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Tick them all and see what happens!! Just cauliflower, perhaps?

I think, like most others here, that if we can understand what you are eating then we can either make suggestions to help you, or rule out your diet as a contributing factor. Don’t worry or be embarrassed if your diet is not of the best at the moment, we have all been there and we are not going...

I haven’t calculated my ‘before’ carbs, but let’s just say A LOT. But almost as important, in my opinion, is that fact that I existed on ready meals, and shop-bought snacks, sandwiches, cakes, biscuits. All highly processed food, god knows the detrimental effects of all that. Now I eat low...

I can eat a few beans or lentils with no ill effects, maybe a tin in a large vat of chilli which will make me 6 or so meals. So not many in any given portion. As @jape says, really - only using a meter to test before and after will let you know what you can tolerate.

The NHS likes to tell us that we should be eating a ‘healthy’ low fat, whole grain diet. They are wrong too. The internet ( apart form this site, of course…;)) is full of what a nicely-brought up work colleague liked to describe as See-Rap.

Maybe she will be more clued up, empathetic and just nice… fingers crossed for that! If not, well - what do you actually want or need from her? All I want from mine is an annual referral for a diabetic eye check. Of course if she wants to say I’ve done well, that’s nice, but I don’t need her...

I understand that you are inclined to follow the advice from your GP with regards to diet, but many of us here have found that the medical profession are woefully behind the times and are still recommending a low fat, ‘healthy’ whole grain diet, as you have found. This may be fine for the...

Haha I’m with many of the others… a nice glass of Laphroaig whisky and a square of 90% Lindt dark choc. If I really want to, I make a low carb choccie cake with a chocolate ganache frosting, or coconut cake. Try chocolate mug cakes, almost instant for that quick fix!

If you adopt a low-carb diet and get your blood glucose back down, there’s a very good chance you will be able to ditch the metformin and then eat whenever you like! In the meantime, I personally found coffee with double cream to be enough of a basis for metformin in the morning. You are only...

I consider myself to have my diabetes in remission by the second definition - I can maintain my BG within normal levels by diet alone. In this way diabetes does not damage my body and there will be (hopefully!) no progressive deterioration. I think some members have suggested that their...

I would suggest asking for a vitamin screening at your next blood test. I suffered some hair loss early on (probably hormonal, in retrospect) so I got a vitamin workup done and it all came back as rudely normal. So for me, a varied keto diet provides complete nutrition, although I too take a...

Try dipping crispy bacon into your egg…. these are my go-to ‘soldiers’!

Yeah bread…. I had to accept, in the end, that bread was out of my life forever. I don’t personally find any of the low carb versions, either commercial or home-made, in any way worth the still fairly high carbs. It was easier to just let it go than keep chasing around after disappointing...

We cannot diagnose here, but your symptoms are not dissimilar to those associated with just regular old migraine - I don’t have many, but all of my migraines are of the ocular variety - they start with a spot, like a dazzle spot, right in the centre of my vision in one eye (most common in one...

Like the others, I suspect that your husband is still eating too many carbs and in my personal experience this maintains and drives excessive eating. Since I went low carb I have lost my food cravings almost completely and only eat when I am hungry. I have, for the first time in my adult life...

You mention being scared to check your BG. Remember that this is only information, not a judgement, and only of value if you use it to help yourself. Ultimately, the only thing that matters is that you are satisfied with your numbers, there are no diabetes police, only whatever you feel is...

Yes, like the others, I went from 87 to 35 in 3 months by low-carbing. I have had my air fryer for just over a year and use it almost every single day, I find it invaluable. Mostly for tasty bits of meat, fish and high-meat sausages, accompanied by my standard mix of a little swede, lots of...

I would recommend a heated throw for lounging about on the sofa. In fact, I am tucked under mine right now! I have always been a chilly animal and I would need to set the thermostat to about 25c to be comfortable, which I don’t do. Hence, extra fleeces and a heated throw…

Yeah, I too suffered with continuous nausea, occasional ‘digestive distress’, and no appetite for 3 months, just thought it was part of getting to grips with low carb. Then I had another HbA1c, saw my BG was down to 35 so I cut my metformin from 2000mg to 1000mg and felt normal again, I hadn’t...

Remember, you do not have to decide anything during the review itself. Write down any suggestions or recommendations made, and then say you need a couple of weeks to do your research. You can always request a follow up call or F2F appointment to discuss and make any decisions. Yes, I’m sure...