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Hi David, Your luck might be about to change! Have a look around the forum and you'll see where people are having the most spectacular success with their diabetes. Best wishes, fergus

Sounds as if you're very much on the ball already Paul! A low carb diet will have major benefits for your control and long term health in general. I'm pleasantly surprised to hear your medics may have recommended it, in which case the tide may be slowly turning on the daft dietary advice...

Hi ebony, there's a brief definition of various levels of carb restriction on the newbies guide. Personally, fewer than 30g per day suits me very well. fergus

Thanks for that Steve. All makes sense now! :wink: fergus

'Nowt wrong with eggs and cheese, Steve. Sure they didn't just mean creme eggs and cheesecake? Otherwise, it's green for go with both of those things. Good to hear your GP gave you the heads up on pasta, bread and potatoes though - very switched on. fergus

Judging by the ingredients labels on the supermarket sauces for both lemon chicken and sweet 'n sour, they're both very high in sugar. I doubt the local takeaway would be very much different. I'm T1, not T2 but I can tell you in my experience, most Chinese takeaway foods need a great deal of...

Hi curleous, In your shoes, I'd be tempted to simply take the balance of your dose at bedtime and monitor your blood glucose closely. Your total dose would therefore be exactly as before, only split in two. Many people find this actually gives improved coverage over 24 hours and in particular...

Just had a truly scary thought , it'll be my 30 year anniversary of type 1 next year. :shock: How time flies when you're havin' fun, eh? Anyway, back to the original question re. complications, I may be one of the lucky ones. I had early stage reitinopathy 10 years ago, but that has gone now...

Interesting. The thing which caught my eye was the part which said he was 'donig everything right' regarding diet, cholesterol and bp, but it didn't seem to prevent the continued development of CVD? I guess that ought to raise the question 'how right is right?' If CVD is a result of lifestyle...

Well said, Hana. Someone in his position ought to be idealy placed to undersand the cause and effect of diet and diabetes, but it looks like he's missed it completely. I wonder what would happen if he actually understood the issue and demonstrated the effectiveness of eating fewer carbs and more...

It's never too late, ladybird. If you give some careful thought to your diet, cut out the sugars and the starches, you will begin to turn things around immediately. Good luck! fergus

Cereal manufacturers have done a fantastic job at convincing the vast majority that their products are somehow a breakfast staple. The norm, in the developed world. Generally speaking, they're highly refined starches, flavoured with salt and sugar and then magically fortified to chemically add...

Good going suffolkboi61! :D Yep, it certainly works. Until BigPharma gets around to inventing a prescription drug that normalises blood sugars, sheds weight, improves lipids, makes you feel great and tastes delicious, we'll just have to keep doing it the hard way, eh? fergus

Hi John, I think, strictly speaking, the body and brain will use a number of different fuels in the absence of glucose. Free fatty acid is one, and ketone bodies are a derivative of fatty acids, and also on glycerol. The brain tends to use ketone bodies (up to 70-80% of it's energy needs?) when...

Interesting thread - glad to hear you guys are enjoying the physical stuff. I get a kick out of it too, the most frustrating times are when there are simply too few hours in the day to fit it all in. I never ever let my bg go near double figures even if there's a long run or bike ride coming...

Try it cubed, dressed in olive oil and roasted. Or sliced thinly with creme fraiche, garlic and gruyere to make a gratin. Or pureed to make a mash. Or used to thicken a soup. Or stir fied with butter, mustard and cream and onions to make a winter vegetable dish. Celeriac - ugly on the outside...

Hmmmm, let's see, 95% of diets ultimately fail and the vast majority of those are based upon calorie restriction.So where are these reports showing that calorie restriction works? I'd love to see them. :roll: Now, if calorie restricted diets almost inevitably fail (and they do) this surely...

Yes, insulin is the fat building hormone. It sounds as if you were too young at diagnosis to remember the effects of a chronic lack of endogenous insulin, but the body is incapable of building or maintaining fat stores in the absence of it. That's why type 1's like us tend to shed weight very...

You could make a convincing case for a long term clinical trial there Steve. Count me in (for the greater benefit to mankind, you understand.) :wink: fergus

I think it's very encouraging to read such healthy scepticism about conventional dietary wisdom. It's partly the communal reinforcement of the established ideas that have pushed the developed world towards crises in obesity and diabetes. Three decades of unsubstantiated claims about the dangers...