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Morning all, thank you for the welcome :) Not much planned for the day here, I'm on furlough from work, Mr MT has popped into work for a short time but it's mostly me and our daughter today. Yesterday was excellent results according to the BG monitor, B: Nothing L: Mixed up plate of two...

I realise the thread title is a bit how long is a peice of string, but I'm curious to hear from other members. I've lived a pretty sedantry lifestyle, I'm in the obese range for BMI (down 1 and half stone so far since early July) but I've been taking my BG's for a while now and after this...

Evening all, may I join you? I'm looking for inspiration on what I can start to eat myself so decided to lurk in here for a bit. B: Nothing, as I fast 18:6 L 2pm - Egg Wrap with smoked salmon, cream cheese and spinach D: Veg Spaghetti bolognaise pasta for the rest of the family, I had...

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I really this book, along with The Diabetes Code. I'd recommend it to everyone.

Thank you very much, I might get a copy of that book and have a read.

This is what I do too, I've been so pleasantly surprised to not feel hungry any more. I mostly use a 20:4 window, but sometimes do 18:6 on days when we are out and I'm joining in with the family for a meal. The Fast800 was only meant to be for limited time, of which I 'finish' next week anyway...

I found them the cheapest, but also quite like they are NHS labs. Customer service was excellent when I had a query and despite daily finger prick tests, I was in a right flap using their lancets (I hate needles), my child was more level headed than me about it all. My diet has mostly been all...

I'm not on any medication at all currently and would like to keep it that way. I feel rather foolish now, I just checked my blood test results and it's not my triglycerides which are low, they are perfectly fine at 0.9 , its my HDL which is low.

Thank you, I seem to be worrying over nothing then as I now know it is high trigs influence IR. Still I'm trying to learn as much as I can and be as proactive as I can with my health. I'm keen to avoid statins at all cost, whilst I know they help with cholesterol, the side effects can be awful...

Apparently they were 'too low', the optimum range is from 1.6 up, mine were 0.6 and I was given some advice on the usual 'do some exercise and eat a healthy diet'. So maybe these would raise slightly. Overall my cholesterol total was 3.9 so I'm not too concerned about it, but I do have a lot of...

I didn't want to hijack another thread, but I saw the above mentioned saying the ratio between the two can show a link to IR, does anyone know anything else about this? Since my recent blood tests, I'm on a mission to find out as much as I can, especially as my triglycerides were quite low, but...

Just thought I would update this, I ordered a full lipid profile and HbA1c from monitormyhealth.org.uk What a marvellous service! Prices were very reasonable, I did the test at home on Monday, sent them special delivery for Tuesday (only due to RM delays) and my results were up on Tuesday...

Thank you! I have 'only' been diagnosed prediabetic so I fall out of this category. If however I don't action it quickly enough and do get diagnosed as T2, then I'll be quick to point this out. Thank you for the information.

Many thanks for this, I've just had a look and ordered one.

Hi Everyone, I'm sure I read somewhere recently on here about being able to buy a testing kit or a private test for a Hba1c or an alternative? Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction? I had one done recently at my GP and would like to do another one in 3 months however my GP...

Morning all, first one of the morning was 6.7 , inspired by others, I hopped on our (dusty) rowing machine, rowed 2000m and tested my BG after - it's 7.6! I haven't eaten anything yet as I follow an 20:4 window eating approach - any clue why it went up?

Wow thank you for the detailed reply and the encouragment, it's very helpful and makes me think there is light at the end of the tunnel for this. I'm considerably overweight too, so I wouldn't be suprised if my liver needs a bit detox with the size of my stomach, fortunately though the low...

Brilliant, thank you. I'll start a good diary and keep note.

Well the results are back and I am prediabetic as I feared. Now to give my diet a complete overhaul, I've been fairly low carb the last two week and have been IF for the last month approximately. Bizarrely I am finding if I have a black coffee this is causing my BG levels to go up as I found...