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8.6 this morning. Inching towards acceptable...

8.9

8.7 just now

Thank you. I've had type 2 for around 10 years now. At first I was really good but that slipped quite badly. Ironically it's the short term danger of Covid 19 has helped me refocus myself on tackling the long term risks of diabetes. On 15 April my fasting BM was 15.6. This morning it was 9.2...

Can I ask a question? What would the target range be for overnight fasting BM for a diet controlled Type 2?

Thanks, I'm trying to focus on the fact that doing that exercise must have a positive outcome somewhere along the line but it did feel like a slap in the face.

Morning all. This is me -Type 2 on no meds, about 9 years from diagnosis and a bmi of 25.2. Haven't had a HbA1c for ages. Generally bumble along with fasting bloods a little too high. Work has been stressful of late and there's been a lot of group comfort eating of home baked cakes. Fasting...

My GP has no qualms telling me to lose weight for my health. He's right- I should. My BMI is 26 at the mo. Looking at him, his is significantly higher, and it isn't muscle. Can't help feeling that that would reduce the impact of the message for a lot of patients...

That reminds me of a restaurant I went to near Paris. Nothing fancy; it was in a shopping centre. I had a plated salad which was a plate filled with beautifully prepared and arranged salad veg. Very thinly sliced cucumbers, beetroot (nor picked), radishes and toms. Julienne carrots and celeriac...

Aubergine Parmigiana (probably spelled wrong) is my absolute fave but love most veggies. Prefer the veg to the protein when it comes to a big roast dinner. Steamed broccoli and cauli and ribbons of carrot with green beans and peas and a good gravy and you can keep the roast. That was how I felt...

Never seen a ghost but have had an experience that only makes sense in the context of some sort of paranormal factor. When I was in my early 20s I was at work in an office in London. Due to return back to my college town for a visit (had graduated the previous autumn). I had a friend there who...

I'm on my holidays and catching up with a bit of reading. The two books I've got on the go at the mo are John Yudkin's Pure White and Deadly and Nina Teicholz The Big Fat Surprise. Both look at the evidence base for today's healthy eating advice, which isn't nearly as robust as you'd like to...

Careful now, they'll just do a documentary on how type 2 diabetics are demanding psychological interventions to help us manage the side effects of demonisation...

Really fed up. My whole life I followed healthy eating advice, complex carbs, lots of veg, low fat and regular exercise. Result - I was always slightly overweight and developed Type 2 diabetes at the age of 47. My weight is a symptom of my body's inability to metabolise carbs, the self same...

:0( That's annoying. I weigh daily and can see large variations in response to quite minor infringements of my low carb rules. Any idea what caused it?

Last Friday Y stone 11 pound 2 ounces. This morning Y stone 10 pounds no ounces. Trying to feel pleased but it's awful slow progress :0(

This weekend I will do a half hour treadmill session on Saturday and Sunday. I have to get a dress taken in and a photograph copied. I need to do some college work and, when I meet a pal for crochet and chat in a café I will not eat cake...

Good target, realistic, measurable, deliverable :0)

AndBreathe, I get what you're saying but I don't have a GP who would be open to a discussion. I have tried, one of the factors in my going so badly off piste is the antagonistic relationship I have with the GP. I work in health care myself and would expect to be disciplined if I was as rude to...

I did the relaxation but not the treadmill. Oops. Yesterday I did neither. Today I will do the treadmill, and put some Plumber's Mait putty on the oozing leak that we just can't stop off. And buy some apple cider vinegar to see whether it has an impact on my post evening meal bms (can you tell...