Recent Content by BoggyBimbleJr

  1. BoggyBimbleJr

    Hello. Type2.

    Just a quick update. in January I was told I had to get my HbA1c down to below 55 or I would be on Metformin and the results of my blood test this week gave a reading of 53, which the nurse said was very good from 68 three months ago. My cholesterol is 4.5 which she said was very good also. This...
  2. BoggyBimbleJr

    LCHF 23:1

    Perhaps I should concentrate on the low carb for the first three months to get my BG down, as the nurse said she wanted it to be below 55 by my next blood test in April or she would put me on Metformin and and below 48 three months later or I would be injecting with Insulin (though after reading...
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    LCHF 23:1

    When I was diagnosed my HbA1c was 68, which an online conversion says is 8.4%. Unfortunately a brand new Exactive BG Meter which I bought a couple of days after being diagnosed packed up after I had only used it four times (once a week) and I am waiting for the replacement (a Codefree one) to...
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    LCHF 23:1

    The nurse said I had to lose weight by going on a diet and doing more exercise. She said I should eat the same meals but have lower portions and cut out sugar, but I decided to just go low carb instead. She also said I would lose a lot more weight if I did at least 30 minutes of high intensity...
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    LCHF 23:1

    Question: If i eat a low carbohydrate diet on a 23:1 routine (so I just have one meal a day of, for example, steak, savoy cabbage and butternut squash at around 6pm, which gives me a total calorie count of around 800 calories), am I fasting every day or just on a reduced calorie diet? Since...
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    Constipation

    I used to use this (it's very good and kept me regular) until I discovered it contained Aspartame, so now I use DulcoEase.
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    Constipation

    500g at less than half that price at Amazon ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/BULK-POWDERS-Psyllium-Powder-Soluble-x/dp/B00IZD3KWY/ref=sr_1_2_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1487357608&sr=8-2&keywords=psyllium+husk+powder ) Also, the blood problem depends on the colour. If it's bright red it's your haemorrhoids...
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    The Warrior Diet (or 20/4 Fasting)

    I've been doing 23:1 on a LCHF diet for over a month now (diagnosed T2 in January) and I'm about to start a 5 day fast next Monday. I've noticed that I don't feel hungry at all during the day because I'm not eating any carbs. Sometimes when it gets to the time I usually have my evening meal I...
  9. BoggyBimbleJr

    Fasting For Type 2's

    Before I was diagnosed with T2 and had a high carb diet, a 36 hour fast was agony and even a 24 hour fast (6pm to 6pm) was hard, though I usually overdid it a bit after the fast by eating about 1800 calories to make the hunger go away. Since being diagnosed and going on a very low carbohydrate...
  10. BoggyBimbleJr

    Poor 6 Monthly Results & Very Worried

    Depending on your portion size and whether you are doing low carb or no carb, 100g of an average supermarket black pudding has around 20g of carbs including about 3g added sugar. There is also about 2g of natural sugar in each average tomato and the same in 100g mushrooms, so it's possible that...
  11. BoggyBimbleJr

    Hello. Type2.

    I've ordered a 'Exactive Easy Blood Glucose Meter Monitoring System Kit' from the big river company (don't know whether I'm allowed to say) because replacement test strips and lancets (50 of each) can be bought as a set for £11 with next day delivery, which compares favourable with the Codefree...
  12. BoggyBimbleJr

    Hello. Type2.

    Okay, here's a question. So I had my first HbA1c just before Christmas and my second about two weeks ago. During the run up to Christmas when all the supermarkets were selling cut price chocolate, there wasn't a day went by that I didn't eat at least half a tub of Cadbury's Heroes or a whole...
  13. BoggyBimbleJr

    Hello. Type2.

    Thanks everybody, I'll buy a blood glucose meter like you suggest as I need to find out what effect porridge has on me. I used to have a big bowl of Quaker Oats will a good squeeze of runny honey in before I was diagnosed and the nurse said I could have a smaller bowl but with no honey, as...
  14. BoggyBimbleJr

    Reducing metformin

    Hello everybody. I was diagnosed with Type 2 three days ago and was told that my mmol/mol was 68. The nurse has told me that she wants it down to 55 or less by my next blood test in three months time or she will put me on Metformin three times a day plus something else once a day (only I can't...
  15. BoggyBimbleJr

    Hello. Type2.

    Hello everybody. I was diagnosed with Type 2 three days ago and was told that my mmol/mol was 68. The nurse has told me that she wants it down to 55 or less by my next blood test in three months time or she will put me on Metformin three times a day plus something else once a day (only I can't...