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So I'm reluctantly off to my GP. I'm going to register with a new one, but it'll take 3 weeks to get an appointment (boo...) so I've decided to bite the bullet as I really can't have it going up and up like this for no identifiable reason) Background is in my last post, but essentially my...

Hi all, I've been back on the keto wagon for a month now, with quite a lot of intermittent fasting (typically around 8:16). My fasting blood sugar when I started was the same as when I was first diagnosed (hovering around 18). Progress was slow but I saw it come down. I was hovering at between...

Hi everyone, I posted a thread a week or so back, just having a grump. But now i'm becoming a bit concerned. I was diagnosed over a year ago. I immediately started LCHF (averaging 40g carbs a day, usually less) and my sugars came down from high teens to between 5 and 7 within a matter of...

I've fallen off the wagon a few times. Been strictly back on for around 10 days now (3 weeks prior to that was low carb but not massively strict. I was also ill for a time and on my period, both of which will have raised my blood sugar. Typical day 20 minutes moderate exercise on my exercise...

I was diagnosed around a year ago. For about half of that I’ve been a pretty model low-carb paragon of virtue. Not so much anymore. I’ve always had poor impulse control (whether it’s food, spending etc). And I’m finding it almost impossible to get back on the wagon. While I was good, diabetes...

I didn't really fall off, not properly and perhaps only for the last couple of weeks. I've just had some human slip-ups after not really having any human slip-ups for several months after diagnosis. After a few months, my blood sugar was never doing anything unusual, I had found out what I...

I'm simultaneously ecstatic and heart broken. Ecstatic because I've found a dedicated keto restaurant, serving delicious food and keto bread that tastes like bread! ...and heartbroken because it's in Berlin and I am not. Although my choice of city breaks may be somewhat skewed now... I had...

I just added about half a tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce to my salad. It's my first moment of weakness since diagnosis, it was just sitting there next to the salad bar...I've always loved it with feta cheese. This stuff is pretty much just pure syrup with a few chilli flakes added in...

Has anyone else experienced this? My clothes are looser, my fiancé says I feel smaller when he puts his arms around me, I’ve had comments from people. But the numbers on the scale aren’t budging! I’m not too disheartened at the moment because it’s clear that I’m losing inches. Although I would...

Hi all, Currently going through the battery of tests GP surgeries carry out at diagnosis. I’ve just had a call from my GP to say that my cholesterol is high (see below). She mentioned statins immediately, and I asked that she give me the chance to lower it myself and we can test again in 3...

Blizzards where I live this morning, so lots of coordination and decision making as soon as we got up. I didn't test immediately upon waking as I usually do, and ended up testing an hour and a half later. I was at 7 - which I expected but was still annoyed by. Dawn phenomenon means i'm always...

I was diagnosed 2 and a half weeks ago, in that time I’ve got my FBG down from 18 to 7 and my post-prandial readings are consistently around 5.5-6.5. I feel like i'm doing the right things (regime in signature). I’ve discovered that my dawn phenomenon can be managed to some degree by a few...

Hi all! I posted last week about my expectations around bringing down my BG readings. I had it in my head that my FBG at diagnosis was 13, and my HBA1C was 18. Turns out I was wrong, I checked the results again, and that the real figures were actually FBG 18, A1C 13.Yikes. I was diagnosed...

I was diagnosed last Friday (2nd Feb) and immediately went low carb (under 50g per day) and keeping to a 1300 calorie diet (I have lost 100lbs over the past 5 years but still have 100lbs to lose). I’ve been taking Metformin at 500mg per day over the last three days with instructions to increase...