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I just wanted to say that having discovered low carb food stores online my life has been transformed. Dreamfields pasta, low carb wraps (3g per wrap) and the occasional low GI chocolate have cheered me up enormously. It's the little treats in life that make all the difference sometimes. I've...

Hi Folks I've just been for the results of my annual diabetic check and was congratulated that my HBa1c was 6.4 on diet alone. All other results were good except that I am overweight BMI 29. The GP agreed that I am doing all the right things with low carb diet and exercise but my weight has gone...

Hi Folks The other night I had some strange BG results so thought someone on here might be able to explain them for me. I was out with friends and had scampi and chips in the pub (I know! :oops: ) and soda water and lime. Then after an hour we went off and played an hour of really hard...

I was talking to a friend who is Type 2 like me and he told me that Type 2s shouldn't eat more than 3 pieces of fruit a day. I eat about 5 apples, 1 banana (on my porridge) and maybe strawberries or some other seasonal fruit daily. I understood that eating whole fruit, rather than juice, was...

Hi Folks I've been diagnosed Type 2 for about 6 months and doing well on diet control. In the first 3 months I lost almost a stone and that helped my BG control considerably, however, my cholesterol remained high so I was put on statins. What interests me is that since I've been taking statins...

Hi Folks I've been diagnosed for 3 months and just received my baseline Hba1c result. It is 6%. What does that mean? Is it good, bad or indifferent? When I had it taken I had been on a low GI diet for about 4 weeks and before that was unaware so eating anything that wasn't nailed down! Hope...