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Keep the faith! If you are swimming 4 times a week, then you will be building lean muscle mass whilst losing fat. I swim and cycle myself, and despite having lost nearly 20kg since May, my weight loss has slowed over the last couple of months. However - I am still losing fat, just replacing it...

You could give lentils a go with your curry (daal)....that's what I do and they don't seem to spike my BG at all. White rice does, camargue red rice hardly does at all, and a blend of basmati, red rice and wild rice is pretty tolerable for me. I guess everybody responds differently, but I have...

Just to revive this thread again and report on progress, I just got my first set of blood test results back since the 18th of May. I missed a test due to holiday, so it's been 4 months since the last one, and now 5 months since I was diagnosed as T2. Anyway, to cut to the chase......my HbA1c...

Just to let any Bayer users out there know that the Glucofacts Deluxe software is now available for download at the Bayer website. It's not much different from the software already on the meter, but it does have some added configuration options (as well as allowing more than one user) and it's...

You should probably follow the Doctor's advice on that one - at least for a few months to see how your blood sugar reacts. Then you could start trying different "diabetic friendly" cake recipes and see how those affect you.... Get a Blood Glucose meter and test before and 2 hours after every...

Re: Statins! I'd definitely take the Statin and see how you get on..... My Cholesterol was 6.9 a month ago, I ended up in hospital for a coronary angioplasty and they initially put me on Simvastatin (as it's the cheapest one to the NHS). I had no side effects with that, but my consultant...

Yeah....I know, but I do love my fruit and it's good for you. It comes down again quickly enough though and if it maxes out in the sevens, then I'm OK with that. I've found though that strawberries, raspberries and blueberries are best. Grapes and melon seem to really push the levels up though...

Quick update on this so far is that after 2 months, I'm now settling into a routine that seems to be working. My BG numbers have been steadily dropping and I'm now averaging high 4's to low 5's on waking, with post meal numbers not normally going over high 6's or low 7's. The Contour USB has...

Yeah.....maybe next time I'l do the 3 hour test just to see.....but I think it's unlikely my BG spiked from 5.6 to anything over 7 or 8 and then back down to 5.4 in an hour. It seems more likely that it was on a slow and steady ramp down. Actually - come to think of it, I also had a pint of...

Not free, but for £25 or so you can get the Bayer Contour USB meter ( see yur GP to get a prescription for the strips). This is the ultimate geek meter....yes I'm also a geek! It helps you record, log and analyse your readings so that you can have educated discussions with your doctor about...

Welll..... I didn't do a 3 hour test, but 4 hours coincided almost exactly with my pre-dinner test, which was 5.4... so that sounds OK to me! And the 2 hour after dinner test was another 5.9 - Roast gammon, peas, fried egg and a few glasses of red wine. Even a small spoonful of "rocky road"...

:D Spreadsheets are great! I have one with my BG levels, blood pressure, weight and blood test results - complete with a lot of pretty graphs that I can use to cheer myself up by looking at the trend lines.....and they''re all going the right way so far. I'd say though, that with any diet...

Now that I have been low carbing for about two months, I've found that my tolerance to "good" carbs seems to have increased. Maybe my pancreas is getting a bit better or something.... Anyway - I had a nice big soft seeded batch roll for lunch today with turkey breast and chipotle mayo (plus a...

I'm finding that stoneground wholemeal rye bread is pretty good - I can get away with one or two pieces of this toasted and buttered without taking my BG above 7.5 2 hours after. So scrambled eggs on toast is on the menu again....Yay! More generally - puy lentils and the green/yellow Umbrian...

I'm pretty sure that it can! Stress will probably do it as well. I ended up in A&E a couple of weeks ago with chest pain, and my BG had gone from 6.1 on waking to 11.3 when I got tested on admission. I'd only had 30g or Lizi's granola with yoghurt for breakfast and that would normally put my BG...

Hi Chris & Welcome! There's lots of good support here......and one of the mods will probably be along to post the normal advice for new Type 2s shortly. I'm now in my second month as a type 2, and I have found that the best way for me to deal with this is to get a blood glucose meter and test...

I'm not an expert at this, but to be honest I have doubts about the validity or need for taking 1 hour readings. I'd have to say that even for "normal" people eating a meal, their blood sugar would probably go over what we feel to be acceptable levels in the short term and that it's not really...

I've been trying various muesli type cereals and have found that the only one I can really tolerate is Lizi's granola - and then only 30g of that mixed with 60g yoghurt. This typically takes me from a waking BG of around 6 to around 7 after 2 hours. Basically a rise of 1 point after 2 hours -...

The software IS already built in. You just plug it into the USB port, navigate to it (it appears on like any other USB drive) and click on "Glucofacts.app" (on the Mac) to run it. I think there's an "autorun" file for Windows, so it should start automatically on a PC. However - there is...

Well.....I've been using the Contour USB for almost a month now, and I give it full marks. It is however the only meter I have ever used, but it certainly seems to do the job effectively. Not sure what more you needed to know about it being illuminated and easy to connect to a computer....after...