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Oh I forgot that I occasionally add a teaspoon of crunchy peanut butter for a change - works ok. If you are eating your yoghurt as a desert after a main meal that includes a healthy mixture of protein, fat and fibre then the ~4% carb in the yoghurt plus some carb from added berries just gets...

I get Brooklea Authentic Greek Yoghurt from Aldi. £1.39 for 500 gm. Carbs 3.7g Fat 10g Protein 6.4g. I add some red berries from a frozen berry pack (any supermarket or Iceland). For a change I might add any of these : chop in a kiwi fruit, add some nuts, some porridge oats, a small clementine...

To test the effect of food you should test approximately 1 hour after you started eating. By waiting for 2 hours you are completely missing the main event - the spike in your blood glucose. Spikes are not good for you. Don't take any notice of NHS staff who recommend only testing after 2hrs by...

Well said Jim, exactly my thoughts.

I agree with rmz80 on this. Only let your doctor reclassify you as non-diabtetic or in remission if he can proove it with the results of an Oral Glucose Tolerance Test. While you are managing your diabetics on a low carb way of eating an HbA1C does not tell you whether you are Type 2 diabetic or...

The units I quoted were HbA1c of 60 mmol/mol. The new mmols/mol values are known as the IFCC (International Federation of Clinical Chemistry) units. http://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-units-converter.html My new HbA1c after 3 months low carb + excercise is now 45 mmol/mol (IFCC) equivalent to 6.3%...

I was diagnosed with Type 2 in the first week of November 2014 with a high HbA1c of 60 mmol/mol. My weight just before diagnosis had been stable at around 92 kg for many years which, for my height of 6ft 2in, was just above my healthy weight range of 65.4 to 88.7 kg (according to BMI). So I was...