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Absolutely agree - I’m sure I would have benefited from that help. There is so much contradictory information out there, not least from people who should know more about the subject. Only seeing the BG readings spike or not has given me sufficient accurate information to manage it. All I get...

Once I have an understanding of what foods I can tolerate my aim would be to monitor progress and potentially highlight any surprises for further investigation.

If the same meal can affect people differently at different times and you can only test afterwards there would seem to be little point in testing! If you don’t actually learn anything that can be used longer term I mean. I have thought about getting one of those Libre things as a one off...

I’m measuring BG quite a bit at the moment, to understand what different foods will do, but once I know that for a particular food, is there any point continuing to measure before and after every meal? What would you say is the basic long term strategy for ‘keeping an eye on things’ once I’ve...

I wonder what the cost to the NHS is for the mass of people failing to control BG because they’re not testing. I guess there’s a subset who would receive a kit but not use it but it seems obvious to me that providing the means to control BG between annual check ups would surely save on expensive...

Not sure I’d be able to manage skipping breakfast - I already struggle with what to eat at lunch whereas breakfast is relatively easy and I don’t seem to have any problem with monotony at that time of day!

So, a rise of 2 is about where I need to be and a pre-meal BG of below 7 will likely come in time, is that the verdict?

Note that even with HbA1c at 108 the Practice diabetes nurse said there was no need for BG testing. What’s that all about?

Long story. I was first diagnosed in February 2018 with a HbA1c of something like 108, I can’t remember exactly but was obviously ridiculously high! Immediately dropped all sugar and high GI carbs and drastically reduced stuff like bread and potatoes. At my annual test in August the same year...

Snacked on small handful of nuts during the afternoon at some point too

Ok, I’m on 2 x 500mg Metformin twice a day. Yesterday I have bacon & egg with a slice of black pudding (~9g carb). Baked aubergine stuffed with lamb mince & topped with a cheese / yogurt / egg combo at lunch then a chicken & cauliflower curry made with coconut cream and stir fried greens on the...

Hi, I have T2 and started taking BG readings recently after it was clear I wasn’t managing as well as I thought I was. I’ve been eating low carb (in fact carb-paranoid) for the last couple of months and not really getting the results I was expecting. My pre-meal never seems to go much below 7...