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I have tried this for you:). Whiskey (or if you must, whisky) is just fine with metformin in (not always;)) moderate quantities. I believe the relative risk of lactic acidosis is negligible with low level use but everyone must make their own choice, of course, based upon their understanding...

Sorry. You are obviously quite right. I actively want to be prescribed metformin in order to benefit from the prescription fee exemption.

Diabetics get free prescription medication in the UK. It saves me a fortune. Quite why it's free is not really obvious. If you have a dodgy thyroid it's free too but have a heart attack or, pretty much anything else and you have to pay for each item dispensed.

Cuppa tea followed by...another cuppa tea, hey it's Sunday, live dangerously:happy:

I had a day like that a couple of weeks ago. I figured my body was telling me something so did what you are doing and stayed low carb and ate. The following day I wasn't hungry and suspect that it all balanced out in the end and I had probably not eaten enough in the previous few days so my...

Thank you for the recommendation. It would probably have made more sense for me to start with the Diabetes Code but, and this is perhaps a little odd, I fear becoming obese again more than diabetes. The link between the two was clear enough though and I felt that if I could properly crack...

The best any of us could do would be to guess and that would be dangerous and unhelpful. Do you have a temperature? That, at least would suggest an illness which you might treat at home until you can get an appt with a quack. Are you being sick or do you have diarrhoea? If you have all three at...

Thank you. That sounds right up my street. Time for some early morning internet shopping :)

Lots of bits. The game changer was that all foods raise insulin levels even if they don't raise blood glucose levels much. I had already been restricting the time in which I eat to 6 hours but I think a more structured regime of intermittent fasting is in order. The role of sleep (he writes at...

'Unlocking the secrets of weight loss' by Jason Fung. Wow! Someone had kindly recommended 'The art and science of low carbohydrate performance' by Jeff Volek and Stephen Phinney to me following an earlier thread. I bought it but it didn't cost enough to qualify for free postage so I ummed and...

Ache in my jaw extending to my right shoulder. No 'crushing' chest pain at all. I went to the GP, they did an ECG and referred me to an assessment clinic. Sadly they didn't actually look at the ECG:( because 10 days later at the clinic they did and told me I had had a stemi and required...

Now i'm jealous and been forced to have a zero carb 'Friday' Bushmills to compensate;).

With an HbAc1 of 43 that day is soon :) in the meantime have a G& (diet)T.

To be honest I don't really count, I just avoid any carbs as far as possible by choosing the best options. Wine on Friday is the exception which proves the rule:woot:

Welcome to the forum. Tell the sporty one that training whilst fasting is the choice of champions, cos it is and then you can eat like two horses. Tell the fussy one that looking like a sporty one is the way forward. The tests are for eyes and feet and well worth having. Definitely still...

20g. Veg and nuts mostly. Tonight Cote de Gascogne:)

I wouldn't overthink it. If you are achieving the goals you seek in terms of weight and blood sugar levels, and you are, then doesn't that make you the expert on your own health? A random person on social media is unlikely to know better than you and hasn't done what you have done so, frankly...

Absolutely. Then we have 'regression to the mean'.

Firstly congratulations on reducing your HbAc1, that is a job well done. However it is still above 'normal' levels. I don't think I would be inclined to reduce my meds before I knew I had proper dietary control except following consultation and in agreement with my GP.

Can't better all the advice already given except to add that polyols cause dreadful diarrhea:( in any kind of quantity.