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Thanks for this advice, very useful. I will take the advice to test fasting bg, Cholesterol is fine at the moment and I'm only slightly overweight so I feel ok about trying the low carb diet and seeing how I get on.

Thanks for your reply, I guess I'm not looking to be 'told' what to do, poor phrasing on my part, more looking for advice and other people's opinions/experiences. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go down the low carb route and see how I get on.

I was diagnosed with GD during pregnancy, controlled it with insulin and gave birth to a healthy child. I was then told that the diabetes has remained post-childbirth and I'm now Type 2. I'm now being advised to follow a low GI rather than a low carb diet, however I know that a lot of 'healthy'...