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Runaway appetite is a sign that your blood sugars are starting to go awry. I would suggest getting a glucose meter and start measuring what is happening to your blood sugar first thing in the morning, before meals and two hours after a meal. This will give you information on how variable your...

So horrible for you. I know how quickly this can happen. Before I was diagnosed with diabetes, I called my dentist to ask for an appointment as I was getting a bit of a twinge in one of my teeth. "Wednesday OK?" "Fine". Two hours later I had to call back and ask for an emergency appointment...

Sorry to hear that you have felt isolated after being diagnosed with type 2 at the beginning of the COVID 19 outbreak. I think you may have been seeing little movement in your blood sugar readings due to the stress you've put yourself under, for example by going without food for 24 hours. Your...

Congratulations on this good fall in your HbA1C level. I cannot comment on the efficacy of the home testing kits, but remember that the interval of blood cell replacement is approximately every three months and testing more frequently would result in a mixture of previously glycated cells plus...

Unfortunately middle fat is usually around the organs, especially around the liver and pancreas. It can be more difficult to shift than subcutaneous fat and in my experience there is a "tipping point", where very little happens to your blood sugar readings even when you are sucessfully losing...

This site has lots of keto ideas. Because of my age, I tend to eat "keto light" which means I fill up on cabbage, kale, broccoli etc. I eat fish, especially oily fish such as mackerel and have kippers or smoked haddock for breakfast. I make breads based on almond flour, coconut flour and...

I have had diabetes for five years. I knew that I had diabetes when a urine test came back positive for glucose, but what I wasn't prepared for was an HbA1c of 108. I was overweight at 10st 4lb and 5ft 2 ins tall, but not obese. That was when my diabetes journey started, first with the NHS...

I know how disappointing it feels to have done so well for so long, and to suddenly find yourself feeling as you did when you first started to control your diet. It doesn't matter about all the things you have learned, - you want that biscuit/ bread/ chocolate/ hot cross bun. I find it happens...

I have read that it is when you are having difficulty speaking.

I am a not-so-young skinny type 2 (we are also known as TOFI Thin Outside, Fat Inside or MONWE Metabolically Obese Normal WEight - diabetes is great for those that like acronyms). The main indicator is the majority of any excess fat is always around the middle of the body. This is because all...

Astonishingly, there is a tremendous variation of the carbohydrate content of different coffee beans. See http://www.dietandfitnesstoday.com/carbs-in-coffee.php.

I am also a TOFI diabetic, I was ten stone when I was diagnosed with an HbA1C of 108. It has taken me four years to get to an HbA1C of 47 and I am hoping to see another reduction after my latest test. I am now just under nine stone and have lost a whopping 5 inches off of my waist. It does...

Very sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed with diabetes. Did you ask the first doctor why he didn't want you to exercise? The HbA1c result and other blood tests will give a clearer picture of where you are in terms of what your blood sugars have been like over the last three months or...

Very sorry to hear you are having a hard time. I understand that you have to be careful what you eat, but leafy greens can help a fatty liver. Also is intermittent fasting feasible? This would not involve losing weight, as you would eat the same number of calories, but in a smaller eating...

I add a drop of cream to mine, then whisking up the eggs, salt and pepper and then adding a knob of butter or three before cooking. I like them with low rusk sausages for breakfast or supper.

Nuts are loaded with calories. You can eat them as they are, or turn them into cakes and biscuits. Ground almonds are ideal to start you off as a flour substitute. This site has some good recipes and Keto web sites also have many good recipes. Then you can experiment with different nut...

This book goes into a lot of detail as to the "why" diabetics should exercise and exercise hard. It does suggest some initial training programmes, but these can be done at home and does not require gym-only equipment. I currently use a rebounder, resistance bands, body weight exercise and...

I exercise six days a week, but I do different exercises on different days except that I always start with isometrics. I follow the FIRST* method, which means exercising muscles to failure. This did terrible things to my BG readings to start with, but I adjusted. I also do three rebounder...

So sorry that you have joined our non-exclusive club. The good news is that you are classed as pre-diabetic and once the sugar that is currently part of your tissues is removed, you circulation should get better and the problem will hopefully resolve. You might find that the numbness turns to...

In my experience the misery of a cold can increase my blood sugars. The body has a stress response when fighting infections that can lead to increased glucose in the blood,and also may rise from the stress of the symptoms. I find my BG seems to climb at night,when a cold tends to make me feel...