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That's a really important point because I know some diabetics who seem to think that they can cancel out certain carbohydrates, as if eating a bit of salad somehow enables you to eat pasta without any consequences. It reminds me of the supersize programme in which people though that eating a...

No idea about the carbs because I don't count the grams. Basically I've stopped eating bread, rice, pasta and potatoes and avoided anything that looks like it would have a lot of carbs. I've been caught a couple of times (Shredded Wheat and apples are examples :( ) but I check my post-meal...

Just before I started this low-carb thing I had an HbA1c test and it was 7.7 which worried me. Two years back it was 5.7 when I'd just arrived in Spain. So in that time I had let things slip, thinking that my numbers were not too bad. Waking glucose had always been around 7.5-ish and I'd...

I'd be over the moon to get my levels down to that last thing at night. Typically I'm around 7.5-ish but my fasting levels rarely get down below 6 still. I'm working hard at it on a low-carb so hopefully I'll see some improvement. But it sounds to me that you've got it well under control...

I've no idea what my actual daily carbohydrate is in grams because I don't count them but I can give a typical day's food so someone else could count them: Breakfast: one or two eggs either as an omelette or scrambled, sometimes with a small dash of milk added. Now and again, it's bacon but...

I have to endorse what Cugila posted, testing post-meal is an absolute must to get an idea of what the foods are doing to your blood glucose. The response to carbohydrates varies enormously and it seems to be fairly individual with some foods spiking for some people more than others. I've just...

One week later and the numbers have improved again: waking BG is consistently close to 7.0, with a daily max well under 8 and a minimum occasionally under 6 with the lowest now 5.4. My weight's tailed off but that doesn't worry me. I've no idea what Hb1c that will translate to but it's got to...

I've now just completed my second week of a low carb regime which has actually been a lot easier than I expected. I started it after reading Bernstein's book - I'd mostly stopped checking my blood (assuming everything was OK) but shocked myself with a reading of 15.4 mmol/L half an hour after a...

I've just repeated the experiment eating exactly the same bacon with nothing else and the rise was exactly the same so I've now no doubt that the bacon caused the jump. I suppose I can look forward to more of the experimenting with different foods to identify the culprits as they arise. At...

As I live in Spain, the bacon came from a Spanish supermarket. It's called El Pozo which probably doesn't mean anything in the UK. The packets are labelled according to EU legislation but it's normally in about 4pt type in white so you need a torch and a magnifying glass to read it :) I'll be...

It was an interesting controlled experiment. The label said 0.2g sugar per 100g, but I think it was the additional carbs not listed separately that were the problem. Waking BG was 6.9 and it was up to 8.9 in just under an hour. One metformin tablet brought it down to 7.0 again within another...

Having let my BG get a bit out of control and recently switching to low carb, I've been monitoring my BG fairly closely and a number of foods unexpectedly seem to contain high amounts of sugars, or at least carbs. The most recent revelation was bacon. I was surprised to see that the bacon...

Sorbitol is one of those sweeteners that is actually a carbohydrate but provides 2.6 kcal/g rather than 4 kcal/g of typical carbohydrate. That means it provides 65% the same carbohydrate hit has any other carbohydrate and that means glucose at the end of the day. So when I see sorbitol...

Thanks very much cugila. The journals look useful and the more general link gives a useful overview as well, so thanks. I've noticed that a lot of medical research is kept behind the publishers' closed doors through very expensive subscriptions so I'm also trying to find stuff on the open...

I'm interested in finding out more about the link between triglyceride levels and low carb diets. I've switched to a low carb diet just a fortnight ago after a routine blood test showed my levels weren't as under control as I'd thought. I read Bernstein's book and was convinced that it was...

Hi CJ, The medical care here is every bit as good as the UK. When I went for a flu jab a month ago, a doctor was standing in for the nurse who was sick and he gave me the injection and then, noticing my records, asked when the last time I'd had a foot inspection. As it was a while ago, he did...

Hi, I found that when I was diagnosed, the GP stressed losing weight so much that initially I thought that the blood sugar couldn't be brought under controlled without a lot of weight loss, which was going to take a long time. In fact, that was nonsense. Just by becoming more aware of what...

Hi all, I'm type 2 living in Andalucia having retired here a couple of years ago. After having it well under control for a few years in the UK, I've now discovered I've become blasé and a recent routine blood test made me wake up. I've also just read then Bernstein book which seems to make a...