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Just an update. Been eating LCHF diet for about 45 days now or so. Four days ago I switched to eating only in a 6 hour window each day, so I get 18 hours of fasting (drink lots of water, coffee, tea, broth when fasting). The first couple days of fasting was a bit hard, body had to get used to...

My A1C was 11 last year and has been quite high for years. I started on Thyroid medication for hypothyroidism a few years ago, and the medication is doing its job. However, over the past month, I have been maintaining blood sugars in the 80 to 100 mg/dL range. Just wondering if the blood...

I had fried minced beef w/ snow peas with some scrambled egg mixed in for breakfast. Along with a 1/2 piece of toast and some coffee with cashew milk in it & sweetened with stevia. Ate 5 blueberries as well.

i.e. for all foods. For example, I usually go to calorieking.com to get nutritional information for the foods I eat, but I now notice it does not contain info about omega-6 nor omega-3. Neither do food labels. (In the USA at least.) I heard heart attacks are caused due to inflammation due...

Thanks for all the replies. I've got a lot more to learn to figure this all out. Just started getting control a little over a month ago. Was over 200 to 300 mg/dl all the time previously. I'll use mmol/L in the future, sorry for that. Just realized you guys use a different measurement scale.

Sorry I had missed this. Thanks! :)

Well I'll probably have lots of questions for you Winne thanks. You are doing a lot of things I haven't had time to research yet, like the probiotics and other medicines. I also need to figure out my vitamin supplments. GOt the minerals in order with Concentrace Mineral Drops. Also, I eat...

Thanks. Yeah my numbers were relatively good off insulin in the 115-135 mg/dl range compared to over 300 mg/dl all the time with no diet control and no meds. However, with a small dose of basal insulin (42 units at the moment) I can keep my blood sugar in the 75-95 mg/dl range which is the...

Okay I've eaten a piece of toast before, and it spikes 10 mg/dl by two hours after breakfast. This morning 2 hours after breakfast after eating only 2g of carbs (1/5th the amount) it spiked by 20 mg/dl (twice the amount).

It's not normal because I only ate 2 grams of carbs. That's like almost eating no carbs. a piece of toast alone is like 10-12g.

This was a couple hours after I woke up -- I'm familiar with the dawn phenomenon; that already happened i.e. 95 to 105 mg/dl. I heard before if you eat too little carbs, perhaps than what your body is used to, that your body will see this the liver will deliberately put more glucose in your...

Before breakfast, my blood sugar was 105 mg/dl. I ate 2 grams of carbs for breakfast, which for me is relatively low. Used to eat 10g of carbs (i.e. piece of toast). My blood sugar after breakfast is 125 mg/dl. [I'm taking basal insulin by the way, and the correct dose.] So the only thing...

I personally use an iPhone app called "MyNetDiary" to count my carbs, record my blood sugar readings, and record my insulin injections. I haven't found any app that does that all. It's been quite helpful. I used to weigh myself everyday, but found out it is very depressing, because no matter...

I am type 2 diabetic, with a cholesterol of 121. I've heard normal is up to 199. I've always been around 120 my entire life. I'm morbidly obese as well. Anyways, when I was in the hospital a couple months ago, the doctor discharging me said I should be on Lipitor (statin). I asked him what...

I really do love the flavor of cabbage :) It has a very subtle sweetness which I enjoy and I love the texture. You made me laugh though about the "open for the choo choo thing". You must of been a difficult child that didn't eat your veggies! /giggle

Cabbagetti (Spaghetti Sauce over uncooked shredded cabbage) -- it's quite delicious! (photo courtesy of me) [Yeah, that's sliced asparagus you see in the beefy tomato sauce :)] :

Had to go back on some insulin, even with the low carb diet, so I can maintain a 75 mg/dl to 100 mg/dl range instead of 115 to 135 range without insulin. Down to about 35 units a day now though, from over 100 units before. So with this low carb hi fat diet, I have TRUE normal blood sugar range...

Please watch these videos by Dr. Bernstein. He's been Type 1 for 70 years and the Low Carb High Fat diet literally SAVED him, and he treats both his Type 1 and Type 2 with this diet, along with proper medications when needed (e.g. as in the case of Type 1). He has made dozens of very...

By the way you'll find two versions of the processed cheeses at the markets. One is 1g per slice and the other is like 2g. The 1g tend to work great but microwave them for a bit less time so they don't get too crisp and crumbly for a sandwich. I get the 1g version just because I want to cut...

The processed cheese puffs up quite a bit in volume .. like by 4 times or more or so. I tried with many non processed cheeses (I prefer those cheeses) and the melt very flat.. although very delicious as thin crackers.