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Aw, I’m glad they worked out for you. Gotta embrace the small wins!

Leaky gut…. it is a thing, I believe. Disclaimer; my scanty knowledge comes from my vet when my cat was diagnosed with IBD many years ago. In cats, an inappropriate diet (specifically, carbs… funny, eh?) causes an inflammatory response in the gut, whereby it holds more and more water to try...

I bake low carb cakes and scones now and then, when I fancy it. But not as a ‘treat’, just because I feel like a bit of cake. But I have no difficulty in restricting myself to a single slice a day, not because I need the control but because that’s all I want. If you knew what a cake-fiend...

As @ultradad says, it may be worth trying a bit of intermittent fasting. You could reduce to one or two meals a day, several days a week. If you eat enough for your meals then you shouldn’t suffer unbearable hunger, but by increasing the fasting window between mealtimes you may help lessen...

Absolutely, @MrsA2! When I think back to life before diabetes I often used to say ‘I’m hungry’, but I really wasn’t. I am somewhat ashamed to admit that I don’t think I ever let myself get more than a bit peckish before stuffing in more food. I think a lot of people in the western world are...

If you are eating a low-carb diet then I personally would just eat something! I find that one of the freedoms of low-carb is, for the first time in my adult life, I do not have food cravings and I have broken the link between eating and emotional reward. So if I feel hungry, it’s a real hunger...

Your daughter needs to do as you did, and her nurse need to either drag herself into the 2020s or be put out to grass where she can’t do any more damage.

Actually, I would say one of the main reasons for your success is…. YOU! Well done!

I’m sorry, I didn’t appreciate that you use insulin. My comments may only be applicable for those T2s who manage their diabetes without insulin. However I would be discussing with my doctor, if I suffered from hypos - I have never understood the rationale to eat carbs to increase BG so that...

Your diet as you describe it seems to be quite carb-heavy and one might normally expect a strong response to the carbs in muffins, pastry, beans and lentils, higher carb veg like carrots, crackers…. I know if I ate those things my BG would definitely spike after each meal, but lucky you if yours...

Am I alone in not worrying about it, all else being under control? I rarely check my BG first thing in the morning, I have always taken the view that there is really very little I can do to affect it beyond my current efforts so there is not much point in checking it. This is against a...

I’ve said it before ( and will doubtless say it again, because I am smitten! :)), but getting an air fryer was just the single most useful acquisition evva for cooking no-effort, outrageously tasty, low-carb meals. Shove in some meat, add some veggies, leave it alone, eat. Air fried veggies...

ah peas inna pod, sorry, I was looking at shelled peas!

Have you checked the nutritional info for the peas? 3.6g per 100 sounds very low, most uk sources put green peas at something like 9 or 10g per 100g. As @Goonergal says, we need to consider all carbs and not just sugars, so I suspect you might have underestimated the total carbs provided by...

I never take one to my reviews, the nurse usually asks for one so I pick up a pot on the way out, do the necessary ‘first flow’ at some point over the next week or so, and drop it back. It’s hardly an urgent test, but my surgery also use it for more detailed kidney function testing.

I don’t count my carbs, but I do try to consume as few as I can. I balance what I eat from food with no carbs (meat), few carbs (for me, this is < 5g carb per 100g), and higher carbs ( between 5 and 10g/100g) and try to completely avoid anything with more than 10g/100g. Obviously, consuming...

Of course, it varies for individuals but I went extremely low carb from the moment I was diagnosed - my HbA1c went from 87 to 35 in 3 months, and I saw my BG dropping quickly and steadily over the first 2 or 3 weeks. If you consider that HbA1c is the average BG over 3 months or so, then it...

Wine should be fermented until either all the sugar turns to alcohol and there is no more food for the yeast, or the increasing alcohol content kills off or denatures the yeast. In either case fermentation stops at this point. So the final sweetness of the wine depends on the amount of sugar...

Swede is great, I eat it regularly but in smaller portions cos it is relatively carby for a low-carb veg. I par-cook in the microwave, then coat in olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic powder and shove it in the air fryer with my chicken thighs. Very tasty!

Puts me in mind of the book ‘Good Omens’ by Pratchett and Gaiman, where Famine invents some branded ready meals (CHOW, followed by MEALS) with no nutritional content whatsoever… “MEALS was CHOW with added sugar and fat. The theory was that if you ate enough MEALS you would a) get very fat, and...