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4.8 this morning. Has anyone else noticed that if they eat a decent diet their blood glucose numbers improve? (This is not a question actually looking for answers ... more a 'note to self' thing) It's cold out there, but I need to head out for my daily constitutional. I am repeating on a loop...

I love the Life on Mars episode where Sam Tyler goes up to Marc Bolan in a disco and warns him about driving Minis. I would love to have seen where he went later in his career ... in another time line maybe he's still out there making music and being fabulous.

We've been to see Slade a few times in the last few years - BlokeShape is a Brummie lad and my Very First Crush was on Dave Hill. They can still rock a live show - the Christmas show in Liverpool in ... 2019 I think was one of the best live shows I've seen. Even without Sir Noddy of Holder...

4.6 just now. About 6:45am. Early for me to be awake but not dramatically so.

4.8 just now (7am), but yesterday was a fasting day so I expected a low number.

5.5 this morning. Happy with that as I experimented with food a bit last night. Good fun trying to balance eating for me with feeding the underweight (and starting to look it) BlokeShape. He's a small person anyway, with correspondingly small appetite and so getting more decent food with...

5.3 this morning after being totally wiped out yesterday (for no apparent reason) and going to bed at about the same time as I did when I was 8! Feeling decidedly muzzy headed when I got up, but some fresh air and a high powered coffee has sorted me out (which one helped more shall be left as...

As, I suspect, the people I'm thinking of all already know about low carb/diet control/exercise etc but have, for various reasons, not taken that route, posting links to here and mentioning this forum may well entrench the 'don't wannas' in people's brains. I don't want to be the peanut...

My impression is that all of the people I'm thinking of do know the stuff that's talked about here, but they are choosing not to act on it. They are all intelligent, educated, people who are likely to do research and are unlikely to take what they're told as gospel - even if it's delivered by a...

80.6kg this morning, which is a bit down on last week, even though in my brain it feels like it's been a completely static week weight wise. Still a few kg to go for BMI of <25.

5.4 this morning - also awake and up about an hour earlier than normal.

I have several friends who are T2, the ones that I know anything about are all on Metformin. Especially in the last couple of years I've not seen any of them often enough to know much at all about their diet. One person who is more of a friend of a friend is currently in hospital having had...

4.7 this morning - after a day yesterday where I felt like I could eat my own leg for most of it. Thankfully human leg meat is low carb. At least the craving wasn't for cake.

@bulkbiker - thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I'd not thought of looking at that metric, we're (I'm) so used to mostly thinking about HbA1c that I didn't think to check other tests.

It's regularly said on here that (for type-2 types), it is a good idea to aim for a rise of no more than 2.0mmol/l in blood glucose between pre meal readings and 2 hours after first bite. This makes perfect sense and I've been testing and noting such numbers for a while now, but then it...

5.0 for me, after a minor indiscretion last night. The menfolk had take away pizza, I had some 'jalapeno poppers' (jalapeno peppers stuffed with cream cheese and deep fried), they are very nice, but breadcrumb coating and deep frying meant my numbers went higher than I'd like for a couple of...

You don't need permission from a doctor/other medic to do low carb. With the caveat that, as @Lamont D said above, with the glucose lowering medication you're on you need to be aware of you levels dropping too low (hypo), there is nothing stopping you now eating lower carb. There is lots of...

4.9 this morning - did a 24 hour fast over the weekend broken with cheese omelette last night. I'd been letting my food choices slip a little for a few days, I needed a re-set.

4.8 this morning. My numbers seem to have dropped by about a point on average quite suddenly so I'm in 4s and 5s now rather than 5s and 6s. The red wine last night probably helped, but the peanuts probably balanced it out.

That's the same as the Reuters article I put up in the thread 'I don't know where to start', isn't it? Or at least it starts the same way. I think it's all desperately sad, people being so badly advised and treated seemingly just to make profit. I've no idea what the answer is - especially as...