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Some of the large chains can be franchises and quality may very depending on who actually owns it. I have also been told by other people, they can be great on the 2 for 1's as long as your eyesight is not too far from normal, but need anything out of the ordinary and there are much bigger costs...

Statins are very much an individual choice. There is some evidence that they reduce the risk of cardiovascular events for diabetics, even if they have normal cholesterol. But some people find the side effects too much. I have decided to go for them, as Diabetes does increase your risks from...

I was just about to post that it concerend me that so many T2's I know don't understand T2, and then I saw Viviennem's post, and I realise it must be a more widespread thatn I realised.........

Yes but theres nothign like a free unbiased review - if we ever decide ot have a cheap break...

As you say you get what you pay for in facilities, so just one question really - was it clean?

I am not coeliac but I am wheat intolerant, so I have some leeway that a coeliac doesn't, but I find that avioding wheat products, fits quite well with my reduced carb diet. I just doen't have the 'bread' I will eat cheese on corn crackers or on Quorn slices (I am a vegatarian it may be esier...

I don't know much about slimming world, but yes, grapes are bad for us diabetics - they were described to me as 'little bags of sugar' I find a lot of fruit spikes my blood sugar levels, for instance oranges are very bad, I can't even eat one apple without it raising my levels, but many of us...

I don't take insulin, so I can't advise with that, but you have come to the right place. Though weekends can be a bit quiet so hang on in there. You obviously want to change things or you wouldn't have posted, that's a good first step, just take one step at a time and you will get...

They are about the size and shape of a cream cracker, and as I said add the missing texture to a meal, I do eat cheese on quorn slices but sometimes you just need to crunch.........

We'll to be honest I prefer my cadburies any day - but needs must and the 85% serves it's purpose.

Sadly I don't have a sainsburys near me :cry: these are called Kallo and I get them from Holland and barrat

My morning fasting levels are the worst of the day, I suffer with the dawn phenomenon and can get my evening fasting down into the fives, but the morning ones are rarely below 6.5 - I don't think that there is much I can do about. I it just make sure that it doesn't keep rising during the...

I don'teat the starchy carbs but do sometimes want smeo 'texture' or crunch to a meal. I am wheat intolerant so I tried rice cakes but they raised the BG. I then found in Holland a Barratt a corn cracker, it has 2.9gm carb per cracker, they may not be the craved crusty bread but do give me some...

The lab refuse to do a GTT on me, as they said there was no point as my levels said I was diabetic.

The idea of low carbing - or any form of diabetes control - is to keep you BG as low and as even as possible - but we are still diabetic and some of us don't reach non diabetic levels no mattter how low carb we are.

Re: confussing advice One of the problems is that the amount of alcohol in one unit is actually quite small, and the drinks that we pour ourselves or even buy in the pubs often contain more than one unit. Making it dfficult to know just how many units we are having in a drinking session...

Hi trand Yes, it can be that your BG will have a lowest point that it will reach, however careful you are with what you eat.

Yes it could be the bread. But equally ti coudl be anything, hormones, bowel movements, hydration, the weather........... Our weight can vary by pounds for no apparant reason somethimes.

You are right Roxy - only those in danger of havine a hypo/hyper and going unconcious.

Hi Angeleyes Sorry there I can't give any advice - but so sorry you seem to be having such a hard time at the moment. I am T2, not T,1 but I know that when I was first diagnosed and getting my levels straight - if I ate a lot of the 'wrong' food and was high one day I was very irritable the...