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Yes, I'm sure you will find this forum helpful; I did when I was first diagnosed. With a pre-diabetes diagnosis, it's just a gentle warning, more of an amber light than a red light. And yes, you will get a lot of conflicting advice - even from the health professionals. You have to pick and...

Hi, carysu, and welcome to the forum :) Yes, mine went up from 41 to 45 while I put on 4kg and my BMI went back up to just under 18 which is where it was when I was in my 20's (I'm 79 now) so I thought that was a good result. The dietician prescribed a food supplement which helped but then...

As a follow-up, after another 3 months, weight gain has reached 5kg, BMI is now just under 18, and HbA1c has only gone up to 45 which I'm happy about. Part of that, I think, can be attributed to the extra carbs combined with fats and proteins in the snacks but some of it, I'm sure, is...

I don't know the answer yet but I'm hoping to find out next month. I've been on lo-carb for a couple of years and kept my HbA1C to 41 (diagnosed at 50) but I've lost weight and my BMI dropped to around 16 which is worrying. I've been referred to a dietician who firmly believes that it's only...

See if you can turn it into an exercise in science. What worked for me when I was diagnosed with T2 was to get a glucose meter, measure the peaks and durations, weigh portions of everything I was eating, look up the nutritional values, calculate the totals, plot graphs, do statistics, look up...

Hi Luthien, Diabetes is not a sudden thing (although the diagnosis can be a shock) so think on a timescale of months or years for getting it under control. Getting a meter was a wise move (even though the strips will go on costing you money for a while) because it will give you data to relate...

Depends how much of it you eat. One slice might be okay, two slices might be too much. If it's a sugar spike (within, say, half an hour of eating) that you are seeing it might also be the tomatoes. Warburtons do a "no added sugar" wholemeal loaf that you could perhaps try to see if that makes...

A piece of cheese is quick. Leave some handy in the fridge. Or hard-boiled eggs with the shells taken off.

I get that too. I think the explanation is that in hot weather we use less energy keeping warm so the blood glucose gets used up more slowly and we need less intake to keep the levels right. I purposely reduce my carbs a bit in summer (35g/meal rather than 40 in winter) and that seems to work...

I think I can report success. Diagnosed T2 about 9 months ago with HbA1c of 50 so I immediately put myself onto a low-carb diet. Three months later I was down to 43 and I'd lost a stone in weight and 2 inches round the middle. Six months further on, down to 41, lost another half stone and...

As others have said, the way to keep blood glucose down is to limit carbohydrate intake. This may co-incidentally cause you to lose weight. But don't believe people who say that diabetes is caused by being overweight and then say that you need to go on a low-fat, low-calorie slimming diet to...

As an addendum to the above, I got new test results today and I'm down to 41 HbA1c so I've dropped by a hairs-breadth below the magic 42 threshold. Lo-carb has worked for me :) but only because I was able to do the measurements, do the science and work out what was the right level to go for...

As others have said, everybody is different and there's no universal answer. I can only tell you what works for me. For a few months after being diagnosed, I kept a food journal and tested myself (finger-prick test) before, and two hours, after each meal. That gave me enough data so that I could...

To answer the question - how much to eat - I'd say count the carbs, not the calories, and then eat as much fat and protein as feels comfortable to you. You don't have to try to lose weight - that won't in itself make the diabetes go away - but if you limit carbs to manage the diabetes you will...

I know the feeling. Like you, I am T2 and slim and don't want to lose weight yet we seem to be flooded with weight-loss advice as if that was the answer to everything. Since being diagnosed last autumn I've been on a low-carb diet (120g/day) which has brought my HbA1c down from 50 to 43 which...