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Good news, Mooncake! On both fronts - you solved your problem with your diabetes and the boyfriend's back.

I think food prices also depend on where you live quite a lot. Even within the UK, if you live in an inner city, it can take a lot of effort to buy healthy food at a reasonable price. That does apply whatever diet you follow, of course. I mean whether you LCHF or HCLF, you should be eating...

There's another way. If you get a reading like that, go to A & E, and when you see the doctor, tell them your GP won't refer you to the diabetic clinic. The A&E can refer you too, I believe. Also, see this NHS page about your care. It's practically the first sentence on the page that you will...

Sorry you haven't had such a good experience. So far I've been really lucky on the canula front. I only have problems if I actually yank on the tubing by accident, and sometimes not even then. I do think starting with a pump while you are pregnant must have been very, very hard work. I would...

Morning. 5.3 today.

Here you are, since you asked! I looked in my emojis to see if I could find a carrot and a stick, but no luck. So here's a slap and strawberry instead:[emoji112][emoji526]

Why don't you come and join our Regular Moderate Exercise Log. That'll help you to delay the onset of the D, or help to control it if it does develop?

Sometimes frustrating is the very definition of diabetes! But stick with it because sport is a major mood booster, and it helps to control your diabetes and reverse complications even. So don't change your plan!

In answer to the OP again. Something I forgot: LCHF is relatively expensive.

Ouch! Was that a sporting injury? I got a knee to hip bruise once by falling off my bike. It was spectacular after a few days. Today I walked for about forty or fifty minutes, split into two trips.

In Sheri Colberg's Diabetic Athlete, the very first case study is of a triathlete whose insulin:carb ratio for breakfast is 0.5:125. After breakfast and training, he eats again at 9:30 - 130g carbohydrate. That's his mid-morning snack. He also eats power bars, lunch and dinner. I don't think he...

I think ewelina nails it pretty well. If you tend to eat a consistent combination of foods and take a consistent bolus, you probably account for all the 'extras'. And I tend not to snack between meals so probably, if I checked, is find I'm only snacking when my bs is dropping because of some...

The more info the better ultimately, but I don't think its true that people start in one way and then can never change. That's a behaviorist view of human nature. People need info, motivation, skills, hope, and probably many other intangible properties to change. But they do change. Newly...

So, the advice not "completely wrong", then, Tim. It is probably wrong for a lot of people, depending on what the rest of their diet and activity is like, as well as how much residual insulin production they have, how much of a "muscle bank", etc, etc. The point is that there are many, many...

You have to deal with a fair number of people who combine being evangelical about their diet with being combative toward anyone who even demurs slightly. That seems to be the main one. Second, it's an exclusion diet. Exclusion diets have negative social effects as well as positive and negative...

Tell them you want to talk to them about a pump. Even if you don't want one, your GP will have to refer you then

This is why I am completely unconvinced of the low carb diet for Type 1s. I do eat carbs and almost never take more than 4 units of insulin anyway. And I don't find it necessary to take insulin for protein or fat unless it is in huge amounts (in which case I assume my body desperately converts...

Kateo, if you are Type 1, you should have regular appointments at the local diabetes clinic with an endocrinologist. There should also be a dietician and and diabetes nurse. You should have annual eye inspections and annual foot inspections - free. All your prescriptions should be free and your...

It has increased, but not by much.

You have the usual affliction of the "diet-causes-and-cures-everything" blinkered crew. Not one mention of physical activity. And diabetes, like cancer is epidemic nowadays because people don't die earlier of bacterial or even viral disease as they used to until the twentieth-century...