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This forum is wonderful! Now to Google what a betadine is and buy some newer, sharper scissors! [emoji6] BTW I doubt anyone knows exactly how skin tags appear. There are lots of little trivial medical things like that which cause no harm or are easy to treat, or both, so nobody bothers with...

Many thanks for this. I took your advice and listened to the 'How to eat in 2024' podcast. There were a few elements I didn't buy, like 'an eating window gives your gut microbiome a rest' - but I did learn a few things - e.g. why fibre is much more than just stuff that keeps the bowel moving...

This will be my last post on this thread as I don't want to argue, I just wanted to express my opinion on why NHS advice is formulated the way it is, as best I can. To your points (and I'm absolutely not an expert): 1: Yes, and I believe, depending on what stage you choose as the starting...

Which drug company? They are competitors. They seek profit on behalf of their shareholders and seek to steal market share from one another. Guaranteed, like 100% guaranteed, in the real world we live in, if a drug company that does not have a very profitable Ozempic equivalent drug on the...

My question about the magic pill isn't about eating spuds and cake, it's about lifespan and overall health. If it were a completely established, unarguable fact, according to the medical community, that a low carb, high fat diet would kill you faster than taking the magic pill, how strong would...

Many thanks for the reply and for the suggestion. I'm a complete novice when it comes to all things diabetes and I want to learn as much as I can, so I decided to give your suggestion a fair shake. I started by skimming the list of speakers, looking for diabetes experts with the intention of...

Hi folks, I have only recently become interested in controlled nutrition. Up to now I believed in variety, balance and moderation, though in all honesty I wasn't good at the moderation part. My thinking was that if you eat a wide enough variety of food your body will get all the...

Nobody questions that a low carb diet is ideal for managing diabetes, however diabetes is just one of a huge number of medical conditions that are associated with diet. A low carb diet must be high in protein or high in fat, or both, otherwise you starve to death. Imagine a world in which the...

In short, you will not find anybody on this forum that will tell you that a high carb diet is a good idea for a Type 2 diabetic. What is good for a healthy endurance athlete is not necessary good for a Type 2 diabetic, and you won't find any ultra marathon runner eating very much more carbs...

This. If you're looking at a 'carbs per 100g, as sold' value, boiling, steaming etc. will add water weight, so there's less of the raw vegetable per 100g. Roasting will have the opposite effect. Cooked values make things harder to quantify. I discovered with a shock when I first started full...

Update: My blood ketone readings did fall back close to what I consider my current normal - 1.5 mmol/L yesterday (the 3rd) and 0.8 today. My diet and levels of exercise haven't changed much, so the ketone spike seems very likely to be due to alcohol intake alone or some interaction between...

I’m very conscious about trying to watch my manners on this forum and I don’t want to be a thread hijacker, though I feel obliged to correct myself. Firstly having read and re-read the best document I can find describing the processes that lead to insulin resistance and then on to T2 diabetes I...

Can I ask, what did your GP say as regards fat, particularly saturated fat, and cholesterol? I've been reading so much good news on this forum as regards a low carb diet and T2 improvement but some of it, specifically the advice around eating cheese and butter, seems too good to be true. What...

In case this is useful to anyone, there are a number of free apps available that do the job quite well. They come with smart kitchen weighing scales and often can be downloaded from the app stores for free and work fine without having to buy the scale (though the scales tend to be quite cheap)...

I don't know what to tell you. It's possible I misunderstood the reason for the seven day prescription with accompanying self testing. There was a whole lot of info thrown at me that day, but I tend to have a good memory. I was initially prescribed Metformin 500mg x 3 per day by my GP. The...

Very many thanks for the reply. Yes I told both the doctor and diabetes nurse on the day I was prescribed it. Neither raised any concerns, and when I mentioned to the nurse that my diet was likely to be raising my ketone levels she said 'well we certainly don't want you to stop your diet and...

Hi folks, I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in October. I’m far from qualified to give much in the way of advice on here, though I would like to share a couple of suggestions that are specific to Ireland in case someone out there finds them helpful. Firstly, don’t panic! ;) It’s not the end...

Hi and many thanks for the reply. Generally I've been on diet which has me in a calorie deficit of around 1200 calories per day with diet and exercise combined, calculated based on my observed weight loss of just over 1Kg per week, measured weekly. It's not a low carb diet per se but I have...

Hi folks, I had an experience last night that I’d like to share and I’d like to ask if anyone else has had a similar experience. I am taking Xigduo twice daily, which contains 1000mg of Metformin and 5mg of Dapagliflozin (AKA Farxiga). On New Year’s Eve I drank a lot of alcohol, which is not...

Yes, you'd be double counting. If you have a good way to calculate the calories burned during your exercise then use your your 'little' or 'light' activity value (Harris Benedict) to account for the basics of movement to keep yourself alive like cooking, cleaning house, travel to the shops...