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Hi, when you do intermittent fasting, do you lose weight? My BMI is now 20.2. perhaps there's a way to fast that ensures you don't lose weight? I imagine I'll lose a bit more weight when I start getting more mobile again after being ill. I do think I'll.enjoy the discipline of fasting and I can...

I just tested again. 5.3 before eating and 6.2 two hours after. Total of 91g of carbs today, with no starchy veg or rice/potatoes/pasta as usual. To me, that indicates my sugars are well controlled by the diet. So I'm guessing the tiredness is something else?

I am going to try fasting when I've addressed the B12 deficiency and anemia and have recovered (I had pneumonia recently). I think I'll enjoy fasting. However, I hope I don't need to reduce my carbs. I know other people love it, but I truly did not enjoy it and can't see myself doing it for...

Thanks. I'll see what happens when I use the continuous glucose monitor. Also, it may be related to the B12 deficiency and anaemia I have at the moment. I'm pretty tired a lot of the time, but it flares up after meals.

Hi, the min carbs is 50g a day and max 90g. It's all weighed. It's mainly medditeranean. I hope it's not still too high as I tried keto a while.back before I knew about being prediabetic and I really didn't like it despite being a total foodie and someone who is well able to follow and stick to...

Hi, I've noticed that I become very tired right after eating. I'm on a lowish carb med diet and am using a BGM before eating and two hours after and this seems to be keeping me in a good range. Is it just old age, could it be the prediabetes, or is that unlikely??

Please let me know how you get on. I've been knackered the B12 group on Facebook that a friend recommended. The GP gave me B12 tablets, but the group pointed me towards NHS Nice guidelines that state that tablets are only suitable for those with B12 deficiency due to diet, mainly vegans who are...

Hi everyone. I've been on here before but had stopped testing while I recovered from pneumonia. I'm still not 100% but I am a lot better and back at work. I've started testing again. My fasting levels are in normal range, but only just--5.4 in the morning on waking. Is this something I should be...

Thank you. Good to know I should go with my gut on this occassion

Hi, thanks for the heads up with that. We mainly use olive oil but I had bought rapeseed oil as is in my new recipe book. I love butter and have it instead of margarine anyway and have done for years. I also enjoy ghee which I use for curries. I've got coconut oil which I use for making granolas...

Ok, that's good to know, I can do that. I also noticed yoghurt is on my hospital list of things to avoid. Realise I may have developed a slight addiction!

Hi, yes I'm starting to feel better, thanks. I've calmed down a bit! It's only 2 days of low fibre followed by a fast from 3pm.the day before the procedure with some laxatives, so I can survive on fish, eggs, cheese and chicken and will do without white bread, pasta or rice as I'm scared it will...

Hi, I've got a colonoscopy in a few weeks' time. Three days before, you need to go on a low fibre diet. You're allowed bread, rice and pasta but only if it's white. You can't have fruit or veg, nuts or seeds, red meat, yoghurt or any high fibre food. If I were well, I might take the chance to do...

Hi Outlier, that's good to know it's not all in my head with the water. I didn't realise carbs and sugars dull our taste receptors but will read up on that. Everything tastes different and things I didn't really enjoy previously, taste good now (courgettes; peppers, which I previously only liked...

69g carbs today and that's me done eating. I'm trying to stay fairly low carb whilst I try and get better. Once I've recovered, I'll start testing again. For example, I know some people can't deal with pulses, and I'm having small amounts of these just now. I'm trying to get plenty calories from...

Hi, thanks so much for the links! I'm weighing all my food and calculating the carbs in grams. The past week, my daily carbs have been between 34g and 62g. I've not been testing as I currently have a chest infection that isn't responding to antibiotics and steroids (two rounds so far) and folk...

Thanks everyone, this forum has been so supportive and useful. The nurse was nice. She kept referring to my lower carb diet as "extreme", but she did also tell me to Google Dr David Unwin and said all his patients had been able to go into remission from diabetes T2 or reverse prediabetes through...

Thanks..in that case I may not mention that I'm measuring my blood glucose levels to the nurse at all just now.

Hi, I found out I have prediabetes (HBA1c only 42) 3 weeks ago. Since then, I've been on a lower carb med diet with carbs sitting between 50-80g from day to day. I've cut all milk chocolate but have had two 10g squares of 90% Lindt in that time, straight after a meal. No alcohol or refined sugar...

Thanks @Melgar. That makes sense. I responded to the stressful situations with good diet/exercise/good sleep routine. My partner had a series of very unexpected health issues over a number of years, nearly dying many times. I did a lot of medical research (Google scholar, reading peer-reviewed...