Recent Content by Welshlass1

I’m not a big snacker anyway, the woman in with the nurse kept mentioning portion control, in fact she said it so many times she was ticking me off, I think she thought I had plates like dustbin lids loaded with the worst foods, and she made me feel like a huge fat slob, my down fall is toast...

OMG

So I can forget calories ( up to a point obviously ) and lo cal this and lo cal that ?

So excuse my ignorance is blood glucose levels the same as blood sugars ?

Am I meant to be testing myself?

That should say ryvita not revitalise

Actually the blood test did reveal and several years ago it was 20 then 30 then 48, I had mild covid over Christmas and have been told ,( rightly or wrongly ) it will increase your levels but my daughters friend who is a pharmacist said maybe but for it to be 60 it’s been there a whine lol

For instance this morning I had 2 rashers of bacon grilled with the fat cut off,dry five seed bread toasted and a poached egg, lunch was a prawn salad followed by a fruit salad and lo fat Greek yog(plain) I’ve just had two revitalise cracker breads with a smidge of lo fat hummus and for my event...

Apparently it’s because Wales are poorer than the rest of the uk plus not as well educated particularly about health and nutrition

Hi , been taking other meds for a few years now, pharmacist wants to up dose of statins from 10-20 as a precautionary measure, I wasn’t advised to fast before my blood test. I don’t know what I’m meant to eat, I have been on very successful diets, dropping over 5 stone each time but it creeps...

Hi, I thought I had done that a couple of days ago but had no responses so I thought I’d try this way but obviously not the correct way

Hi, um I’m very confused. Was told Monday I was t2, lose weight, had my feet poked with a piece of plastic, given a very uninformative booklet, a prescription and instructions for metformin, was told I gotta go back this Monday for checkup. Apparently my level is 60 previous was 38 ‍♀️ Am...

I was told on Monday I have type 2, apparently being Welsh, overweight and diabetic family are all contributing factors. Nurse said my levels were 60, previous was 38 ‍♀️ I literally have no idea what the hell that means other than it’s not good. I was told a few years ago to keep an eye on my...