Recent Content by Dawn999

Thanks, that is very helpful. Think I'm going to have to be less reliant on convenience foods to do this properly and break my ties with beige (bread, pasta, rice & potatoes) too.

When looking at the nutritional content on packets do I concentrate on the Carbohydrates or Of Which Sugars and how many grams of each should I not go above? I'm struggling with what's too high. Help!

I started taking Metformin in June 21 for Type 2 and as expected I had a dodgy belly for the first 4-5 weeks but I persevered and things settled down. For the last month I have slipped with my eating having lost control of my anxiety disorder and I don't know if it's the diabetes/metformin that...

I was told not to test either but did the and a you and got a meter after about 4 weeks off not knowing if what I was doing was working. I find measuring motivates me to keep myself in check as I've got poor willpower. I've found that some foods that I thought were safe options are actually a...

I am going to respectfully disagree. Every time we tell our medical staff about the benefits and results of low carbing, we are driving another nail into the coffin of the current thinking. At the every least, the nurse will have heard an alternative treatment which works. No need to argue or...

I think you're doing great, but I would actually suggest being a bit more vague about your diet: just tell the nurse you're following a healthy diet like she advised, and everyone's happy. If you point out you're doing the opposite of what she said and getting better results, it will only draw...

Thanks, I'll have a look.

Ooh, I have a Holland & Barrat locally. I must have a look.

It was a staple of mine but heyho it must go.

It did. I thought I was doing great eating 6 tangerines on a night shift instead of chocolate. She also advises minimal meat and dairy although she did say she was a vegetarian so I'm thinking this advice was more her beliefs than anything else. Fruit, vegetables, seeds and nuts were pretty...

8.2 so a bit better than yesterday

It's an absolute minefield. I did the 8 week blood sugar diet (extreme keto) a few years back and lost 38lbs in the 8 weeks which took me from prediabetic back to healthy but after the 8 weeks I went keto but let a few sugars slip back in and then blew it. I put the 38lbs back on plus another 3...

Thank you so much for this. Annoying that I threw away a fair bit of good food having been advised wrongly that it was bad. I'll just need to learn to go without all sugars including fruit based. If started using fruit as a crutch when I had a sweetie urge but would probably have been just a bad...

9.2 yesterday and today.