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When I eat out, I will often have a small mixed grill with salad, or similarly some sort of meat and ask for salad instead of chips (I love chips) We are away tomorrow for a fishing holiday in Weymouth so although I will be good, I will also have a treat, wonder if they do fried mars bars...

A delicious, sugary, jammy donut Nigel :lol: Only on the very odd occasion mind, but I have to be honest, it doesnt make my sugar jump very high at all, after 2 hours its never gone over 7.6, which isnt great, but a lot better than you would think eh. I have to assume its because Im an angel...

Thanks Rob. Welshtony - I walk everyday, about 3.4 miles, plus I do still have carbs but a greatly reduced amount, so I try to eat a normal meal, but have maybe a quarter of the carbs I used to have, and for me this works, but I also test my blood sugar 2 hours later to ensure I am not having...

Thanks for your reply Catherine. I appreciate it! Your HbA1c is fantastic. I am very pleased with my results, I just hope its enough to keep things in check. I will keep up with the testing then I think, but maybe lessen it a little when I am eating my known safe foods. Lets hope a cure does...

Hi Just had my recent 6 monthly check and my sugars are 5.6 - T2 for just over a year. What does this mean? Is this the high end of normal for a non diabetic? I know I will always be diabetic, but if I keep doing what I am doing am I more likely to stay out of the danger zone when it comes to...

Darren, when I was first diagnosed I started getting pain and numbness in my foot and my vision was blurred in my left eye. I convinced myself that my foot was about to fall off and that I was going blind. Turned out to be nothing, so best to keep blood sugars in check, and gain as much...

Re: Eye screening Q Good luck Viv. Its not bad, only stung a little when they put drops in, vision back to normal-ish about an hour later, eyes not really sensitive, just tired, pupils still huge tho but Im sure they will be back to normal at some point :roll:

Re: Eye screening Q No but yeah it certainly looks like ive been on something :lol: Think I will put my glasses back on 8)

Re: Eye screening Q I dont half look weird. I hope they go back to normal soon, they are aching and feel tired :( Thanks for your replies :)

Eye screening Q I had my eyes checked today, drops put in at 3.30pm. I have just had a look in the mirror and my pupils are the size of dinner plates, do they take long to go back to normal?

Re: How were you at diagnosis? I was told that I was pre-diabetic when I was 30, but noone told me what to do to prevent it progressing, which has since annoyed me, I was told back then that it was inevitable that it would progress and that id just have to plod along and wait for that day. Had...

Re: How were you at diagnosis? March 2010 aged 34 :(

Hi Fencer. I was offered it along with the pneumonia jab because of the diabetes. People do have it for other reasons, but yes diabetes is one of them.

Hi Jen I have never visited a slimming club, I just reduced carbs and stopped all sweet things and 2 stone fell off within a few months. I did walk 2.2 miles each day on top of this however. Im not sure how a diet at a slimming club works out for diabetics, but good luck if you decide to go...

I started off badly last Friday and it got worse until today. On Friday I ate Crisps. Saturday a pasty, 2 jam donuts and an indian takeaway. Sunday KFC. Monday 6 pieces of toast. This is my first real slip since March last year, but I have been shopping today and pulled myself together...

Shocking! Maybe we are the new wave of diabetics and through knowledge and learning from sites such as this we can make the difference needed for the future generations :)

There are many average weight people with it. The show was a bit misleading, obviously the huge weight loss gave him excellent control, but I assume that if/when the weight goes back on he will be in the very same position once more.

There is a guy on there at the minute who had T2 - was 23 stone, lost loads of weight and they are saying on there that he is now not diabetic. :?:

Thanks Sid :)

Thanks Nigel. I did wonder about the use of it actually with his current situation. I will look into it further now. The fact that the hospital are looking into his feet/legs is a good sign so Im sure they will do what they can, I just wondered if I could help, but I will await further news of...