Saturday, 30 November 2019

Weight Update and Overnight Basal Test for Nov 30

I wanted to see how much of a difference one night could make.  I admit that I had some chips yesterday evening (they were in the coffee room at work and a flavour I really like).  After work I did some running around, and didn't eat dinner until a bit later than normal (finishing up just before 8pm). Dinner was home made turkey rice soup and some sour dough bread.  So it was a bit starch heavy, but nothing really horrible (like more chips).  I wanted to see what things looked like overnight, so 7:43pm was my last bolus. 

When I weighed myself today, these are the numbers I got:

weight: 215.2 lbs
fat percentage: 47.3%
hydration: 36.2%
muscle: 26.0%
bone: 10.6%
cal: 2375

So wow! I lost almost two pounds and one whole fat percentage point, just from getting a good night's sleep and limiting snack foods.

In terms of the overnight basals, I can see that something is going on between midnight and about 2am, when there's a sudden random drop before everything stays relatively level.  


I know that these levels are a bit higher than they should be, but I was just looking to see how much of a line it was - the fact that my glucose stays relatively straight means the overnight basals should be fine if I can get my glucose lower before I go to sleep around 2pm. This is what I was expecting to see (because other nights have looked relatively stable too), so it was nice to get that confirmation.

I was originally planning on eating a meal around now, and doing a basal test over the evening to see what's happening then (the evenings are always the hardest time of the day for me to test - plus I've been going high a lot during them).  But instead I decided to keep going with this afternoon to see how things look until about 5 or 6pm because I've seen some random highs start around 3pm over the last few days.  Hopefully then I can test the evening over the next few days to try to get that sorted out too.  

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