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Hello Juders, I'm so sorry you have had to add your dismay at the appearance of your hands to the burden of T2 diabetes. The person who said you had the hands of an 80-year-old was spiteful/malevolent/ totally tactless and incapable of empathy. (I don't care if it was your mother, that would...

In the US, a random or a fasting bg of 5.6 or over are both taken to indicate pre-diabetes. The WHO & NHS set the bar higher. So a random test is not imo totally useless, but a fasting test recorded every morning before eating or drinking anything except water can be very useful, as are tests...

Geymalkin, thanks very much for this masterly account of the fructose problem. I learned a lot from it. I do already avoid fructose like the plague. I don't even eat berries, though I'm sometimes tempted, especially now that blackberries are ripe in my garden! It's good to be reminded WHY...

There are only 3 macro-nutrients: carbs, protein and fat. If you drastically cut the carbs and don't replace them with more protein and/or fat (preferably both) you are adopting a drastic low calorie, almost starvation diet. It is hard to eat more fat, as this is going against decades of...

Well done! You obviously deserve your excellent numbers.

Good grief, what an awful time you have had! Do you think you are on the way back up now? Good luck!

I think this may be the explanation for your higher than desired A1c. If you can bear to, you could try the experiment of reducing your carbs further. Everyone is different. Some can tolerate more carbs than others. Myself, I try to keep down to 10 net carbs = c. 20 total carbs daily...

Do you know how many grammes of carbohydrate you consume in a day? (Food and drink.)

Lots of questions - I hope you don't mind. Would you feel like experimenting with further reducing the carbs? I and a lot of other people here consume only 10 net / 20 total carbs in a day so perhaps only a few more carbs than in your one meal. Are you counting net or total carbs? What was...

I am so sorry you are having such a horrible time. Not being heard is, perhaps, even worse than not being helped. No wonder you feel desperate. Assuming you are in the UK, did you know that under the NHS you have the right to be referred once, free of charge, to any consultant you choose...

Jaylee, I was talkng about (my) ancient history (before the pandemic, and then some). Its no use living in the past. I only mentioned it to encourage Emily May. I have seen others report that their bg would keep on rising in the morning, and the only thing that halted the rise was...

Hi Jaylee, these days I don't test very often. Because of the delay I have described, in order to get a meaningful picture I would either have to test at least every hour, or spash out on a cgm. I have decided there is no point. I test fasting every morning without fail. After that, I am...

Yes, it is a struggle, at the beginning I used to think how much easier it would be just to stop eating altogether! But just think how much better off we are than people with other health problems. We can access lots of info, and morale-boosting videos and books. We can get blood glucose...

I checked, and Stornaway black pudding contains 20.5gc per 100g. Sadly, that would more than use up my carb allowance for a whole day. I would like to eat black pudding, but I have never been able to find one that fits in to my carb plan.

Thanks, but I don't see the point of eating sausages that give me 1g carb per 100g when I can eat pork mince with 0gc. It's easier to cook, too. I love the idea of sausages, but the reality imo doesn't live up to the fantasy. Same goes with bacon. Pork mince fried in lard plus lots of salt...

Confusingly, my bg can have dropped to eg a gratifying 4.8 2 hours after a meal, only to rise 4 hours after. Even more confusingly, this pattern is not consistent. I just hope I never reach the point of injecting insulin to cover my meals, as it would be a nightmare.

Where do you find your black pudding?

Having been disappointed in the not very tasty lowest carb sausages I could find: (Finnebrogue Naked Pork Sausages @ £9.38 per kg 0.2g carbs) I discovered I much prefer Waitrose's Essential British Pork Mince 8% Fat @ £5.50 per kg. 0g carbs. My lazy cook's strategy would be to fry little...

For those of us who can't face the faff, I heartily recommend the Hunter Gather brand of mayo. The one based wholly on olive oil has zero carbs per 100g and the one based wholly on avocado oil (Avocado Oil (81%), Pasteurised British Free Range Egg Yolk (9%), Apple Cider Vinegar, Pink Himalayan...

Regrettably, I loathe the taste of sardines, even disguised in fish cakes. However you have inspired me to try again with extra mature Cheddar grated, and maybe some other strong-tasting spice. (Suggestions?)