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Sorry to point this out, but the low carb way of eating lowers blood glucose and that is reported many times each week on this forum. Other sources of energy do exist, protein can be converted to glucose - but day by day, week, month, year, a low carb way of eating is good for Humans - how many...

Oh dear. No. Type 2s can get to a state where they require insulin, but not for the same reasons as a type 1. There are some unfortunate souls who have both type 1 and 2 at the same time. If you are positive for antibodies then you are not an ordinary type 2 but some other sort. You might be...

Perhaps my sense of taste it the problem - I just find that the flavour is a bit too much. I did used to work for Allied Lyons doing storage testing, so it was my job to detect any off flavours developing. One set of my ancestors was the victim of Highland clearances and in another life I make...

@WaveyDavey123 Try swede rather than potato - I cook one, sliced up in my pressure cooker, in more water than it needs, as that reduces the flavour. I have some with dinner, mashed with butter or cream, then next morning mash the rest, mix in egg and cheese or leftover veges, either fry or bake...

Have you checked your after meal BG levels to see if you are getting elevated levels after eating? I went low carb after diagnosis and noticed a change in the frequency of visits to the loo in a very short time, just days later.

I had over half a century of being told that my inability to cope with a high carb diet was a delusion, yet every time I ate low carb, Atkins style, I felt great. When I was 65 I was told I was a very bad diabetic and everything became a lot clearer. Since then I have rather pointedly replied...

Must have been a bit of a shock - the good news is that a classic type 2 can get back to normal numbers by cutting down the high carb foods, cutting down on the middling ones and indulging in meat, fish, eggs, cheese, yoghurt with some nice veges, mushrooms, berries, salad stuff - and coffee...

When I was taking Atorvastatin that is what I felt like - but with the violent reaction I had to Metformin, I had to force myself out of bed or it could (and did) get nasty.

I was told the same thing for decades. Never worked. Total nonsense as far as I was concerned. I repeated the same thing so many times and was always told I was doing it wrong. Every time. I believe it is called gaslighting. Any grain or potato, or high starch vege sends my BG higher than I'd...

Well - if you are seriously low carbing (I need to be under 50 gm per day to be in the normal range) but being underweight and not getting normal blood glucose levels that should be waving a red flag that you are not a standard ordinary type 2 but something requiring a different treatment or...

Do check that you don't digest carbs like I do - low GI means nothing to my gut, or maybe it did not get the memo.

My dad was a lifelong smoker. He had to have his bit of pleasure, as he called it, even taking the last money from my mum's purse so he could have cigarettes to share with the neighbours whilst she sat crying because that was the money for food. In his last years Dad had health problems and he...

As GI level makes very little difference to my spikes, I take no notice of it, just count the carbs - but I rely on the low carb or no carb options of animal sourced protein and fat I can't really suggest any suitable options. There might be some low carb gluten free recipes for bread on the...

Maggots were used to clean wounds in wartime and even now after disasters, earthquakes and the like where normal medical treatments are not available they are used to try to save lives. I think they were confined in a double layer of cheese cloth, tied to make a bag and were carefully counted in...

Oh dear - WRONG. In the UK the fibre is not included in the count, though if the US the word is spelt fiber, and included. I have to stick to under 50 gm of carbs a day to stay in range, these days it is under 40 gm.

I think it can in the early days of eating low carb, but these days I just go with how I feel and I often do not eat breakfast at all, I wait until the evening to eat. I need to be sure to drink a couple of pints of water though. I am on the south coast and it is hot!!!

Although I do add in a small amount of extra fat I suspect that I scrape off more from the pans before washing them. I just eat things which are naturally fatty - I roast a whole chicken rather than select the leanest parts, I eat beef and pork and lamb, fatty fish - they all come with the...

Hello and welcome. You might be surprised at how quickly you can get back to normal - my Hba1c altered from 91 down to 47 in 80 days and I wasn't even trying all that hard. At 6 months down to 41. I don't eat grain though - I am one of those with a digestion which can break down anything, so...

Nothing so far. Not even coffee. Not feeling well today.

That is not what I found, but I am an ordinary type 2. It could be that there is more going on, but without a full count of the carbs being eaten it is difficult to know if the OP is eating a low enough level of carbs to be effective.