Recent Content by merrymunky

I’ve just tried the cauliflower rice as a substitute for rice with a Quorn mince chilli this evening. It was ok.

I lost 4.5 stone in 6 months on SW. when I stick to the plan it works amazingly well. My problem is I have consciously sabotaged myself but eating bread like it’s going out of fashion alongside huge bags of crisps and chocolate a few times a week for months at a time when I fall off the wagon...

Why on earth wouldn’t they be allowed to discuss and educate sufferers on something that seems to be proven to work? It’s madness.

Thank you. The metformin has been ok so far. I had a few upset tummy episodes earlier in the week but nothing drastic. Today is the first day I am upping my dose to twice daily sonwe shall see how that goes. I’m hoping the diabetic education classes will explain everything with more clarity...

I’m only a week post diagnosis. I’ve been put onto metformin and other than referring me over to the diabetes education clinic for the beginners sessions I have been told little else. I’ve had to find the referral to look at what my hba1c levels actually were. I had no idea how far along the...

I rarely, if ever drink alcohol these days...I’d rather eat the food! [emoji23]

Thank you. Here’s where people start rolling their eyes at me...I’m a fussy eater. Along with being veggie, I don’t eat eggs (on their own anyway...eggiest I’ll go is quiche), mushrooms, aubergine or avocado. I haven’t tried avocado again recently but I have never liked it in the past. Trying to...

Thank you. I’m conscious that I probably sound quite defeatist at the moment. I’m in a fragile emotional state as it is following the trauma of the last two months, without this on top of it all. You don’t get to 19 stone by eating well! I love ‘healthy’ food. Healthy if you don’t have...

I do know this yes and am currently battling with myself over the loss of our baby in November at 16 weeks gestation. At that point I had no idea I was diabetic. I was eating a slimming world diet and losing weight. Doing everything I thought was good for my body and my baby. Now I am in a...

With the greatest respect, I will not ever be turning to meat or fish as part of my diet. I will have to find a way around it. As a pretty much life long vegetarian (I only ever ate chicken, sausages and tuna to any degree till I was 12) for many reasons, not just because I am against using...

I don’t take offence so please don’t worry. I’m not trying to be difficult either but I just know there are so many challenges ahead. It’s very important to me to get my weight down because at 38 years old and 19 stone I have to shift this weight in order to stand a chance at conceiving a baby...

This is why I am in a complete quandary. The meals list I posted is fabulous for slimming world and I lose weight really well on it. It’s obviously not the best for diabetes control though. If I take them all away I am left with virtually nothing to eat. I won’t eat meat. I have to eat...

I’d rather not eat chocolate at all than go dark. I really don’t like it. I’m a milk girl all the way. It all just seems so daunting at the moments. It feels like I am going to have to change the way I eat so drastically. Slimming world really works for me for weight loss. I remember old red...

Nope. I am a devout vegetarian. I haven’t eaten any meat since I was 12. I never liked meat. I cannot eat it. The smell, taste, texture, the fact it is a dead animal. I just cannot do it. It took me years to even eat Quorn products and even some of those are too meat like for me so I can’t eat...

Thank you everyone who has replied. Your words have been very comforting.