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  1. Birdwoman

    Prediabetes Got my blood test results, Opinions please

    Just got my blood test results from blood taken yesterday and as usual not sure about some of them. I have not got the one I wanted which was the HbA1c. It seems they did not do it. Glucose FBG 99 mg/dl Urea (GLDH) 53 mg/dl Creatinine .88 mg/dl grf-bis 1 59 Uric...
  2. Birdwoman

    Need to eat Carbs

    Happy New Year to all!!! I wonder who is behind this news item ?? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46827426 Not the Food industry?? Edited for spelling
  3. Birdwoman

    Prediabetes Anyone got any ideas please

    I feel as though I have lost the plot! My BG number seem to have got a will of their own. I was diagnosed Aug '17 with pre diabetes, I went onto a LCHF diet, about 3 months later the doc said I did not have any diabetes, I still carried on with LCHF so I did not go backwards again. I have...
  4. Birdwoman

    Prediabetes Bg's Going Out Of Control

    Sorry for the long post. Please can someone advise me? I have been very low carb for nearly a year now and stay around 20g per day. I do not go adrift from this. Over this time I have lost 15 kg, although it has stalled for the last four or five months. My problem is my BG. I did fine in...
  5. Birdwoman

    Prediabetes Keto

    Hi. Sorry another question. As I do a low carb diet, normally under 20g a day, should I be testing for ketones? If so how often? I am not on meds only 1 tablet for BP.:oops:
  6. Birdwoman

    Prediabetes Any Help Please

    Please can anyone help me? I am trying to get my BG down of a morning, I know it is the Dawn Dump but I cannot stop my BG continuing to rise after I get up. I have tried waiting for breakfast, I have tried yogurt and cream, cream in my tea, eggs and bacon. What ever I do it still goes up -...
  7. Birdwoman

    Prediabetes worried

    I know there are a lot of experts here and wonder if I can tap you all for information and advice? I am totally confused to what is going on with my sugar levels and why, for about 2 months now they have been a lot higher than they were and I cannot get them down. I have searched the web and...
  8. Birdwoman

    Prediabetes Where am I going wrong please

    Hi. I know we have a load of experts on here, so please can anyone help me? I was told by my doctor last August that I was just about pre-diabetes which is when I joined this forum. I went LCHF and was very successful with it, after 3 months I was down to 78 (4.3) during the day and the mornings...
  9. Birdwoman

    Prediabetes Help please

    Hi. I know there is a lot of knowledgable people on here so hopefully someone will have an answer or some help. I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes last summer and went onto a LCHF diet. I just had the results of my next blood test and all the results look good - HbAlc - 34, 5.3%. Trig - 1.0, HDL...
  10. Birdwoman

    low carb/high fat against Mediterranean diet

    Hi I have been through lots of threads on this forum and have found them very helpful and informative. When I joined here I had already started a LCHF diet but wanted to find out more about it and also look to see what other ideas people had, so I could work out if I was going in the right...