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Though diagnosed with T2 in 2013, it is only recently I have started taking the issue seriously. Living as a foreign national in Spain presents an additional hurdle in so far as accessing health services is concerned. A general lack of awareness as to the Spanish health service norms and...

Thanks so much - that is great info and advice - especially useful to me the questions to ask link and the low carb prgramme. i'll hope to be part of the positive 96% - very much appreciated :-)

i know i have a big learning curve ahead, but from what i have read so far, i can look forward to a guilt free vindaloo, sag Thanks Jo - very much appreciated - and re benefits along the way, i certainly feel much more positive about the way forward than i did when filling in the forum...

@Bluetit1802 @Grateful interesting that you both refer to packet advice/labels - this is one respect i will have it easier in spain. of course we do still have processed foods, and i know that even a tin of tomatoes has god know what added - but the industrial foods are nothing like the level...

it seems a bit rash to say this right away - but i have a feeling that may be the best link i've ever been sent about anything ever. what have i been missing? that all makes a lot of sense - but perhaps more importantly sounds completely do-able. thank you so much grateful - is that why you are...

very disappointed to have just discovered that diet (lite) ginger beer has almost as many cals as full fat coca cola. i always thought the diet/lite version was no cal/no sugar.

my only knowledge of lite beer is people using it as an unconvincing defence to not being drunk on judge judy

funny you should mention that - it occurred to me earlier about food labels - i honestly don't think i have ever read one in my life - one more change to get used to :-) we have a real ale organic brewery at the end of our road as luck would have it. i've a feeling something in their range will...

Thank you for that - and if i may say 22kilos may to september - brilliant, well done you.

thanks, no i didn't. i'm pretty confused by all the anacronismes already - but i'm sure it will all come together. i hear the importance of the HbA1C test loud and clear though - it will be my first question to doc, and ensuring regularity in the future.

good advice - i thought that when i read the 35€ for 50 strips on the spanish site i'm looking at. be cool if they are available on spanish prescriptions - we pay 40cents for a box of metforma one question is you have time - the testing gadget i'm looking at mystar plus, claims to be the only...

brilliant - thank you forum - i feel like i've done more, learned more, in the two hours since i joined the forum than the preceding 4 years since being diagnosed.

i thought all alcohol was off limits. shame about the dryness of wine, i'm a bit of a heathen in preferring Liebfraumilch to Prosecco, but i guess that sweet tooth is why i'm here in the first place. So a future of Rum and Red wine. That I can live with :-) re your earlier comment I've just...

thanks - well i have only ever had two tests. the first shortly after diagnosis and the second around six months later. i've had none since 2013. i did get a badly photocopied healthy eating sheet given me - nothing specific to my memory, just the sort of thing you'd expect any doctor to give...

is there hope with booze - you've brightened my day - i'll have a read. y'know it's not like wanting to come off as some sad gutter living alchy, but on balance i'd have to concede that a control plan allowing for a drink would be much more appealing than one that didn't.