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Hi Tricia I've started testing just before eating and then 2 hours later. So far I've had some quite good results - my blood sugar was 6.7 before and 6.7 two hours after eating fried bacon, mushrooms, eggs and 1 slice of toast. I'm not counting carbs atm but just reducing starchy carbs and...

Hi Kenny Thanks for your welcome. I've started reading the forum posts which are really interesting. I'm determined to stick to low carb as do not want a future of ill health and medical interventions and any short term deprivation seems preferable to that!!Its good to hear your success story -...

I've been diagnosed as diabetic for several years now and initially wanted to manage it with diet. I only found out by chance that I was diabetic as read it on my online record. No one had told me. I found out about the NHS low calorie diet and decided to do it and all my bloods went back to...

I know this is an old post but I've been having calf pain on walking for some time now and have been trying to find out what's causing it. Apparently peripheral artery disease and intermittent claudication can occur if you are diabetic so I'm wondering if it's that. The nurse mentioned somthing...

I found out I was type 2 diabetic a few weeks ago when I was reading my medical records on line - no one had thought to tell me so I had to ask my GP and she confirmed it. Since then I have had a meeting with the diabetic nurse at my health centre. I asked her if there were any courses I could...

I am still confused about the advice regarding eating fats. The low carb course advised increasing healthy fats and says these include the fat on meat and other saturated fats. However the advice in the pre-diabetes cookbook linked to on this site says that these should be cut out to lose...