Recent Content by Resurgam

@JonW444 That is rather like being disappointed that, despite testing the tire pressure, the car still gets punctures. I have a scientific education and working background, so I set about determining the amount of carbs to eat as a series of experiments, and the numbers on the test meter were...

Hard to say - usually to check a meal and the response to it, we test just before starting to eat, then two hours later. A single random test doesn't give much insight, though it is normal looking that is all that can be said.

I wanted to reduce my HbA1c into the 30s, from 42. I was eating no more than 50gm of carbs a day. I dropped down to no more than 40gm of carbs a day. At the end of a year my HbA1c was still 42. I would have been about 70 so old age might be a factor, slower replacement of blood cells, or the...

I seem to remember that it involved cooking a pack of bacon and placing it in the halogen oven to keep warm. Preheat the waffle maker and beat together a couple of eggs with shredded or grated cheese - I used mozzarella or red leicester or cream cheese depending on what I had in the fridge and...

Although not related to my diabetes, since having the AZ jab I have had trouble with my feet from time to time. I made innersoles from foam backed plastic and neoprene, fixing them to ordinary innersoles to stop them sliding and folding up. My feet were still excruciatingly painful but the...

Oh I was a mad cyclist and used to work my pulse rate up to stupid numbers on my lightweight sprinter. Lord alone knows what it did to my glucose levels. My dad used to build bikes and tandems for speed trials and when he went out with his mate on 50 mile test runs on tandems they used to...

@Richard2024 exercise might require glucose but it will not necessarily result in a reduction in blood glucose as there will be an outpouring into the bloodstream for many people. Intense exercise will result in higher levels. A gentle stroll after meals is perhaps the most likely activity to...

No carb and low calorie - that is really not a good idea. I doubt you'll get anyone who has reversed their type 2 to endorse such a diet. I eat twice a day, but only restrict carbs and avoid low fat variants, seed oils and grains. I have all the eggs, cheese, meat, fish, full fat yoghurt and...

II have heard and read good reports of leek being used instead of pasta to make lasagne. You need to make the sauce dryer than usual, as none of the liquid will be absorbed, but use a large leek and split it along one side of the tubes, discard the outermost, drop the required number of layers...

It is just that the information has been supressed - Dr Atkins was finding that the low carb way of eating seemed to give rise to impossible results, and he was publishing back in the last century. I can only conclude that people did not want it to be true. Your after dinner level, if at 2 hours...

@Juniperr If the way to lower weight was to simply reduce calories, then low calorie diets would work and I would not have been screamed at and insulted when they didn't ever work for me. Low calorie diets just made me turn grey and lethargic, and if I tried to do anything strenuous my heart...

oils tend to deal with sticky residues - I read that when some horror duct taped the muzzle of a dog that cooking oil removed it - a dog would go mad if any sort of volatile solvent was put near its nose.

I was busy this morning so ate a bit of brie cheese and some cucumber, which I suppose is as close to a snack as I get.

I can only say that it shouldn't, but I do eat cucumber and I have normal blood glucose - so I cannot swear to there being no correlation. What I can assure you about is that it isn't magic. Cucumber is a low carb fruit (yes, fruit) and they are a good sensible choice to eat. Excluding high carb...

I cannot get down into the 30s, I have decided that after so long being pushed to eat carbs, I just can't go any further back into normal numbers. I went a whole year hoping. I was eating no more than 50gm of carbs a day and went down to under 40 in the hope of reducing my HbA1c from 42 into...