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Yes, Medication can alter metabolism... So you take responsibility and alter your dirt accordingly. Reducing calories and carbs...

Many people are posting on this thread that they were able to lose weight when they low carbed, changed their diet and eating habits, e.g. taking responsibility, educating themselves and improving their own outcomes. Yet before they chose to do that, weight gain is the fault of the NHS...

Arguably, the gain in weight could have also been the fact that you damaged your spine were no longer as physically active as before and as a result you had a daily calorie excess and gained weight. If you've lost three of those four stone gained through changes in diet whilst still on...

I just feel it's an area that many, many people have direct control over, but choose to proportion blame elsewhere. If as a society we don't push against serious issues like obesity, what does the future hold? Is it gong to be socially acceptable and the norm for everybody to be obese.

Again personal responsibility, there are enough choices and options to eat in any way you choose. People are always looking to pass blame. Just because we are surrounded by **** food, doesn't mean we have to eat it.

Good lord. I respect the work of Jenny Ruhl, but I don't respect the methodologies and findings of many of the links provided on that website it's easy to cherry pick research to support an argument you have a personal bias for. I stand by my argument, excess insulin is often a result of the...

Yes and over eating causes the release of excess insulin does it not? The link between diabetes and obesity is the feature of many a meta study. The link between over eating and obesity is also.

Yes it must be immensely frustrating as a Type 2, as sufferers are often painted as individuals inflicted it in on themselves. But to play Devil's advocate... I think the general populace just see the statistics and the headlines, the facts are that 85% of Type 2 diabetics are overweight and...

A disastrous 11.6 owing to a kinked cannula post gym activities!

I'd try the wall charger. Don't know what the hard reset is on the contour. Try holding down the lower key for 15 seconds whilst plugged..

I don't think anybody is fighting, just stating fact. Protein impacts blood sugars and will skew basal results. Perhaps not a couple of grams of protein.

Basal must be fasting. Protein will skew the results.

Red wine and spirits with zero carb mixers will always lower my blood sugar. Lager, beers, white wines etc will make it go sky high.

Windows is woeful, has been since Windows XP. I moved to a Chromebooks two years back and love them, 3 second boot time, nothing stored on the laptop, constant seamless updates. No exe. files to worry about. Everything backed up in the cloud, 1TB free storage. 90% of users would be better off...

3.7 Thanks to a couple of gin and tonics..

You can break it down into smaller sections and do it over a couple of days, as detailed below. http://www.salforddiabetescare.co.uk/index2.php?nav_id=1007 I personally find that a chore and do a 24 hour fast, I don't think the hunger pangs experienced during a brief fast are too unbearable...

At one point I was eating about 50 eggs a week haha, no impact at all on my cholesterol. I buy egg white in 2pint containers because I'm a lazy ******, been known to drink it raw a la Rocky or add it raw to smoothies. Never had any issues. I'll probably change my tune if I get salmonella one...

Which pump? The Medtronic or the accu-chek insight? To be honest most pumps are much of a muchness, both the insight and the 640g are excellent pumps. I spent four years on the accu chek combo which is the model below the insight, it was a great pump but I fancied trying something different...

I'm on an insulin pump, so I just use a fast acting insulin. Novorapid.