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I'm going to start a paleo diet but was just wondering whether completely eliminating carbs from my diet be unhealthy?

I've cut out chip shop food, mcdonalds, kfc, burger king, subway, chips and fries, pizzas, white bread, white rice, whitepasta, white sugar, big potatoes, fizzy drinks which aren't diet or sugar free, cakes, biscuits, crisps, sweets, chocolates, sweetcorn. I eat steak, chicken, fish, veg, pilau...

Thanks for the responses,I'm going to start testing only two hours after. This is why I'm not going to fast for the next test. I've been complaing about my bs to them since last January but fasting test was always below 7 so they kept telling me my sugars were great.

I've had high blood sugar readings for a while now. I have been self monitoring myself for a year and my sugar levels have been in the range of 12-13 an hour after high carb meals, sometimes even two hours after meals but fastig glucose was always normal so doctors kept telling me i was normal...

Hi all. I'm 31 male and my dad is a type 2. I started this thread before: http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25865 My latest readings just under an hour after eating was 12.3,12.7 and 12.3 again. 10 minutes later it was 11.9 and two hours after it stayed at 12.0 on...

Diabetes runs in my family so Im always checking my fasting glucose. Usually it's 5.5 - 5.4 but this morning it was 6.8. I panicked and checked again a couple of minutes later and it dropped to 6.2, then 5 mins later it was 6.3. Should I be concerned? It's strange how the reading dropped from...