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thank you, i loved this.

the title is it really. I have lovely chicken stock historically it would have gone into beans/lentils. Looking for low carb uses.

I'm experimenting with supplements for magnesium and potassium, something isn't right but I have no idea if this is diet related or something else. I try to have a balanced diet and I think I'm fairly successful. I've always suffered from cramp, muscle ache and swelling following exercise (since...

Sorry I was unclear, I meant where an individual (not the population) is in the timeline. So someone recently infected is more likely to be a false negative.

I think this is not necessarily true early on, so the likelihood of false negatives and positives aren't the same depending on where you in the infection timeline and there will be individual differences.

From a very brief internet search this isn't what I'm getting but I'm not an expert.

just for balance a negative test does not mean that someone doesn't have COVID and isn't infectious. Do you know what the false negative rate is? if it is equal to or larger than the false positive your accounting won't stand up.

absolutely not, I ate what they said I should eat and it made me ILL. Take a deep breath, trust yourself and be prepared to take an alternative view of diet. Your TA experience means you're already in a good place to adapt to the environment. It's just you've been given some dodgy map...

I haven't even read the rest of your post because THIS. I don't really like sweet things, don't have a sweet tooth, most things taste way too sweet for me. I'm a savoury girl. Off to read rest of your post but hugs to you WE know you aren't a closet cake eater :-)

Trust that feeling ;) To be fair I found the low carb bread really useful in the early days as I was working it all out. Now I eat "normal" things and control by portion size, carbs per 100g and my bg response measured by the meter. Bread is the new cake :). If I'm going to eat it I want it to...

I think it's to limit exposure (this is what my clinic told me). One visit for bloods, blood pressure, foot check, weight. Follow up phone call to discuss if anything crops up. My blood pressure was raised at last appointment and the diabetes nurse went to check with a GP whilst I was there. My...

ah yes LIFE! It's a thing isn't it? Can relate to a lot of this and the 3am think-storm. These middle age years are challenging for sure. I suspect old age isn't a walk in the park either but I never would be a teenager again :) I cried when I got the T2 diagnosis because it was yet another...

This is not something I know about so I'm tagging @Antje77 who does know stuff :)

That seems a bit harsh, have you contemplated that you might not be T2? I know pretty much nothing about this but having followed the boards for a while I'd definitely have this question in my mind, you may well be T2 but it doesn't hurt to know there are other possibilities.

I respect your optimism! I agree that anything that gives realistic hope and options to T2 people should be supported but I worry that the pervasive conflation of weight and T2 is ultimately very damaging. Also solutions that rely on yet more involvement of the food "industry" trouble me.