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Lol! Actually, nearly half the members of the group I was in are very slim and don't need to lose weight. So rolypolypudding would indeed have been an inappropriate name for the course.

I'm trying to reply individually to all the people who have been kind enough to respond to me with suggestions to say thanks, but am now having problems navigating this site. So please consider yourselves thanked. When I am in a better frame of mind - which I hope will be soon, now I've dropped...

I'm afraid I haven't yet managed to sort out my eating as yet. If I could find some decent meal recipes that were fairly easy to cook, I might be more motivated to try the low carb approach because everyone seems really positive about how it has helped them. The diabetes prevention course has...

I started the diabetes prevention course in July. What a disappointment! The group leader is not even a dietitian, she was a shop assistant in a pharmacy before she took some 'new agey' type courses and then was trained up to deliver this course - which a monkey could deliever, it is so basic...

It's worth having a blood test to also check your Vitamin B12 levels. It's not something that GP's always think to check. Mine was revealed via a standard test to check blood sugars and cholesterol levels - and lo and behold Vit B12 came up as lacking. I had been feeling chronic fatigue and...

I work with somebody who has Type 2. he is slim, takes regular exercise, watches his diet [especially the carbs] - and still has trouble controlling his blood sugar levels. Meanwhile I am obese, eat all the wrong food and not taking exercise - and I am still in the prediabetic phase [as at my...

Yes I've heard very positive reports about the low carb diet. Can't see myself adopting anything as extreme as the Atkins Diet though.

My downfall is that I am very fond of carbs in general so my consumption probably exceeds what the Eatwell plate recommends.I don't think there is any one type of carb that I don't like. A couple of years back my diet got so protein starved that I was diagnosed with Vitamin B12 deficiency...

Thanks for your response Salvia I live in Bury, Greater Manchester. The Living Well programme is operating in some areas in the UK but not available nationally as yet. So far, evaluation says it is proving to be successful in helping to prevent onset of diabetes. You get a group session every...