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Hair loss is frequently associated with eating at a calorie deficit, as is regain of weight after dieting (mentioned above) if you don't carefully plan for how to eat at a maintenance after the diet. I had hair loss on the Blood Sugar Diet - but no more than the less calorie restricted diet...

Are you also counting calories? LCHF does not magically change how your body responds to a calorie of food. What it does for many is make it much easier not to eat so many calories because the fat makes you feel full on fewer calories. But becasue fats are so calorie dense, it is very easy...

No opinions on Paleo, but I eat the Shirataki noodles. They work reasonably well in any dish where rice noodles would be pleasant. I've tried a number of varieties, and never had any problem with the smell that others report.

The benefits from a low carb diet on blood glucose are usually apparent very quickly (my blood glucose levels, aside from the dawn phenomenon) normalized within 3 days of diagnosis. People have reported success with plant-based diets - but I doubt the changes are as immediate because you would...

Tired (which I am) is different from fatigue. With fatigue, no matter how many hours I sleep - even if I could manage a month of vacation - I would still be dragging and falling asleep in the middle of things. I'm tired all of the time. I'm just not fatigued any more. BG = blood glucose. My...

Me too. I want a lot of things that aren't going to happen - like working only 40 hours a week (my current schedule is 80-100), having a daughter who isn't facing the threat of a dozen or so different cancers on top of a liver transplant, and a spouse who isn't in the early stages of dementia...

It doesn't, anymore. I assumed my fatigue was the result of being overworked (I work 80-100 hours a week), and lack of sleep. That hasn't changed, but I no longer have the bone-tired fatigue. That changed within a month of being diagnosed with diabetes and taking control of my blood glucose...

I don;t think you can distinguish between T1 and T2 based on the level of your BG readings. If you are uncertain that the diagnosis is correct, you might ask them to do a test for GAD antibodies - that is the test I've seen most frequently used to distinguish between the two - and they can have...

I'm able to check my blood almost wihtout looking at it, so I typically set up the meter by feel, poke by feel, then take a discrete look to make sure I've got the blood drop aligned with the strip. If I''ve got a table/desk/etc. I keep my hands just below the level of the desk. Most of the...

Yes - but generally in a less direct way than blue eyes are, for example. Other factors often play a role in making hte disease manifest itself. In my case - 100% of all of the descendants of my maternal grandfather who are my age or older have diabetes. (Skinny, fat, active, couch potato...

As long as you're not on insulin, a sulfonylurea, or other medication that dumps additional insulin into your system, it is unlikely to be a hypo. I've been that low on occasion. The other thing is that meters are not always precisely accurate, so it may actually be slightly higher than your...

If you are not on sulfonylureas or insulin, or other drugs that dump insulin into your system without regard to food intake, you are no more likey to have a hypo than anyone who does not have diabetes. In other words, hypos can happen - but it has some other cause. More likely, you can have...

Fantastic job! (But, as Freema said - don't count on a big boost from Metformin. It's likely to keep your average a bit lower, but not have much impact on the post-eatng readings).

To really know how your body reacts, you might want to systematically track what you're eating and rebular pre/post meal BG levels (1 & 2 hours minimum & more until the last reading is lower than the one before it. You can also try on the half-hour, but I've never felt the need for that much...

They're friendly - but I have seen a few corrections to those of us who use US units (probably because they aren't the units most often quoted here). I check first thing in the morning (nearly always higher than any other time unrelated to food). It's the liver doing what it is supposed to do...

I'm very cautious about Gliclazide (or any sulfonylurea). There are some studies that suggest that sulfonylureas wear out the beta cells in the pancreas (either temporarily or permanently) - so while you wouldn't become dependent on them, they might move you to insulin faster than not taking...

Get a meter and test every new food until you are comfortable you know how your BG will react. At the start, I tested before my first bite, at one hour from first bite, at 2 hours from first bite, and (if hour 2 was higher than hour 1) at 3 hours. I tested everything new at least twice - and...

Chicken breasts, okra, and broccoli are great choices for most people with diabetes. Black beans are hit or miss. Pulses (beans) are good for some - but they are pretty high carb, so test and see how you react. I can eat some beans, as long as I don't go overboard. (1/2 of a cup would be the...

Metformin is a very innocuous drug, as long as your GI system can handle it. It will not make you lose weight (unless your GI system can't handle it), although it may make it easier to lose weight if you want to. Losing weight may, or may not, allow you to live a "normal" life - if, by normal...

You'll need to experiment. Alcohol lowers my BG level - including sweet white wines. Alcohol with fewer carbs lowers it more. (The carbs in the alcohol get processed like any other carb - but the impact of those carbs is counteracted by the fact that my liver gets so preoccupied with the...