I'm getting really confused trying to keep track of this.

My understanding is that GMI and A1C are not the same, and for example, a GMI of 6% is equivalent to an A1C of 5.5%. And my understanding is that this is because your CGM is reading interstitial fluid, while a finger prick or blood draw is reading your blood.

However, when trying to look up whether interstitial fluid naturally reads higher than a blood draw, the answer I seem to be finding is "no". In other words, if your CGM is reading a pretty steady number all night, then your blood draw or finger prick test would show roughly the same number.

But if that's the case, why is GMI so different from A1C? I think I'm missing a key piece of information that ties this all together, and there's also a very good chance that something I've posted above is just flat-out incorrect. Can someone help me make better sense of this?

Wegmans and Tops both used to carry house brand ones, but I haven’t seen them in a long time. Arnold makes them but only the burger style seems to be carried locally. Aldi doesn’t sell them.

Has anyone seen them lately? And yes, I know they’re tragically sad compared to white and potato versions. I know I can just cut up the burger buns and repurpose them if need be too. Medical needs dictate that I avoid enriched bleached flour as much as possible though so I’m just trying to see if I can still find something.

I was already on the thin side when I was told I was prediabetic, and when I started with a CGM I was seeing pretty healthy looking fasting numbers.

But in just a few months, I lost about 20 pounds that I didn't think I even had to lose, and added a little muscle. Now, despite eating healthier, my fasting numbers have been increasing. Still not awful - in the low 100s - but when I first started using these, an overnight reading was usually more like 80-something.

Just trying to figure out any and all reasons for the potential rise, and this is one longshot that I was wondering about.

If you're over 30 or so, you know the ones I mean: the stained glass overhead lamps, the frosted red plastic cups, the arcade machine, and the piping hot pan pizza delivered to your table.

Times are tough for a lot of people right now and for many that means not going out to eat. But plenty of millennials and gen x parents have six figure jobs or are at least making enough to not have to worry about going out to eat with the kids now and then, and nostalgia sells.

I believe the restaurants themselves would be profitable, but even if I turned out to be wrong about this, the absolute flood of social media posts about these locations would be a ton of free advertising, putting the Pizza Hut name back in front of other people and drumming up takeout business at existing locations.

Convince me I'm wrong!

But unfortunately I still can't be sure. For context:

Started using a CGM while keeping an 11am-7pm eating window. Overnight fasting was generally often in the 80s to low 90s. I was off of work, so fairly sedentary apart from going for walks after meals. Meals were fairly small and primarily consisted of a single vegetable (carrots or broccoli for example), a lean protein, and maybe some nuts.

Back to work now, doing 8+ hours a day, seven days a week, for weeks at a time. Moderately physical job - lifting up to 20 pounds, getting my steps in, but nothing too strenuous. However, the added workload meant adding breakfast back into the mix, and generally speaking I've kept it very low carb, with things like chicken and guac with a few blackberries to get me going. Lunch has been a giant green salad with grilled chicken, black beans, sunflower seeds, and vinaigrette. Chicken is more veggies and more chicken. One main thing I'm not doing is going for walks after dinner, but that's because that that point I've already worked an 8+ hour day on my feet and a walk just seems unnecessary.

And now? My overnight glucose is staying above 100, often hovering closer to 110.

I'm getting roughly the same amount of sleep most nights, and the job hasn't been particularly stressful, so I don't think those are causes for the increased numbers. And nothing I'm eating is causing me to go above 140 mg/dl, so it's not like I'm getting huge spikes that I wasn't getting at home. In fact, I was actually eating more bad things at home because I was experimenting more with how certain foods would affect me.

So this has all left me wondering if the eight hour eating window was doing some of the heavy lifting. I know the science doesn't seem to offer a clear answer about whether, or how, helpful this can be with regard to glucose levels. But I'm not sure what else might be accounting for the major rise in overnight fasting.

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note: at the time post posting this, the site may inaccurately state that this is for the Buffalo location only. It is enrolling here as well.

Police report filed, but it happened in a private lot with no security cameras, so no hope of actually getting any accountability.

I'm staying on a property where wifi is supposed to last seven days before needing to be renewed. When first connecting, there's a standard captive portal that requires the name and room number to be entered, then it says you're good for a week.

But every 24 hours, the router disconnects. Rebooting the router brings it back, and I do not have to go through the captive portal again - it simply comes back online after a reboot. And I've timed it out, it is 24 hours on the dot.

Has anyone had this problem, and found a clever solution? There are no hardlines in the room to use, not even one powering the TV's menu system. WiFi as WAN is my only option at this property.