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Apparently you die a horrible and painful slow death without Carbs, A bit like the death with Carbs.

So , had the results of my Hba1c, it’s down from 90 in Feb to 60, I’m classing that as a good result, the nurse is telling me I MUST, increase my carb intake, then she is going to give me more tablets to control by blood sugar. Gliptins or Glitozones, I think that’s treating the symptoms not...

Thanks for the advice, I will try a longer fasting period and see how I get on.

1 month LCHF (this time) just random testing, don’t generally bother in the morning It’s always higher, mainly testing 2 hours after food, or mid afternoon when I’m home from work.

Scrambled eggs with double cream for breakfast, salami and hard cheese for lunch, steak mushrooms and asparagus for tea.

I am taking 4 Sukkarto a day, 2 in the am 2 in the pm, I’m on a LCHF diet, but cannot get my blood sugars below 9.5, I took the Sukkarto for 4 months without the diet and my readings were all over 15mmol, I’m thinking I may not be T2, what does the forum think?

Then you start thinking about it, Food diary starts tomorrow. Thanks everyone.

Typical day, Bullet proof coffee, no butter, lunch, Gaucamole and olives, teatime steak or pork chops or lamb chops normally with 2 poached eggs. Pork scratching for a snack. Sausage bacon and eggs at the weekend for breakfast.

Yes, considerably I was down to 12 to 15 mmol just with diet, I thought the met would get me down below the 8.5

4 years, I did get back to pre diabetes through LCHF, before but a bit of carb creep and a bereavement has put me back, went on metformin at Christmas as I was testing at 25 mmol,

Thanks, will start counting protein see if I can make a difference that way.

Between 8.5 and 9.8, higher in the morning, not unexpected they always have been.

I am taking 2000mg of slow release metformin after my evening meal, I am eating less than 30 grams of carbs a day, I have been doing this for over a month, should I be able to get a blood glucose reading below 8.5 mmol?

Name and Shame.

Meat, cheese, BPC, nuts, green leaf veg. No bread ,rice ,pasta, no refined sugar, no chocolate below 85%, no Beer, proper low carb/ keto.

Had my blood test today, I know it’s high, not measuring below 9.8 m/mol, started metformin in December, changed to slow realise at New Year, 1000 mg with evening meal, still above 10 m/ mol . Had last 3 weeks low carb diet, Could I have something different to type 2?

The Spaniel is knackered, 8 hours in the field, BG down 2 points. Thanks for your support.

It was a bit of carb creep to start followed by a family bereavement, When I first started my downfall I was getting away with it, the more I got away with it, the more I pushed it, then stopped checking my BG And here I am,

Yes, LCHF, and leave the beer alone, also going to try and wear out an 18 month old Cocker Spaniel,

So I can’t remember the time scale, but I was once a type 2 in remission, I lost 3 stone in weight and became a pre diabetic, However life likes to throw mud and has been rather stressful for the last 26 months, I finally did a BG test yesterday with a result of 16.9 m/mol. I was aware that my...