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It is all about to go horribly wrong for me. My self restraint is about to go out of the window after three weeks of three 36 hour fasts per week. I am faced with some rather nice South American reds on the wine list and the steak and truffle mash sounds........well......enticing. Overall I...

Exactly the same here. in fact I have just had some with cheese. :-)

The inverted commas around truth are mine, but the article can be found in the Daily Telegraph. Sadly it is behind a paywall but the journalist has enlisted Miguel Toribio-Mateas, director and chair of the British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine to offer his and presumably the...

The day after diagnosis I started the Michael Mosley BSD and stuck to 800 Cals per day, eating "real" food rather than shakes for 8 weeks and 2 days. I have to say it was the best route for me. Unsurprisingly I saw results, immediately and that kept me motivated to keep going. The BG readings...

I do wonder what is going on in Australia. The CSIRO has published more than one book on Low Carb diets and openly states:- "CSIRO's Nutrition and Health Research clinic have discovered a clear link between a low carbohydrate diet and diabetes management. Our research found that if people...

There is a little crossover between the two books, as you'd expect, but both are very good reads. (I managed both on my last LHR-SIN-SYD flights)

It does make me wonder if a class action suit against a body like the DAA might work. Not sure what the suit might be - negligence, attempted GBH - through life harming advice. I suspect it wouldn't get anywhere and the food and pharmaceutical industries would soon get behind DAA. It would take...

Today I have just had my first retina scan since diagnosis in October last year. It was all clear. I managed to get my meter readings down to the 5-6 range for fasting in November 2017 and have kept them there.

Medicare in simple terms is the equivalent of the NHS. This is not a bad media piece that may help you decide whether you need private health insurance once you achieve permanent residency. You do need to check what access to healthcare your visa provides you until you obtain permanent...

Yes I tend to forget it is income dependent, I guess in dome respects I am lucky that I don't get any tax deductions for private health insurance.

Yep agreed on dental costs. I have had some major dental work done and my, much preferred, dentist is not on the Medibank Members Choice list. It has cost me a small fortune over the last five years. The whole private health insurance setup is a shambles in my opinion, with the government...

I'm in two minds about that. Tax reasons dictate I need some form of health insurance and it is part of my work financial compensation anyway. If I had to pay myself I certainly would not be on the top rate, and I would certainly be thinking twice about it if my tax situation did not require...

Yep AUS$5k per year. It is the top end cover and the prices vary considerably depending upon what level of cover and what "extras" you want. (Extras include dental) A standard consultation with my GP is AUS$74 and I get AUS$37.05 back from the government. Private health insurance does not cover...

This may be a starting point, until someone with more experience comes along. I fear it will not be cheap. When you get permanent residency you will have access to the local private health cover for what it is worth. The system in Australia is not great. Even with the maximum private health...

I struggled with bread, crackers (for cheese) and a breakfast cereal replacement.........until this week. I have not been one to follow lo carb recipes for replacements until I followed a couple of links from here and really enjoyed coconut porridge, low carb garlic bread and the crackers made...

I must admit I have always been reluctant to take supplements but since being diagnosed T2 I have thrown caution to the wind :p I figure it probably (possibly) won't do any harm. I started on the Blood sugar diet in late October 2017 so took the following supplements Daily Fibre Capsules (6...

I must confess the first thing I did when I was diagnosed was rush out and buy a meter. (The Accu-Chek mobile as it happens, mainly because it is so much easier when traveling - particularly on long haul flights.)

I finally managed to get myself to the GP following several weeks of thirst and the consequences of satisfying that thirst. I had an idea what was coming but had no understanding of terms or numbers. The GP explained I had Type 2 Diabetes, but one or two other anomalies required further testing...

Absolutely spot on. I have lost 4 inches off my waist...but still need to get more weight off my midriff, Many thanks for those kind words. I am definitely too impatient and conscious that keeping the weight off is no easy task. Rightly or wrongly I have come to view potatoes, bread, pasta and...

I confess to being a lurker, not a longtime lurker but long enough, so it is time to add a meagre contribution to what is a wonderful forum, populated by inspirational posters. My diagnosis came in October 2017. After experiencing extreme thirst and the follow on consequences of satisfying that...