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    Advice about increasing calcium while on low carb diet

    If you can't get oxtail from your butchers, Morrisions supermarkets sometime stock it (my local ones anyway)
    Post by: lessci, Feb 14, 2020 in forum: Ask A Question
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    Gliclazide and Driving

    Only need to inform if on insulin, I checked the website when 1st put on glic myself, and as the DVLA isn't notifiable you insurance company...
    Post by: lessci, Feb 7, 2020 in forum: Driving and DVLA
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    New T2, surprised, shocked and really annoyed

    I can't comment of Vegan but main of us find a Low Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat (LCHF) diet is the best way to control our diabetes, this means no...
    Post by: lessci, Jan 31, 2020 in forum: Newly Diagnosed
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    Rog's Newcastle Experience

    If you want to keep to VLCD, but with "real" food have a look at Michel Mosley's Blood Sugar Diet or Fast 800, my only advise is you need to plan...
    Post by: lessci, Jan 30, 2020 in forum: Low Calorie Diets
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    Type 1 Blood sugar spiking after breakfast

    As a T2, I'm quite fond of a German style breakfast - cold meats and cheese, eggs in any form, smoked salmon, or a cooked breakfast, if I'm having...
    Post by: lessci, Jan 29, 2020 in forum: Ask A Question
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    Diagnosed Abroad

    Are you covered with decent health insurance in the States? It could be worthwhile having a scan to see if you're one of those unlucky people who...
    Post by: lessci, Jan 17, 2020 in forum: Newly Diagnosed
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    Working and Diabetes (Sugar Levels)

    As a Diabetic you are covered by the disabilities act, the company has to make "reasonable" adjustments for you, I'd say working the till or floor...
    Post by: lessci, Jan 16, 2020 in forum: Jobs and Employment
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    BGs and Buckwheat

    Only way to find out is to test, eat a measured amount and test again. What works for one doesn't work for all, Personally I can eat a small...
    Post by: lessci, Jan 15, 2020 in forum: Vegetarian Diet Forum
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    Is this too many carbs?

    1ilb of muscle weights exactly the same as 1ib of fat, what is different is the volume, that's how your weight can stay the same but your...
    Post by: lessci, Jan 10, 2020 in forum: Ask A Question
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    Eye Screening - more good news

    Headline number not important, it's the split LDL/HDL Triglicerides that matters, and even then unless there is a genetic problem such as...
    Post by: lessci, Jan 3, 2020 in forum: Type 2 Diabetes
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    Type 2 Christmas time

    Glad to hear you made it relatively unscathed, personally I ate half my body weight in cheese, but managed to avoid (most) of the carb options, my...
    Post by: lessci, Jan 3, 2020 in forum: Ask A Question
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    Is this too many carbs?

    Have a good mooch round here, loads of advise, 3 medications isn't rattling although sometimes it might feel like it,(I take 9 tablets (4...
    Post by: lessci, Jan 3, 2020 in forum: Ask A Question
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    Running out of ideas

    Something from left field - could you have an infection you don't know about? My levels were running at 10-12 for a couple of months before...
    Post by: lessci, Jan 2, 2020 in forum: Type 2 Diabetes
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    Breastmilk carbs vs fats and proteins

    I don't have children myself, but my mum put whatever they had in the blender
    Post by: lessci, Dec 18, 2019 in forum: Ask A Question
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    Type 2 Gravy

    I must admit, it's one of the few carby things I've held onto. Bisto powder (not granules) and meat juice gravy. A couple of dessert spoons in a...
    Post by: lessci, Dec 17, 2019 in forum: Ask A Question
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