Recent Content by MrsGruffy

Hello everyone - long time, no post. First a success story of sorts. My 25 year old daughter was diagnosed with PCOS at 14 after a 2kg cyst was removed from her ovary. She has always been overweight, but as she moved into her 20s, her weight really began to sky rocket and she was 130 kg when I...

We all make mistakes, and give in to weak moments. The trick is to make sue they're a rare event. Enjoy your treat, and then jump back onto the straight and narrow. Take responsibility and own your choices. It is ok to choose to play up once in a while. My achilles heal of late has been...

To me, it means not taking any advice from any HCP without doing my own research. It means asking my medical people for peer reviewed articles which support what they're advising me to do. It means critically reviewing such articles and chasing down their sources. Links to big pharma and it...

@cdpm - Glady you're having such great success with OMAD! I have too! I've been largely living an OMAD eating plan since March this year. I've nearly lost 20 kg so far. However, I have experienced 2 very long (6 weeks!) soul destroying, demotivating stalls. So I have found that as I don't...

I think there are probably (at least) 50 lurkers for every person who actively engages with the forum. You touch the lives of many people, BulkBiker :) You are very generous with your knowledge, and as they say, the proof is in the (not so) pudding!

An update - 6 month review results today. Since March, my weight has gone from 104.5 kg - 86.5 kg - loss of 18 kg so far. HbA1c March: 8.9 October: 5.4 I don't have all the cholesterol data, but suffice to say it was very high 6 months ago, and is now under 5 overall, with the various...

I think you might find if you avoid sweet things, including artificially sweetened things, your cravings for sweet things will reduce dramatically. Your brain can't tell the difference between the real sweet and the fake sweet. I drink water mostly, and a couple of cups of coffee with cream...

Hi @Canvaspic - Just wondering whether you have tried talking out your breath rather than breathing it out when you use your breathalyser? Mine only works if I count out loud until I have nearly no breath left, and then use the last bit of breath for the breathalyser. It won't work if you blow...

I have a cheap breathalyser I bought from ebay for under $10 including shipping. It detects ketones, and quite accurately too. If you get one, you need to talk nearly all your breath away before you blow into it. Ketones over 0.05 will set the device's alarm off - it doesn't know the...

Hoping to give you a bit of hope re. the neuropathy. I was diagnosed 6 months ago, but I had neuropathy and RLS affecting my feet and lower legs very badly (pain and numbness - should not be allowed to occur at the same time, right?) and after 6 months of strictly adhering to LCHF I can say...

This morning in my dietdoctor news email, they reported that the NHS is going to trial a liquid diet consisting of 4 serves of liquid nutrition and nothing else (800 cals per day) to diabetics for up to 5 months. They claim that it has a 46% success of maintaining weight loss after 1 year. I...

From my experience, it can take days from changing the way you eat, including eating nothing, to see that change reflected in your BG. Use your meter to test which food your body is reacting to. Take your reading at first bite, and then 2 hours after you've eaten. First step is to cut out...

My experience is that I had been on Atorvastatin for a few years at 40mg per day, until early this year, when my increasing cholesterol numbers led to my GP doubling the dose to 80mg per day. I've had annual HbA1c tests for years now, because I'm the typical T2 apple shape mostly, I think...

You've been at it a lot longer than me, but I started to gain on LCHF a couple of months ago too. I have started mixing in some extended fasting, which seems to have jolted me back to losing again. I do a couple of days a week of water fasting. Sounds like your body might be desperately...

Oh Moggely, I feel you. I really do. You've been working so hard to improve your health and you get an A-. You deserve an A+! When you're already an A grade average, being told that it's better than a B doesn't really cut it. The only thing to do is blame the lousy marker. HbA1C results...