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For me, it was simply a case of reducing my intake of carbs, both sugar and starches raise blood glucose levels. I got a meter and strips to test my blood glucose at the 2 hour point after eating and worked to lower that. It is the same principal of being able to use a sink with a blocked drain...

There is probably the same amount of carbs in a steak with mushrooms, onion and some stirfry - and a lot more nourishment. Advice from such as William Banting is his Essay on corpulence from the mid 1800s and Dr Atkins in New diet Revolution, middle of last century, emphasizes that the quality...

Oh dear - Carbs are not your friend in this situation. Eat the sausage (or more than one) - as long as it not loaded with added starch - check the packet. Crackers can be around 5 gm of carb each - check the packet, and the carb content of the bread should be on the wrapper too, both as a...

Sorry - I don't know how to do links - I am one of those people who have never sent a text and still have sliderules on every desk. Just use Google. The truth is out there.

Maybe start with coconut oil or MCFAs (medium chain fatty acids) and follow links from there. After a previous run in with a GP over taking stains again, I asked for information about the claim that lowering cholesterol results in an extended lifespan with fewer illnesses or 'conditions' - the...

Almost 5pm and still not eating the planned two meals a day - I changed my routine and cannot restore it to what was very successful. The slimming shakes and low calorie meal for 2 months shook up my metabolism, but not in a good way.

I don't - saturated fat has been part of our diet since the beginning - it is useful for so many things in our biochemistry. They are the raw materials for a number of important controlling factors to do with appetite, nutritional and anergy cycles and they are also involved in the maintenance...

@MihaiM You might find that not drinking is all you need to do - easier written than done, but the amount of carbs in beer is considerable so that will make a huge difference and it will free your liver from having to deal with the alcohol so it can concentrate on the blood sugar situation...

Has someone told you that there are good and bad carbs? It is certainly not something I have ever seen - sugar and starches are carbohydrates, and they end up in the bloodstream as simple sugars needing to be dealt with. If you had a sudden increase in energy it could well be that you were short...

As type 2s don't generally get any testing of their insulin resistance and don't have a DNA analysis done at diagnosis, such statements are as trustworthy as saturated fat is a killer and smoking helps to clear the lungs.

Milk has a fair bit of sugar in it - if you are drinking lots of it then that could be the reason you are not seeing lower numbers. My HbA1c went up on the shakes diet and I think it was because of the easily accessible carbs in the shakes with milk, so my blood glucose was spiking even though I...

@Skyrider I used a glucose meter to check on my after eating levels - but I reduced to 50 gm of carbs a day to get from 91 to 41 in 6 months, and found 50 gm of carbs was keeping my after meal test to under 8 mmol/l. I stuck to the same meals and saw numbers after eating reducing down bit by...

When I was testing I used the 2 hour mark, and first I got help to see how to keep my levels under 8mmol/l at that point, and once I was settled eating the same meals I saw the number sinking down little by little to under 7 or even less by the time I stopped testing. I assume that by lifting...

I tried using Tesco shakes recently, with a very small meal, and found my HbA1c went up - I think because the carbs were easily digested and I usually eat veges and salad. It was only a few numbers, but it took me back to 48, which is in the diabetes range - just.

In general, I set 10% carbs as the limit, but I do eat small amounts of high cocoa chocolate. I eat any meat, cheese, eggs, fish, full fat dairy, butter and lard, mushrooms tomatoes celery celeriac swede courgette aubergine beans in their pods cucumber lettuce cabbage cauliflower. From the...

I'm afraid that a lot of people get led astray by not being told what the problem actually is - for an ordinary type 2 diabetic all the 'healthy' carbs just make things worse. Weightloss doesn't lower blood glucose and neither does Metformin - they can have an effect on the metabolism, but...

@cdpm - I was going to try to advise but we are so different even though we are both type 2. I have no medication at all for the diabetes - I take Thyroxine for the flagging thyroid function, I am never hungry, eat twice a day and keep to low carb, no restriction on calories as it seems that is...

Well - I was diagnosed with HbA1c of 91 and seem to have survived, so I'd say its OK providing you do something about it. My response was to eat a low carb diet and test to see what my blood glucose was after meals - altering what I ate according to the results I saw. That fixed things in 6...

I was out shopping and spotted electric blankets !! in several supermarkets. If they'd had anything other than single sizes left I might have been tempted.

I found fasting for over 12 hours didn't help, my HbA1c was higher than expected. I did lose some weight, but it was a normal HbA1c I wanted and did not get. Recently - with the loss of the winter fuel allowance and it being cold so early in the season, our house has been colder at night, so I...