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Yes, if at 2hrs after first bite of your 2 slices of bread, your Blood Glucose was more than 2 mmol higher than it was just before eating. To put it into perspective, i eat between 20gms and 40gms of carbs per DAY! So you just eat my average daily carbs in probably a couple of minutes!

Hi @LouT and welcome to the forum. Like @KennyA I'm another T2D in remission for over 5 yrs i.e. if some GP checked my blood without looking at my patient record, they wouldn't even think I was pre-diabetic. Unlike Kenny, I had no symptoms other than slowly but surely gaining weight during the...

I found that different statins gave me different side effects; Simvastatin gave both me and a close friend muscle pain. In his case he was OK after the doe was reduced, though not me. It also gave me skin rash problems. After the dermatologist told me that was the cause, I came off them. Several...

Most Type 2 diabetics are overweight, but not all. Around 10% are normal weight and so the idea that losing weight will always improve diabetic control isn't always correct - it depends upon the person. Many people on this forum have improved their Type 2 diabetes or made noticeable improvements...

@PollyAnna25 LOWER CARB potatoes? Does such a thing really exist? Lower carb potato substitutes do though - Cauliflower or Celeriac.

Hi @Edwina54 and welcome to the forum. My condolences on your loss. Stress is certainly one of the approximately 40 things (apart from food) which affect Blood Glucose levels. Other major ones are lack of sleep, illness, injury, medications including both Statins and steroids. I have no...

A low carb or T2 diabetes controlling diet is difficult for Vegetarians, but even some Vegans can manage it, A good source of ideas is the 'What did you eat today' thread or www.DietDoctor.com or just google your favoutite food and put 'keto' before the name. Meanwhile: Only 2 eggs per day? (I'm...

CGMs show that non-diabetic people also get a quick spike from meals. The 2hrs (from first bite) is advised because it takes around that length of time after eating for a non-diabetic's blood glucose level to return to the value it was before eating. So it has been suggested that a level of up...

Hi @Lynntay and welcome to the forum. For years while my GP knew that I was prediabetic (though they didn't tell me) I was advised to eat porridge for breakfast and eat lots of fruit, veg, whole grains and to eat low fat. I now understand how that pushed me into Type 2 Diabetes and also to...

Shingles jabs? - I've had one shingles jab, didn't know there was a need for more than 1. I've accepted the flu jab ever since my 3x CABG because I was told that cardiac o and diabetes patients are more at risk if they get flu. I never bothered will flu jabs before then and have only had flu...

I'm not an expert on this since I'm a Type 2 and don't measure my ketones. Eating (very) Low Carb (between 20gm to 40gm of Carbs per day) for over 6yrs means that much of the time my body is running on ketones. In fact even non-diabetics often go into ketosis when they haven't eaten (carbs) for...

I do understand that nowadays kids pretty much dictate what they eat - not so back when i was a child, though back then (for me at least there was no/little advertising of food) just in the newspapers perhaps. No TV (at least not for the poor like us, and no commercial radio. I could hardly...

Did you just halve the Metformin dose, or did you also reduce or cut out one of the other medications? I've never taken any diabetes medication - went straight to Low Carb way of eating, but for over 2 years I did take Cardio vascular medication including Statins, Beta Blockers, something to...

I don't consider any Jaimie Oliver food I've seen as being healthy for Type 2 Diabetics - they all tend to have far too many carbs. I too was slim (BMI of 21.5) until I started eating a so-called 'healthy diet' of low fat and complex whole grain carbs on my GP's advice. It took about 15 yrs...

Unfortunately the body doesn't like big changes, in BG or in weight for example. This is why desirable changes are hard to achieve. It also means that although the vast majority of diabetic complications happen when BG rises quickly and are often reversed when ot goes back down, in rare...