Recent Content by NeilHewitt

Thanks, Guzzler. When you travel on business you tend to end up stuck with hotel food or restaurant food. Czech food is very meat-oriented, which is good, but has lots of carb-y dumplings and breads and pastries. Not a whole lot of green veg. Of course if you eat the meat and leave the rest they...

Yes, true - perhaps I did spike high then come down quickly. I guess the safest option is just to assume the usual bad stuff will be bad and avoid it on principle. It is odd, though. It's almost like some days I'm fine and some days I'm not. But you can't have 'intermittent' Type 2. A...

Hi all. I'm still pretty new to the whole Type 2 thing, and I'm starting to work out what my reactions to different meals are using the usual 'test, eat, wait 2 hours and test again' routine, and I've had some interesting results. Specifically, over the weekend I decided to go to Nandos (which...

7.7 this morning. Disappointing as Sunday morning I was 6.2. But I'm still working out exactly what foods give me spikes and I can't quit the late-night eating habit so it was only fasting 8 hours. Early days!

Dizziness is back with a vengeance today, along with the headache - they go together, one is clearly related to the other. Now I feel like I want to throw up and it's still getting worse. TBH, if this doesn't subside very quickly, I will stop the metformin even without GP say-so (but obviously...

Got my monitor today. I couldn't take a fasting reading because I'd already had lunch when I picked it up from an Amazon locker, but about 2 hours after lunch it was 9.3 - which is high but not as high as my GTT readings. It wasn't a particularly low-carb lunch either. So I guess the Metformin...

The problems with balance go back to my childhood. I've always had slightly dodgy ears, and yes, it is vestibular - or at least it's always been diagnosed as such, but now there's a lot of talk about poor neck posture being a causative factor. And as you get older you tend to start experiencing...

My palpitations are atrial ectopics (and possibly ventricular too, but those have never been caught on an ECG). I've seen a cardiologist multiple times. Prognosis is benign and it runs in the family. My dad had AF later in life, I'm hoping I don't go that far. Had them since I was at least 26...

Really good suggestions. Yes, I've got a proper freezer, I should take advantage of it! For the record, last night I did a pork loin steak with some broccoli and I did have a couple of tiny new potatoes, but that's just because I'm still addicted to starches. M&S do nice little packets of veg...

Thanks for all the advice and support (again)! You're right, it's not that hard to give up junk food - I've done it before, actually many times. It's much less about being attracted to bad food, although certainly I have my occasional cravings for sugar or chocolate or fried chicken, and much...

No, please keep trying to teach me to suck eggs... it's a skill I never mastered :-) You're right, it's all about self-reinforcing behaviour. When I get on a diet and start to do well, I feel rewarded and it pushes me to do better. What always happens in the end, though, is that something gets...

I’ll definitely talk to my GP about Carvedilol. Nandos chicken is great, and a good option. The sauce has very little carb content. It’s the chips and the rice that get me. But I could skip those and just have more chicken :-) But as people have pointed out, cooking for myself is the key...

Oh, and @JoKalsbeek - my cholesterol numbers are pretty much normal, despite my fat-laden diet. Always have been. My dad was the same. I figure it's genetic, like so much else. It's a lottery. I also managed to inherit genes for lots of bad stuff too!

Thanks all, some really great advice here. I appreciate it. I think for my a bit part of the problem has been laziness which is because I've been feeling generally ****** for a few years which, I now realise, is because of the gradually spiralling blood sugar levels. So Catch-22. Hopefully if...

Hi all. I was officially diagnosed with Type 2 a month or so ago, but it wasn't a huge surprise as I've been officially pre-diabetic for several years and it runs in the family. Multiple attempts were made to lose weight and 'walk away from diabetes' as my local GP surgery puts it, but they all...