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It is more expensive but fasting is free and not buying lunchtime sandwiches and snacks at work saves quite a bit.

Meal plan wise there is free stuff online @ https://www.dietdoctor.com/

I always inject 2 units of novorapid upon waking. I then monitor it through the morning and take some food if it looks like going low or skip breakfast if it doesn’t.

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Congratulations great result. I got the same score last time. Worried it may have slipped a little though. I’ve had to attend a lot of conferences for work recently away from home which are always a challenge. Yesterdays Buffett - mini fish pies, mini cottage pies, veggies burgers so basically...

Pork Scratchings, bacon, most nuts are pretty good, Greek yogurt cheese. You can carb count and dose the way you have been recommended. If you are feeling well enough then going for a walk can really help to bring down the bg levels. Just test regularly and have hypo treatments to hand while...

Hi Kev, I was diagnosed almost a year ago to the day also at the tender age of 36. Of course I've felt immense anger and frustration at times. It is a lot to get your head around but as you become more experienced at dealing with it you will start to get your head around it. It takes a lot of...

That should do the trick!

Very kind of you. Will you also provide snacks if I over do it? ;)

Thanks that clears it up. I knew it was in the process of being approved but didn't realize it had actually happened. I for one am delighted.

I've just been reading the DVLA instructions and my interpretation of the below copied directly from their website is that they now accept a Libre reading for driving a car. Can anybody confirm this? Appropriate glucose monitoring systems • Group 1 drivers may now use finger prick glucose...

Good Luck with the job interview. I must have wanted the last one I went to. I was so pumped up my Blood sugar was in the teens all day despite the fact I'd hardly eaten anything. I kept trying to correct it bud was scared of going the other way and Hypoing in the middle of the interview. Hope...

How about recommended portion sizes? I think the serving size suggestion on the back of a pack of spaghetti is around 100g (Uncooked weight). If I'm honest with myself then in my pre-diabetes days I probably ate portion sizes which were vastly greater than this. So maybe I'm now low...

Yeah totally agree. Can be hard when eating out though.

Well I can personally vouch that drinking a glass of water with 2 tablespoons of vinegar in it is difficult to keep down. I'm definitely not doing that again. Now to watch the post prandial rise. If the vinegar seems effective I'll try it in the form of a salad dressing tomorrow.

Thanks informative. Seems to corroborate what I had been reading. Nearly lunchtime so about to conduct my own experiment I'll report back. Current reading 4.9 intended lunch 50 grams pasta (uncooked weight) Baby Spinach leaves and mackerel in a tomato sauce. Possibly a square or 2 of high...

If it works I'm going to perhaps try taking it as a salad dressing!

@porl69 I've made that mistake before! Helping myself from a communal bowl of pasta and sauce and then weighing it. It was my wife's birthday yesterday so I relaxed the diet and we had champagne, King Prawns, Chips and garlic mayonnaise it was awesome. Unfortunately I woke up at 0300 AM with a...

34 or 5.3% I'm tempted to shoot for the 4% range but will be fairly happy if I can maintain this level and loosen up my diet a little bit.

Hi Helen, Do you have any tips for flying with insulin. I used to fly all over the world for work at a moments notice but this diabetes diagnosis has me quaking in my boots about a family holiday to Spain. Will be fine of course just need to get the first one out of the way but any advice for...