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Looking for things to add to microwaved scrambled egg to make it a quick breakfast alternative that takes no additional preparation time and no frying etc. I.e. microwave or no cook options. Note I have other options such as omelettes and fried salmon I use on days I can afford to take a longer...

My approach originally was to set a carb budget per meal and look for ways to change the meals that I already ate changed to fit into that budget, plus a few new meal or food ideas, rather than changing my diet completely. That way the only thing that I had to drop completely was the takeaway...

None, 75 mmol/mol.

Cauliflower rice as a substitute for traditional rice can make a curry fairly low carb, as long as you don't go for side breads.

Resurrecting this 1 year later to say I'm still alive, still a bit stressed, and its pretty much unchanged on my annual test. Still in remission despite everything, which I'm honestly slightly surprised at. I have finally in the last few weeks started to get a little back in the groove again...

There will be a bit of reading variation, even the best meters have some variation. See here for an example comparison of a number of them, Table 2 of: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5505415/ +/- 6% would give you a range of +/- 0.6, or 1.2 total range, at your most recent...

I last did some stress testing shortly after the original HbA1C test last year with two meals, both around 80 g carbs, just to get a feel for what the consequences of a screw-up or indulgence when dining out might look like. One was OK, < 2mmol increase present after 2 hours, the other my blood...

Holy **** thats a lot of diabetics in a population of 5 million. The graphs show the power of weight loss. The correlation of age to remission may be a survivor bias; there are unmanaged diabetics, there are old diabetics, but there are probably not that many old, unmanaged diabetics...

2023 - Updating this old post for 2023: still in remission and unchanged after a year. Also I wasn't remotely near the worst of it last year when I made the original post about a "tsunami of stress", lol. 2022- Well, been a while. I've been busy with other matters in life and stopped...

I seem to think from my reading on the topic that the normal range for healthy people goes down to 3.5 at the extreme, and below 4 is not abnormal. The alarm level for type 1's is driven by the need to have time to do something about a hypo rather than being hazardous at that actual level...

Thats the median goal line, not her upper line. It turns out you can change it between some fixed settings, of which 7 mmol is the lowest, under the "Report Settings" button, under "Edit" option for Glucose Pattern insights. I know because I was curious why hers was different from mine and went...

Interesting to see a non-diabetic for comparison, but I notice the percentile range for the graph was 10% to 90% range and not 5% to 95% as it is now, so its not as easy to interpret. Still, its a good data source to see that everyone spikes, in some cases quite a bit.

For a normal person brown carbs are better as they given their body more time to get the sugar that it turns into out of the bloodstream via insulin into fat and into your cells. If you are type 2 then your body struggles to pump more than a certain amount of said sugar into the cells in any...

Sadly, sugar free sweets are a bit of a false promise - the sweetener used in most is one that is still going to act somewhat like sugar in your blood (maltitol) and they are horrifically expensive. I thought they were my solution initially and tried quite a few but they are mostly a dead end...

Yup, the table on the lefthand side is just detailing the targets. Mixed in awkwardly with your actual values for GMI, average glucose and variability to confuse you more. And as far as I can see you can't change them in any way. The more I look at it the more that grey table annoys me, its...

I did indeed do a screenshot and then cropped in good old MS Paint.

Most recent 2 weeks data. I eat 3 meals a day but my lunch is always a lowish carb meal and so is hard to see compared to the obvious breakfast and dinner spikes. And I agree its helpful to be able to see other graphs and understand how real world tracks for others can look like, such as how...

Adding to my earlier comment, I think I'd be uncomfortable in the extreme just contemplating trying to follow any low carb meal plan created by others, so you're braver than me in that regard. I took everything I ate normally at time of diagnosis, worked out carbs in each meal, and applied the...

Doing exercise won't really get you much weight loss. Its more about what you eat and how much. Exercise can help and is important for other reasons, but walking 10k won't shed the weight. If your weight is due to high insulin levels then a low carb diet might cause a lot of weight loss even if...

Try to take readings two times a day, morning and evening. And bulkbikers diagram is a good guide for how to do it. I'm embarrassed to say I drifted into the habit of sitting in a yoga pose while doing mine and not giving it enough time to relax first. I thought my blood pressure (on medication)...