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35g choco shreddies and semi skimmed milk and a banana/ What SW call FREE. I made rice pudding using diet cream soda and candarel= scrummy A frittata type thing. Spring onions, mushrooms, onions, peppers + ripped up 100% beef beefburgers , Sprayed with frylight and all in a foil covered dish in...

Haven't been on here for a year or so. Used to low carb but could not maintain this way of eating.Started the Slimming World way of eating (it is not a DIET) I lost 3 stone and never, ever feel hungry. I eat all the things I enjoy including fruit , bread, pasta, cheese, wine even chocolate...

Evidently because we have compromised immune systems / endocrine disorder we can get parotitis. Has anybody else developed this? Mine appeared on Friday out of the blue. Looked like mumps on one side. Dr said it could be a stone/ infection. Antibiotics haven't started working yet. I now have...

On another thread I said I was going to try to re-introduce more carbs into my daily allowance. BUT I guess it was the Christmas wobble. Tasted some and wanted more. Found that for me this just does not make diabetic sense. BYe bye granola, bread, fruit etc (again!) My numbers were getting so...

Quite often my highest reading of the day is the one first thing in the morning .(I aim for 70g carb per day) I have tried taking it while I'm still in bed which helps slightly but if I wait until cats are fed and the coffee's on it's usually higher. I tried; Late night carby crackers Late night...

I was idly searching the bit on diabetes.co.uk test strips etc-they offered 50 strips for £22.75 If you go to Spirit - healthcare yourself the same strips are offered at 50 for only £12.75 which is a huge difference and what I always pay. Does anyone know why there is such a huge discrepancy? I...

Following suggestons on this forum I asked for a copy of my last blood test results before I see the Dr tomorrow. I had already seen the DN but another DR had checked my blood test result and asked for a repeat HbA1c I can see for myself why they asked for a repeat HbA1c test. Mine was 7.9%...

Slightly nervous-new nurse- mine is on maternity leave. DN extremely positive and all for low carbing. I was disappointed my fasting was 7.9 this time as opposed to 7.4 last time when I have been trying so hard with low carbing. BUT after my failed cardioversion the tablet I was taking has...

Took your advice WhitbyJet. I am now the proud owner of a breadmaker. I'm going to try my first loaf to-day. I thought it best to do each recipe in the leaflet first. So I'm going to start with ordinary white bread etc.The family can be the taste testers for that one. Out of interest where is...

Just need to let off steam for a few minutes. I seem to spend half my life having blood tests done at the surgery because I'm diabetic and because I take warfarin. Blood tests never seem to coincide so sometimes it can be 3/4 visits a week. I had a phone call to-day from the surgery to say that...

Cold weather starts and all I want are those things I can no longer have when I lower carb. I was doing really well until to-day. I succumbed to two slices of hot buttered toast with marmite for breakfast. Post 2 hrs I was 13.7 ! Lesson well and truly learnt not to stray off the straight and...

We are told not to leave asking for a prescription unless we absolutely need it and not to leave it untill the last minute. Therefore I hand in my repet prescription about 2 weeks before I need it in case I can't get to the surgery etc etc I was dumbfounded when I handed the latest request in to...

I can be sitting or lying and my toes will go stiff and splay/split into two groups. I then have to wait for the stiffness to disappear so that I can bend them etc. It's a very odd sensation. After reading some of the material on here and in another series of books I was wondering whether this...

I stopped drinking red wine when my sister moved in - she kept drinking it! I suddenly developed a taste for white wine - she didn't drink it. I find Linot Pinot Grigio (4g carb per 5 fl oz) helps my BP . Stress of sister drinking my wine is reduced. No adverse effect on BS as long as I count...

I am a recent convert to lower carb management of BS. Using different low carb cookbooks and have only recently obtained a copy of the South Beach Cookbook. American cookbooks are great once you convert where necessary but make my head spin at times trying to find / substitute certain...

I've been a type 2 diabetic for several years. First of all it was diet and lose weight, then one metformin and then 2. During all this time my weight has been up and down. One year I lost 4 stone. Then I put it back on. I have never attended because I have never been offered an education...

I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in approx. 2006. I was diet controlled and then put on Metformin twice a day. Meter and test strips refused. I developed cardiomyopathy and atrial fibrillation just over a year ago. Two cardio-versions failed and I'm now on medication. BUT while I was waiting...