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Thanks for all your encouraging replies. I've now manged two and a half days of low-carbing! I think just saying that I needed to take my diabetes seriously again and hear words of encouragement helped and I've already lost a pound. Thanks again

Hello again, I haven't posted here since sometime before the Covid lockdowns and I need to lose weight and get my blood sugar under control again. I was coping with low carb until the first lockdown when bread came back into my diet. Since then I have gained another stone in weight and I've...

Thanks @Resurgam for your reply. I think I got stuck in the routine of having eggs/tuna/cheese at lunchtime, nuts and cheese in the afternoon for snacks and then meat/ fish/ poultry + bagged salad for dinner. Everyday felt the same. I definitely need more variety in my diet.

Thanks everyone for your replies, your wisdom and experience, and your support. I'm thinking @bulkbiker could be right in that I've just not gone low enough on my carb intake and have had a long period of keto flu as a result. I'm going to try eating a wider range of foods to stop boredom...

Hi @jpscloud, thanks for your reply. I used to try to limit my eating to a 16:8 pattern, not eating before 12.00 and eating dinner before 20.00 I don't know if it helped me or not because I was trying to LCHF at the same time. I still stick to this pattern pretty much because I'm not really...

Hi @Guzzler, thanks for your reply. I suspect I do better on higher protein and lower fat. Perhaps I need to snack less on cheese and nuts and keep chicken thighs etc in the fridge for snacks instead.

Hi @bulkbiker, thanks for your reply. You could be right about the extended keto flu because I never felt I was getting the benefits from LCHF that other people reported. I eat meat, fish, poultry, nuts and dairy but I get bored with it. I know if boredom is the worst of my problems I should be...

Hello everyone, once am again I'm at my wits end trying to manage my T2 diabetes by diet. In 2017 I LCHF on around 50g carb a day. I lost almost 2 stones of weight and my HbA1c came back down to normal levels - success!!! However I felt dreadful on it. My hair fell out, I had no energy, brain...

Hi Grant 1969, find I start to become irritable when my blood sugar is falling and this often happens before I feel hungry then if I don't have something to eat I become anxious and shaky. So no, it's not just you being affected by your blood sugar levels.

Hi, after all your support and encouragement this week I thought I'd share with you how I'm doing. I've cut back on my carbs and haven't had any grains or dairy. It's been tough again - constant headache, waves of nausea and hunger. However, it has paid off because since Tuesday morning I've...

Thanks again for your replies :) OK, I take on board all that's been suggested about blood tests and I will definitely check that out this week with my GP. The question of my having a food intolerance interests me. I know I can't take milk and had put that down to the lactose making...

I just hate the thought of having to take regular medication for anything; I've been on long-term meds before and it just feels wrong! I suppose I should be grateful really for the good they have done me in the past. I think I do need to check out my blood vitamin/mineral levels. I'm also...

Thanks again for your replies. You people have a lot of experience and knowledge :) OK, I'm starting to wonder if I am intolerant to some degree of grains and dairy. About twenty years ago, long before I was diagnosed T2, I went on a diet and cut out all grains, sugar, caffeine and alcohol. For...

Thanks for your replies :) It's six months since I had full bloods done when I had my last diabetic review and nothing was amiss. My next one was due last month due to the practice rearranging their reviews but I've not been called yet. I've to see a GP this Friday for my DVT review and I'll...

I agree, I am in a dip in the road. My difficulty with low carb was feeling hungry and tired all the time as well as the digestion and hair issues. No, I didn't go to my GP with my brain fog because I'd read about keto flu and put it down to that. Perhaps I should have gone but they're not...

Hi, I'm so fed up with trying to watch my diet. Two years ago I was diagnosed with T2 with an HbA1c of 48 and told to eat healthily and exercise. I managed to lose two stones and brought my HbA1c down to 39 in 18 months. Success!! But I felt like c**p following a LCHF diet, aiming for 50 g CHO a...

Thanks for all your help and advice yesterday because I think I can see a way forwards now. Cut back on carbs again, eat more fat, perhaps less protein, definitely fewer nuts and huge chunks of cheese as snacks and try 16/8 fasting again and perhaps 5:2 too. Here's hoping ... :)

It's not impossible that I misunderstood what she was saying to me but we definitely didn't cover low carb, high fat and keto on the course. Anyhow, her advice to increase my carbs hasn't worked for me, just left me confused an wondering what to do next. But I never discovered why my fasting BS...

She said that being on very low carb (around 50g a day) meant I would have no glycogen stores in my muscles so my liver would have to push out glucose to keep me going. If the stores were replenished my BS would stabilise - but it didn't work for me.

Sounds like you've found what works for you. I think I'm going to go low carb again and try adding in fasting too :)