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If I've understood this thread the timing is from the start of the meal, and it's not overly critical, one could read after two hours and half the start of meal because the peaks depends anyway on what one had eaten, but it's useful to mantain consistency. If a meal is two hours long, say...

I think that being overweight it's a problem besides the risk to get T2 diabetes. As I have just written on a rant, that being overweight could cause other conditions and some are quite deadly.

Actually I eat some pasta or some bread. Normally I avoid rice. I neve liked potatoes very much, so i don't eat them. The fact is I normally a lot on vegetarian side, especially when I have to cook alone. Spoiling a pasta or vegetable or some eggs is difficult, much easier to spoil the meat or...

Hello to all, being August, I'll make some days of vacation in France. The problem is, I'm not really sure on how to manage the food. I'm really curious about new foods, and when abroad I like to eat the local cousine. The former me surely started to eat a lot going in bakeries, diners, and so...

I've noticed that especially in certain fields, people will happily give you misleading advices. One of this is because when you grow you'll find a sad truth, as said by Dark Helmet... A lot of people feel self-fulfilled if they could act as experts, especially if they've a claque following...

I'm not really fond of peanut butter, or I never found a good quality one - I only find it sometimes at LIDL

This is a good idea! I could take the industry made one made with skimmed milk, or the one made with goat milk i take it at the goat stable near the fuel station, or the one made with whole milk in the cheese factory (cheaper).

HEllo to all, I've to ask to the forum an advice about everning cravings after the meal. I'm T2D unfer metformin, and I lost 17 kg with a strong diet. Now I'm 66-68 kg and I think that for 183 cm is qute good: BMI is 20. Sometimes happen I start to have at the evening a small craving. Im...

Former blood donor, and tanks for it I know my blood type, subtype and whatever... A1+CCDee I don't know about UK rules, but it's not possible to get a "plain" prescription and pay the full price for the test? I suppose the blood type test costs few quids.

I normally test with urine strips, because they're cheaper I have to pay for the glucose meter strips (T2D without medications that could cause hypoglicemic attacks) they're faster to use I don't have to prick my finger they give you an average result Of course I use also a glucose meter to...

Mine too, and it's actually cheaper! I save the monthly bus subscription. Ok, with the savings I'v bought a cheap foldable pushbike, but walking is more relaxing than biking in the city, and I could listen music with the headphones... In the countryside I'm using a mountain bike on dirt roads...

Can't eat with spontaneity and have to always remember carbohydrates, especially for the dinners outside home and special occasions. And eating freely fruits directly from the trees without thinking about it. I miss sweets like the Nutella or Figs marmelade, the Pastiera Napoletana and somesuch

Could be simply that the reader is broken, has a bad battery or the like. It could also be because you're actually with an off-the-scale glucose level, or you're testing the wrong way. Have you cleaned your hands with not-scented marseille soap? This is the deluxe version I use...

As you could guess, I'm not in UK, but in Italy. For newly diagnosed T2, normally is made a repeated test on hba1c and lab testing on fasting. Even here there have been some cuts on the exams and the visits one could do, and now there are some oddball rule aginst harvesting medications. The net...

On most medicine fields, is advised to don't test too much mainy for two reasons. First of all the test itself could pose risks. For instance a mammography made for bbreast cancer screening could cause cancer due radiaton expostion and a colonoscopy could cause intestine perforation. Even for...

Metformin is an old drug, and is really cheap, even if one takes the brand name one. Equivalent are costing less. Statins are more costly and normally could have worse side effects than metformin, for instance. I've had some problems for the first month under metfotmin, but all stabilized...

This is the most interesting I've found: Diabete : guida pratica per vivere bene / Rosemary Walker, Jill Rodgers ; [traduzione di Giuliana Lomazzi] Milano : Tecniche Nuove, c2005 (stampa 2006) 224 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN: 8848118054 Other titles: Diabete : il grande libro delle ricette : [cosa...

I think the fact I've relocated helped, you know, moving furniture and going a lot of times to look beds and kitchens at Ikea and furniture factories helpet to make physical activity. ;) Let me explain better my idea about it. I've studied computer science engineering and got the "chartered...

Hello, my name is Mike, I'm from Italy and is about one year that I've found that I've Type II diabetes. I was a blood donor, so after my last blood donation I received a lettere saying that I should go to the hospital and redo the blood tests. Unfortunately the glucose level of 250 mg/dl (or...

Hello, let's try to answer - What is your name? Mike - How old are you? I'm 45 years old - Are you male or female? Male - Which country are you from? Italy - Which city/area do you live in? As you could guess I'm living in Turin downtown. - Do you have any pets? Nope. Parents have a couple of...