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If possible you should try to avoid snacking. T2s are insulin resistant and produce too much of the stuff, and every time you eat you will produce yet more. If you restrict your eating windows then your body gets a break from producing all that insulin sloshing about and hopefully starts to...

I still use both chickpeas and lentils but only in small quantities, so whereas I might have made a vat of chickpea curry in the past, I now make a veggie curry and add only one tin of chickpeas. That will feed me 4 or 5 (or maybe more!) times so the amount of chickpea in each serving is small...

Hah, I sometimes go more often than every 2 years, if I feel my middle-aged eyesight is going downhill outside of the mandated schedule. Even then my optician asks me accusingly why am I coming back so soon. And I am paying!

I’m afraid that’s par for the course in the UK. If you are based here then I expect you will have an appointment with a Diabetes Nurse shortly, but unless you are very fortunate all she will be interested in is bean-counting and ticking her boxes. If you are very unfortunate she will advise...

If you think you might have had a TIA then I would urgently consult a medical professional. I had to call an ambulance for someone at work one morning, when she was in the throes of a TIA, she went on to have a series of additional attacks in A&E and was left with long term damage. Please...

My evening meal is usually around the same time of day. My other meal, if I have one, would be when I was hungry, so any time between about 9am and 2pm. For example, today I am just starting to feel a bit peckish after my morning coffee with cream and it’s nearly 2pm. I’m not ready for a meal...

Since I was diagnosed (nearly 2 years ago, blimey!) I haven’t eaten any preprocessed food with the exception of bit of bacon, salami, good sausages etc. And I much prefer it. I haven’t even tried any of the traditional carbs - bread, pasta etc since I got going with low carb so I don’t...

I took a general mutivit and mineral supplement at the start when my eating was extremely reduced as a result of metformin nausea, but a later blood test (after about 9 months) revealed that all my levels were in rude good health, with a tad too much iron, so I stopped taking them. My diet had...

Oh yes! I had forgotten, but I suffered some stress/urge urinary incontinence prior to diagnosis. This is completely gone too, mostly I think because I no longer have the abdominal fat pressing on my pelvic floor, but maybe sugary urine was also an irritant to the bladder, who knows…

I thought it might be interesting to compile a list of what physical effects people have experienced as a result of getting their BG back to normal or normal-ish levels. Newbies often cite one ailment or another as an impediment to progressing with their diabetes control, I thought it might be...

Well…. I agree and I don’t, with those who slightly suggest that enjoying cake is evidence of moral turpitude ;). I agree, freeing yourself from the carb cravings is an excellent thing and allows you to break the links of eating for emotional reward and take complete control of your why and how...

In my garden it has not been a stellar year for veg, but my french beans were great earlier in the year and I have another batch just coming into flower so I hope for some more into the autumn. I still have loads of tomatoes despite the blight, plus cucumbers, chillis, peppers and aubergines...

My understanding is that menopause is classed as a ‘done deal’ once you have been 12 months without a period. My body messed me around for several years before deciding to call it a day - I would get to 11 months or so and then another period would appear! Sometimes normal-type bleeding...

I make low-carb treats now and then - cake, scones, and my new current fave is biscotti. Lots of recipes out there, just google ‘keto’ and then whatever takes your fancy. In the winter hot choc made with diluted double cream, 100% chocolate melted in and no sweetener at all is a very...

I didn’t experience any, except that I stopped feeling sick!

Sounds like you have been mostly attempting the conventional diet advice, which is really not suitable for those with T2. If I was in your position (well, barring the heart disease, I absolutely was) I would change to a very low carb diet first. I went keto and lost over 4 stone in 6 months...

What dose are you on? As I mentioned in your other thread, I felt awful on the maximum dose (2000mg a day?? 4 tablets anyway) and was fine on half that. But I did tell my DN every time I reduced the dose and when I stopped completely. “Tell” being the correct phrase, not ask or discuss…. :)

Metformin at 4 tabs a day made me low-grade nauseous all the time, and I would occasionally wake up during the night to vomit. Lovely! It also caused loss of appetite (not in a good way) and I suffered the more traditional unfortunate bowel effects off and on. For 3 months. But I did as...

I don’t love cooking but I do love food, and I like cooking shows on telly because I am interested in the different ways food can become even tastier. Or ruined. According to your personal taste (fruit and other sweet things mixed with savoury food, bleurgh!) I cook every day now, diabetes...

Yep milk does dire things to my BG too. I use cream in coffee and drink tea black or sometimes with lemon. I would say, I have become an utter tea snob and embraced the different varieties, I love really good Darjeeling tea made from leaves in a proper tea pot. It is very low in tannin, which...