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I've always admired how amazing it would be to have a none obtrusive way of monitoring my blood sugar levels. A device that could sit on your wrist and show you your real-time level is the dream. I know these are available, but from what I have read they are expensive and not very accurate. If...

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Well done. That's really great news. Glad to see how well you are doing. :D

This time last week I was doing excellent with my low carb dieting. I had my first day where all sugars were between 5 and 7, which I am most chuffed with! Then i went to an awards ceremony for my company. Firstly, I was given no choice in food. It was just plonked in front of me. So I ate...

Don't be too hard on yourself if you don't get the bolus amounts right. We're all striving for perfection, but even if you weigh every single bit of food and read the labels, you still can't really be 100% able to calculate how much insulin you will need. But yes it's trial and error in the...

Personally I use dextroenergy tabs. I know that taking one of these will raise my blood sugars by about 1mmol. So if i'm sub 4mmols, i may take 2 tablets just to get it up to 6mmols. It will then usually settle down to around 5-6mmols somewhere. However, if you continue to have them, even when...

Excellent info guys. Well I guess it's just a case of trial and error then. I don't plan to drink much, but my birthday is coming up this week and so i'll be having a few. I don't think carbs are bad, but I do know humans survived for millions of years without them, so there is no harm in me...

In my relatively short space of starting this diet, I've learned that you may actually need to eat more fat. Low carbing basically switches your body from carb fuel source to fat fuel source, through lypolysis. So don't cut out too much fat and i'd say take it easy with the weight, you don't...

what is vodka like? I could happily drink that instead of beer. I don't really like wine.

oooooooh! well that's it then. lol. I read information saying that 1 pint of beer was fine. Guess not! Well that's ok, as long as i know the cause I know for next time. The sweetner i use is a tablet one, hermesetas.

Yesterday I was having perfect sugars around 6. That's good for me because my average is 8 so i'm brining it down slowly. Anyway, It was looking like I was going to get through my first day with absolutely perfect sugars. But sadly it wasn't to be. 5 hours after dinner, 13.8 DOH! Now i've got...

Thanks for the welcome guys. I have bought the diabetes wristband from this site. I reckon it's a good thing to have for many reasons, but mostly to show to myself that I'm not fighting diabetes anymore.

Hey everyone, Just joined the community and hoping to find alot of useful info here, as well as maybe share some of my own. I've been diabetic type 1 for 15 years and after many years of not really taking it as seriously as I should, i'm now getting on top of it once and for all. So i'm...