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"Diabetic" foods/products are awful and in some cases worse for you than a normal version because they can be really high card and have loads of artificial sweeteners in that are really nasty in other ways too. Try and get onto a DAFNE course, that will help you understand how you can eat...

Surely lowering your insulin dose is the same as running your sugars higher, or am I missing something??

Just a quick note - I love Zumba classes too but they really hit my BG levels hard, so I always take some glucose tablets in with me, even if I eat beforehand, and have a snack in your bag for afterwards as well, just in case!

If you have Type 1, and any kind of diabetes knowledge at all, you should know the only "cure" for your diabetes would be a functioning pancreas. Eating a restricted diet and cutting down your insulin isn't the same thing as curing your diabetes.

As long as I do the right amount of insulin, I eat whatever I want for breakfast - within reason! Usually have 1 slice of granary or wholemeal bread with low fat spread, but I've been known to have Coco Pops, Crunchy Nut and even Frosties for breakfast! I also found Belvita breakfast biscuits...

Thanks all for your supportive words - I'm just having one of those days (weeks? months?) where it feels like everything is on top of me so needed to get it all off my chest, it's really good to know I'm not the only one who struggles with these problems. Yorksman, wow, your progress is an...

Hi all I've been feeling really down and low for a few days now, all tied in with my diabetes, weight loss/gain, fitness etc, and I really just need some words of encouragement / wisdom please! I broke my ankle about 18 months ago, during my recovery I put on quite a bit of weight (about...

Hi Rob I was having real trouble with this as well, I found splitting my Glargine exactly in half (so 18 in the am and 18 in the pm) really helped. I also started eating my dinner much earlier - I was eating around 9pm at night, so I now try to eat by 7.30pm, to make sure my Novorapid is taken...

I've been T1 for about 16 years now, I'm 26, and I get asked about babies every time I see my doctor! She's recommended having a first baby around 30 would be a perfectly sensible age, which gives me a few years to really make sure my control is good (it's getting much better, after being shaky...

Quick question for everyone that's done a DAFNE course - how long did you have to wait to get on one? I've been on the waiting list for a year now, and just been sent a letter to say I can do the course in October 2013. A girl at work was diagnosed 6 weeks ago and is going on DAFNE (at the...

Congratulations to everyone who has managed it!! And to those who haven't - keep trying. As long as you are making a conscious effort to quit/cut back, that's great! Every craving you don't give into, and every cigarette you don't smoke is an achievement. I gave up at the end of October 2012...

I do love a Snickers, so I have them in the house and in my sports bags - usually reserved for when I am having a hypo (or have had a bad day at work!) That way I get to eat them every now and again, so I don't feel like I am depriving myself of my favourite chocolate bar, but I wouldn't eat...

I was told by my Practice Nurse when I got mine that it's in case I am ever hospitalised or in an accident, so the health care providers have access to my insulin details in case I'm incapable of telling them. So it's got my insulin/diabetes details on, my GP and my next of kin on, as well as...

I think there are certain criteria you have to meet, and your consultant or GP can put you forward to be considered for a pump to be funded for you. Otherwise you can pay privately to have one, but they are quite expensive (around £2000 for the pump itself and about £1500 a year for...

I still don't know how/where to take my full sharps boxes and I've been injecting for about 15 years now!! My GP surgery told me they won't accept them and I should take them to the hospital, I asked at the hospital and they said to take them to my local surgery.. Luckily my mother is a nurse...