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Are you diabetic? What sort of results do you get in real life when you follow this advice? Personally I've managed over six years of normal BG levels simply by greatly reducing carb intake, full stop.

Alcoholic: Low carb beer, red wine esp Italian, whisky, rum, grappa, gin. Occasionally a traditional normal carb beer. Non-alcoholic: Coffee (via Moka pot) often with double cream: iced tea: soda water: filtered chilled tap water: coke zero: other zero sugar caffeine drinks. Plus...

The decision is com[plex in the UK. The NHS uses a number of standards to judge whether any surgical procedure is justified or justtifiable. One is the "Quality Adjusted Life Year" (QALY). Basically this is a way of trying to assess whether a procedure might be worth carrying out, based on the...

Depends really on what you do now. Back on the wagon, or pizza every day? Treat it as an opportunity to learn. You have just confirmed that your system, at present, cannot handle that level of carb. Move on.

The main character in A Spy Among Friends was T1. His condition played absolutely no part in the story, so no idea why it was included. Anyway, he has tea and buns with colleagues - camera zooms in on his eating the buns as being "significant".....and sure enough he has to leave the room and...

Assume you're not looking at CGMs as a direct alternative to fingerprick tests? Otherwise there are lots of gadgets advertised on the internet as "non-invasive" BG meters. People are usually advised not to waste their money. I've always asked people determined to buy one of these things to...

Thing is, for us T2s our pancreas does work, but the insulin it produces isn't as effective as it should be. The idea behind low carb is that you reduce the glucose produced by eating starches and sugars and therefore reduce the load that the insulin needs to carry. You might want to take a...

Really well done. Why not start a thread in the "Success Stories" section?

T2 here. BG at 1.6 mmol/l is extremely low and I'd expect to be feeling very ill at that sort of level. Individual results can sometimes be very wrong, though, and I always double check anything unusual, high and low. If a pancreas loses function so that no insulin is being produced you would...

Do you have any kind of diabetes? and are you on any medication? The figures of themselves are ok in terms of a low bg - pretty much where I am right now according to fingerprick. CGMs tend to read a bit lower than fingerpricks, and fingerpricks are also a bit more accurate, but not precise...

It's not the activity of itself - it's that your liver will start making glucose in response to the activity. The body's system is dynamic and always changing.

It is very unlikely that something I ate at 7pm would be affecting my BG 12 hours later. I would expect my BG to be at or close to the pre-meal reading two hours post-meal. So even if I had a meal late I would definitely not expect it to be affecting my BG in the morning. For example - we ate...

Hi I have no personal experience of any of the flozins but I do understand from current NICE guidelines https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng28/chapter/How-to-introduce-medicines (see 1.21) that because both flozins and low carb reduce BG levels, it is advised that patients should stop low...

When I've had a proper hypo (maybe four or five times?) it's mainly involved vomiting. I can think of once when it didn't. Nothing lower down, however. I've never been on any meds, so that won't confuse the issue. Stands to reason that if the body is getting rid of contents it could well happen...

Hi and welcome. Just a standard issue T2 here so no insight on T3.

Be wary of anything coming from an AI. Unreliable. You can eat anything: you may not like the impact it has on your BG. It's just another sugar. Depends on what you're aiming for and he impct it has on you, which might not be the same as anyone else. Personally I wouldn't eat (eg) bread and...

Gluten-free and "ordinary" bread have very similar impacts on my BG, which backs up the general view that gluten, being a protein, doesn't have an appreciable effect on BG.

https://diatribe.org/diabetes-management/42-factors-affect-blood-glucose This is the "42 factors" list - at least, it's the one I found some years back. There may well be otjhers. I'd be a bit happier if it was titled "42 factors That Are Reported To Affect Blood Glucose" but that's a minor...

If you read the paper I quoted you'll see that the American College of Cardiology, which used to be a keen promoter of the "low sat fat" line has completely changed its position. This is because the evidence does not support the belief that a low saturated fat diet is beneficial. You're quite...

Alcohol has seven calories per gram.