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I can kind of see where they're coming from given the way they're controlled and measured. Health service managers presumably want to show a clear cost/benefit analysis. So e.g. statins are relatively cheap drugs that have a clear impact in terms of percentage reduction in heart attacks and...

Yep. I don't really mind doing that, but what about the people who can't afford it? Do they just get told to take their pills and shut up?

Yep, I tried that. She wasn't having any of it. 'A1c is the only test that matters' etc.

Just had my request for prescription test strips turned down. Initially on the grounds that 'you don't need them.' When pressed, 'we're not allowed to prescribe them to people on Metformin, they're only to prevent hypos in people on insulin or sulphonylureas or other hypo-causing drugs' As far...

Yep sorry, should have made it clear that was @Kerr1992

I did a review of the current x-pert course here (Trudi Deakin's comments on her current views are just up thread) http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/now-the-x-pert-advice-is-low-carb-high-fat.70271/page-12#post-737356 The main problem on mine was the "Eatwell Plate" thing and I got the...

To me the first thing to do is make sure that my diabetes is controlled, which means controlling carb intake and getting to a low body fat percentage. So I only consume calories consistent with getting my body fat under say 10% and carbs consistent with what my meter is telling me. Building...

I've just completed week 2 of the x-pert course based on v10 of the handbook. Here's my feedback, in the hope that it's useful. We did nutrition this week. Generally the instructor has been pretty good in my view and given the composition of the class. She's made it clear that advice on fats...

I don't seem to get this. Quite the opposite in fact. My lowest BGs seem to occur after getting back from the gym at weekends (25 mins fast walk each way plus an 60-90mins of barbell abuse) I'm type 2 and on Metformin 2x500g/day which I gather may discourage the liver from dumping glucose into...

I guess the level of control required to manage your sugars means that the 'bulk' part of the cycle doesn't necessarily have the implication of indiscriminate lard acquisition that 'bulking' has in the general bodybuilding community?

Sure. What I was questioning was the idea of a bulk / cut cycle as practiced by bodybuilders to maximise muscle growth. In particular the concept of 'bulk' one generally encounters along the lines of 'eat to grow and don't worry too much about surplus calories, you'll lose them during the cut phase'

Do you think it make sense for a diabetic to think in terms of bulk/cut, given the need to keep blood sugar levels stable? I'm pretty new to being diabetic, but my immediate instinct is to wonder about that ...

The decade-long thread linked below seems to be the best one on bodybuilding.com (I'm Caractacus on there too) http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=485093 Although it's for Type 1, it's got a lot of useful info for Type 2's as well. Maybe a bit too concerned with supplements rather...

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone :)

Age 54, diagnosed a couple of weeks ago. Actually don't know for sure yet because I was too taken aback to ask the Doc, but I assume it's type 2 unless I find out otherwise. Will ask when I have my 'diabetes for dummies' RN session next week. I've found the 'what to ask the diabetic nurse'...