Recent Content by Norman Stanley

If you are not worried about the kilojoules and want a really quick and delicious desert you can make sugar free ice cream with very little prep time using thickened cream, flavouring and some erythritol. One I particularly like (as my children love it and I can make it really quickly and with...

You should consider that the rapid weight loss is not unusual - I lost 5kg in 7 days when I started - but it is mainly water. Not that you are suddenly becoming dehydrated but that you have exhausted your stores of glycogen. Glycogen is stored around the liver as a ready reserve of energy and...

Drinking that much water, unless you are working horrendous temperatures or an elite athlete seems excessive and will simply result in most of it being urinated out, unless - and it is possible given your symptoms - that you have some kidney or cardiac impairment and are suffering from fluid...

Hopefully your doctor will have put you on some sort of 'sliding scale' insulin - where the dose you administer varies according to what you blood glucose is. That way you can help minimise the risk of hypos. It might also be worth considering some sort of continuous blood glucose monitor until...

Unfortunately the reaction of you to a change in diet may be very different to me or to other people. When I was diagnosed with diabetes in early May I started out by reducing carbs to around 30 grams or so a day. I was still getting mild blood sugar spikes so I reduced further. I was around...

Thanks for posting your interesting results. I hope you'll post some more data. I plan to do something similar when my Libre arrives - trialling controlled doses of various foods and charting their associated blood glucose impacts.

Something I have found useful is to take a supermarket prepared meal that is already reasonably low in carbs - say a riceless butter chicken (6.1 carbs / 100 grams) - which is pretty cheap (under $10 a kg) - and divide it into medium sized take-away containers. I add 100 grams of the meal, an...

Have you actually done any before and after blood glucose levels with these potatoes? Would you mind posting your results please? I did and found that my blood sugar went up around 2.6 mmol/L after eating 200 grams (6.1 to 8.7), ruling them out as a part of my diet for now - I usually get very...

You are right. This article supports your conclusions: http://www.ngsp.org/A1ceAG.asp

Can't you use the Android version of office which has Excel? That way you can enter any data you want on a spread sheet and export it to a full pc if you need. Does the Libre app have some way to export the data a txt file which could be imported into an excel spreadsheet?

Please look for actual data on the effectiveness of 'treatments'. Don't waste your time, money and hopes on quacks.

It would probably be of value to start using a carbohydrate monitoring app. There a number of very good free ones of Android or IOS. There is often a large number of carbs in 'healthy' foods, even those sold as being suited to diabetics. Keep track of those carbs, and your resultant blood...

I think the OP does a disservice to the medical profession. To say they 'don't give a hoot' is simply wrong. Most people who go into health care, and I count myself amongst them, went into it because they genuinely want to help people and don't like to see them suffer. The times I spent talking...

Tim Tam Biscuits are a favourite amongst Australians. They are available in a variety of chocolate flavours. I think from memory they are 45678 grams of sugar per biscuit. Maybe slightly more. I think one or two is enough to supply the energy needs of a small African nation - not just food needs...

While some people in corporations may want to keep people sick to make a profit I have worked with many doctors and nurses who would take great joy and pride at being able to actually help people reduce the effects of diabetes in a logical and more predictable way. What I am somewhat dismayed...