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@PollyAnna25 LOWER CARB potatoes? Does such a thing really exist? Lower carb potato substitutes do though - Cauliflower or Celeriac.

Hi @Edwina54 and welcome to the forum. My condolences on your loss. Stress is certainly one of the approximately 40 things (apart from food) which affect Blood Glucose levels. Other major ones are lack of sleep, illness, injury, medications including both Statins and steroids. I have no...

A low carb or T2 diabetes controlling diet is difficult for Vegetarians, but even some Vegans can manage it, A good source of ideas is the 'What did you eat today' thread or www.DietDoctor.com or just google your favoutite food and put 'keto' before the name. Meanwhile: Only 2 eggs per day? (I'm...

CGMs show that non-diabetic people also get a quick spike from meals. The 2hrs (from first bite) is advised because it takes around that length of time after eating for a non-diabetic's blood glucose level to return to the value it was before eating. So it has been suggested that a level of up...

Hi @Lynntay and welcome to the forum. For years while my GP knew that I was prediabetic (though they didn't tell me) I was advised to eat porridge for breakfast and eat lots of fruit, veg, whole grains and to eat low fat. I now understand how that pushed me into Type 2 Diabetes and also to...

Shingles jabs? - I've had one shingles jab, didn't know there was a need for more than 1. I've accepted the flu jab ever since my 3x CABG because I was told that cardiac o and diabetes patients are more at risk if they get flu. I never bothered will flu jabs before then and have only had flu...

I'm not an expert on this since I'm a Type 2 and don't measure my ketones. Eating (very) Low Carb (between 20gm to 40gm of Carbs per day) for over 6yrs means that much of the time my body is running on ketones. In fact even non-diabetics often go into ketosis when they haven't eaten (carbs) for...

I do understand that nowadays kids pretty much dictate what they eat - not so back when i was a child, though back then (for me at least there was no/little advertising of food) just in the newspapers perhaps. No TV (at least not for the poor like us, and no commercial radio. I could hardly...

Did you just halve the Metformin dose, or did you also reduce or cut out one of the other medications? I've never taken any diabetes medication - went straight to Low Carb way of eating, but for over 2 years I did take Cardio vascular medication including Statins, Beta Blockers, something to...

I don't consider any Jaimie Oliver food I've seen as being healthy for Type 2 Diabetics - they all tend to have far too many carbs. I too was slim (BMI of 21.5) until I started eating a so-called 'healthy diet' of low fat and complex whole grain carbs on my GP's advice. It took about 15 yrs...

Unfortunately the body doesn't like big changes, in BG or in weight for example. This is why desirable changes are hard to achieve. It also means that although the vast majority of diabetic complications happen when BG rises quickly and are often reversed when ot goes back down, in rare...

For many/most of us, GI is irrelevant so having it on packaging wouldn't be of use. We are all slightly different in the way that we digest different foods into glucose and how fast and large our Insulin responses are. For me it is total carbs that gives the best information, but it's only by...

My personal opinion is that there is nothing special about low carb or low calorie shakes. To have better control of what you are eating just eat fish, meat, cheese or eggs. Eat until you eel full and you will have had very few calories and very few (if any) carbs with a really good spectrum of...

I feel you are overthinking the sauces/spices. They should only be used in relatively small quantities - so hardly any carbs or residue. I always fasted for the last 36 hrs because I found it easy to do. The earlier part was a little harder, but a bit of gravy, or soy sauce or chilli sauce (or...

Electrolytes help many people avoid cramp. I take extra Potassium and Magnesium. I get enough sodium without needing to supplement.

I learned which foods are best for me using just an ordinary finger- prick blood glucose meter. Initially I was jabbing myself 8 times per day, but soon just 6, then just 4 and by 3 months in only once per day (mornings for the trend) unless I ate something unusual. It's no good trying to rely...

@Lainie71 By good cholesterol I presume you mean HDL. If so, then, I don't understand why you seem concerned that it may be too high at 1.8 . I have read that the optimum level is around 2.0 and that there may be problems if it is much over that. Last time mine was 2.1 but I'm not concerned even...

Hm... I'm not sure if this: about getting better advice from a dietician - than presumably from the Diabetes.co.uk forums, is true for more than a minority. And "All diets need to be properly balanced." - Well, that is something we can all agree on; except that humanity has survived just fine...

Hi @Sadsac@21 As Melgar said above, apart from food, there are many reasons for a higher Blood Glucose reading- about 40 of them. They include infection, injury, stress, lack of sleep, medications such as Steroid and statins, vigorous exersise ..... Fasting doesn't always reduce Blood Glucose...

I was prescribed Pregabalin when I had sciatica (because opiates have no pain-killing effect on me). It eventually worked/sciatica disappeared just as I got up to max advised dose. Got sciatica again a year later, took pregabalin tablets I had left over from first time - it worked/sciatica...