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Decided to follow the example of @Rachox and update my avatar.

From your signature: "Evangelical about a low carb diet - 7 years of 'normal' HbA1c with no meds." I'm 1.5 years into the same thing, yours is one of the inspirations for me to keep going!

I suppose it amounts to an unplanned experiment with my own body. Like you I am not much more than one year into this particular odyssey. About the only message I can pass on at this stage is that it may not be as bad as you think, immediately post-diagnosis. Of course we are all different but I...

A few days ago, got back from America to attend the wedding of my eldest daughter. Still suffering from jet lag, had first NHS consultation at local clinic in the large village where we now live. Result: 37 HbA1c, 69KG (BMI 18.5). This is a big jump in A1C compared to six months ago when it...

I believe that the generic advice about weight/height is bogus. We each have our own individual body type. In my case, being 6-foot-4 and 81KG was dangerous even though the conventional BMI figure was absolutely fine. For most of my adult life I was about 10KG lighter, then in the past decade...

I'm 6-foot-4 and weighed 81KG when diagnosed with T2D 1.5 years ago. After going on the low-carb diet, I am today between 69KG and 70KG. This is still a healthy BMI, but only just; it hovers on the edge of "underweight."

Finally ambled to my local NHS clinic and registered. Not sure whether I was ever registered with NHS before I left the country as a 22-year-old nearly 40 years ago, so I have now got a new NHS number. Soon afterwards, got a letter that enabled me to register for patientaccess.com. Because of...

Yes, I told my American wife not to be too convinced by the present weather!

My goodness, 32, amazing!

Heat? Just moved to Kent from northeastern USA and find the weather here delightful so far, although admittedly I am in the countryside not in a city. Yes it gets into the upper 20s during the day, but the nights are crisp and sleep is easy even though I am in a small bungalow. In America I had...

They are not old gravel pits, to my knowledge. I could say more but it would identify precisely where I am and I suppose that is not forum etiquette. Thank you so much for your kind comments everyone. For a while, I will probably only be an occasional forum contributor as we are still moving in...

I didn't know it at all and chose my new home village via internet research, of all things. I wanted to be somewhere with lots of walking opportunities, but also close to the Eurostar line as I have strong links to France (I was born there and still have lots of family and friends in the Paris...

Strangely enough I've had no kidney stone issues since the last episode (that was in late November or early December, I forget). I have stuck to the low-sodium diet and the various other dietary advice, but have been less good on the constant hydration. I am now hoping that my KS problems were...

Noted. Thanks.

Wow, just saw your latest numbers, aren't you doing well!!!

Lovely to hear from you @Brunneria. I will be in the UK forever, I think. I've lived a very peripatetic life, having left the UK 38 years ago at the age of 23 following a mixed French/British childhood. Have lived all over the place (but mainly in the Middle East and the United States), with the...

Quick question, while I'm about it (and it is something I will bring up when I go to the NHS clinic in the next few days). There are bruises on my arms and legs. They are greenish/blueish. Not numerous, but impressive. I am fairly sure they are real bruises from shifting furniture and boxes...

Hello All, I successfully moved from America to England, arriving at the beginning of May and moving into my new home. The past few months have been very stressful (fairly normal for any move, let alone an international one) and I have not been a good boy -- food regime remained low-carb but...

Greetings, I'm moving to the UK in early May after 38 years outside the country. Seven months ago I joined this forum because I already knew about the move and wanted to find a UK place to get advice about diabetes (I never mentioned the move on the forum because the timing of the move was very...

Well done! Another success story!