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It will be on my Kindle now too. How exciting!

Drawing and painting, walking (sometimes I draw/paint while on a walk too!), listening to music (if it's quiet) dancing to music (if it's loud) singing in a choir, cooking low-carb treats, such as cakes, desserts, crackers and fat bombs.

That's interesting. A few months before I was diagnosed I was having frequent chest infections and put it down to smoking, so I quit. Just as well I did, because when I was diagnosed I was relieved that at least I wouldn't get a lecture on smoking. Since diagnosis (and quitting smoking two...

How did I find out? When I arrived at the doctor's to discuss the results of a blood test, I discovered I'd been booked in to see the nurse too. I was called to see the nurse first. I was barely through the door when she barked "take off your shoes and socks and get on the scales!" When I asked...

@stephenlopez - driving with diabetes only becomes a real danger if you are taking insulin or glicazide, which may give you a hypo (very low blood sugar that can lead to a coma). Otherwise in the case of Metformin, as others have said, will not give you a hypo but may result in a messy...

My husband made too much low-carb ganache for my birthday cake last week, so we poured the remainder into mini-muffin silicon moulds and stuck it in the freezer. A few hours later and we had popped out loads of giant chocolate "buttons". Two of them in a cup of de3cent black coffee creates a...

You can do it again. I have every faith in you!

A chance remark by the doctor who delivered the diagnosis (after a shouty nurse has blurted it out to me - another story) brought me to this forum. He mentioned the Newcastle Diet in passing but it got me thinking and researching once I was back home and had finished crying my eyes out. You're...

That happens to me sometimes - invariably if I've just come in from one of my long walks, eaten, then tested 1-2 hours later. I see it as a very good thing.

Don't laugh, but I wanted a hot grab and go meal last night between leaving work and arriving at choir practice. The quickest thing I could find was a reduced priced hot roast poussin in Tesco. I bought it and sat on the steps of the church hall where the choir practice is held and tore up my...

Ah! I remember sun! Vaguely. Seriously though, @Ragmar, it does get better if you look after yourself. Not in an NHS Eatwell sort of way, but if you stick with us you would find it all much more manageable and, dare I say, you would begin to feel much more hopeful and healthier.

Guideline Bingo, anyone? Just tick the platitudes off as you sit through the course. @Dexterdobe, did you get the "diabetes is a progressive disease" statement? To prove her point, the nurse who was running the one I went on told us she'd been T2D for some years and was now on insulin. This...

I LOVE Massaman curry. I'm going to have a go at this myself.

I made a whole load of stuff for lunches this week and for the freezer yesterday. Everything is delicious, but the runaway success were these: https://www.heyketomama.com/keto-peanut-butter-cheesecake-bites/ I just tried one after they had a night in the freezer. They are the nearest thing to...

Being told over the phone like that must have given you quite a shock, but your doctor is right about managing your diabetes with diet and exercise and not automatically reaching for his prescription pad. You're in the right place. Many of us managing our diabetes with diet and exercise alone...

@delia 2 your post is very encouraging and shows that there is life after diagnosis!

I'm a LCHF devotee but I went off the rails badly before Christmas, blood glucose started to rise and put on a few pounds and, even though I was eating predominantly low-carb, more and more naughty things were sneaking in. The time of year didn't help either. What did put me back on track was...

I was annoyed with myself this morning because I was starving on the way to work and succumbed to a fry up at the greasy spoon round the corner (low-carb stuff, natch!) and I don't normally eat till lunchtime. Of course I then blamed the freezing weather for making me hungry. What cheered me up...

So The Guardian is jumping on the Daily Fail's Everything Gives You Cancer bandwagon? Pass me the rashers, please.

Whatever exercise you fancy. I walk, swim (usually on holiday, but will tackle the local swimming pool from time to time) and use my TRX. TRX is an ingenious system of straps that you can either lash to a tree branch or wedge in a door and use the straps to work against your own body weight...