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I find that I need to add salt to my diet, particularly in hot weather, as there is none in the foods I chose to eat to control my blood glucose levels. If I get cramps at night I am usually dehydrated and water is required to stop them. I did wonder if the salt in the food means I retain more...

Foods with sugar or starch are the carbohydrates - all of them will be digested to form simple sugars in the bloodstream, and for me all of them need to be watched out for. There are no good or bad carbs. I avoid grain and potatoes, and other high starch veges, and most fruit as they have been...

Cut the carbs - avoid high starch foods such as grain and potato and sugary things such as fruit or fruit juice. Eat meat, fish, cheese, eggs, full fat dairy, and low carb veges and berries. Make the changes over some weeks though - as low carb is a very powerful method of lowering blood...

I know what to think but I suspect I already try the patience of the moderators quite a bit - lets just say I'd not have been able to sit through that advice without bursting into laughter at every pronouncement of what is good. Where do they find these people?

Good? Bloody brilliant!! If you find you need a bit of variety then some mushrooms or a tomato might hit the spot just to make a change.

@Carlton14 Maybe counting up the carbs you are eating each day will shed some light on why your numbers are high. My personal limit is 40 gm of carbs a day so I stay in normal numbers all the time. With the medication you are on you do need to eat some carbs for them to get rid off, which is...

Unfortunately you had some rather odd advice as all carbohydrate becomes simple sugars in the blood - so they all need to be counted. The good news is that, being in the lower part of the diabetes range, a few cutbacks should take you back into normal levels. You can chose to reduce either...

hello @Secret Squirrel I was away on holiday last week and was rather apprehensive as my feet were hurting, I tried some innersoles as it felt as though I was walking on pebbles - no use at all, so then I found some thicker stuff, plastic one side foam the other, and cut out something to fit...

It will be far more tender and juicy if cooked in a tray at the edge of the heat, or in a cast iron pan. I think lamb fat is the best one, but beef fat will do. It will become dry if it gets too hot and everything boils away. If you can put on a lid and leave it for ten minutes, warm and cosy in...

I dropped from Hba1c of 91 to 47 in 80 days so it is possible to reduce fairly quickly. I lost around two weeks as my GP told me the appointment 10 days after he had the result was just a routine follow up, and then he sprang the diagnosis of type 2 on me.

Oh yes - particularly dogs with flop ears. Just walking along and they are suddenly my best friend, with hopeful eyebrows, and would like to come to my house for tea.

@Glynys. Your cook might like to look at the recipes of the sugarfreelondoner site, as they are very good and are also low carb, which many people might find an advantage - though if anyone is using insulin or glucose lowering medication they should be informed of the carb count of what they are...

There seems to be a bit of a wrong end of the stick going on - I was inferring that eating the diet you've advised for diabetes, the wholemeal bread and brown starches was not the way to go for many of us, and you'd be better off without them anyway (even without the crohn's). I was not advising...

Remission really is such a novel idea that there are differing opinions about it, and a lot is down to the individual surgery or even people within them. The good thing, though, is that 44 is definitely not in the diabetic range, and is very close to the top end of normal. I know how powerful...

Try sugar free jelly with additions. I make up a jelly plus extra gelatine, in half a pint of water. Once dissolved (it might need to be put over hot water to do that) allow to cool and when just warm whisk in full fat Greek yoghurt, or a generous glug of cream, or some other option. Once...

@jomar_uk I have been able to have normal numbers even though a type 2 diabetic since diagnosis in 2016 - except for one 'blip' which was gone by the time I was told about it. I do not eat grain or high starch or sugar foods, I do have up to 40 gm of carbs a day, but nothing 'high residue' in...

No one can diagnose you from the information you gave - it isn't done using blood glucose levels but by testing to get some idea of how you have been dealing with carbohydrate over the last 3 months. That test, for Hba1c level is used pretty universally. I would say you were really hammering in...

I spent decades telling GPs and nurses that eating carbs made me feel unwell and put on weight and yet I was pressured to eat a diet low in fat and high in carbs, and when I gained weight, it was my fault. When diagnosed - that is finally told about it, I went back to low carb eating and was no...

By controlling my blood glucose so I see normal numbers I have turned around my ever increasing weight and no longer need to go hungry or count calories. The idea that allowing oneself to be come overweight is the reason a person is diabetic is just another way that patients can be blamed for...

Eggs for breakfast - I have three, and if scrambled they are cooked in butter with some grated cheese added in just at the end of cooking, and them some sliced tomato. I found that it was important to have a little carbohydrate as that stopped the continued rise in blood glucose which would...