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Has anyone ever described the horror of a Cornish Cream Tea? I was in Old Town on the Isles of Scilly yesterday and the graph showing my response to two scones with jam (and cream) is a disgrace. From memory - I can't look at it much less post it here - it peaked at 13 mmol/L. A brief invocation...

@Norman Stanley - your results will be interesting to see. Doing comparative meals while avoiding carbohydrate delayed my attempts. I'm finding my results quite different after losing weight, the peak is far closer to the baseline than it was previously. I think I know how to reduce the duration...

If I may I'll update this thread, after a third visit to the Diabetes Nurse. The gap between January's and now is five months. I'm advised all my blood test results are now within her acceptable range, my liver is no longer fatty, my BMI is 23 and I should stop my dieting before I appear...

That slow overnight digestion of just five crackers stands in contrast to a proper time of day, when a total 450 calories (32g carbohydrate) of soup and a wholemeal bread roll is fully dealt with in two and a half hours.

@rom35 I'll do that but it might be early next week, I'm away for the weekend. The BBC has a recipe for "Next level spaghetti carbonara" and tips the ingredients into any UK supermarket account's basket so that was simple, I'd not seen the option before. Once this two week experiment is over I...

This is a lesson in why you shouldn't stay up until 1am and then eat 40g (five) Jacobs crackers with some cheddar while watching James Burke.

Hi @DunePlodder - no insulin or any other form of medication. Both sides of my ancestors used it though, and getting overweight while living on sandwiches was just plain silly. I had cheese and 40g of biscuits last night and surprisingly it acted much the way the banana did earlier. Today I'll...

Here's my first day's result. My sleeping BG is pretty steady around 5.5mmol/L, I woke and registered a blood-stick reading which is a bit lower than the chart. The morning involves quite a bit of walking - 3km or so - and at noon I take my first carbohydrate hit in three months, an apple and...

@Binary - I've just been back to the Freestyle website and checked, and you're quite right. I didn't read enough of the manual. Here's what I saw... How to use your FreeStyle Libre reader and LibreLink app on the same sensor If you want to use the reader and the app on the same sensor, follow...

I know there are a lot of Libre threads already. I have a few bits to condense into a single post in the hope that it will help someone considering their options for the first time. I'd looked at the FreeStyle Libre write-ups about how you can use the Libre with your phone and monitor your...

I ordered one by phone from Mistrys Pharmacy in Loughborough from stock, they posted it quite happily.

@AlexMagd We seem to be at roughly the same stage. I asked my GP this week if he had a test for insulin impairment and he thought not, so the Libre graphs will interest me too. The abstract results at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16556307 are the starting point for my initial maintenance...

@Tannith - that would be very pleasing and it ought to be apparent by next month. I'm down from BMI 30 to 25 so far. Another two or three points and I'll put a Freestyle Libre sensor on my arm for two weeks' continuous blood glucose monitoring, and see whether my insulin response height and...

Basal is a word derived from base. It's the lowest level something runs at, it's like the tickover rate of a car engine.

It just goes to show what can happen when you pay attention to your medic. It's far too easy to hear "this will be inconvenient" when what's being said is "this will halve your remaining life expectancy". Listening and acting is the one essential, you've got past that. I think persisting is a...