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Breakfast: Bowl of Quaker Oats Perfect Blend Multi-Grain Porridge (Raspberry, Apple & Acai) 250ml unsweetened soya drink 2 large hard-boiled eggs 3 Ryvita Pumpkin Seed & Oat crispbreads (with peanut butter) Lunch 300ml New Covent Garden Creamy Vegetable soup 125g Mackerel fillets in extra...

Normally when I go out to the local Tesco (10 minutes walk away; a couple of times a week), I wear two very long scarves wrapped around my face and mouth. The supermarket practises strict social distancing. Perhaps 30% of the customers are wearing some form of facial covering. Nobody really ever...

M 72 UK 6ft 1in, 12st 3lbs, waist 36in BP 130/70 avg I was diagnosed as T2 in December 2018 after the second consecutive month of being 50 mmol + in HbA1c. I had been on a pre-diabetic watch list at the local surgery for three years. I had had ups and downs with my HbA1c during that period...

My latest HbA1c (April) was 40mmol. This was great news! I had only been diagnosed in mid-December with the 2nd of 2 monthly readings: 51mmol. I took radical and drastic action with my diet, following essentially a low carbohydrate rule-of-thumb approach. I tell people that I follow a very...

Hi, thanks for reading my post. I'm only recently diagnosed... and I'm not on medication. The protocols that my health provider follows suggest that I shouldn't need a testing kit until I go on medication; so this means I'm not testing. (I might actually buy a kit myself because I'm learning...

Hi Jamie I'm a T2 recently diagnosed diabetic (mid-December 2018). At diagnosis, my HbA1c read 51. Maybe like you, I don't want to become a kitchen princess. I'm pretty new to watching the diet and I'm trying to follow a rough-and-ready low carb approach. But I'm not remotely...

Day 22 as a diabetic

Thanks to everyone who offered advice and comment on my posting. I have already started radical action on my lifestyle: 1). GONE: bread (toast), crisps, biscuits, cakes, puddings, sweets, flavoured yoghurts 2): REDUCED: portion sizes, potatoes, rice 3): IN: Greek yoghurt, oily fish...

I am newly diagnosed as diabetic (diagnosed a week ago) with an HbA1c of 51 mmol. Some of the other readings quoted on the forum are around the 6 to 8 mmol level. Other readings are in a percentile scale. The mmol levels seem to be different scales, perhaps measuring different things. But...

Hello everyone. I’m a newly diagnosed pensioner. I’ve been hovering in the pre-diabetic spectrum for three or four years.... but now, according to two HbA1c tests (taken a month apart), I have just crept into the diabetic part of the spectrum. I have a meeting with the Diabetic Specialist Nurse...