Recent Content by Bellx15

Well, look at me, here again! I just felt motivated to report on my recent achievements. Once again, I had allowed complacency to set in, and when I checked my BG in January it had shot back up to the mid-teens. How depressing! However, I decided this time simply to cut down the calorie...

Yes, I'll accept your confession and forgive you! :mrgreen: But what about the alcohol itself? Doesn't that convert to glucose? And/or doesn't it affect the liver function in some way? If I move over to whisky or vodka, will my long-term BG be affected just by the alcohol? Sorry if I sound...

Fergus - many thanks. Yes, I understand about the problem with sudden drops in BG levels. People get those when they go on to insulin, I think. I had my retinal scan last October and it was completely clear. My diet has lapsed over the year, as I have had a lot of stress and worry. The...

Squire - you have good readings there. Am I right to infer from what you say that these have been achieved through diet and exercise? How were they when you were first diagnosed? Pompey - same question for you, but also what readings are you getting now? Thanks.

Yes, thanks. I do have to get to grips with this, I agree. I'd appreciate any specific information, though, on my three questions. On the first one, I think in the past I used morning starvation plus exercise as a quick morale boost, but it turned out to have long-term benefits for my BG...

Type 2 diagnosed four years ago. No meds. In the past four years or so I have gone through periods of unmonitored sloth and debauchery, only to get a shock when my denial finally gives way to a need to test my BG and get real again. Each time this has happened, I went onto a low carb diet, did...

Thanks, sassy - I do think that with most chronic conditions the human body has an incredible capacity for adjustment and self-repair. A T2D who follows the GP's advice is never going to improve, I am sure, but maybe that is why the belief that diabetes is an inevitable downhill slide has taken...

Re: Comments on Low carb diet - a newbies guide I cut out cereal completely - THE worst source of carbs. I usually have a cheese/ham omelette for brekkie.

Re: Comments on Low carb diet - a newbies guide I just carry on as normal, but without much in the way of white bread, potatoes, pasta, etc., and almost no sugar. Everything else seems to be fine for me.

Well, just to be as clear as possible (and I fully admit that I am still groping in the dark to an extent), it seems to me that the definition of diabetes makes it an umbrella concept to cover a multitude of sins. I should say, too, that my thoughts are only about type 2. If someone on a...

Yes, thanks for that explanation. I am still a bit unsure, though, especially about insulin resistance. The picture I get from various sources is that T2D commonly involves at least quite a lot of insulin being produced, but insulin resistance being the main culprit, in that it amounts to...

Yep - and peas are for chickens. :D

Update: Last Friday I received an email from Roche, promising an expert would get back to me on Monday. Still no expert. I wonder why they are finding this so hard? Call me Mr Cynical, but the harder they find it to reply coherently, the more tempted I am to infer that the meter does, of...

OK - here is the full quote: page 208. " Diabetic Diet Patients with type 1 diabetes (but in the following chapter of type 2 it refers back to this advice) require active dietary management to help achieve good glycaemic control. Patients with diabetes are at increased risk of vascular disease...

Yes - no problem with the recommendation. Thanks. Does this latest news offer an opportunity to get the interest of the media?