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I agree with above advice. When diagnosed, my GP immediately tested for type 1/LADA because I'm not what he'd considered to be a normal T2 candidate -'young' (just shy of 40 at the time, but happy to be called young!), not overweight. I lost 7 lbs when I started a very low carb (less than 20g a...

I am eggs every morning too person so I know a huge variety of egg combinations, which is possibly not helpful. However, even though it goes against my ingrained definition of ‘breakfast’ I occasionally do a cold meat and cheese, olives, mushrooms, roasted peppers which is yummy. I have...

It hasn't been for me. I was never put on meds or offered meds. I had a high of 89 HBA1C, was told to 'eat better, exercise more' and come back in 3 months. I exercised more. Three months later HBA1C was 76. Oddly enough, the advice was the same, as whatever I'd done was doing something. I knew...

Are you secretly my twin...? I’m 5ft short. 8st-ish. Family history of diabetes. My GP has been fine with what I’m doing with a low carb diet, eating and adjusting to meter reading and has seen it works. He does always say though that I am not his average diabetes patient...!

Two meals! I'm on hols soon, and never knew this. I want two meals ;) I usually just eat the bits I can from aeroplane food and leave the rest. Which is sort of what I did all my life from young - it's just the bits I choose now have changed. :p The joy of travelling in my family of four is...

I do sympathise. I don’t fit with preconceptions either - not being overweight and being apparently ‘young’ (41 now... but nice to be told that!). And my diet seemed ‘healthy’ - brown bread, veggies, fruit. My GP does emphasise that diabetes happens to a broad swath of people, or at least he...

Big, big hug to you. I was diagnosed with prediabetes 5 years ago and yes, still have moments of thinking it’s not fair. I’m 41 and have been losing my hearing for 20 years and had a major struggle controlling carb intake last year causing HBA1C to skyrocket into the 70s/80s (I know what to do -...

Yikes! I’m impressed you lasted that long. I dutifully went to the one-day one offered when I was diagnosed 5 years ago. Instead of the 4 weeks of 2 hours that was the alternative. Absolutely no disrespect to the others who were there, but I sat there feeling like I’d wandered into the wrong...

Yep, that’s what happens to me. Every stupid day. Unless I have carbs for breakfast and then it just stays high. I expect a drop of around 2-3 mmol between breakfast and afternoon. And by evening I’m usually lower than that too. It makes for interesting graphs if you’re tracking numbers. I do...

The new member information that @daisy1 will provide when she posts on this thread is invaluable, and explain things a lot better than me, though there's lots of good advice above already. Just wanted to say - absolutely, that's a great improvement and things will continue to improve and...

I'm following a low carb diet generally without salad. I buy it with the best of intentions. And most of it ends up being eaten by the rabbits, who feast on a very impressive bowl of veggies that were meant to go with seafood or steak or something. I eat lots of low carb veg, though - usually...

Yep, the mmol/L is the correct one.

Welcome! I know it’s a big shock and lots to take in and we’re all at different stages of the journey here but gradually you will learn and find out what works or doesn’t work for you. I’m hoping the GP visit will help. There are lots of people and threads on this site that are really helpful...

I have a very different story to yours. However, just wanted say well done for realising that you've had tons conflicting advice and for continuing to look for a solution instead of just following it all blindly and it turning into a spiral of more and more problems. You’ve had lots of...

I'm a "when it goes blunt" type of person too. Which is usually when my fingers start to look like they've been forced to hold a tiny but squirming hedgehog. So really, I ought to change lancets a bit more often than that, now that I think about it...

That is an amazing result. Well done! Yes, absolutely you should be pleased. You are well on your way! Not sure what you did to get there so I have no advice, but whatever it was it’s obviously doing something :)

Well done on the reduction and giving up smoking! I had a drop from 76 to 48 in three months, due to low carb eating, which essentially for me was cutting out bread, pasta, sweets, potatoes. Wasn’t put on any meds so don’t know what the effect of meds is/isn’t firsthand. But I do know a lot of...

All the above is excellent advice: please eat better for a T2 and not necessarily less. Your food yesterday didn't sound like much food to me, so less than that would depress me... ;) Welcome to the forum, have a good search around, and there's pretty much always someone who has had similar...

Congratulations! That’s an amazing result!

Congratulations! That’s an amazing result!