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If you think of sausages as protein bars they could be a good option....

@Floppy1 I was on a GP recommended diet when diagnosed, and discovered that I had been flagged about 10 years before diagnosis as having high blood glucose, which was dealt with by not repeating the test - I had annual blood tests as my thyroid failed quite some time ago now. All my adult life...

I make up a sugar free jelly with a couple of tablespoons of gelatine to make a strong set, then add either frozen mixed berries or strawberries (after letting the jelly cool). I then eat it with cream or yoghurt. It feels like a lot - I make it with more than a pint of water and add in flavours...

@There is no Spoon Have you been tested for low thyroid function? I was eventually diagnosed with a failed thyroid many years ago but the memory still lingers of the sensation of having my hands and feet in a warm bath after a couple of days taking Thyroxine. Thyroid problems are notoriously...

I think that even if they had access to fresh meat and fresh produce they would not have been able to store it. Their work was intense and options for food were what was available for delivery or to pick up on the way back to whatever accommodation was provided. It took them a little while to...

I am type 2 and was doing just fine until I decided to do the shakes and low calorie thing last year. I did it for two months then found it was not working for me. I decided to go back to the way I ate before - and found it really difficult to sort out my meals. Being an old hippy I fell back...

My daughter was in the US after her marriage to an American, but they decided to come back to England to live. I was quite shocked when I first saw them as they were so overweight. They continued to eat the same way as in the US, but they lost weight, because everything has added sugar or starch...

I am 74 years old - I have seen money bend science, I have been told of research being abandoned when it was not showing the desired results at the first evaluation, also large numbers of prospective test subjects being carefully sifted for the right ones to test - well established seems to mean...

I've had nurses and other type 2's tell me that medication becomes less effective over time, but it seems that a low carb diet - even without monitoring can effectively lower blood glucose down to prediabetes levels of even to normal. I am hoping - expecting - a HbA1c under 48 this year after my...

I'm fine with two meals a day at 12 hourly intervals, but I don't need medication to have normal numbers - I also stick to very low carb by most standards, 10gm in the morning and no more than 30 in the evening. BUT I was only on Metformin for a few weeks and could not live with it, so I did not...

coconut seems to be good - I use it in desserts, cooking and baking, desiccated and made flour fine, and once in a while I buy a whole one - I have boring and cracking tools in the camper van. I can't see any reason to look at GI or GL as they don't seem to make any difference. I put the bags of...

@Mrs SLD Ice cream is perfectly possible if you make your own rather than eating the high sugar with starch thickener products sold to us. Just like chocolate, it is made cheaper with carbs rather than the original eggs and cream frozen custard it began life as. I do not feel any need for...

On a single trial I think it might very well do just that. I set my stabber to one notch lower than the usual one and the drop of blood was larger than expected.

A Bamix, a box of herbs and spices and a few old cookbooks and you can have the reputation of being a chef.

When I changed from 'healthy' eating to a 'fad diet' at diagnosis I went back to normal blood glucose levels, and saw a reduction in cholesterol, my blood pressure reduced a little from the top end of normal to more middling numbers - all the time since then I have been eating a very Atkins...