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@There is no Spoon Have you been tested for low thyroid function? I was eventually diagnosed with a failed thyroid many years ago but the memory still lingers of the sensation of having my hands and feet in a warm bath after a couple of days taking Thyroxine. Thyroid problems are notoriously...

I think that even if they had access to fresh meat and fresh produce they would not have been able to store it. Their work was intense and options for food were what was available for delivery or to pick up on the way back to whatever accommodation was provided. It took them a little while to...

I am type 2 and was doing just fine until I decided to do the shakes and low calorie thing last year. I did it for two months then found it was not working for me. I decided to go back to the way I ate before - and found it really difficult to sort out my meals. Being an old hippy I fell back...

My daughter was in the US after her marriage to an American, but they decided to come back to England to live. I was quite shocked when I first saw them as they were so overweight. They continued to eat the same way as in the US, but they lost weight, because everything has added sugar or starch...

I am 74 years old - I have seen money bend science, I have been told of research being abandoned when it was not showing the desired results at the first evaluation, also large numbers of prospective test subjects being carefully sifted for the right ones to test - well established seems to mean...

I've had nurses and other type 2's tell me that medication becomes less effective over time, but it seems that a low carb diet - even without monitoring can effectively lower blood glucose down to prediabetes levels of even to normal. I am hoping - expecting - a HbA1c under 48 this year after my...

I'm fine with two meals a day at 12 hourly intervals, but I don't need medication to have normal numbers - I also stick to very low carb by most standards, 10gm in the morning and no more than 30 in the evening. BUT I was only on Metformin for a few weeks and could not live with it, so I did not...

coconut seems to be good - I use it in desserts, cooking and baking, desiccated and made flour fine, and once in a while I buy a whole one - I have boring and cracking tools in the camper van. I can't see any reason to look at GI or GL as they don't seem to make any difference. I put the bags of...

@Mrs SLD Ice cream is perfectly possible if you make your own rather than eating the high sugar with starch thickener products sold to us. Just like chocolate, it is made cheaper with carbs rather than the original eggs and cream frozen custard it began life as. I do not feel any need for...

On a single trial I think it might very well do just that. I set my stabber to one notch lower than the usual one and the drop of blood was larger than expected.

A Bamix, a box of herbs and spices and a few old cookbooks and you can have the reputation of being a chef.

When I changed from 'healthy' eating to a 'fad diet' at diagnosis I went back to normal blood glucose levels, and saw a reduction in cholesterol, my blood pressure reduced a little from the top end of normal to more middling numbers - all the time since then I have been eating a very Atkins...

I had high blood glucose flagged in a test about a decade before diagnosis, but that was dealt with by not repeating the test rather than any sort of follow up. When finally informed in 2016 I dealt with it by low carbing, and lost a lot of inches off my waist and now I'm having to prompt the...

I think my way of eating is more anti carb than the Bernstein diet as I avoid foods with more than 10% carb content - but I am very sensitive to carbs, particularly those considered healthy options by many. The basic principle is the same though - avoid what you can't cope with. The Atkins diet...

Ginkgo Biloba, the maidenhair tree, is not recommended for women before menopause as it increases bloodflow and can result in heavy periods as the lining of the uterus becomes enlarged. In later years it is considered beneficial for assisting bloodflow to the brain, and presumably anywhere else...

I tried shakes and a small meal last year and found my HbA1c was higher than expected - higher than for 7 years, so I went back to plain low carbing.

I found that a small amount of carb at breakfast stopped my liver tossing out glucose - a single tomato with my scrambled egg and cheese, pork chop with some stirfry or steak and mushrooms with a little onion does the trick.

I had a couple of false hypos as I dropped my carbs from silly amounts of oh so healthy brown stuff rather rapidly. A drink of warm water and 3 grapes stopped the wobbly sensations very quickly - it was mid winter.

I tried a low calorie and shake regime last year, after 8 years of almost normal results. My Hba1c and cholesterol went up - not by much, but enough to make me decide to go back to low carb.

That was 'female dog' by the way.