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Low carb Breakfast for me usually: 2 Sausages (e.g. Dulano(LIDL) or Herta Frankfurter) (heat in microwave 2 minutes) 2 poached eggs (by white plastic 2-eggs micro-wave poacher(amazon £4), 2 minutes) 1 Cheese slice (Milbona Gouda or Edam, ...) 2 slices thin ham (from ASDA, Sainsburys...

Is '130g carb intake' in your opening post 'daily carb intake'?

The Post meal 5.2mmol/L is good. What would your pre and postmeal blood sugar values be for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner and any Snacks on a typical day?

Carbohydrates = Starch + Sugars High in Starch = Potatoes, Rice, Pasta, Breads(white and brown), Porridge, Cereals, anything_containing_flour,... High in Sugars = Cakes/Biscuits/Danish_pastries, Fruits, Icecream,...(maybe best to totally exclude these) No carb foods = meats, chicken, ham...

Bread: 2 years ago I bought low-carb bread from Sainsburys: Hi-Lo Seeded Medium Sliced Wholemeal Bread 400g (5g carb per slice) Now, I only eat keto dietdoctor.com home-made breads, e.g. hotdog buns with Dulano Franfurters for breakfast. Nice!

BMI now 25.2, lower end of over-weight range. Checking weight every Saturday morning before having breakfast. Hope to reach mid of healthy weight range BMI 23.0 in July next year.

Heat increases my blood sugar readings. About 5 days of 35 degrees at the end of June 2019 pushed my blood sugar values to 9 mmol/L after breakfast when on a normal day the values would be below 7 mmol/L. Less heat, 30-32 degrees, results in a smaller increase typically 6.5 to 7.5 mmol/L.

These high carb foods cause problems: - white rice, potatoes (chips, boiled, mashed, old,new), pasta (spaghetti, macaroni, lasagna), - porridges - white/brown bread - white-flour based(cakes, biscuits,...) - fruits (bananas, grapes, apples, oranges, pineapple...) - some vegetables (corn...

I decided to treat my type 2 diabetes by diet only (no medication) about 3 years ago by: - first finger-prick measuring my blood sugar values 2 hours after eating high-carb staples like white rice, potatoes, white/brown bread, pasta, porridge and a few more and and found that most blood sugar...

The hba1c value measures the average blood sugar quantity in the body over a 3-month period. It is a very slowly changing average value, so if you measured hba1c yesterday the hba1c value measured today would be nearly the same. A hba1c value above 47 indicates you have diabetes, a value below...

We are buying psyllium husk from amazon.co.uk. The last we bought is: Naturale Bio Psyllium in Bucce Biologico Purrezza 99% 1kg (Organic Psyllium Husk 99% Purity) that comes in a light brown paper bag with a picture showing a heap of psyllium husk. There are smaller 200g bags...

Two, poached or boiled, with breakfast sausages/bacon and dietdoctor.com keto bread.

Have you tried low-carbing and measuring blood sugar for some or all meals in a day? Might be useful for you to know these blood sugar values before you see your GP, but first phone your GP to see if he/she agrees. Low-carbing: no rice, potatoes, pasta, bread, most fruits and vegetables...

Have you tried Tesco Herbal Sleep Aid, Asda Sleep Aid tablets or Wilko Sleep Aid Tablets (same supplier - identical tablets) There are other brands too. Take 2 when going to bed. Contains extracts of Hop Strobile, Valerian and Passion Flower A traditional herbal medicinal product used for the...

Heat increases my blood sugar readings. About 5 days of 35 degrees last year at the end of June pushed my blood sugar values up to around 9 mmol/L after breakfast when on a normmal day the values would be below 7 mmol/L. The recent heat this year did not last that long and pushed the blood sugar...