Recent Content by Chellez

I am insulin dependent and have signed up to do a 3hr zumbathon for charity. I exercise regularly and my blood sugars are well controlled. My question is, to prevent low blood sugar during the event, do I reduce my background insulin (levemir) for the day? Or my novorapid? I normally only take...

Thank you for comments. I try to eat low carb, salads for lunch, meat and veggies for dinner, staying away from the usual suspects, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes. I am getting there slowly but the issue I have is I don't want to lose weight, if anything I need to put some on. It's so hard to find...

Thanks, my hba1c is 6.6 so getting there slowly. I just would have started this kind of eating sooner if I knew about the long term consequences. We live and learn eh.

I was diagnosed with RH 5 years ago and now diagnosed with type 2. If I'd known RH would lead to diabetes I would have taken better care of myself. [emoji22]

Thanks guys. I'm not counting how many carbs per day, I'm just trying to cut them down as much as possible and thinking about what I'm eating at each meal. I need to have some carbs if I'm not going to eat again for a while or I end up taking a hypo. At first my dietician was telling me I was...

Help. Can someone tell me when looking at labels should you look at the carb content or the sugar content? For example what is better for Type 2 - per 100g Carbs 39.8g Sugars 2.4g or Carbs 32g Sugars 3g I'm confused!! Do I go for the lower carb or the lower sugar?