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Hi everyone, I have not posted here for years as I managed to get my diabetes into remission with l ow Carb vegetarian meals and stayed there for over 5 years. However, the last few weeks I have been sleepy after meals and my morning levels have gone from between 5 and 6 to 8.7 over a couple...

Hi folks, My HBA1c were 5.5% today and so I am really chuffed. However, I managed to get my weight well down after diagnosis in 2008 to 10 stone until this Christmas and have now put on half a stone that I cannot seem to shift. I low carb trying to keep to around 60g of carbs per day but i do...

I am having a moan here, just my luck :( Having recently started using this Granose Nuttolene product - a tinned peanut based protein for vegetarians which is also low carb - today it has disappeared from the shelves of my local health food shop. When I asked they said it was discontinued...

I had been searching for a better replacement than the cauliflower for low carb rice or couscous to go with my vegetarian dinner of Ratatouille and fried halloumi cheese. I tried the following tonight: small handful of pine nuts + a similar amount of sunflower seeds. I popped them into the...

I found a box of hemp flour in the health food shop and is says 20g per 100g. I know this is too high for baking but wondered if anyone had tried it for making cheese sauces for cauliflower cheese, where a couple of tablespoons say might be enough for a dish for 3 or 4 people. I find the low...

This study was done on MICE Today's blog from Jenny Ruhl of Blood Sugar 101 fame has something significant to say about using mice as models for humans in diabetic research. diabetesupdate.blogspot.com/ Perhaps we should be cautious here.

As a long term vegetarian and a low carbing one for the last year since I was diagnosed as T2, I have been looking around for a substitute for the pulses I used to eat all the time. I really miss my lentil curry and have to rely more on cheese and eggs for the majority of my protein now. I...

I get a low carb newsletter from about.com and it mentioned chia seeds - some wonder food used by the Aztecs or Incas in the past. It has been rediscovered in the past 10 years and is now being grown again. It is apparently low in carbs and high in fibre and protein. I wondered if anyone here...

I am a new member and diagnosed with type 2 before Christmas 2008. In the last few months I have been following a low carb diet but am also a vegetarian so that makes things more difficult as all vegetarian protein has some carbs. There are recipe books out there but you need to search online...