Recent Content by seadragon

Your diet sounds way too extreme. Of course you will lose weight but it doesn't sound like you are losing in a healthy way. Your body gets energy either from carbs (not a good idea when you are type 2), or from fats (which many of us here do in the form of a ketogenic or low carb, healthy fats...

My issues with the ND are: 1. If you are not overweight to start with it doesn't help. Not all T2s are obese. 2. It meant starving yourself and being hungry a lot - not only do I think I'd lack the willpower but as it's a carby shake it would affect my short term BG levels which was a...

The vegan diets are first and foremost about animal welfare rather than human health so you do need to factor that into any info on diet from vegan sources. Chicken is an animal, Barnard is a vegan - hence read into that what you will. Personally I find the low carb/healthy fats diet to be...

Personally I would not touch statins. All the data seems to have come from a group of old unhealthy men and I don't think it relates in any way to me or to many people. The level for normal cholesterol seemed to decrease in line with them wanting more people on statins and the 4mmol they seem...

It seems once again a case of every body is different. I went very low carb at the start, lost weight effortlessly, was almost certainly ketogenic, had boundless energy - didn't really have leto-flu or maybe I was just quick to adapt but either way the effects seem to have been long lasting. My...

But smokers have a choice (and still only the ones with the genetic predisposition get cancer) You have to eat and unfortunately are one of the ones with a genetic disposition to glucose intolerance/diabetes. Not your fault that you have this gene. You must know people who eat terribly bad...

All good advice above. I'd just add that I spent about 3 months writing a detailed food diary and testing before each meal and (where possible) at one hour after first bit eand at two hours after. The code free has alarms you can set I think. This very quickly shows you how your blood glucose...

I've decided not to worry too much and do whatever feels right at the time. After all worry and stress can raise BG too so have decided to worry less and enjoy life more. It's not all about diabetes anymore and I feel thats a good place to be. :)

i don't find the time of eating has much effect for me - I've tried it all. Sometimes if i eat really late it's lower - other times i've eaten earlier and it's lower. If i drink lots of wine it's always lower! :) if it's high in the morning it doesn't cmd down if i don't eat and sometimes...

Your link just shows how they can skew the results they want by organising a meaningless test. They all tested just once a day and so that told them nothing at all of any use. The idea of testing is to test the foods that affect your BG therefore is only of use when people know when to test...

Fab results - really well done! Unfortunately many docs and nurses still aren't able to get their heads round the fact that nobody NEEDS carbs. They've been taught the Eatwell plate. They've ben taught that everyone needs carbs - they've been brainwashed and sometimes can't accept the evidence...

I'm a thin pre-diabetic but only learned this fact due to my mother being a thin type 2 and using her BG monitor on me one day which put me at the very top of "normal' range and she suggested getting a GTT done. Her sister sadly had died of diabetes related complications and I knew I might be...

I really can't agree with you here because the Eatwell plate is SO wrong - IMHO even for healthy people - that I feel we are duty bound to point out that the standard advice from GPs is not actually the way it has to be at all. The standard line (which I got) is that Diabetes is a progressive...

Havent got to end of thread but was interested in the responses to suggesting a 24 hour fast. I wouldn't suggest it as I don't think it's necessary, but by the time I got to the forum I was in such a state of food confusion having researched so much conflicting information, that I had probably...

It's quite normal to feel all those things - I think we've all been through it. Hang in there as it does get better and for many of us - me included - it turns out to be quite a good thing in the end. My health is transformed for the better through low carb, higher fats. More energy, fewer...