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Thanks, Yorksman. Unfortunately I am none the wiser as to how I can address my own insulin resistance, as I think that is what is going on. I am completely flummoxed when it come to strategy to deal with my situation. What works for some, or even many, doesn't seem to work for me. I've given...

The diet industry has a lot to answer for, in my opinion. Many women have a strange relationship with food. I don't understand it. I never read women's magazines but whenever I have read one at the dentist or wherever, they seem to foster a strange moral idea about good foods and bad foods, and...

No problem, Vivienem. The chick pea curry was in May when I first started testing. Haven't eaten it since. I've still not figured out what I can eat and what suits me. There's a lot of talk about BG levels being damaging, but what about high insulin levels that are a result of insulin...

This is ridiculous! Those GPs need to sit up and listen for once. OK, just a few random thoughts. Are you eating? If so, are you eating enough? Lack of food can put you into ketosis if your blood sugar runs low, or if you aren't getting enough calories. Are you skipping meals? Eating very small...

You wonder about all these chocolate milkshake diets, don't you? They don't re-educate people in eating properly. No wonder some people don't know how to eat these days when the foods that are supposed to make them thin are so much like the foods that made them fat in the first place. Sent...

Well, you'd have to be pretty dumb not to know that WeightWatchers aren't in the business to make money. Everybody knows that the way to lose weight is to keep your gob shut. :lol: Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

I think it's a series but if you watch one you'd probably get the gist of it. Apparently the failure of WeightWatchers is what keeps the punters coming back. Not to mention their range of cakes and biscuits which hardly promote healthy eating habits. Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

I've always had an intense dislike of the "diet industry" and the way that it fails to address bad eating patterns. Of course, it's a multi billion pound industry too. Thankfully I have steered clear of women's magazines so that whole subculture of "dieting" is alien to me but sadly a way of...

Vivienem, I'm a bit curious as to how you know how many carbs I eat. It's not as if I post what I eat on here. But anyways…I don't eat a lot of carbs. I was eating 80-90g per day on average and half of that from veg and my one portion of fruit per day, which is some sort of berry. Yesterday I...

How can someone be prediabetic and told they are not at risk of diabetes? That is nonsense. I'm told that I'm not at risk because I'm low-normal weight, but when I mention my BG levels after meals I'm told they are 'normal' even if they go above the NICE guideline for T2! When I queried this...

I have no idea, Gezzathorpe! I think we need Yorksman to answer these questions as he knows so much. ;-) Sent from the Diabetes Forum App

Sounds promising, Cricket Lover. I just can't decide whether 1-2 weeks on the shakes might help me. My fear is losing muscle mass due which is a strong possibility given my inability to exercise. Then I could end up even more insulin resistant. Yorksman may correct me if I'm wrong, but it...

The fact is Connie, many T2 diabetics are overweight on diagnosis. The figure often quoted is that 80% of T2s are overweight or obese, and the blanket advice to T2 and people at risk assumes that weight loss is an important part of treatment and/or management. If you look at the ND information...

Yorksman, it's great that you've restored normal BG levels, however in my case I have very little spare weight and can't seem to eat anywhere near normal amounts of food without high BG levels. In your case, the development of diabetes was probably weight related. In my case, I doubt it is...

Well done Cricket Lover. I hope you make it to the end of the full 8 weeks. Just out of interest, do you check your BG readings 1 or 2 hours after these shakes? If so, what are the readings? Are you on Optifast or other shakes, eg Slimfast, Asda, etc? Some people use Slimfast but they contain a...

Kcliff72, as you are over 40 you are now entitled to your NHS health check which includes diabetes screening. Try and have it at a GP surgery rather than a pharmacy or supermarkets because you need a proper fasting test from a sample sent off to the lab and not a pinprick test. In the meantime...

Thanks, RRB. I've not given up looking after my diet and keeping my numbers down. I've just given up on looking for answers and theories, and trying to make it all go away by adopting some regime. 3 months ago I thought losing 4-5 lbs might make a difference but it hasn't. I thought increasing...

If I could be more active I'm sure it would help, but I'm doing all I can and its not even helping by a decimal point, it seems. I'm getting beyond fed up, to be honest, eating like a sparrow and getting nowhere. I'm thinking of giving up the forums because so much of what works for others isn't...

I'm still working it out as my readings and pattern seem to change every few weeks, although it's hard to work out why, and then the past few days there seemed to be promising signs, and then I had an unexpected high that would have typically produced a reading of 1.0 less. So I really cannot...

It seems rather a lot of food for my needs! I presume you do the 'little and often' routine to avoid the hypos after dog-walking? I have so far stuck with 3 meals a day and no snacking in between meals because I never feel the need to. I'm curious as to how other people manage—3 meals a day, or...