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I normally eat fairly low carb - less than 60 grams most days. As well as being a type 2 I have fibromyalgia, arthritis and chronic fatigue. Yesterday I went out to lunch at Slattery's in Bury. It is a wedding cake maker place and is known to be chocolate heaven. I ate loads more carbs than...

For a good 5 years before I was a type 2 diabetic I would get shaky, sweaty and incoherent when I went too long without eating. Once diagnosed and using a bg meter I found that if my bg fell below 4.5% then I would go shaky, sweaty and incoherent. I was told by the doctor that they weren't...

Finally my doctor thinks that the way I'm eating - no more than 50 grams of carbs a day is good. When I first went low carb he sighed and said that as I'd lost 4 stone before by eating low calorie, why didn't I do that again. You see I'd put the weight back on because it's difficult to live on...

Yesterday I read this thread viewtopic.php?f=24&t=8913 on 'Why I don't follow a low carb diet', and it got me thinking. I follow a low carb diet, as do a lot of others, and I think if we put our reasons why we do so, then most of them would be exactly the same as the ones for not following...

I've been to see my doctor this morning, following the bloods that were taken a couple of weeks back by the nurse who had a go about not eating enough starchy carbs or taking my statin. My blood glucose was just under 8% in March and is now 5.9%. My LDL is up a little, but he said I could...

I know this might sound off-topic but I'm getting lots of neck and shoulder pain and interrupted sleep due to pillow problems and it does affect my bg control; apart from anything else it makes me depressed. :( I've spent a fortune on pillows over the years. The most recent being a £55...

I've been to see the Nurse for a Diabetes check this morning. She started off by telling me how wrong I was not to be taking a statin, even if my cholesterol is very low as a diabetic I MUST take a statin. Then we moved on to how bad a low carb diet was and where I could cut the carbs back...

If I am hungry in the night when does my liver dump glucose - immediately or when I get up (or there abouts)? I am on a low-carb diet which means that I'm in ketosis (I hope) most of the time - so where does my liver get the glucose from to dump? Or does it dump fat to burn? Thanks in advance...

Hi all, I've been a type two diabetic for over 10 years, but have found that following a 'healthy diet' my control has been slipping, which is more than can be said for my weight, so I'm now low carbing; losing weight and getting my blood sugar back under control. Type 2, and obesity run in...