Recent Content by sandylane

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    8 Week Blood Sugar Diet

    Thanks Victor, absolutely will be keeping going, I have found this regime surprisingly easy. I have finally found an eating regime and method that works for me and I can live without traditional carbs (save an occasional treat!)
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    8 Week Blood Sugar Diet

    Hi all, I have now reached the end of the 8 weeks of this diet; I will be continuing it, albeit at a 1,000 calorie a day level.... I am now no longer pre-diabetic!!! Wooooo Hooo! My results.... Total Weight Lost = 18.7 Kg ( 3 stone!) Average morning fasting blood glucose: 5.6 mmol/l, down...
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    I'm not hungry, how to make myself eat?

    I have been on the Blood Sugar diet and have been eating 50g of carb a day or less. I too have completely lost my appetite. Like the original poster, I have gone from someone who was obsessed about where the next meal was coming from , to a position now, where food and eating is not on my mind...
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    Any tips for using meter?

    I also like this one if you can tolerate the voice!
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    8 Week Blood Sugar Diet

    Week 5 Update Another great week on this amazing diet. A further 3.5kg lost this week. Fasting blood glucose around 6.0 most days; hoping to pop into the 5's next week :)
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    Wacky Reading This morning

    Morning all - You were right, my FBG was back down to 5.7 this morning so back on track. I feel much better this morning, I think I was at peak cold virus yesterday.
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    8 Week Blood Sugar Diet

    Go for it - after a week I have not had real hunger and have found it relatively easy. I can recommend using myfitnesspal to measure everything that goes in your mouth, and be sure to not exceeed both carbs and calories - it is important to heed both. Today I put on a pair of 42 inch trousers...
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    Wacky Reading This morning

    Thanks @bulkbiker @Brunneria @Prem51 Really appreciate your insight, you guys are stalwart contributors to this forum. I am early days into learning and understanding glucose patterns; there is a lot of information out there about targets etc; but so little information about what...
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    Wacky Reading This morning

    Would welcome any ideas. But I had an unusually high blood glucose reading this morning. I am currently in week 5 of the 8 week blood sugar diet and am only eating protein and green vegetables. My morning fasting blood glucose reading has been dropping beautifully from 6.6 down to 6.0. Then...
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    8 Week Blood Sugar Diet

    I am in week 5 of 8 and have now lost 13kg and reduced my fasting blood glucose from 6.6 to below 6.0....So far brilliant results; I can't recommend this diet enough..... Total Weight Lost = 9.9 Kg Start 01 October 16 Weight: 135.0 Kg Lost: 0.0 Kg FBG: 6.6 mmol/l Week 1 07 October 16...