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Hi @Humminglime and welcome Great advice above, so I won't go on about food, since lowering carbs is likely to help you a lot. No need to go hungry though - just eat more meat, fish, eggs, cheese and veggies to compensate and make sure you are full. One think I did want to mention though - you...

Depends on what you have eaten. A mixed meal of carbs, fat, protein and fibre may take hours to peak, whereas a meal of toast and a large fruit salad might peak in less than an hour. PRime example: people often find that pizza (which is of course fat protein and carbs in roughly equal...

Evenin All, B: straight out for dog walk, so forgot. L: left overs from last night’s yummy curry. It is now 8pm and I’m still stuffed, so it looks like a OMAD today. :D:D:D

yes, and glucose dysregulation develops in a whole variety of ways (the www.bloodsugar101.com website goes through the various ways that often happen to people labelled T2). These include slow development over years, to fast over weeks or months, weight gain, or not, raised fasting readings...

yes indeed!

Yes. When I first saw Jason Fung announcing in a lecture that ‘T2 is a disease of insulin resistance’ I remember doing a double take. That is simply incorrect. In many (most?) parts of the world, T2 is the default diagnosis given to any adult in the absence of further testing to establish more...

Members are frequently asked to provide evidence for any claims they make, especially when that claim is criticising another post which actually did provide a link. If members wish to continue this discussion and provide the appropriate references, then I, or one of the other mods, can move the...

Started lowering my carbs deliberately in the mid 80s, but went properly Low Carb around 1990 (when I started catering for myself) Didn’t consciously increase the fat, but looking back, that inevitably happened. During the intervening 30 yrs I have played with all sorts of different ways of...

Can you please provide a link to the more recent figures you mention? Thank you.

Back when I was snorkling a lot, we would prevent our face masks and goggles from steaming up by spitting on the glass and then smearing it around, then rinsing in sea water, just before use - worked a treat. I can feel you all recoiling in repulsed horror at the thought Of doing anything...

yes, I have been finding it fascinating to watch the shifting of the mortality rates over time, as more data emerges. Also the differences between different countries/societies, and so on. @Fairygodmother Thank you for the link. Worth noting that study looks at Italy, a country with a much...

Evenin’ All! on the road v early this morning, with a drive thru hot choc (full carb) to fuel the 2nd half of the journey. As usual, I have left something behind. Last time it was underwear :bag: This time it was the jacket and rather lovely silk chiffon infinity scarf I made 2 weeks ago. :mad...

If you have all the symptoms then those need addressing whether your test result is high, or not, and whether those symptoms are caused by diabetes, or something different. So I would ring the surgery again and ask for an appt to discuss the next step. good luck with it, and please let us know...

Helen, deep breaths, there is really nothing to panic about. We’ve all been suggesting that you get properly checked out by a doc since the third post in this thread. Now you have been told to by a doc, you can organise a coronavirus test. If you have Covid, most ppl get it very mildly. It...

Get thee to a doctor. seriously. You may well have stuff going on that is not at all blood glucose related, in which case your doc needs to identify what IS going on. It would be a good idea (as discussed above) if you were testing your blood glucose when you get these symptoms so that you...

My suggestion would be that one of the main benefits of intermittent fasting is to reduce glycogen stores in the liver, and by doing so, to ease into ketosis. In which case, tanking up the glycogen stores with chocolate will undo a lot of the benefits of the IF. although I TOTALLY get the...

I could never understand why it took so long for the US to get the Libre. I always expect techy new stuff to appear there first. But I have just checked back, and the first thread we had about the Libre going onto the market in the UK was almost 6 years ago...

Haha! Love that first paragraph in the article. Some of the most critical conundrums of the new millenium!