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The occasion was the second vaccination in the pandemic, a mass vaccination in the open air with strict separation as well. Definitely not 'flu', and I was given a ticket with the same batch number as my husband. It was supposed to be the two of us together for the same thing - and it wasn't. No...

I have Covid at the moment, with a positive home test and as it is about the 6th time now I wonder if I am just getting used to it or if I was always one of the ones who were not going to suffer badly. Years ago after the first jab, the one from Astra Zeneca, I was really ill - high fever and...

Basically, no - people cam often cope with some things better than others - I am just unlucky in a way, my gut strips out the carbs really efficiently. I don't bother with keeping track of anything but the carbs. Calories seem to be unreliable as when I was eating low fat high carb I gained...

My 'potatoes' are swede, celeriac, courgette, cauliflower, turnip - even celery. Beef stew with celery - amongst other things - takes me home.

@CSKSCS I'm afraid I don't understand your problems over letting people know - assuming that they are people you might like or need to know. Type 2 diabetes, in the plain ordinary form is being unable to deal with carbohydrate - the starch and sugar in our diet. If you are one of the many...

I suspect it isn't the chocolate but the sugar which ordinary bars are full of in order to make it cheaper to produce. I gave a bar of the 95% lidl chocolate (back when it was still available) to a self declared chocolate addict and they were so disappointed

I went from normal to walking with two sticks in a few weeks after diagnosis when taking Metformin and Atorvastatin. I was in a terrible state, incontinent and losing my mind. It took 18 months to be free of the pain in my legs but it was a couple more years before my memory started to recover...

That might explain why low GI, resistant starch and other magic doesn't work for me - I chew.

I have to request testing to get one a year. I then have to ask about the checks - eye testing is once every 2 years. My GP offered no advice at all - that was 2016, just prescribed tablets, no follow up, nurses are approving of the low carb diet, but very quietly. I had half a century of bad...

I wonder why your GP thinks carbs are needed. Low carb works, but I don't believe in going out in the rain and wind to buy them if I have enough other things to eat.

I checked high and low GI products in the year after diagnosis - only in meals as I only have a simple meter - but it made no difference at all. Not once did a low GI variant produce a lower blood glucose level than the 'normal' one.

It isn't the chocolate it is the sugar added to make it cheaper to produce. I have 85% coco all the time - though I don't eat much of it theses days - I use more around Christmas time making bars with slivered almonds or little treats with desiccated coconut, walnuts and a single sultana or half...

@Johnianna If you want long term control then a meter is far more use - you can check your response to a meal a month after the first trial and see if you are seeing progress, then another month on as well. I was fully type 2 diabetic at diagnosis, but never thought of getting a CGM as it is so...

@Zeppx I am wondering how low carb you are - I was almost spherical at diagnosis, having been pushed to eat carbs for decades, and all low fat. I could not tolerate the Metformin and Atorvastatin, so I used my meter and found out just how little tolerance I had for carbs - then I found out that...

I used to work for a metallurgical supplies company and their attitude was dreadful - they did not have any drivers over 40, probably not over 35, they just looked older - moving the huge drums by hand or sack barrow caused so many injuries. Management did not care at all - just got a new...

I wonder if it could be a change in the ingredients of your tablets rather than a reaction to the actual medication. I was put on Metformin when first diagnosed, but could not live with the effects - very violent reaction. As a result I find it easy to stick to low carb just by murmuring...

When I lived in the Midlands I worked at the Allied Lyons factory - formerly Symington's Soups - in the pilot plant, and Dr Howard came there to get the sachets of the Cambridge diet made up and packed. There were desserts which set - chocolate, strawberry and I think banana flavours - and...

If you think of sausages as protein bars they could be a good option....

@Floppy1 I was on a GP recommended diet when diagnosed, and discovered that I had been flagged about 10 years before diagnosis as having high blood glucose, which was dealt with by not repeating the test - I had annual blood tests as my thyroid failed quite some time ago now. All my adult life...

I make up a sugar free jelly with a couple of tablespoons of gelatine to make a strong set, then add either frozen mixed berries or strawberries (after letting the jelly cool). I then eat it with cream or yoghurt. It feels like a lot - I make it with more than a pint of water and add in flavours...