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Whilst I think it’s fantastic and much deserved for those of you who have driven your blood sugars down into the normal range with very low carb diets. Not everyone can. There are members on here, including myself, that are unable to. The very low carb eating barely made any difference to my...

Welcome to the forum and @missdingking. I’m sorry you are having a tough time if it with your medical team. I’m all for your body your choice , after doing your research. When your health is compromised, or ongoing it can be very stressful and draining. Steroid induced diabetes is a thing...

@fragrens, I am so very sorry to hear of your losses. I cannot begin to imagine your pain. It can be very difficult to break that cycle, those painful thought patterns. Your Prediabetes diagnosis is an opportunity, and it’s positive that you see it that way. It’s a wake up call for you to make...

Chronic Stress wreaks havoc with our metabolism. It causes the release of those flight or fight stress hormones. Glucocorticoids and catecholamines are the main stress hormones. Most of us deal with stress, it is part of life. However, when stress is at constant levels over long periods of...

Hello and welcome to the forums @cabbagequeen. If you have any questions feel free to ask. If you feel comfortable with sharing what type of diabetes you have it will help members, should you ask a question, to answer them. Feel free to peruse the site.

As well as the bread you may wish to consider your time change. New Orleans is in the Central time zone, so 6 hours behind of the UK. When I travel to the UK, I’m on Pacific time so 8 hours behind the UK, my blood sugars go to pot. My circadian rhythm system, which is very important for your...

I couldn’t get my blood sugars down either @Roy Batty Until my last HbA1c results came in at 5.8%. I am very pleased with that result. I was getting frustrated as they would not come down, until this last result. I’m lean. I do the equivalent of 3 marathons a week, and I’m on meds that lower my...

Hi and welcome to the forum @Maurice McNelis. I just wanted to welcome you to the forum. There are a few T1 members who do low carb diets or at least a reduced carb diet. I will leave it to them to offer suggestions. Again welcome to the forum.

That would stress me out too @Chris24Main , I would analyze it, argue with myself about and draw a conclusion about it to satisfy my own thoughts on it. You are not alone !

Stress and sleep. I can talk about that combo. I was diagnosed with ADHD, I also, more likely than not kiss the spectrum. So lots of everyday stuff can stress me out, from clothing and food textures, to a disruption in my routine, smells, noise, an unwashed cup in the sink, to a spec of dirt on...

Alcohol makes my blood sugars drop like a stone. My hypos, and they were definitely hypos, got so bad that I have virtually stopped drinking all alcohol. I sometimes have a glass of wine with a meal, but that’s very occasionally and then I spend the evening worrying I’m going to go low during...

I had unstable blood sugars @AnneRay, although I am quite a few years younger than your husband. My blood sugars would bounce around all over the place with significant hypo events , dropping into the 2’s mmol/ls and rises around 14-15 mmol ls . At one point I had to carry something sweet with...

This is in no way helpful to your situation @Outlier , but what a difference my experience is. All my diabetes stuff is on prescription, paid for by my insurance company. The prescription comes with instructions to test twice a day (unlike some people in the UK who are told not to test...

I am certainly not a diet expert, I do however, have a restricted diet due to coeliac, lactose intolerance and at the moment I am unable to eat fats, so I get how frustrating it can be. Eggs will definitely give you proteins and fats. Nuts are also high in fats and proteins. I personally would...

@Chris24Main I do the Mediterranean diet, and I have to be honest, there are not that many carby recipes. If you take out Pizzas, which I have never liked and flat breads, which I cannot eat as they contain gluten, most of these med recipes use fresh veggies, meats, fish, dairy and olive oil. I...

@Sparkle fairy, same. I went on a very low carb diet for 9 months , lost way too much weight and ended up losing muscle. So I turned to what I know best, exercise. So now I eat, what I consider a normal balanced diet, and use exercise to maintain my blood sugars. I do seem to have plateaued out...

Hi @Sparkle fairy If I do some weights or if I hike and do a steep climb where my heart rate rises into the peak zone, my blood sugars go up. To be honest I’m personally not too worried about it. The over all benefits of exercise out weigh the negatives. Better all round to exercise than not. I...

I’m mindful that @Lamont D, who is very knowledgeable on RH has already commented on here. The thing with RH is it affects post prandial blood sugars. After eating carbohydrates / sugars the pancreas reacts by over secreting insulin in the presence of carbohydrates and sugars, this big response...

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Hi and welcome to the forum @chrysap . Insulin resistance (IR) is closely connected to Polycystic Ovary Syndrome or PCOS. Very briefly IR is where your body‘s cells do not effectively respond to the hormone insulin and causes blood sugars to rise. It is one of the main components of T2DM. If...