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Yes that's the one I was thinking of. Sadly I saw it after I signed up (Doh!). I did get it on another promo deal, but I believe using the above code would have made it slightly cheaper!

I am currently on week 8 of the Low Carb program, so far its all been about teaching you about food choices and changing habits. I've looked at the title of the weeks left and there's no weeks dedicated to excerise that I can see. Edited to add, if you do decide to go for it, there is a...

Just wanted to drop an update - its now been 3 months since my last HBA1c and coming off the 'flozin and just going diet controlled by going low carb. Just had a repeat HBA1c and its come back at 47 mmol/L. Im really pleased I've managed to lower my BG further without any meds. I've also lost...

I would also highly recommend getting the Dexcom free trial. I think CGMs are the best help you can get at seeing how what you eat affects your blood sugar. Everyone is different and so can their reaction to foods, what works for one person may not work for another - I have found CGMs an...

I posted this on another thread about vaccines but might help here. ... Re who is eligible for the COVID vaccine this time round, the NHS is only offering COVID vaccines to those aged 75 years and over, those in a care home and those who are immunosupressed. Unfortunately Diabetes is not...

PPGs linvolve patients and practice staff (usually a member of the management team or a GP) meeting regularly to discuss service improvements and things like when practices are considering changes or introducing new systems, they get feedback from the PPG on how these changes can be managed...

Thank you - I've been missing pasta - will give this a go.

Can I ask where you get your low carb pasta from please? That looks lovely.

GP practices can't remove you from their patient list for just making a complaint and are required to investigate and respond to you. They have strict rules regarding removing a patient from their list, one of them is breakdown of relationship, but this is still quite difficult for them to do...

Thanks all for the replies. I try to eat a lower carb diet and have aleady cut out the things that keeps my BG elevated for longer than the two hour mark. The rise I mention in my original post doesn't happen often, but I will try and avoid these foods too from now on and stick to foods/drink...

I have used the libre 2 plus and Dexcom one +- I self fund, I started with libre 2 plus, but had a few issues and did the trial for the Dexcom one +, then switched. It took me a while to get used to the different visuals of the graphs, but I personally find the dexcom more accurate, especially...

Re who is eligible for the COVID vaccine this time round, the NHS is only offering COVID vaccines to those aged 75 years and over, those in a care home and those who are immunosupressed. Unfortunately Diabetes is not included this time. If it helps, the list of who is included under...

I know that ideally your blood sugar 2 hours after eating should be back to what it was before eating, or no more than a rise of 2 mmol/L, but do I need to worry about how high it goes in between that at all? I wear a CGM so can see what my blood sugar is doing during the two hours post meal...

Just an update. Saw the DN today and discussed my hba1c, weight loss as well as viewing my cgm reports. The DN was really pleased with my progress. I explained that I wanted to come off the flozin as I felt the drop in weight and BG was largely due to my diet change with the help of my cgm...

Thank you both. Discussed with my partner and he thinks I should ask for another Hba1c in 3 months and stay on the meds until then - as you say @KennyA that should show a further drop, but I am concerned that I will continue to have to eat more carbs than I want during this time, so weight...