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I was diagnosed in November 2015. After I visited the GP (for the first time in 7 years) with a case of suspected food poisoning, and was diagnosed as T2, I went up from the initial HbA1c reading of 14.9, to a high of 18.9 a week later. After 8 weeks I had dropped to 8.1, and gradually reduced...

Thanks all. It's only been a couple of days, but I'm happy to say not finding it too difficult to find stuff that I can eat at the office restaurant at lunchtime. For example, yesterday there was a nice tuna nicoise salad on offer, so I just had it with none of the potatoes. Today they had...

I'm newly diagnosed too - not even seen a practice nurse yet. However, through my initial investigations I did find some info on DESMOND at their project page.

Thanks. I like proper veg (i.e. not lettuce) and have had celeriac & cauliflower mash in the past - so I should be fine. Think I might try some cauliflower & cheese tempura or dumplings. I think part of the problem is finding new ways of getting the same sort of meals I enjoy now. Once I've...

Thanks. Will keep an eye out for both.

I think it's the pasta/gnocchi that I'm going to miss the most. I hoping that it will be easier to wean myself off the 'bad' stuff by steadily decreasing the amounts over the next few months rather than trying to go 'cold turkey' on day 1 - combined with finding the lower index/load pasta (i.e...

Hi all. Thought I'd get ahead of the game a bit and introduce myself on here whilst I'm waiting for my first appointment with the practice nurse on 14-Dec. I was only diagnosed after going to the doctor for the first time in 8 years, after a bout of what I think was food poisoning that stopped...