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As the rhubarb season is about to start I am looking forward to eating the stuff again. We do grow quite a lot and it's good to know it's low carb, we live in the Rhubarb triangle too! I have had half a grapefruit for breakfast for as long as I can remember so intend to keep going with that for...

Thank you Robbity for such practical advice. You make the whole low carb issue seem much more relaxed and achieveable. I don't need to lose weight and my weight has stayed within a couple of kilos according to season for over 6 years. Prior to that I was a weight watcher for 40 years until I...

Thank you all for your replies, you've told me what I suspected. It basically amounts to having an allergy to carbohydrate and explains why thin people develop T2. In fact a diagnosis of borderline diabetes is potentially as serious as one of Type 2 and means one has to be careful about carbs...

Being overweight is usually seen as the main risk factor for T2 but in reality which came first, obesity or insulin resistance? Just being curious really.

Thank you Daisy for your helpful advice. I think you are too polite about the NHS not being able to give the advice 'it would like to deliver'. Whenever I have seen the diabetic nurse she has quoted the Eatwell Plate. I was probably being too simplistic but I pointed out that even when I was a...

Thank you Freema. Actually counting the carbs is going to be tricky to start with, a bit like counting calories which I have always felt was a faff. I suppose it becomes easier the more you do it but the quantities you give are helpful, thanks. It's obviously worked for you anyway going by your...

Hi Chris, thank you for your reply. interesting that you say you have a problem with fruit as well. My main problem is that we grow an awful lot in the garden and last year had a bumper crop of most things. I was really shocked at how much apples raised my glucose levels, not to mention plums...

I've been borderline diabetic for 6 years and for how long before I wonder? The HbA1c has hovered around 43 for the past 2 years and I bought myself a meter. Now I find my fasting finger test is anywhere between 7 and 7.6 mmol/l and I'm increasingly concerned. I see the diabetic nurse each year...

I've been borderline diabetic for 6 years and for how long before I wonder? The HbA1c has hovered around 43 for the past 2 years and I bought myself a meter. Now I find my fasting finger test is anywhere between 7 and 7.6 mmol/l and I'm increasingly concerned as I think this means I already...

I wasted over 40 years [and £££] as a weight watcher and it was only 6 years ago that I finally had the scales lifted from my eyes when a month into yet another WW return I turned up to a class and a dim witted clerk was reading a trashy magazine and taking the money, all the time with a hand...

Thank you for your reply. There was a time [a long time ago!] when I would have gone along with everything a doctor said, bowing to their superior knowledge, but now I tend to query just about everything and do my own research where I can. This started when I had an NHS MOT and the HCA found I...

Will try that, I actually have vast quantities of raspberries and blackcurrants in the freezer so this is a way to use them up. I would never have guessed there were so many carbs in fruit. I actually really like Greek yogurt eaten any way.

Thanks Sally and James, I will read both these as you suggest. A new year and I'm realising that I've been messing about for far too long without lowering my carb intake. It's a whole new learning curve as it isn't just about losing weight, which I don't need to do. I'm currently trying to...

It was 160/90 originally but these days hovers around the 120/70 mark, but in the surgery can rise to 170! So definitely a White Coat patient! Trouble is they say medication is for life and I've never dared to test it. I felt so angry and frustrated at the diagnosis at the time, wishing all...

I'm a great fan of Kendrick and what he says re. cholesterol etc but admit I haven't actually heard that one, I'm sure he's right though. It was Kendrick who taught me to question just about everything the nannying NHS dishes out. [Cue a big argument with my newly qualified junior dr...

That's what I said to the HCA when she did an MOT 6 years ago and the bottom line was that it was genetic probably as there was no other obvious reason. But that's the way it often is I understand, you don't have to have a red face, be overweight or have steam coming out of your ears ! I...

I feel this is rather a silly question but I'll ask it nonetheless. I realise high blood pressure is a risk for T2D but does this still apply if one takes medication and has it well controlled? The fact is that if one completes the QRisk online you are asked if you take meds for hypertension and...

You've come to the right spot. Ask as many questions as you like and you will get the answers here.:)

Thank you Guzzler and Bluetit, you have really given me food for thought: sorry - bad pun! Very interesting what you say about the '5 a day', why am I not surprised that it was thought up by the food lobby: Californian in this case. What it boils down to then is don't believe anything that the...