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Thanks for the thoughts. I will give them a miss I think and plan rides to include a stop for coffee and refuel in a properly low carb way then. Home made egg mayo with bacon bits sounds just the job and would be very funny to pull out of my saddle bag amongst people frantically guzzling sugery...

I haven't tried them yet. I am returning to cycling after 25 years off and pretty much everything has changed, including me. I did try some sugar free sweets on a whim a couple of months ago and ended up wolfing the very small box as it was the first sweet thing I had tasted in a long while...

I have just had my weekly news email from British Cycling with an offer from a well known sports nutrition company for a new low carb protein bar. It starts promisingly with 8.9% fat and 20% protein but then has 39% carbs of which 3.7% is sugar, 1.4% fibre and 34% polyols:yuck:. My first...

I agree and have been looking for a 'name' for my diet, I tried 'low carb, moderate protein and appropriate fat diet' on for size and didn't think it helped. My very low calorie diet I did when diagnosed I called my 'Pollyanna diet' after the eponymous child in the saccharine sweet American...

The OED defines poison as: 'A substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.' So when I say that carbs are poisonous to me I am semantically correct and see no reason to alter my language because they do cause me to become ill, that...

I personally take all sorts of poisonous substances, for example, caffeine, whiskey etc. I do this eyes open and without fear so cognitively I clearly have no problem with it in theory or practice. It would be very easy for me to apply the same logic to carbs which, for me at least, are...

An interesting question. Sadly I have no clue. Clearly I experienced hyperinsulemia for a prolonged period and avoiding it is my current focus. I am measuring it with the proxy of blood glucose but I only assume that the two have a connection with which I would be satisfied. My BG is much more...

If you can do 'normal' with meds then the next step is to try without meds and see if you can still do 'normal. Of course it would be fabulous to do without meds, its certainly my goal, but I will be quite happy if I require metformin to achieve the same result if that is my only option. Neither...

Hell no!

I desperately hunted for an 'I feel your pain' emoji

“I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost... I am helpless. It isn't my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I am in the...

41 would be within 'normal' limits for non-diabetics. That has gotta be worth a huge pat on the back surely? 40 may be a lower figure but probably confers no additional benefit and is only worth aiming for if you can see where in your diet you might further reduce your blood sugar. If you can...

Hi Tracieann, I have found low carb eating to be a great way of managing my T2. It can take a while for your body to adjust to it but in the end the benefits are immense. This place is full of people better able to advise than I am but do look up what the HbA1c test is because it provides a...

I gave my sourdough culture away. I couldn't kill it but we were no longer on speaking terms so it was time to divorce. I could kill for a sandwich, sadly the sandwich has the same idea.

Hi Ron, welcome to the forum. I am in Norwich. It's a small world even on an international site. I have found the people and information here invaluable after my T2 diagnosis last October.

Mine came the other day. It paired OK on my android Samsung once I managed to figure out which set of numbers was the code. So far it's playing ball.

Not hungry so gave it a miss all the better to enjoy some organic, rare breed, belly pork for tea:happy: I did pick up some streaky too so tomorrow might have to be bacon eggs, shrooms and perhaps a couple of sauteed baby toms. You gotta love this diet.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself down and start all over again. You have learnt something valuable, albeit the hard way, next time you will know better and will not make the same mistake. Stay here and keep reading. I am so early in my journey that I fear falling down the first trap I come...

I am with Jim. I can just about forgive the cardiac team for getting their dietary advice wrong because not everyone who has a heart attack has metabolic syndrome or insulin resistance, just about forgive. From the diabetes team it is culpable. The information is obviously there, we all prove...

Well, just off St. Benedicts is a little vegan place:yuck:..... but behind that is a fabulous steak house with Bearnaise to die for:) Actually though it has to be Cookies Crab Shop in Salthouse. herring a million ways, shellfish of every type, lobster, crab galore. There are a few problems; it's...