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I had the same experience on my first night of the XPert Patient course, which should be called the Obedient and Compliant Patient course as the whole idea they gave of self-management was 'Let us make all the decisions, based on info that only we have access to and your part is to take your...

I get that on a daily basis at work. My colleagues are all expert nutritionists since I went low carb. You should eat a lot of fruit. It's not carbs, it's fruit I don't understand why you cut out milk. It's dairy and it's good for you You can eat whatever you want and take enough tablets to...

'There's no point in testing because your meter might not be accurate. The ones we use at the surgery are re-calibrated every morning so we know they're accurate. So it's best to leave it to us'. Me - So if I come to the surgery later in the day and you do a random test, it may not be as...

I was diagnosed as Type2 in late September of last year and after 2 weeks on the high carb diet I'd been told to follow I found this forum and I'd say that was the evening that changed, if not saved, my life. I found out about testing and low carb diets so I started both. I weighed 120KG, had...

I think that will be the one with lots of low-GI carbs, piles of fruit and root veg and as little fat as possible. The 'normal healthy diet' I believed was good for me and followed for years while blaming myself for not being able to lose weight. The very same one that made me diabetic and...

My favourite moment came on May 1st when I married the wonderful man I'd met on the internet 11 years earlier and had been living with for 10 years. Still can't get over the fact that after all that time, he still wanted to marry me! And I got such a kick out of being a 60+ bride.

There was no figure suggested, just a lot of menu ideas that would have given a diet very high in carbs with not much room for anything else. I've just dragged the sheet out of the kitchen drawer as a reminder - one suggested breakfast was baked beans on 2 slices of wholemeal toast, followed by...

With respect, that's not the point. You asked what advice we'd been given and I told you what mine was. Saying that you weren't told that doesn't alter the fact that I was.

To condense my previous posts into one sentence, the advice I got was 'Don't test, leave that to us, follow this high-carb diet and if things don't seem any better in 6 months we'll increase your medication'. No mention that the diet may need tweaking (at the very least!). actively discouraged...

It may have been correct for you but that doesn't make it correct for everyone. My diet before diagnosis was very different from yours - I'd been on the Slimming World plan for years. Nothing fried, tiny amounts of low-fat cheese and fat-free yoghurt, unlimited lean meat or fish and as much veg...

As a lurker for a few months and someone who joined a couple of days ago, I just want to add that this thread and the other one you refer to have made me very wary of posting on this forum. My story is that when I was diagnosed - after following the 'normal' recommended diet of complex carbs...

Hi Turvell Greetings from here in chilly Yardley :) I hope you had a good Christmas and are looking forward to New Year. It's been my first Christmas since I was diagnosed and I've done very well at balancing behaving myself with the carbs and having a bit of a treat.;)