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I don't have a CGM and never test immediately after eating, since how high the glucose will go depends upon the GI of the food and the speed of the initial insulin response - neither of which are that important to me, since non-diabetics also get short glucose spike at that time and what I'm...

Hi, I'm a 73yo male Type 2 diabetic in remission for over 4yrs. Your BMI is either on the hi side of the healthy range or the low side of the overweight range depending upon your ethnicity. Your spot BG figures don't tell the whole story, but look good to me (low enough to keep you in remission...

While supplements such as this may possibly be useful for Vegans, anybody serious about nutrition will know that the quantity of total protein or iron or other vitamins and minerals in something often bears little relation to the amount absorbed by the body when we eat it. The bio-availability...

There are about 40 different things which can affect your Blood Glucose levels, food is just the major one. Others include: Injury Illness Stress Lack of sleep Exercise Medications including statins and steroids Time of day - see 'Dawn Phenomenon'

Short answer is no because we don't all react the same to sweeteners just like we don't all react the same to the same quantity of the exact same carbs. Plus some hate the taste of certain sweeteners, some find they get 'the trots' and some have a pet dog and so avoid Xylitol because it's...

The ADA is a notoriously bad support site for diabetics, especially for Type2. They are sponsored heavily by both pharmaceutical companies and also food & drink companies who prefer people to use their products rather than be healthy. A few years ago, the ADA CEO was a Type 2 diabetic in...

I don't believe that the 1hr post prandial figure could be relied on. It may be too soon after the highest figure which is usually in the first hour after eating. For example, if you ate a lot of complex carbs or carbs with fat then that first high is delayed compare with just eating bread or...

Your body is your own, we all react differently with regard to carbohydrates so far as both blood glucose and weight loss (or gain) is concerned. I both normalised my Blood glucose and lost weight on a low carb way of eating without consciously cutting calories, in fact I lost 30lbs (from 12st...

I wasn't going out on the road, but after I was diagnosed with T2 I used to boil up batches of eggs (hard boiled) to supply a few day's worth of breakfasts at a time. Just keep in fridge until required.

When it starts varies from person to person. as does how long it lasts for if you stay fasting. Just like how we react to specific amounts of specific carbohydrate food varies also, which is why there is no specific types of carbs or quantity of carbs that will reverse T2 diabetes and hence the...

My experience, and that of some others in this forum, is that being in ketosis or fat adapted does not fix the Dawn Phenomenon (or Foot on the Floor) straight away and that it can take moths (years) to become unnoticeable. What I and many others found is that if we don't eat it may continue to...

Provided that you are not cutting down on calories, just cutting carbohydrates, then it's unlikely that you are losing weight too fast. How long exactly have you been Low Carbing? It varies a bit from person to person, but most people on low carb don't lose more than around 1kilo (2.2lbs) per...

An alternative approach is the one I used. I started out by going Low Carb and only introduced fasting when I had already got to the point where I was able to use my own body fat as fuel instead of eating extra calories. At this point I was no longer hungry in the mornings, so started skipping...

Insulin Resistance isn't just a Type 2 thing. As I said, it can affect Type 1's too giving them so-called 'double diabetes' and it can also affect Type 3C or those with a damaged or missing pancreas. Overall, it is very common, and as I said almost universal in Type 2's.

Hi @Melginty13 Insulin Resistance is associated with Type 2 Diabetes (it is thought to cause Type 2 Diabetes, but I don't want to delve into cause and effect here). Most Type 2's start off by producing more and more and more insulin due to the Insulin resistance as the body desperately tries to...

Hi @Wandawoo and welcome to the forum. Your doctor is correct, in the UK the HbA1C starting level to signify 'pre-diabetes' is 42. Neither has you HbA1C reading 'jumped up' an increase of 2 is only just outside the accuracy of the measure - so there is no need to be concerned! You appear to...

Back in 2010 Type 2 diabetes was almost universally considered to be incurable and progressive. Since the several methods have been shown to reverse T2D in various studies. But note that BG monitoring is essential since you are on Gliclazide (as it would be if on Insulin). The main one that...

That sound like a plan, but do involve your health care provider - just to stay safe!

Points; 1. & 2. Actually, @KennyA is an example of someone who developed diabetic neuropathy while still having a 'pre-diabetic' HbA1C, so his doctor said it could not be due to diabetes. However, I'm not sure if it could have been due to brief highs (TIR), people get neuropathy (sometimes)...

Hi @pat firth and welcome to the forum. Unfortunately, unless you know which units that HbA1C result was measured in, I can't tell what a reading of 7.3 means. You say you have a tg level of 208- do you mean a Blood Glucose (BG) level of 208 (which would seem to be consistent with the units for...