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FBG at 0810 was 6.8 (USA 122.4), food yesterday; Breakfast: 2 egg omelette (in butter) with fried tomato slices, 4 large California strawberries, black tea, 500 mg metformin Lunch: Mr. Sub cold cut combo with lettuce, onion, tomatoes, black olives, hot peppers, "special" sauce, NO bread, black...

I know it is not that good for my T2D but I really love my 3/4 cup of honey nut cheerios w/2% milk in the morning. For some odd reason, BG goes from about say 5.3 (USA 95.4) to about 7.4 (USA 133.2) and back down to about 5.3 or so within 2 hours. This is unlike "Frosted Flakes" which sends the...

Congratulations and give yourself a raise! ...Or at least a pat on the back...

FBG 5.3 (USA = 5.3 X 18 = 95.4) at 0840 this morning, food yesterday was; Breakfast: 3/4 cup honey nut cheerios w/2% milk, 4 dried apricots, black coffee (instant), 500 mg metformin Lunch: slice of black forest ham w/Keene's hot English mustard, 4 dill w/garlic pickles, 1/2 dozen manzanilla...

If you look hard enough at anything, you'll find an excuse to exclude it. Flying in commercial jet aircraft exposes you to more radiation than just about anything else you'll normally encounter. As far as processed foods go, if in doubt I rely on my blood glucose monitor, but a quick read of the...

Eat anything that your blood glucose monitor shows you is helpful. Anything else, eat with extreme caution and in limited quantities. You are welcome to disagree, you are the only one who can help yourself...

It is very simple for 99% of people with T2D. Get a blood glucose monitor and learn how to use it. Any other advice is for the 1% of T2D people who have additional health issues. End of story...

As far as eggs go I tried homemade tamagoyaki (without sugar) in a small frying pan but am graduating to a square pan when it arrives next week. Basically an omelette with a fancy Japanese name...

That is exactly what I tell anyone who'll listen when they ask about the best piece of advice for a newly diagnosed T2D. Without a means of analyzing your blood glucose levels using self monitoring blood glucose testers, how in Hades can anyone possibly get better? This simple and inexpensive...

FBG 5.3 at 0800, food yesterday was; Breakfast: zero food, black tea, 500 mg metformin Lunch: Subway's sliced meat combo sandwich with lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber, black olives, peppers, "special" sauce dressing and NO bread, water Dinner: 2 pickled eggs, bowl of vegetable soup (Mrs...

As the test strips apparently contain an enzyme/chemical mixture that reacts with blood glucose to produce an electrical signal which can be decoded by the monitor, one should likely pay attention to the "best before" date for best accuracy. Having said that though, the exact expiry date likely...

Hi Kikky... The moderators will be likely touching base with you soon, the best short term advice is to use your blood glucose meter to measure just about everything that you ingest, to see what effect specific foods have on YOU personally. You ideally will be consuming things that have a...

Here is useless fact #75... I was talking to a friend about these "pork rinds" and right away he said "chicharrones!". I asked ? and was directed to internet search for them whereupon I discovered there is a whole culture based on cooking, flavouring and eating them, typically like this one...

FBG at 0725 was 5.7, food yesterday; Breakfast: 3/4 cup honey nut cheerios w/2% milk, 4 dried apricots, black tea, 500 mg metformin Lunch: 1/4 cup salted macadamia nuts, 1/2 cup strawberries, 70 g chunk of baker's semi-sweet chocolate, black tea Dinner: large plate stir fried bean sprouts and...

After my first initial diagnoses for type 2 diabetes (FBG about 20) in 2000 I followed the then Canadian Diabetes Association food guidelines for about one month and was not really getting much better. I decided to conduct some food experiments using my newly acquired blood glucose monitor...

FBG at 0710 was 5.7, food yesterday; Breakfast: zero food, black tea, 500 mg metformin Lunch: zero food, black tea Dinner: garden salad w/Kraft balsamic vinegar & oil, chunk of roast beef, mashed rutabaga, glass of red wine, black tea, forgot to take metformin tablet Snack: shot of dark rum...

Yes they are puffed up ones, so they are not the real thing? Just a shadow of their glorious forebears? I am sooo disappointed...

All this talk prompted me to go shopping for a few bags of "scratchings" yesterday, and to my surprise I just realized after gnawing down a half sack last night that I forgot to take my blood glucose, hence perhaps my higher than normal FBG this morning (6.1 instead of appx 5.5).

Here (Canada) marijuana or cannabis as new-age people call it, is completely legal (or nearly so) and I personally know people who smoke it or ingest the CBD oil in either liquid or tablet form supposedly for health reasons. I personally think it is all about money, meaning it was too expensive...

FBG today at 0825 was 6.1, food yesterday was; Breakfast: 3/4 cup honey oat cheerios w/2% milk, black tea, 500 mg metformin Lunch: 1/2 cup unsalted cashews, 2 turkey slices w/cranberry sauce, mashed rutabaga, black tea Dinner: 2 slices turkey w/cranberry sauce, mashed rutabaga, buttered cooked...