needle becomes dull?
Hard to say. Depends on how much "work" the lancet has to do (some people have tougher skin, etc.). I usually change my lancet every time I open a new vial of test strips, just to keep things fresh. Some folks go for months with the same lancet. When it occurs to you that pricking your finger hurts more often than it used to, it's time to change the needle.
 
#32 ·
I've got thin skin on my fingers, and even if I don't feel it when I test, I feel it later on because they get sore, even if I switch fingers every day.

I haven't had any difference in readings from fingers to using the pad part of my palm.
 
#36 ·
Went grocery shopping with my wife Wednesday afternoon. Came home and decided to have fried eggs and leftover Christmas ham for supper. The first two eggs she put in the pan for me were both double yolk. I thought what are the odds of that. I also thought maybe I ought to go by a lottery ticket, so after I eat I go out in the storm, drive 10 miles to the closest store, and buy 5 quick picks.. Guess what!!!!!

I only hit one number. I should have sent her to get the ticket, she was the one that picked that carton of eggs.
 
#39 ·
Wishing all a Safe and Happy New Year. I'll "see it in" at 3:30 AM, I am working days shift. Probably won't even see the end of the ball game tonight

I lived in Japan when I was in the 4th-6th grade. They said "Ah, So" a lot. I think it meant "I see"
 
#41 · (Edited)
I ate okay today. Highest number was 11.1, probably because I had strawberries and cottage cheese for lunch. Still, I'm so hungry I could gnaw my own arm off. :(

I thought they were low in sugar (strawberries aren't pure sugar like grapes are) and bought a bag of strawberries and containers of cottage cheese before I knew more about the keto stuff. I don't want to throw it in the garbage so when I've finished them, I won't buy anymore. I could have ate a bit better but it was nothing disasterous.

But god, I'm bored and hungry and I just want to eat and never stop.
 
#42 ·
I ate okay today. Highest number was 11.1, probably because I had strawberries and cottage cheese for lunch. Still, I'm so hungry I could gnaw my own arm off. :(
As fruit goes, strawberries aren't too bad. Many of us can eat a few berries without slamming our blood glucose level. Cottage cheese can be okay, too, if it's the right (full-fat) kind.

PhoenixFire, are you keeping track of what you are eating each day? With low-carb/high-fat or keto, fat should be about 70% of your calories each day. For a 1900-calorie-a-day diet, that's 158 grams of fat. I'm going to guess you're not taking in that much fat, which, without all those carbs in your day, is going to leave you feeling hungry (I can't help the bored part :smile2:).

You might want to find a book/smartphone app/Web site that helps you calculate what you should be eating for your weight/activity levels/etc. Eating more fat (and maybe more protein, too, if you're not eating enough now) will help you feel full longer. It would not hurt to increase the amount of water you drink, too, as your body gets used to eating LCHF/keto. Water will fill you up, too.
 
#44 · (Edited)
I am waiting on an audio book to make its way to me, by way of the library. It is A Tale Of Two Cities, by Dickens.

I recently finished listening to Jane Eyre on CD; after that I watched a DVD of Bleak House by Dickens.

I really like those kinds of books.
 
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#47 ·
I am half way through A Tale, and I have Sun Tzu ready to go. They are both audio books; I get so tired now-a-day that I can't read for long.
 
#45 ·
Anyone can be too thin, but when you can hula hoop with a Cheerio...

Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?

Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?

Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?
 
#52 ·
Drinking my morning coffee from my camping mug so that I can close my eyes and imagine sitting by the campfire.
To paraphrase Dr. Phil, how's that workin' for ya?

Wonder if someone makes a candle that smells like a campfire. Someone must do that...
 
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Quite a turn in the weather here this morning, after several days in the 60s and 70s F, it is 24.7 F currently with 84% humidity. Fortunately not as cold and no wind as originally predicted.

Does a cold snap affect your Blood Glucose? Is it due to the weather, or things you do or don't do in reaction to the colder weather.
 
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