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@5Terry If you tell us what you do have - in the way of cooking and keeping food, perhaps we could be more help. I wondered if you don't have space for a freezer, is there space for a fridge which you could use for a fridge freezer combination? Is shopping easy for you? If so then a fridge might...

Low carb will often reduce high blood pressure - and taking a medication to to the same thing at the same time will drop it right down - on various low carb lists I have read of numerous incidents and not a few accidents - one of them life changing, so do take action rather than waiting for...

My blood test was due to be done today, but has been postponed due to the nurse being taken ill. Now due to be tested in two weeks - I will keep on with the diet until then. Watch this space.

I just realised that it is over 5 weeks since I started this experiment. Still not hungry.

After so long being unable to do low calorie diets this is a bit of an eye opener for me too.

I use very little extra far other than what comes with the meat. I have a stock pot and once it cools after being used, I put it in the fridge and then lift off the fat. These days my intake of fat is possibly less than before diagnosis, as 'healthy' choices discourage caution. I went back to...

Actually I don't really know what to expect - or even hoping for - this really is uncharted territory. In the past on low calorie diets as dictated by GPs I was really unwell most of the time and people were commenting on my pallor. I am usually 'in the pink' - I have pale skin and blush like...

Well - I am eating less and less - today I didn't even have a shake as I forgot about it until it was time to be eating a meal, and so I had two pork steaks and a few peas. I've not had any coffee, and I was going to make some tea but then forgot about it. Its only another week or so to my test...

I ate some Atkins bars with polyols in, just once - I thought I would become Geography, I swelled up so much. The flora and fauna in my gut had a real party. When eating to the rules of my post diagnosis to get remission schedule, I ate twice a day and had protein and fat with no more than 50...

So how do correction doses work - or the need for one discovered?

It depends on what sort of testing you mean. The annual set of tests can flag up problems. Daily testing of blood glucose levels after eating can show that the amount of carbs in the diet is right or wrong - only really necessary at the start of diet controlled type 2. Daily testing before and...

The low carb diet controlled my blood glucose and reversed type 2, I have been in remission for years, but I was not losing weight, although my shape was changing a little at a time. I swap over clothes every 6 months and found things were the wrong shape. I thought it would be interesting to...

I lost quite a bit of weight in the beginning on low carb - and I was still seeing some loss of volume over the years since diagnosis, my shape changed and I needed to alter my clothes in order to get a good fit. Unfortunately all the abuse about my weight and difficulty in losing has left...

My weight must be going down as my skin is loose - but I have a rash where the skin has folded over on my belly. I have some anti fungal powder to put on it, so hopefully it will be short lived. Still fasting for over 21 hours a day, then a shake and small meal, blood test 2 weeks tomorrow.

I think people love to make things complicated and add in a bit of magic and rules about things. For me, a very ordinary type 2, I cut down on the carbohydrates I was eating until my blood glucose became normal after eating - under 8 mmol/l was the 'magic', if there was any at all. After that I...

I had thought of an autumnal excursion in the campervan, but I am still waiting for a service to be done on it and would not wish to go on a 200 mile jaunt, passing London, without that being done - so unless something surprising happens in the next week, I shall be at home.

The local Polish grocery has black bread - labelled protein bread, which is low carb - I get it once in a while to eat with kippers. It freezes well but that might not be necessary, it keeps a long time.

Most things can be made lower in carbs with a bit of ingenuity. Look on low carbing websites, sugarfreelondoner seems a good one, and try out a few of the recipes in the nest few months perhaps? H have found that a few days of higher carb eating make no difference if I've been low carbing for...

Those are probably not good choices if you are not being careful about the carbohydrate you are eating. Vege soup is OK if you use - for instance - a mixture like the frozen veges from lidl which don't have sweetcorn included, as the base for it, and thicken it by blending a part of it and them...

I drink a half pint of water when I get up, then a mug of coffee with cream at some point in the day. After dinner I have tea, either lemon tea, mint or liquorice - or both mint and liquorice together. I use green tea. There is a specialist tea and coffee shop not far away so I buy my supplies...