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    Lacking motivation

    I have a plan for food for next week, being delivered on Sunday. Breakfast will now be scrambled egg and bacon. For lunches I have chicken and veg and will make a batch of several meals. For evening meals I have spiralized carrot bolognaise, a stir fry (with no noodles) and a SW quiche. It...
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    Lacking motivation

    This makes a lot of sense, thank you. I have a meter yes, but no I've not had chance to read your links and I've not yet followed up on some of the other suggestions or forum posts - but I will do later today when I finish work. Thanks
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    Lacking motivation

    Breakfast is almost always 40/50g Porridge Lunches are things like Jackets w/cheese and beans, beans on toast, sandwich Evening meals are things like SW quiche, spag bol, stir fry, fajitas My problem is the snacking. Snacks probably account for 1200+ calories per day, maybe more. If I track...
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    Lacking motivation

    Hi all, I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes two and a half years ago. I wanted to try to get into remission and joined Slimming World by tracking what I ate and trying to reduce carbs and lost weight. I forget what the units are but I was down to 49 with 42 the level required to start coming...
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    Cannot beat sugar cravings

    I had hoped to not have to replace the food with anything at all, just go from breakfast until lunchtime then to evening meal with nothing inbetween like it seems most people do. Not buying the junk in the first place makes a lot of sense, but I see myself wondering the house looking in...
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    Cannot beat sugar cravings

    I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in May last year. For 6-8 weeks I cut out as much sugar as I could and tried a low carb diet with some success. Like with any diet or lifestyle change I've tried it started off great but I could not maintain it. At my January HbA1c test the results were much...
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    5 Weeks Into Metformin Questions

    Thank you all for your advice. I think the increase in fruit is not as helpful or healthy as I had hoped it would be. I struggle with low carb meal ideas but will read some of the material you have all suggested.
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    5 Weeks Into Metformin Questions

    Hi. I have recently been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and prescribed Metformin. I was advised I would need 2 tablets in a morning and 2 at night, but that I couldn't take this dosage all at once and to build it slowly over 8 weeks (1 in a morning, 1 in a morning and 1 at night, 2 in a morning...