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Good evening. I love food and now 4weeks into my new lifestyle I am busy checking out what I can eat and what i should not. Thankfully I have a bg meter to help me. Tonight I made cauliflower cheese in my usual way. Well maybe a smidge less flour in the roux. Lashings of good cheddar and the...

Reality TV is largely ghastly but caters to the selfie society we have become. I keep a tv mostly because I really love sport and documentaries especially wildlife. I would hate to miss Attenborough stuff.

Ok, well I live and learn. Thank you.

I am lucky enough to have a little garden. South facing and a real sun trap. I grow tomatoes, not a fruit I normally eat as I find them mind blowingly tasteless. However I grow Sungold, an F1 hybrid that is an orange cherry tomato that is absolutely delicious. This years crop so far is the best...

We all have choices. There’s risk to pretty much every strategy, it’s a question of weighing up the evidence and making a decision that feels right for you. After all, you have to live with the outcomes. My GP describes himself as pretty knowledgeable re diabetes and he is almost certainly very...

Congratulations for your positive changes and results. Be proud of yourself.

Thank you so much. Really helpful, bless you both.

I have had tinnitus all my life. Bilaterally and almost certainly a result of otitis media as a small infant. My hearing has been deteriorating for some months and although i can not prove it. I think my hearing has improved since I was diagnosed 4/12.and started making changes to my diet and...

actually the mod never got back to me after the first DM. The shop never contacted me and the parcel was finally delivered 15 days after order. I will never use the shop again. Very stressful waiting so late no for something you need. Other online suppliers can d3liver almost anything within 3...

Bit off topic but thought I would ask anyway. How do you put a photo into your personal ID box? Can I have an email copy of the 50 shades of diabetes? So I can pin up for reference. Thank you.

It would be really helpful if all foodstuffs were labelled using the same currency. So noted per 100g rather than per a slice where there will almost certainly be no such thing as a standard weight slice. It’s so tedious. The other thing I notice is the traffic light system used by (for example...

OK, OK, I can’t resist asking why pre pubescent male wee ok for compost? Obviously it’s to do with hormones but for the life of me I can’t see the rationale.

Sometimes medicine advances, sometimes you wonder if there really is a bonus. The wee test was always a goody and, tbh, if you feel faint at tasting you own wee then you clearly were not cut out to work in healthcare! My beloved dog used to like drinking water from cow pats of a certain...

Keen on a glass of red myself. Always favoured French Bordeaux or a bit of fizz. Fizz out for the moment. I bought a case of an Hardys Bankside the other day. Light and quite drinkable, a shiraz, not expensive at all - 2botts for a tenner at local Morrison’s.

Well, my BGs are an ongoing story as I pursue a very low carb diet plus exercise. So using neighbours widget I was nearly 24whatevers. Couldn’t check my BG during onion wee incident other than digitally... Now I am round about 6-7 on waking. So decent improvement. On sr metformin 1000 od. Not...

Urine is sterile unless you have an UTI. I don’t have a horror of body fluids, modern life is so squeamish... Yes, I have all the goodies now. Saw the GP next morning as I said. Finger dip worked for hundreds of years but now superseded by more accurate means. Sweet pickled onion wee is an...

Hello rhubarb73. Realistically if someone has a financial interest in something then you can reasonably regard any advice given as suspect. At the risk of offending this forum, gender and testosterone are a good mix for someone to appear as a bully. Bullying is defined as how it is perceived...

good morning. I suggest you look away if you are of a tender disposition... Ok, last month when I realised I was almost certainly diabetic and I had booked myself in to meet my GP (not been to GP practice for - oooooh - 6 years) I decided to eat some pickled onions. Yum! Only after half a jar...

If my memory serves, my GP said my result from the first blood test he requested, was 89. I think he assumed I knew what this meant. Erm no...but I did realise it was a pretty high number. Now 4 weeks on and having decided on the ‘bed of nails’ approach to T2 it’s quite tedious to have to wait...

Bless you. Seems no one makes a sauce with flour. Learning curve: look up xantan gum, never heard of it.