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Yes Saturday night is steak night, it’s become a weekly treat for me & my wife! Usually with a higher fat sauce like bearnaise. Had 2 duck breast fillets Friday also (no plum sauce though). I do think I’ve historically tended to have a lot of lean meats though - chicken breast (no skin), white...

Yes feel like I’m close to solving the problem but not quite there yet. Since posting I’ve made a couple of small but hopefully useful changes. I’m now on a 90% dark chocolate bar (20g per day) rather than 85% & 10g per day. Much lower carb number so able to increase quantity. Also swapped the...

Thanks Redshank and yes I think you’re right, I’m not consuming enough calories to offset my high exercise lifestyle so need to up them further and perhaps as Carpetsalesman says look at switching some of the aerobic exercise to less aerobic/muscle building. I eat a lot of cheese & nuts already...

Tricky isn’t it, I thought I had it cracked a few weeks back when I stabilised around 10 stone 7, for a couple of weeks, but it’s dropped again I think due to an uptick in my exercise (mainly ex bike, upped it as it seemed to really help lower my BG scores) and a slight panic when my Libre...

Ok a slight exaggeration in the title, but it does feel a bit like that at the moment. When I was diagnosed with pre diabetes in mid Sept last year I weighed just over 12 stone, having put on circa half a stone over lockdown. Historically I’ve always been thin, nickname was ‘Skeletor’ at...

I get a 2nd spike also at about the 2 hour mark, albeit generally much smaller than the initial one, I assume it’s just the body breaking down more complex carbs into sugar, so a delayed response of sorts. I notice it with most meals although sometimes it’s so small it’s barely noticeable...

Think you just need to get an Hba1c to be 100% sure, if you can’t get one at your GPS, there’s always the private route, cost circa £150. Personally though post diet modifications you sound OK to me, think too much is made of the FBG issue, you say yourself you are below 5.5 when you wake, the...

Short term, yes it definitely lowers my blood sugar, my average for a 24 hour period would be up to 10% lower if I have a large glass of red that evening, however...... I have noticed that for the last 2 days when I haven’t drunk any wine, my BS levels have been higher & taken longer to reduce...

I’m prediabetic, but see the same reduction when I drink red wine & have measured this with a Libre. Really puts a lid on the readings but although I’d say overall it’s beneficial to have perhaps a small glass a few days a week, I have noticed that if I push it too much I do tend to see a more...

Didn’t push it too much yesterday but did have a dessert for first time in 4 months, albeit a small one, 2x profiteroles with Belgian chocolate & single cream. Only pushed me briefly to 7.8 which was a pleasant surprise. My pre Xmas research identified profiteroles as one of the less bad...

Merry Xmas all! Managed to maintain a bit of self discipline though did have some profiteroles (with Belgian chocolate on top) for dessert, only x2 though with lots of cream. Interestingly didn’t spike me much, whole meal only took me to 7.8 though I did have a glass of red with meal which...

Weird thing happened this evening, had a delicious roast lamb, cauliflower rice, broccoli, kale, parsnips & small amount of peas/carrots. Post meal on Libre it’s spiked me to 8.9. Yet yesterday a sirloin steak with similar green veg & about 20g Quinoa only took me up to 7.4. Out of the 2 I’d...

Weird thing happened this evening, had delicious roast lamb, cauliflower rice, broccoli, kale, parsnips & small amount of peas/carrots. Post meal on Libre it’s spiked me to 8.9. Yet a sirloin steak with similar green veg & about 20g Quinoa only took me up to 7.4. Out of the 2 I’d have put money...

My view FWIW, is you’re right to be concerned, but not alarmed! I say concerned just because such a large number of adults >40 are either prediabetic or diabetic these days (up to 1 in 3), many don’t even realise it. You’re young still so plenty of time to modify your lifestyle in ways that...

Same here, losing weight seems to be the easy bit, stopping myself wasting away seems to be far harder, my wife’s already calling me ‘Mr Muscle’! I’ve also had quite bad hunger pain issues the past week, waking up hungry in the night or a couple of hours after eating. It’s been better today...

Hi, It’s a blood glucose monitoring device, keeps measurement round the clock though so you can scan (with a mobile phone) & check anytime you like. No finger pricking involved. Each sensor lasts 14 days, cost about £50 per sensor...

Same here mate, I couldn’t manage as low a carbs as that. Think I’m averaging 50-100g a day currently, which is a bit more than I had when I started the new diet back in September, but I’m trying to stop the weight loss as I’m now below my target weight! I’ve lost 20lb now, 10st 9lb, not been...

Thanks for replying, very interesting so will take a look at your posts. Exercise was never an issue for me as I’m a keen runner (circa 20-30k a week), My problem was my sweet tooth & love of pasta, cakes, chocolate, basically anything carb! Given pretty much all of it up now, down to just 1 x...

Hi, Apologies for interjecting, but I’ve a quick question on this bit of your response. I was diagnosed with prediabetes recently - Hba1c of 43. Since then I’ve lost weight, gone low carb & after 6 weeks & a retest my Hba1c is back to 37 so going well so far. I purchased a Libre & used it for...