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Love her to bits , but how come her doctors prescribing free meter and strips when mine said NOOOOO. Also she thinks Metformin will allow her to carry on eating carbs no change in diet and will cure her type 2 A1c 111. It makes me mad I have to pay for my strips and lancets , costing over £30...

I'm really chuffed with this and hope it is a another step forward for me in my journey of type 2 . I had a huge breakfast of bacon eggs mushrooms tomato and sausage , two coffees with double cream and then went out to work in the garden, at 12 i had some cheese and a bar of dark chocolate . I...

By eating the wrong foods, being over weight or not exercising, did we cause it upon ourselves through stress even ? Either way are we actually ill or is it something we could not help happening to us ?

I eat the same food all the time and been keeping a record of my numbers before and after food and they are almost the same daily , the only change is the morning numbers for some reason i am over 7 when wake but it levels out during the day and never goes high, so I am only going to test once...

I just feel weak and i don't like what the lchf has done to my body i don't have any muscle it is like my top of my thighs are bony . I feel weak and depressed and just want to eat nice treats . I don't feel like it all the time but nearly all the time , i am angry that i have type 2 and feel...

Well go home tomorrow , but full board breakfast is bread butter jam yogurt , i have just been eating the bread and butter and a smear of jam, sugars after two hours 9.2 walking a lot checking sugar before meals 6.9 post meals 8.4 , but have been eating their cream cake, too nice and can't...

Ate the same as i do normally each night tested before and after a walk which was around two hours and my sugar was 8 and that was after a walk , so what was it before ? Woke up this morning 6.4 and been that throughout the day , it was 6.4 before my tea of brussels sprouts cabbage broccoli and...

November my A1c was 106 and now its 59 cholesterol in November was 7.3 its is now down to 6.3 . The doc very happy and asked me how i did it lol I told him low carb high fat and he said very well done :) Happy days !

Was 6.7 before my meal and 7.2 after two hours, was expecting a huge rise because of the injection I had today for bursitis of the knee. I'm pleased it hasn't affected me , the pain has gone for the first time in weeks, I'm not allowed to walk today so the 7.2 is good I think taking that into...

i have a cold i usually have lemon and honey, but now i know honey spikes my sugar does just lemon do the job just as well maybe ?

Blood pressure normal , weight loss another 7lbs so total is 21lbs so far , I had steroid injection in my knee cos of the pain I know what's wrong can't spell it though will add later cos Off to see my mum now. Results Friday :)

I have noticed some type 2's when diagnosed were only in the 50's and some of us over a 100 , we then go on the said diet and get our blood numbers under control . Are those of us with higher numbers upon diagnosis at a greater risk of problems than those with lower numbers ?

Mine is being done this wednesday , but i have a cold starting , is this going to give a higher reading ?

Wasn't sure where to put this so chose here as this is an exercise . As a sleep apnea sufferer I found this video really works .

if we eat carbs such as cake , can that cause a spike a next day or do spikes go back down within a few hours ? thank you .

I have noticed the lower the morning readings the happier we seem to be, I thought anything under 7.8 is normal . I wonder if mine will ever be as low as some of you on here in the 4's and whether this is better than what i have which is occasionally in the high 5's. I feel I am failing somehow .

Does the fasting number on the day of the test necessarily mean it will be a good result . I have had a few morning readings of 5.9 and day time readings of 5. I am really hoping for a good drop in numbers as I've worked hard and stuck tot he lchf diet for over two months now . I'm having my...

I have a cold I can't sleep my knee pain is keeping me awake along with stomach pain which i think is caused by the high fat diet. I've taken my blood reading and it is 7. not very happy with this and i feel really tired and annoyed that i am struggling cos i felt so good on this diet full of...

I was 6.8 before my meal and only 6.9 two hours after , I am happy with this but its never happened before . Normal ?

I washed my hands I took a sample and it said 7.5 , something told me to take it again and the second time straight after was 6.5 . My reading before my meal was 5.7