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Just to support what @HSSS has already said.. I've been really surprised at how much cheaper the higher fat ground beef portions are (here in the UK anyway) and things like non-brand butter, and even lard. People will feel differently about products derived from animals or plants, but extremes...

My weight control by LCHF and intermittent fasting seems to be working well, this morning 76.7kg, with a visceral fat index of 3.7 (difficult to describe exactly what that means, but in losing about 10kg since Jan it's gone down from around 4.5 to 3.6 it's clearly a measurement that shows...

We tend to think of this thing as simply a question of managing glucose in terms of what we eat, but your body has control mechanisms affecting glucose from all sorts of things, stress and sleep quality being the most obvious, but any infection will have your body rally the troops - and they...

@fiona35 - remember that the thing in your body that consumes more glucose than anything is your brain... and at that time of the night, it's pretty busy. When I was wearing a GCM, I'm also tracking sleep quality, and could often match BG raises to periods of dreaming sleep.. Your body is a...

All of this is clearly emotive and current (ie, lots of discussion in various media about the pros and cons of non-type 1 patients using CGM) - just one perspective to add (only from my own experience of spending some time in a kind of diagnosis no-mans-land and being treated with insulin and...

Just popping in to support @KennyA in his discourse about digested carbs in the presence of alcohol. There are quite a lot of these kind of blind spots in the literature, and it makes learning as a layman really tough. The accepted position is that the Liver prioritises metabolising alcohol...

I'm not really sure whether this will help or not, but I went through about 8 months where it really didn't seem to be clear whether I was type 1 or 2, and I had much of the same concerns. In the end, a consultant urged me to take a "special urine test" - which turned out to be a C-Peptide test...

I spent some time diagnosed as type 1, and it is a totally different mindset. I don't want to go off on too much of a tangent, but I understand your reaction, and I should have been more careful with my words. I don't disagree with anything you say.

I should learn that I really need to be more clear about what I actually mean. I simply meant use the monitor to better understand your own body and how it reacts to different foods - don't be bound too much by what the "limits" are ... <my experience when I tried to get a simple answer to...

As per all the above - this is totally natural, and in fact we all have a bit of a Cortisol (the natural hormone) spike first thing in the morning to get us up and ready - All "Cortico-" steroids (as opposed to anabolic steroids) are pretty similar in the sense that your body needs energy to do...

One of the starting off points for the wider health question for me (long before being diagnosed) was a book called "why we sleep" by a Dr Matthew Walker. It was truly life changing and did affect the way I approach Coffee. But - the totality of that is that provided your last cup is before the...

That's an excellent result - congrats. Just - don't put too much store in the default range - the default is what the medical establishment consider safe for them in terms of controlling people who aren't too keen on doing much to look after themselves. On the other hand, from your tagline, it...

Always really interesting to read these kind of threads - everyone is so different. For me, breakfast is most often a smallish bowl of full fat Greek Yoghurt with a teaspoon of thick double cream, topped with Chia seeds. But if I'm not hungry I'll go through to lunchtime, and bacon & eggs with...

Main thing here is - "don't panic" For the obvious reason, but also because stress hormones are no help either... I personally think that the first applied sensor is best thought of as a trial run - use it to learn a little about what the sensor does. After a few months, you will also be much...

Ok, thanks, and apologies if I came over as poking in some way.. I only ask because I was initially diagnosed as type one.. and when I was prescribed insulin, I immediately also got access to a glucose monitor.. essentially the dangers of over dosing insulin are much more severe (particularly...

Just wanted to support the advice given above - From my own experience, I was very highly motivated to make major changes very quickly ... one of the things I found hardest is that you just have to give your body time to adjust. Totally agree with the CGM advice - you learn so much about what...

Are you type 1 or 2 ? [removed by me, was a little too close to offering advice I probably shouldn't give] - I struggled for months over the same kind of question, what is it that I should be aiming for.. but we're all different, and it's a totally different game for a type 1 compared to 2...

I only had a small time on Gliclazide, but I was given it on the basis that it would reduce blood glucose. It was only much later that I realised that it mainly pushes your Pancreas to produce more insulin. Not that helpful; I was also at the time diagnosed as type 1 - which of course should...

@Odishon - sounds like you're on the right path, and I think - any decision you take around getting a grip is going to lead to better understanding, and then that gives you more idea about your own specific condition / needs - turns out we're all unique snowflakes after all... One thing to...

Well done, on both fronts..