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    Diagnosed today, question about diet/pills

    Hi Blossom, my advice Hi Blossom, my advise is to forget about the medication for now, you don't need it. My second piece of advice is go to see the Diabetes Nurse prepared to ignore what she advises. If she advises you to eat lots of starchy grains (Bread etc) and starchy vegs, If she tells...
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    Has anyone tried the cook, cool and rest method with rice and pasta?

    Hi, I tried it with potatoes, heating and letting it go cold several times to be sure. 2 Hours after eating them my BG was heading for the moon. It don't work I'm afraid. At least not for me.
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    Carb Counting

    Hi, to do any real good you need to keep your CARBS below 50grams and even lower is better. A lot of people with T2 recommend 20gramms or less and believe me it is possible to reverse T2 by following a Low Carbohydrate High Fat (LCHF) diet because that is exactly what I have done. I am not going...
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    Carb Counting

    I not only weigh everything I consume, I keep a record of carbs, protein, fat, fibre and calories of everything I consume. People who say they can guess the wieght of a portion are only fooling themselves. It doesn't take much extra time and can be interesting and shows you what you are doing...
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    I sort of snapped yesterday...

    @Winnie53, no, just googled it again and it definatley quotes reheating starchy foods (chips),turns the starch into undigestable starch (Fibre type) but I will try it again just to be bloody minded :)
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    I sort of snapped yesterday...

    Hi, don't worry about it, I have been on LCHF diet for 38 weeks, out of all the things I ate previously, the only thing I missed was chips. I record everything I eat by carbs, protien, fat and fibre and calories. in 38 weeks my average daily Calories are 1191 and my average daily carbs 27. I...