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Filling up on veggies gives me stomach cramps, wind, heartburn and i never feel full on them!? I had similar problems before diagnosis when i tried slimming world as a route to weightloss. I am very overweight and getting in a real tizz now coz my efforts result in no weightloss eg. Enlisted use...

I have a real problem with over-eating, so i am trying to follow the diets recommended portion sizes. Atkins is really the original low carb diet and i prefer it coz it produces its own 'looky-likey' products - cereal bars, shakes and choc etc. So i can try to fool my emotional obsession with...

I have just started on the atkins diet. I am only on day 2 and already getting the emotional turmoil i have always got on a variety limiting diet. I am angry and sad and cannot make it go away!! I am also ravenous all the time and feel nauseous! And all this before the carbflu symptons kick...

Hi, my partner has had gd through two pregnancies. First time she got thru on diet and exercise alone, second time she was on insulin quite quickly. But both times, she was ravenously hungry all of the time and lost lots of weight - half stone lighter at 8mths than before pregnancy. Both...

I am borderline aneamic and pre-diabetic on metformin already though. I get similar sounding episodes, but my bro-in-law suggested dehydration and i think he has a point. Make sure you keep hydrated!!

I scored 47mmol and he said if i was 48mmol i would be diabetic. I didnt question the meds, i have had a very bad year - aneamia and sleep apnea on top. I am 16.5st and cannot lose weight. Too desolate and sad to care really!

Hiya, is it possible to feel your pancreas working? I have a sensation, within my upper abdomen cavity that is definitely linked to eating. It is like a fist pressing and tingling pins n needles, creeping. It started just before i started to have invasive tests to route out cause of aneamia 12...

The doc said i gained weight because of the pre diabetes - laying down loads of glucose as fat? My liver is making glucose at factory rates and my pancreas thinks i need sugar and so i crave. Thats wot i can remember.

I am very newly pre diabetic at 47mmol. I cannot lose any weight despite being on metformin and cutting all sugar out and exercising hard. How can you live on so little food? I only eat when i am truly hungry and cutting down too much just makes me feel really ill.

I have just been diagnosed pre diabetic with 47mmol test results. Not given any diet advice except I dont need sugar, and not refered for further clinics etc. I have stopped having any added sugar foods, and cut out white pasta/bread. I am 3 weeks on metformin (now 1500mg daily) working towards...