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  1. dollydreamer

    What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

    7.4 this am ate some sprouting wheat bread at 9pm last nite with ricotta not bad considering it was in the 8's its coming down
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    Help

    have u tried myfitnesspal its a free app and you can log all yr food and exercise. since starting this as i needed to weigh food in order to log it, i realised that my portions were way out of control. it's really helped me to control my food intake and i'm not hungry and my bs is...
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    Type 2s: What was your fasting blood glucose in a morning? (very low chat level)

    mine was 6.8 this morning. im very pleased with it as ive been working hard to bring it down from the 8.8's im loosing weight too and generally feeling better about my food control can't wait to get to the 5's in a morning.
  4. dollydreamer

    What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

    7.2 fed up this morning, just had a sugar binge other news, i cant work out how to start a thread to ask a question. grrrr so fed up today
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    Type 2s: What have you eaten today?

    This seems really balanced to me. i'm having homemade green smoothie made with almond milk and low fat yoghurt, spinach, chia and golden linseeds, 1/2 avocado and 1/2 apple and stick of celery. i also mix in 20g of rye flakes lunch is lentil veg soup, 2 ladles dinner is pearl barley with...
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    Mrs May has her chips!

    WELL ONE THING IS FOR CERTAIN THERE WILL BE NO HELP ON THE NHS WHEN SHE AND HER MATES HAVE FINISHED WITH IT
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    Alpha Lipoic Acid

    im taking 600mg alpha linoic acid plus cinammon and bitter melon and chromium piccolonate together with usual meds
  8. dollydreamer

    What was your fasting blood glucose? (with some chat)

    i was 7.2 this morning. ive bought it down from 14 in 4 weeks struggling with binge eating after waking from a nap in the day. could my bs be too low then ? im looking for strategies to cope with this phenomena i get hba1c results next thurs
  9. dollydreamer

    Not a good week

    you and me both. ive been having a binge just now. grrrr. i cant understand why it takes hold of me. its over now but ive eaten quite a lot. and finished with 16 squares of fruit and nut chocolate. ive been eating to my meter recently and felt much much better but argh it got...
  10. dollydreamer

    Indian kino tree powder for type 2 diabetes

    auyverdic hi, i'm very interested in this, i've been taking co enzyme q10 and chromium with fenugeek and gotu kola and my bs improved so much that i've stopped taking victoza and bydeuron so am just on metformin now. for me, it has stopped the ravaging hunger and my blood sugars don't seem to...
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    Some advice needed please

    hi, what about victoza, you could ask the doctor about it. i took victoza for 2 years and i lost a bit of weight. i'm not taking it anymore just the metformin now cause i'm taking co enzyme q10 and chromium with cinammon tea and fenugreek which all help control blood sugar naturally...
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    If you take supplements, what do you take them for?

    hiya, i take co-enzyme q10 300mg and chromium complex plus a vit b complex high strength. for two years i have been taking 2 x 1000mg of metformin and victoza injections. since starting suplements (6 weeks ago) i have come off victoza and reduced metformin to 3 x 500mg and after my next...
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    VICTOZA users

    Re: VICTOZA have been on victoza first week at 0.6 no problems, upped last thursday to 1.2 and felt awful on saturday, really sick and the runs, then again on monday quite poorly like a chill. i'm finding that as its put me off my food, if i don't eat then that makes me ill and have the runs...
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    VICTOZA users

    Re: VICTOZA hi, victoza doing really well, still at 0.6 but no side effects at all, noticing complete change in eating habits, not hungry at all which is a real change, just on metform 1000mg twice a day, hope this will work and get down my weight. am quietly confident, oh and feel a lot less...
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    VICTOZA users

    Re: VICTOZA just started on victoza today, 0.6 for one week. feel ok but am not hungry like before, maybe this will work. i hope so have been on glicazide for a year and have put nearly 2 stone on. i'm now 130kg and need to reduce to around 90kg, do you think i can do it ?
  16. dollydreamer

    shaking

    hi everyone, am t2 on meds not very good control with diet i'm afraid - but i want to know what to do when i start shaking inside, at moment i have to eat and keep eating until the shaking subsides, which it does, is this a hypo ? only once has this happened when i was able to test and my bs...
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    diabetes getting worst over time

    hi oh god if only i could control my cravings, any ideas anyone. i've packed up smoking 2 years now so its not will power alone. i want to be in my body, not cut off from it so what do i do when my body is craving something yet i know that logically if i give into this craving then that won't...
  18. dollydreamer

    Long standing Type 2 husband - Lots of questions

    hi there i know how difficult it is to control eating - especially as i have an eating disorder and associated problems binge eating etc., some days i feel ok to control what i am eating and at the same time feel good about myself and the choices i am making then other days its like - i'm on...
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    doctors results

    hi there debbi hope you ok and you sound as though you are getting to grips with everything. yes its really great here, the people post all good sound advice and are very positive. Catherinecherub and synom are especially positive. i've got the collins little gem carb book, its brilliant. a...