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This is all brilliant advice and yes my head is spinning, in completely the opposite direction to what it was, but based on what everyone is saying this can only be a good thing. I’m also an avid cook so once I shake off my current feelings of being supremely annoyed at having been following...

Ah. The dreaded brain fog. That has followed me around for years. Makes me look like an idiot when I’m really not. As part of all of this I had been pestering my doctor because my hair has recently been falling out. Peri menopause is the top suggestion. But perhaps not. If it can solve that...

Lol, yes, I *might* have already started building my own. Gone through every app I can find but can’t find one that tracks everything and helps me to build my understanding of the relationship between what I’m eating and the various metrics/indices.

Ha ha ha. You have no idea how much I [emoji172] peas and am not brave enough to admit on this forum that I eat mushy peas, cold, straight from the tin [emoji15]

Lots of veg in that list that I love. Thank you [emoji1374]

Brilliant. Thanks. I’m off work atm (it was an operation two weeks ago that uncovered my BG issue & thus led to my T2 diagnosis), so will obsess over all of this til I have to go back to work on Friday. No statins just the bog standard NHS advice so that’s a silver lining of sorts

Thank you [emoji1374]

Thank you. All this advice is just what I need to change course and set out in a new direction. Sidebar - what’s the common thinking on milk? Between my weetabix & banana* and brews, I drink about a pint of semi skimmed a day *the bananas are obviously now going to the food bank too

What you describe is basically me too. Am so grateful for your advice. Thank you. I’m a tough cookie and renowned for loving a good problem to solve. The harder the better. But right now this is completely beyond me. I feel crushed that everything I’ve been doing to be healthy is what had put me...

Yeah this just gets worse and worse. Grapes, bananas and peas are my top 3 of my 5 a day. I pretty much eat them every day. I’m gonna need therapy [emoji23]

Ps, do people use/recommend any apps? I’m a sucker for data. The best one I’ve found so far for tracking my BG is DAFNE but I think that’s supposed to be for people with T1

Thank you. My next job is a clear out. If it’s not here it can’t kill me. Did low carb/high fat adversely affect your cholesterol? I’ve got raised cholesterol too so been following the healthy eating advice for that; which is the exact opposite

I eat *a lot* of fruit [emoji33] Ooft [emoji47][emoji379]

It’s got to be worth a try and basically sounds like everything I’ve been doing for years to try to stay healthy is having the opposite effect *throws the wholemeal pitta in the bin*

@Bluetit1802 Thank you. That’s really helpful. I avoid low fat stuff for the reason you mention: too over processed. I basically cut out fat & replace with fruit/veg/wholemeal carbs; which is a complete 180 from what you advise. I am definitely going to have to retrain my brain

Because I am very fat, have always been fat and have been trying to lose weight since I hit puberty. I am currently 5 and a half stone overweight

Thanks for coming back to me so quickly. 2 best bits: 1 - I didn’t know the 2 hour rule for post meal testing so will start doing that now 2 - as a non-meat eater, I basically try to eat a low fat diet and survive on many of the things listed. Worst bit: no more peas [emoji24] This is going to...

Four days ago I was diagnosed T2 and have been given a blood glucose meter and prescribed Metformin. I started to take this yesterday, starting off with 1 tablet with breakfast, building up to 3/day (which I expect to do over the next three weeks). I was diagnosed with PCOS and underactive...