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Have you considered that support forums are not designed for people who are happy and have good outcomes and those who do generally dont write and complain about it. When people are unhappy with a professional or trades person most will complain and moan to all their friends, work mates and...

The Endo that was in charge of my local Hospitals diabetic unit was all in favour of lc diets I dont know his stance on fats though and I think that is still the contentious part. So not all HCP's are anti anything, Ive always found doctors quite happy to listen to what I have to say but Ive...

I dont and never have counted calories but have a firm belief that cutting down on the amount of food you eat is the way to lose weight. I also find as others have said that when I eat more fat I put on weight, I love cream but if I eat it every day I start to put on the pounds, the same with a...

Metformin doesnt work instantly meal by meal like fast acting insulin does, metformin works over a 24 hour period and for best results should be taken twice a day, morning and evening with food ie with breakfast and an evening meal. I dont suppose it makes a huge difference you taking it three...

I found being on insulin for 12 months was a great help to me as it got my bg levels in the non diabetic range after a few weeks which must have helped stop further damage to my pancreas but of course it didnt help me lose weight that was down to the 60g of carbs I ate for most of that year ;)...

I think that in T2's insulin resistance is the cause of pancreatic over load and when our pancreas is overworked it causes damage so even after reducing insulin resistance our mileage may vary depending on how long we had insulin resistance for, how high it was and and how much damage it caused...

The real problem is that there are as many different types of LC diet as there are people who have successfully used them, you use the term LCKD but Ive never knowingly been in ketosis in my life, but, I lost over 5 stones (70lbs) in weight and have maintained that weight loss for over 7 years...

Having read your question and all the comments so far I would just like to say that no one has asked you how you feel about it? Are you happy that your newly diagnosed son should go away with relative strangers who apparently know little about your sons condition, maybe not even how to treat a...

I would doubt that your husbands insulin is responsible for making him feel "weak and lethargic" those symptoms are generally associated with high 'blood glucose' (bg) levels, I used insulin for a year after diagnosis and only ever felt lethargic at the very beginning when my bg levels were in...

My point is that even knowing that smoking kills many thousands of smokers just dont care and thats the same with diabetics whether they know or not, some people want to help themselves but others sadly just dont. I believe that to think that given different info outcomes would be vastly...

Which kind of proves my point doesnt it and shows that you were proactive in your diabetic care, the truth is that most just like smokers couldnt care less or dont want to hear the truth. I was born in 1951 and by the time I was 12 or 13 and started smoking the cancer/COPD link to smoking was...

I believe that the truth is that people like the majority of the members here are the very small tip of a very large iceberg and proactive T2 diabetes patients are a rare breed who stand apart from the mainstream, of the rest, some feel they should do something but then cant commit to a...

I was prescribed Gabapentin among a long list of other drugs to try to control the nerve pains I get from arthritis of the lower spine, it didnt work for me and I was transferred on to other drugs,,,,,,,, many other drugs. But for the 2 or 3 weeks that I was taking it I never noticed any rise...

Im not sure why people worry about definitions like cured, remission and reversed, dont we have enough to worry about in life as it is, why look for something else. Maybe ignorance is bliss but Im just happy that Im well controlled, thats enough for me.....Check my avatar ;)

So they are going to charge people to tell them they should be eating a lchf diet! Similar advice has been free on here for the 8 years I have been a member, why would anyone pay for it? I have never been a fan of diet gurus, low carb or otherwise, as they are usually selling something, either...

You could always go for one of those curly Cumberland sausages... Now that would be a breakfast of champions ;)

Yes your right I googled it and took the figure for 100g not 1 sausage should have been 309 cals for 2 x Lincolnshire sausages. My bad :)

If you want to know if your cured try eating a couple of potato waffles in a thick white bread sandwich and wash it down with 500ml of an energy drink of your choosing and test your bg levels 2 hours later, thats if your not fast asleep by then ;) Congratulations on your great control, you may...

Ive always tested 2 hours after the last mouthful of food, if I tested 30 minutes after the first mouthful Id still be eating!!

The only thing you need to consider when eating a fried breakfast every day is the calories. 2 fried eggs.......................160 2 back bacon slices...........140 2 sausages.........................600 Total..................................900 calories and thats just 2 eggs, 2 rashers and 2...