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I understand your concern about processed foods, but you seem unduly concerned about sugar. Sugar is just another carb to me. I am more worried about the starch in batter, the carbs in beans and the starch in potato than the sugars added to them. It's the total carbs that count for my meter when...

Ssshhh! We're not supposed to mention them...the tourists are already scared of our snakes and spiders, we don't want to tell them the awful truth or nobody will visit.

G'day, howyagoin'?

This may help you understand what is happening: I Ate Nothing! Why Are My BGs high? There are some tips in that to help, but my first tip is to have breakfast reasonably soon after waking, to 'switch off' that liver dump.

Please reconsider that. Trying to manage this condition without testing to see what is going on after meals is like trying to cross a busy road blindfold. You might get to your goal, but the odds are against it. I wrote this to help you begin: Getting Started

I was on this forum some years ago. I think my last post was in 2009, but life got in the way and time became a problem. I hope I'll be forgiven for being AWOL so long. Some may know me from other forums. My name is Alan Shanley. I am an Aussie who was diagnosed in 2002 and went searching the...

G'day. I've been away from this forum for a few years but started browsing again today. Your title got to me, because I have been following a lower carb way of eating for over a decade now, as a type 2. I should clarify that. I actually follow a low-blood-glucose-spike way of eating but that...

G'day Ally. Those numbers are very high. What advice did the nurse give you to help improve your numbers? Were you prescribed any medication at all? While you consider your answer, I wrote some tips to help you begin using your meter and changing your menu for better results. I hope this helps...

Interesting thread. It's good to see the posts from the people who have had the flu and survived well. With your winter around the corner I don't want to unduly cause concern. However, you might find the explosion of the numbers for Southern hemisphere countries, especially Australia, over our...

From the rest of your post I'm hoping that was irony... You're right to be concerned about her, but I'd probably be more concerned about any of her customers who believe her.

Possibly. But my own experience, added to many reports from others I have met over the years, is that the pizza effect occurs when high fats are combined with high carbs. For this context "high-carb" is 45gm+. I noticed that the study you mentioned used 60gm. I realise that there are many who...

Not sure who you were addressing that to. According to my regular quarterly blood tests my liver - and my kidneys - are doing fine. All tests within normal range.

This is a quote from my blog entry on Travelling With Type 2. Never, ever, ring in advance to advise that you have diabetes and wish to have a "diabetic" meal. If you do, be ready to eat a meal that will commence with a bread roll, followed by a main of low-fat starch, with sides of starch...

Hmmm. My "units" seem to be a little larger. I average about a half-bottle daily. That's 300-400ml of good Aussie Dry Reds of various styles. Most of it is 14% or thereabouts. So your formula gives 3000/14 = 214. Based on that I am about 4 1/2 or 5 units. I am also taking 2000mg metformin...

If they have not actually been diagnosed yet, I think that both your son and your friend may need to see better doctors. A pre-meal reading of 7.3 is not non-diabetic. A competent doctor seeing that repeated as a fasting reading would diagnose full diabetes regardless of his A1c. Similarly that...

G'day Trink, nice to see you again mate (waving back). I don't drop in here often - you provide lots of good info here so I don't want to interfere too much. But I stir the pot occasionally :-) Do me a favour Trink, check out my latest blog page.

Thank you.

Just a few ideas on spikes, timing and testing for those interested (click on the coloured text): Test, Review, Adjust Blood Glucose Targets When To Test?

I keep trying to explain British understatement to Americans, and failing. You are obviously a master of it. Not good? :-D Here is a little light reading for you: Research Connecting Organ Damage with Blood Sugar Level Possibly you would get better results by reducing your carbs at lunch a...