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Mine were 6.7 before breakfast no meds

Made a lovely fresh cheese today, no hidden additives. It garlic and chives from the garden so will crumble lovely over salad tomorrow for lunch.

Instead of scones, my daughter and I made a lemon cake. Recipe is on the food pages under Julie's pantry. It came out really well, I had a 1 cm slice cut up into three fingers and had with a lovely coffee watching call the midwife just checked bloods no spike:)

200g Almond Flour (20g of carbs) 75g Butter 50g of soft light brown caster sugar (50g carb) 4 large eggs Lemon zest, small drop of lemon essence 1 rounded tsp baking powder Mix all together and place in lined loaf cake tin. Bake in fan oven 140 for 30-45 mins it will take a while keep an eye on...

Hi I am a newly diagnosed t2 although I have made a drastic change to the type of food I eat, "I was a carb addict" loved bread. I also love to cook so after a month of not baking, I have started to research different flours so I can bake health cakes, and biscuits as treats. In the spirit of...

Bloods down. To between 4.5 and 6 all day yesterday. 5.1 first thing this morning had poached eggs, fresh tomato and home made smoked salmon with pot of green tea, two hours later reading of 5.2. Home made 100% beefburger with whole meal sandwich thin and lots of lettuce and cucumber. No change...

I already have been sent info thanks. :)

I had a lovely dinner tonight mussels, prawns, chicken, cherizo sausage, paella with red peppers, garlic and asda cauliflower rice. It was really tasty for the whole family and no impact on blood sugar 5.2 before and 5.3 two hours later.

Hello all thanks for support have cut out all wheat based products and no added sugar, lots of oily fish, green veg, chicken a little sweet potato for Sunday lunch having fun using spiraliser, and making low fat 1% fresh cream cheese I am an artisan produce maker in my spare time so starting to...

Well it's been exactly a month since diagnosis. I feel really great have increased exercise to 2 hours per week and up to 8000 steps a day, have lost 12kg on low carb diet and blood glucose is an average of 6 for the last 7 days from 19.6. My total cholesterol is also down from 4 to 3. The...

Thanks have started to do this, most of my food at the moment does not give a spike. It's staying between 6.4 and 7 for the last few days. Only one which is slightly higher is morning is 8 after breakfast goes down and all day.

Well doing well have bloods down to 7 all day for two days. Also now lost 10kg it will be four weeks since I was diagnosed with t2. Hopefully nurse will not recommend putting me on medication. I also did first 50 min aqua fit class this week.

Hi my monitor is one you can get in boots or any large pharmacy it's a free style optium I got the strips from amazon. It's very easy to use, a good tip, prick on side of finger as top hurts. Learnt this after two weeks. In terms of food I went on food section of this site. Very useful. I avoid...

Hi Jo, I know how you feel its all two much for the first few weeks, Straight away I went on the diabeties.co.uk website and read all about what diabeties type 2 is and how it could be managed, I my case this is what is working for me: Breakfast - high protein, eggs, bacon, with muchrooms...

Had a good day, morning reading at 8.7 lowest so far down to 7.3 two hours after lunch, when high after breakfast tried slimming world low cal breakfast 20g oats, with I pot low fat greek yogurt and 3 grapes. Bg spiked to 10.4 so will not have that again. At moment a very low carb diet is bring...

Thanks for replies, I was afraid I was losing my sight, and had to wait a whole week to get my retina checked. I am using cheap glasses up to +4 and hope they will come back to normal soon. I can see this forum is going to be a life saver.

Thanks for support, the main frustration at moment is blurry vision, I did wear glasses for reading with low prescription of 0.75, I woke up two weeks ago and could not see anything clearly, I looked at this site and saw that eyes can be affected, I have had it checked out by optician who...

I was diagnosed type 2 three weeks ago I have changed by diet to low carb, have lost 8kg already and blood down from 19.4 to 8. Will it continue to go down, I understand I need to get it down to below 7.5 in the morning and 8 two hours after meals. I am not taking any medication doctor wanted...