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Maybe you are right and I have to be more careful.. In fairness to her , she did make the cheesecake using a recipe I gave her . It was delicious and that is the problem..

Hi Hi Derry , being married to someone who likes cook and baking makes keeping to a low carb diet difficult . The cheescake turned out not to be as low carb as I though ( although it was a massive slice ) as my blood glucose went from 4.9 two hours after lunch to 5.7 after cheesecake and pre...

Hi Alexandra .. that's a good idea .. will do . The full results from yesterday , before each meal and 2 hours after and also this morning were 6.0 and 5.7 , 5.3 and 4.9 , 5.7 and 6.0 , and 5,4 this morning . I use an Accuchek Mobile for BG and Caresens Dual for Ketone .. I blame the increase...

I have been busy pricking my finger today.. and gardening in between . 8.30 , before breakfast FBG was 6.0 mmol/l and 2 hours after 5.7 . Prelunch it had dropped even further to 5.3 and a big surprise , 2 hours after lunch only 4.9 . Before today I had only taken readings pre breakfast ...

Hi All , I am 73 and was surprised to be diagnosed as prediabetic 3 months ago. I have always been fairly active , so looked at my diet . I decided to opt for a low carb diet and my weight has dropped off me , losing 10 Kg from 91 Kg , now having a BMI of 24,4 . I cut out bread , potatoes , rice...

Thanks for that , today is cake baking day , so my wife will give it a go .. Wonder if it is fatal for garden slugs too ..

Xylitol..which is quite commonly used , and apparently bad for dogs

Hi All , after my annual health check a few months ago ( I'm 73 ) , I was diagnosed as prediabetic , having a HbA1creading of 42 . Since then , after a lot of reading I opted for a low carb diet . My wife was away for 2 months so I was able to control everything I ate ( and drank ) . Basically I...

I found the same thing .. I bought an Accu-Chek Mobile when I started taking glucose readings in March .. Recently I decided to check ketone levels too , so I bought a Caresens Dual , which also takes glucose readings. I tried both on same blood sample and got glucose readings of 4.7 and 3.9...