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    Breakfast Brainwave

    I have been low carb high protein-ing with no more or less fat than I have been eating (apart from using butter instead of cruddy chemically margerine/spread) before and I have lost over 6lb, still a long long way to go but if I can lose that in 10 days then there must be something in John...
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    Breakfast Brainwave

    Hi The book is called escape the diet trap, its not a diet book per se, its about what does what in where and with what...! I am finding it fascinating and its really making me think twice about not only what I eat, but why, eg, why you are hungry after eating a big bowl of pasta - because...
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    The Diabetes Nurse!!!!

    I was feeling very pessimistic about seeing my DN but when I asked her about the advice relating to carby meals x 3 a day she said ignore it. It almost seemed as if she looked over her shoulder to see if there was anybody else listening...(obviously unless my surgery has taken to cctv in each...
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    Breakfast Brainwave

    I am half way through the John Briffa book and finding the whole forensic breakdown of what does what inside us is revolutionising how I think about food, particularly carbs. I just had no idea what was the best way forward with being newly diagnosed T2, this book is helping...
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    New to Metformin - a couple of questions..

    Hello all I had my first meeting with my DN yesterday, and was expecting to come away with a diet sheet and a magazine, however this was not the case and I came away instead with a script for metformin 500mg, one a day for the first week and then to two a day. I havent dared to take one yet...
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    New and confused

    Thank you for your advice everybody. I have cut and pasted some so I can get my head round it, I am just so confused regarding carbs etc. AS a matter or interest I did a bs test before dinner last night, 6.9, I was starving, it was 7.00 pm and I hadnt had anything since breakfast at about...