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Get your doctor to refer you for the Low Carb Program, sign up to it and do it! It’s the best way forward.

We have fizzy water, plenty of ice and a real good squeeze of lemon juice and it’s gorgeous. It’s no different to adjusting to no sugar in your tea / coffee, takes a little while to adjust to but enhances the flavour of the gin! Remember to also be careful with ‘fancy gins’ many of them are...

I worked myself up to 90%, I have a single square every day with a good strong coffee and cream and it’s a ‘daily treat’. For preference, for flavour, the Co-op own brand 85% is the best, has ‘fruity’ tones, really nice, but double the carbs of Lindt 90% so it’s for high days and holidays only!

Spain is a bit strange. The health system is very paternalistic. I also have a clotting disorder, and I self monitor and dose it is VERY frowned upon by the docs over there. But I have found a friendly farmacia who will sell me Test strips. When do you need to know by, we go back early...

All of the advice has been caring and thoughtful, but nobody has yet mentioned to start a Low Carb Diet right now. (Whether you’re T2 or T1 a Low Carb diet will do you no harm. I know that finding out the nature of your diabetes is critical, but in any case, a strict Low Carb diet may help to...

But you could afford to buy Dr Richard Bernstein’s book, The Diabetes Solution, or watch all his You Tube videos, look for The Diabetes University, and join the Facebook group Type 1 Grit. You sound as though you want to proactively manage your diabetes and achieve full health. Lots of people...

As a keen cyclist, the most useful book for you would be ‘The Art and Science of Low Carb Performance’ by Phinney and Volek. They are two of the people responsible for setting up VIRTA health in America, which aims to help huge numbers of T2 Diabetics to put their diabetes into remission. They...

I only test my blood periodically at random different times and states of eating / fasting, because I always consistently eat very low carb. So in effect I don’t have to demonstrate to myself which foods cause blood glucose spikes because nothing I eat or drink does. Your DN is not worth...

Vegans are misinformed and uneducated. That’s okay, lots of us are, but when their misinformed, uneducated choices impact on me, because they are adopted as public policy, that is a different thing again. I don’t expect others to follow my ‘meat / fish / eggs’ form the basis of every meal...

Brilliant! To regain something that you had lost and you treasured is great! I hope you enjoy your singing for many years to come! I was on the dreaded Omeprazole for years and it only really kept my reflux somewhat under control, I had to restrict certain foods. I remember champagne and...

@Cyclospora Well Done You!!! Brilliant result! I think the complete change in mindset is absolutely the key. And the change in taste preferences is massive! When you have achieved both you have success! I just know you’ll keep this up and be a ‘lifer’! join the club.

It is fairly normal for the LDL to shoot up, especially if you are experiencing weight loss. I have seen it explained that fat that was ‘trapped’ in the fat cells is released into the bloodstream as fuel. When weight loss stops, in the vast majority of people LDL goes back down. In any event...

Absolutely not, meat is an essential part of a well balanced diet - much more so for those of us who have problems with Carbohydrates. Vegans and vegetarians have WAY TOO MUCH influence. Never in a million years would I give up meat and animal products, they are the most natural things we eat!

I’m afraid I drink red wine, gin, which I’ve learned to love with fizzy water and a squeeze of lemon juice, and brandy. I have a tipple or two most days, guilt free! Doesn’t appear to raise my BG or significantly lower ketones. And extra treats like a few berries and cream are also guilt...

Haha, thanks Jim!

Because you are trying to lose weight as well as control your diabetes, I would give low carb bread a miss until you get there, personally. Or eat it in tiny quantities. When LIDL did low carb rolls I used to slice each roll vertically into 8 tiny slices, freeze, and never eat more than one or...

There are two different types of ketones, can’t remember their actual names, but the ketone strips only show one of them. The other one is the preferred fuel of the brain. Our body is so clever, when we do LCHF over a sustained period, the body changes the ketones it produces to the one...

Your typical diet sounds, lovely, better than 9 eggs a day! Try a bit more salt, it might make all the difference! Another thing that I do is have specific little ‘legal’ treats. Mid morning every day I have a freshly brewed coffee with double cream floated on the top and a single square of...

@Charis1213 , you do indeed sound really down. A 10lb weight loss in one month is amazing, particularly if you are still taking medications that promote weight gain. The tricks for parties are as follows, 1. If it is somebody you know well who is supportive ask in advance what is the food...

My immediate thought is that you are not getting enough protein, hardly any in fact. And really your diet is very high carb, (your chapatis alone provide you with 75g carbs a day) but very well done for getting your HbA1c to it’s current level. That is, unless, you have a lot of pulses in your...