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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    4.9 not checked in a while, happy with the range i'm staying in
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    Flu vaccination

    May i ask whats the reason why some decline having the flu jab? This is my first winter diabetic was told in January i would require one this year but not heard anything from the DN or Dr I can’t remember the last time i had the flu I always have problems with my sinuses through the winter...
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    how do you track your carb intake ?

    I got the book when I first went LC and it certainly helped me to visualise food portion sizes and the amount of carbs in the serving i found it more educational rather than something to build a diet around
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    how do you track your carb intake ?

    i felt the same with carbs & cals but the book is quite useful though
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    how do you track your carb intake ?

    everything is pretty much spot on with the labels but on occasion there can be the odd item where someone has put the wrong information in and there’s multiple listed so you have to find the correct one, could be down to the weight and they used what their serving was.
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    how do you track your carb intake ?

    MyFitnessPal app
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    Why full fat greek yoghurt?

    I couldn't keep up with low calories I started getting hungrier and hungrier and i came to the conclusion low carb and low calories isn't sustainable over the long term, it took me a while to realise this so now i eat to satiety and eat when I'm hungry wether its OMAD or 2 meals a day and my...
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    90% cocoa solids dark chocolate

    I use Hersheys 100% unsweetened cocoa powder very low carb for chocolate moose and a big bowl is planned for later
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    Blood glucose higher when fasting

    If you are getting the high reading in the morning this could be down to the dawn phenomenon which basically means your liver is dumping glucoses to get you going, its a strange thing to understand at first and nothing to worry about or anything you are doing wrong
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    Retinopathy Experience.

    yes i had the same experience it makes the back of the eye swell, it was a weird experience as for a week or so I didn’t need my reading glasses to read but needed them to see things at distance
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    Type 2 New diabetic diagnosis

    Your BG is on the right path and you should be proud of the progress so far what would you regard as eating normally?
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    Retinopathy Experience.

    I have signs of diabetic maculopathy from the inital eye screening and a OCT scan i think its called on the 25th as far as symptoms my eyes are a little blurry nothing major, no floaters or anything like that I had my usual eye test last month and they said it was part of the ageing process...
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    K-eto Life Bread

    I have an amazon business and amazon themselves are pretty strict when it comes to customers receiving their orders on time and will close you down if you get too many complaints and from what I can see they're selling quite a few loaves a month 400+ so it looks like the website orders aren't...
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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    5 not bad considering I’ve literally had about 3 hrs sleep
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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    4.8 this morning according to my new CareSens Dual meter
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    Don't know what to eat

    have a read of this excellent post below as a starting point https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/the-nutritional-thingy.2330/
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    K-eto Life Bread

    The results are in 4 bacon rashers and a fried egg before 4.4 after 5.0 Quite acceptable but not something I'll have all the time maybe a couple of times a month, certainly very filling.
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    K-eto Life Bread

    https://seriouslylowcarb.com/collections/seriously-low-carb-food/products/seriously-low-carb-large-rolls just took delivery of 8 myself, the greatest bacon roll in history will be made in a few hours. Looking at the size of them I doubt I'll be able to finish a full one
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