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The Hairy Bikers did a lasagne using leek, split and dropped into hot water to uncurl it. The amount of liquid had to be reduced so it was not runny but people ate it and did not realise it was not pasta. I do curry and put it on chopped cauliflower rather than rice. I cook swede in my pressure...

I will be 75 years old in April, and have been feeling a bit better in the last few days, and that dreadful cough is now almost gone. After everything I was expecting my HbA1c to be far higher as I was simply unable to get out of bed some days, no shopping or cooking , though perhaps the days I...

I have been ill for months, covid, then 'flu' then a hacking cough, and had a blood test as soon as I felt well enough to leave the house. For various reasons I have not been able to eat normally for months Covid started mid October and if anything the 'flu' was worse/ I really was expecting...

I took Metformin and Atorvastatin for only a few weeks, but suffered pretty dire side effects - I could no longer pick up the knitting machines I service, so had to give up the work for a year, in 2017. By 2018 I had recovered enough to go back to work.

I had a dreadful reaction to Metformin and it got so bad I stopped taking it - it was Christmas, and at the first retest after diagnosis I was no longer in the diabetes range so just stuck to low carbs. Prescribing Metformin is the kneejerk reaction to type 2, but if you are suffering then...

It might be better to start with testing your blood glucose after eating - the OP was out of the usual even for this forum. Reactive hypoglycaemia should show up with the results of blood glucose checks on a normal meter - or you could see if there are any free trials of continuous monitors...

Your intake of prunes would be all the carbs I could cope with, so it might make a difference if you found some other way to help your bones - maybe taking a calcium/magnesium/vitamin D supplement if that is the reason for the prunes. If you can't cope with carbs it is hardly your fault - not...

Have you had any checks on your thyroid recently? My thyroid failed quite a while ago but those symptoms do seem very familiar. It did take some time to get a diagnosis as the thyroid can flag and recover numerous times before fading completely, When I was eventually diagnosed my TSH was five...

There is no difference in the carbs - the weight is different as it absorbs water, but if you start off with X gm of carb before cooking there's more than likely going to be X amounts afterwards - you might lose some into the cooking water, which you then throw away, but there is no magic involved.

Sometime during the twelve days of Christmas I will make some desserts with the mince meat I bought. I make almond and coconut flour 'bowl cake' in various flavours from time to time, but at this time of year I add a large tablespoon of mincemeat, and the traditional spices - I have been known...

I restrict food choices to those of 10% carbs or under - it means, for instance, that strawberries are OK but rice is not - it seems to work wonderfully. I have found that restricting calories doesn't work for weightloss as calories are not a fixed factor - I can eat more calories if the food...

Unfortunately the problem is not sugar intake, it is carbohydrates, starches and sugars combined, as they all end up as sugar in the blood when digested. Reducing sugar intake can help if the diet is high in them - but problems can arise if 'healthy' starchy foods are predominant and are pushing...

My licence has been restricted to 3 years due to sleep apnoea and during Covid the renewal was not done before the renewal date was well past, but I continued to drive as I had no reason to believe that it would be denied. Eventually a new licence turned up and all was well, but I had to see...

I had covid and then caught 'flu' about three days after a second negative Covid test - the first time I went out. The 'flu' was worse than the Covid I think - it is just over 2 months since the first positive Covid test and I am still feeling rather feeble from time to time. I am being careful...

My visceral fat fought back valiantly against weightloss. I used to see my waist reducing by an inch or so, then it would suck in fat from elsewhere, upper back, thighs, arms - even face or neck and expand itself again. I had a 24 inch waist in my teens and early 20s - I have mini skirts which...