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Hi All, 2012 was a really bad year for me for a host of reasons and I came off the whole 'I have Diabetes' thing and did my world-famous ostrich impersonation. As a result, I regained all the weight I had lost, plus another 7lbs and my BSs are now high once again. So, new year, new start and now...

Hi. I made a mistake. I had managed to lose 3 of the 6 stones I need to lose, had got my Hb1Ac down to around 6 and had kicked out the gliclazide and was feeling oh so good and smug! So, when my life got complicated a few months ago, I ditched the diet, thinking, a couple of weeks off wouldn't...

Hi everyone, Have just read the Gary Taubes book and also a book by Barry Groves ('Trick and Treat') which is the best-researched, well-referenced book I've read since leaving academia a decade ago! In his book Groves p;oints out that some of the drugs diabetics take actually increase weight...

Hi. After completing 4 weeks of low carbing, I am now seriously desperate for some help. Started with 2 weeks at 20gms and lost over 8lbs but ketosis slowed and virtually ceased towards the end of week 2. Last 2 weeks at 25gms, ketosis very variable, sometimes seems to be moderate-high, other...

Hi. I'm into week 4 of this low carb lifestyle. Started on 20gms carbs for 2 weeks, bought the books and the ketone uristicks and found my rate of ketone production was quite low, but lost almost 8lbs and BS really improved. Week 3 raised my carbs to 25gms - lost just over 1lb. Now, still at...

Hi everyone. I've been reading and posting since early august, but never actually got round to inroducing myself. I'm a 58 yr old female, wife, mother of 1 daughter, now just a housewife. I was diagnosed T2 in mid 2001 with a BS of 30 :!: :!: All the women in my family have been overweight and...

Hi. This is only my 3rd post here but I do visit a lot and read all the very supportive and helpful posts, so I'm hoping that someone with more experience of low carbing can help me out please. Diagnosed T2 in 2001, (with strong family history of menopausal onset T2 in all female relatives over...

Hi. I'm new to low-carbing. Have bought several books and counters etc but can't find the answer to my particular problem. My books say that milk contains carbs because it contains lactose. So I got some lactose-free milk (can't live long without coffee and can't drink it black!!) but none of...

Hi. I have just joined this community. I was browsing the net, looking for something to keep me going for a while and found you. I am T2, diagnosed 9 years ago, can't take metformin (it makes me really ill), so currently taking pioglitazone and glicamide. My BS is always highest in the mornings...