Recent Content by Bolouswki

yes that 4 hour business is a good idea - i will try that thanks I'm cool on the strips - got millions No alcohol Malc - can safely rule that one out!

woohoo! I might jsut try that! Thanks for all the advice :)

Hi I've been testing for about a month now and my numbers are fasting average 6.1 after eating average 7.5 obviously I would like to get these down by about 1.5 for both readings BUT I get weird readings very often - like today I had bacon and eggs for breakfast (with a teaspoon of brown...

you kids shouldn't play so rough! I'm happy to read all the arguments - play nice! As to the original poster - I think in general you should get the point that keeping blood levels between 4 and 7 is good and that diet will have a big impact on this. Regarding the fuzziness etc (and the...

woo-hoo! I'm alive!

Hi I went to bed last night feeling a bit queezy - had readings of 5.7 at bedtime. Subsequently was up during the night regularly with Diarrehea and a pain in the stomach Woke and tested this morning with readings of 7.6??? Had a regular breakfast of porridge (which never effects my readings...

Great! I checked it out - looks good indeed. I'm gonna continue testing myself to see what/how much of different stuff I can handle, but I certainly like what you propose and my previous experience with Atkins (did it for 6 weeks) was that I liked it after the induction was up!

Thanks for all the wonderfuly informative posts and for all the time everyone took to express their opinions and advice here - I'm getting a better understanding through these boards and am highly confident that that particular spike was due to quantity and the imbalance of protien/carbs...

hmmm - similar incident today Dinner of salad made from 150g chicken breast, 250g Iceberg lettuce, 6 strawberries, 1/2 apple, wensleydale cheese, 30g walnuts, sprinkle of mixed seeds and tablespoon of dressing (6g carb per 100g - tablespoon was about 30g I guess?) anyways - this took me from...

thanks all for the replies. Doing good - down about 12lbs in 2 weeks, lots of energy, blood 14 day average of 6.4 - thanks for all the tips.

I've been testing for about a week now, and other than the incident described above, I've been between 4 and 8.5 the whole time, generally sitting around the 6 mark. Which according to what I've read in books etc seems to be about the right mark. Didn't know there was a diet forum so will...

Thanks for replies - very helpful! Yikes - this isn't as straightforward as I thought! I deliberately ate carbs as I thought 3.7 was too low - obviously i went overboard! Should i being trying to mix it up with slow release stuff? My meal was quite small compared to previous (pre-diag)...

Hi just did my first self administered test. I was wondering if this sounds reasonable (although the results after eating were bad, I'm wondering if it sounds like it shouldve been like this?) Just to give the prelude 8:00 Hours 1x Mandarin Orange 40 minute swim 09:30 Breakfast Bowl of...

Those links and posts are really useful - thanks very much. Lots of info on this site, sometimes hard to find the right place!

Hi there newly diagnosed (last Friday) with Type 2 diabetes - although the doctor hedged slightly when confirming he said my fasting blood was "elevated" and my post glucose drink bloods were "solidly in the diabetic zone". he didn't give me any figures and they are currently without a...