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There was at least one thread about this recently: http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/why-is-the-low-carb-programme-no-longer-free.128543/. My "take" on this, at the time, was that I saw no reason why diabetes.co.uk should not charge for this programme. It is not a charity or a government...

I'm sure @Rachox will answer but meanwhile, you might be interested in this: http://inspiralized.com/?s=butternut+squash. (This is not a "low carb" website, but some of the recipes are suitable.) So far, my two main adventures with butternut squash have been: a lasagna made with thinly sliced...

What is your advice for limiting kidney stones? I had never had them until this year when I went LCLF like you. From other threads, and this one, I get the impression we have a surprisingly similar diet. My kidney-specialist doctor seems good but when I told him about the recent diet change to...

Welcome to the forum. I am sorry you are having such a rough time. I haven't had a similar experience to yours so hesitate to give advice. I see that, on your own initiative, you are trying a low-carb diet. If I were you, it is something that I would want to discuss with my doctor first. It...

Welcome to the forum. Now that you have your test results online you need to have them interpreted by your doctor at your next visit. I am in America, like you. Your fasting blood glucose levels, on their own, are not nowadays usually used to diagnose pre-diabetes or diabetes in this country...

"She Took on Colombia's Soda Industry. Then She Was Silenced." "[Her] group had raised money, rallied allies to the cause and produced a provocative television ad that warned consumers how sugar-laden beverages can lead to obesity and diet-related illnesses like diabetes.[my boldface; snip]...

Well done in getting your HbA1c down from 14% (130) to a "pre-diabetes" 6.4% (46) level since June! Fantastic!!!! It is clear that you are not taking insulin; are you taking any drugs? Your low-carb approach is somewhat different to many of the others here (including me). Frankly it sounds like...

You are working on it and there is some experimentation at the beginning. It is good that you are using a meter. I don't, which means I just relied on a list of pretty-much "forbidden foods" which worked fine for me (see signature below). It is confusing at the beginning but gets easier over...

Speaking as a Type 2 who is immoderately fond of beer (and whose immoderateness may have contributed in part to developing T2 in the first place). My attitude is a bit like it was when (two decades ago now) I was a cigarette smoker. I never switched to "lite" cigarettes because I knew...

It sounds like you are ready for it. Coming to this forum might help, because we are here to support you as you re-start a familiar process. It is not easy at the beginning, and maybe even harder "the second time" if circumstances have forced you "off the wagon" (and your circumstances are...

Assuming you mean that you don't think you are suffering from depression, my suggestion would be to try to remember how you became motivated to do low-carb last time around. In my case it was because my doctor advised it ... and because I was scared, frankly. Those were both powerful...

I totally understand and the same thing would have happened to me in that situation. Diabetes is tough enough, even when other things aren't going on. It sounds like you may be suffering from depression. Have you discussed that with a doctor? Motivation is hard to come by if one is also "under...

Lentils, and beans. Have been eating (relatively small quantities of) both since going on low-carb nine months ago. Now realize they are quite high-carb. Only found out today when my wife asked whether lentils were "OK" and I checked. I won't cut them out altogether (because my long-term HbA1c...

Makes sense. My first reaction was that after the multiple surgeries, a loss in diet discipline is understandable. So if I were him, there is no point worrying about it and this would be the time to get back into the frame of mind from when he started the successful low-carb treatment...

Crossed posts, to some extent. @Serpico does say he is back on "my meds" which he earlier identified as Metformin and Glicalzide.

Welcome to the conversation (I say that because this seems to be your first post although you've been a member for 3 years). You have given a lot of useful information but I was wondering if you could give us an example of what you eat during a typical day? As for whether your GP should be...

Done. A-levels ... I dimly remember those.

I disagree. In the old days, I sometimes used to cook spaghetti, al dente, alone with nothing else except a little bit of butter and salt. I suppose it is not that different from eating bread without anything on it. It is not something that I would do with Anglo/American "loaves" of bread but it...

Here is one example of spiralized veggies, from the back cover of a cookery book I have here: More info at the author's website: http://inspiralized.com/.

Yes, I too drink the real stuff and grind it at home. That's what happens to my elderly father-in-law, basically every time I see him stand up. He is very unsteady on his feet for a few seconds. He knows that it is caused by hypotension. Perhaps the meds are badly dosed, who knows? He is...