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Perhaps give intermittent fasting a go? I try to include IF (one meal a day) a couple or three times a week so I get a 24 hr fast. I find it helps me with stalled weight loss, particularly if I do it for 2 days on the trot. I don’t really plan these days, I always eat my first meal around...

You could perhaps try nizoral shampoo https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nizoral-Dandruff-Shampoo-Perfect-Flaky/dp/B001ETUD5I It’s anti-fungal. I use it once a week to keep on top of my scalp fungal dandruff/psoriasis/whatever it is. It could be that if you are running higher BG it has allowed a...

In terms of isolation, I don’t know if you are based in the UK but we are still allowed out for exercise. I go out at lunchtime, and I arrange with a friend that we will go ‘together’ but completely separately. By which I mean, she goes for a walk locally to her and I walk locally to me, but...

I’m sure a lot of you are familiar with the Headbanger’s Kitchen website and YouTube channel, run by the extremely personable Sahil. I would definitely encourage you to give Sahil’s almond flour pancakes a go if you haven’t tried them, I think they are really great for a weekend breakfast...

Hah my diagnosis just before Xmas was a great excuse to equip myself with a BG monitor, a new set of scales and a blood pressure machine, all of which Bluetooth to my phone, which then rounds up all the info into a single app. I love it, and can geek out for hours over my latest set of stats...

I frequently make keto butter cookies and am currently using a branded stevia/erythritol sweetener (Truvia, I think). I find a heaped dessert spoon is enough, but perhaps you could add some and taste? You can always add more to the batter. Same just now, I made a one-egg 2-pancake almond...

Update: I had a 30 second conversation with the DN today because she called before her allocated spot, while I was on a work conference call. So I told her that my bloods were good and I intended to halve my metformin dose. ‘Just what I was going to suggest’, she said. And that was that. So...

In terms of losing weight, one thing I have found helpful is intermittent fasting , which I operate as only having one meal a day (dinner, in my case). I find if do this a 2 or 3 times a week it can ‘unstick’ a weight loss plateau, particularly if I do it 2 days on the trot. I also eat keto...

I found that I went from middle-aged long sight to short sight overnight just before diagnosis , and went through every pair of specs I possessed plus some off-the-shelf readers, before everything settled down 4 or 5 weeks later. I’m now back in the specs which were my current prescription up...

Thank you. I somehow lost part of the post, I wanted to say that this forum has been so helpful because I knew from day 1, from the multitude of successes here, that I could greatly improve my BG. For me, this has involved a lazy keto approach, attempting to avoid all carbs apart from those in...

I am beyond delighted! On Dec 4th last year, my first (diagnostic) HbA1c was 87 mmol/mol. I have just got my results as of 7th March and it has reduced to 35 mmol/mol. Normal! I can’t quite believe it, I was expecting it to be good but not quite that good. I have also lost over 16kg and am...

LOL yes, I can get round the supermarket in a fraction of the time these days, whole swathes of it remain untrodden! I go shopping less often and my food bill has taken a nose-dive, even though I buy more individually expensive items, like nuts, good steak, posh mushrooms, giant tubs of Greek...

Yes, thank you, I have switched to double cream, it’s a staple in my fridge now (I could eat it with a spoon, like ice cream, if I let myself but I am trying to lose weight :angelic:) Jim, I think it is a good thing, on balance, but I miss the simple pleasure I used to get from a couple of...

So, I am coming to to 3 months post-diagnosis and I have been LCHF/keto-ing ever since I got the news. Like many people there were one or two things I have found really difficult to cut out completely, in my case, bread, and yummy lattes out of my home espresso machine. So I have been allowing...

I have seen some keto recipes make breadcrumbs from one of those 90 sec microwave breads, dry it out and blitz that. Not tried it myself, I did make the bread once and found it a bit weird - not horrible, just... not bread. :(

I get fiendishly itchy legs sometimes (not diabetes related, AFAIK) and find moisturising helps - I like this...

I spiralised a courgette for the first time on Friday and made a ‘pasta’ bake. I deliberately left the sauce rather thick to allow for flooding and it was yummy. I was very pleasantly surprised, both by the end product and by the good job my cheapie twizzler device made of it! :cat:

I suspect that you are completely overwhelmed by events and emotionally exhausted. Life’s crises come in many shapes and forms, and many people step up and take on the load, emotional and practical, of those around them as they struggle with their own devastating feelings. Being the strong...

I can completely relate to the vision issues - terribly blurred vision was one of the symptoms (along with thirst) which sent me trotting off for diagnosis in December. I went from middle-aged long sight to being pretty short-sighted overnight. None of my specs worked for me, and since my...

Hello everyone, I’m newish on this site but I do like a good read. I have been working my way through my Georgette Heyer Regency romances lately. Fluffy stuff, but well-written and Ms Hayer certainly knew her era, and the odd one has a bit more about it. Sort of a female equivalent to Patrick...