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As you're new I'm tagging @daisy1 to provide her welcome info, that you may have seen already if you've looked around this site, which also has info on numbers (I think if I'm remembering correctly). Quite a lot of people, me included, seem to have received the 'just get on with it' or 'eat...

Those are brilliant results - well done! I don't have any advice regarding meds. I'm sure you can see on this forum that there's a wide variety of people who've taken different routes in managing their diabetes with medication/diets/combinations of approaches - I hope you find one that works...

Congratulations - that's wonderful news! I'm really pleased for you - it's so exciting to be able to see real, tangible results when they tell you the new numbers and there's 'proof' that what you're doing is working. Even if you already know...

I'm loving this thread as I am a proofreader and thus paid (not very well) to think about these things all day, every day. I've been employed that way on both sides of the giant pond so have thoughts about headlines styles and all kinds of style/spelling/grammar/punctuation swirling in my brain...

I really wish I could have cereal. But to be honest (and it's still taken me a long time to get my head around this), cereal is the worst food for me and BG levels. Worse for me than rice, or potatoes, or bread, or bananas, or any of the usual suspects, which will spike my numbers into the...

Wow, that is an amazing result. Well done you! Yep, it all sound like you know what you’re doing and going on a course will probably not help. I’m tagging @daisy1 for her to post the really helpful newbie basic diabetes information as you’re new here. I had an unhelpful diabetic nurse, who...

9hrs 45 mins last night, according to my FitBit. But I just got back from the US, so that's jet lag ;) Cat in avatar was confused over whether she should give me the cold cat shoulder or be all over me in case I left again. She chose the latter in the middle of the night, after ignoring me all...

The problem with eating anything with any carbs in it with me in the morning is that it’s the morning when I have high numbers (it’s called Dawn Phenomenon and lots of people have it if you look it up). If I ate carbs - any carbs - in the morning my high numbers would go higher and stay that...

Sorry you’re having problems - I’m in Texas at the moment and I’ve been pleasantly surprised what has been available for me but I am a meat eater, and Texas and meat do go together far more than Texas and veggies. I did have the horrible experience of staying at a Holiday Inn in NY where I was...

I have no idea how England does it, but being a newbie to Wales, I too was subjected to the whole battery of blood tests when registered, which is why I got put on a (pre)diabetes route, of tests every 3 months till stabilised. Now, I am apparently 'stabilised' with an HBA1C of 48 and am on...

A huge hug to you for all that you've recently gone through. And it is 'recently' - my mum passed away 20 years ago from diabetes complications and I will always be grieving for her. I had a miscarriage just over a year ago and it exacerbated diabetes in me, as chocolate biscuits and crisps were...

I don't actually know what cherries would do for me as I haven't any since diagnosis (note to self: try cherries!) but I know I can only eat a couple of whole strawberries ( cut up to make it look like more!) before my numbers will be higher than normal. Do you keep a food diary? It is...

Congratulations! I am also only 5ft so well aware of how every lb shows. I haven't lost a roll. In fact, I seemed to have gained a more prominent roll, as the few lbs I did lose I lost from far too high up ;)

Congrats on lowering your HBA1C levels - that's wonderful! Tagging @daisy1 for a new members info pack as I see you are new here - it has lots of useful information in it.

Yes, tiredness was a big one for me when I had high blood sugars. Always exhausted and just not motivated to do anything. I didn't really realise until got blood glucose under control and saw numbers in 6s and 7s that I started feeling better. It's not that I suddenly felt energetic - it was...

I've told pretty much all my friends, to stop them trying to feed me pasta/rice/chocolate/food they know I love. And everyone is fine with it, and with my low carbing. But I'm not overweight or have the (totally unreasonable) obvious judgement factors that anyone could try and throw at me. It...

Hehe - I'm off to Texas in two weeks' time. But I'm giving myself leeway, as I used to live there and hence have my favourite restaurants to visit - I haven't been back in 10 years. But I do feel your pain, as without leeway it'd be extraordinarily difficult. I was just in NY and the temptation...

I agree with all the above advice, and highly rcommend the two hours after meals testing. My morning blood sugars are always high - with good day control and bad day control! I see you are a newbie - have you received the welcome pack? I'm tagging @daisy1 to send it - sorry if you have already...

Hi @jamesholly82 Just re-tagging @daisy1 because there was a typo in the original. The welcome info has lots of useful info, but yes, bananas are very high in carbs. Can't really help with ideas, as my breakfasts are bacon and eggs, and then I sit down in front of a computer and have lots of...

I think you’ve figured out by now that the identical meals you’re eating are having pretty much the same effects on your blood sugars. And those results are really very good! I sort of turned myself into a human pincushion in the first few weeks of monitoring, but once I figured out that I knew...