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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 thought it might be interesting to compile a list of what physical effects people have experienced as a result of getting their BG back to normal or normal-ish levels. Newbies often cite one ailment or another as an impediment to progressing with their diabetes control, I thought it might be...

So I am starting up my veggie-growing again fit this year and have some nice little chilli, pepper and aubegine seedlings sprouting in my heated propagator. And I have just sat down with a heap of catalogues from gardening companies I bought stuff from last year, and came across the...

You know, my BG is pretty well controlled so I don’t think my problems are related to T2, but... Has anyone else found that their feet have gone all tender and feeble? I have barely worn shoes for nearly a year now, and hardly at all since autumn. I wear lovely soft sheepskin booties around...

Notable air fryer successes over the last couple of weeks... Swede fries - I zapped them in the microwave for a few mins first then coated in cajun seasoning and air fried for 10 mins - totally delicious. Not quite crisp, but good nonetheless. A little bit carby so caution is required wrt...

Oh and I really do! This Black Friday a Ninja Foodi Grill and Air Fryer fell into my basket. And it is a triumph! I always feel a bit guilty about putting the big oven on to cook a piece of chicken, roast some veggies, cook sausages etc etc, but this thing is excellent! Did some lamb chops...

On the radio this morning, talking about improving treatments for cancer, they said that cancer could ‘become as treatable as diabetes’. I really hope they can do better than that! They didn’t specify which type of diabetes, but if they meant T2, that well-known ‘progressive disease’, then...

...Well, adult, keto variant thereof. I am very nearly 57 years old and a pretty competent cook, but I cannot and never have been able to soft-boil an egg. Just all aboard the heck-no train to nopesville as far as egg-boiling goes. Which is a shame because I do love me a nice boiled egg. My...

When I was diagnosed with a HbA1c of 87, I was immediately prescribed 4x 500g metformin a day. Or rather, told to work up to this dose over a couple of weeks. I see people on this site with a wide range of HbA1c values and there really doesn’t seem to be any consistency in prescribing...

I have been growing-my-own this year and have had a really great crop of tomatoes. Fortunately I seem to be ok with tomatoes when I eat a few of them with a meal, so I have been really enjoying the novelty of toms that actually taste of something. However, I have had such a massive haul this...

Now that Autumn is upon us, I thought I would share my methods for a nice, sustaining, low-carb hot chocolate. Great for breakfast, or indeed, any other time! The liquid - I use around a quarter to a third of double cream and top up to the required volume with water. The chocolate - I use 5 or...

So, this series has just finished on the telly and I am pretty disappointed by it. I don’t know what I expected, I knew it would be a 3 episode advert for Michael Mosley’s 800 cal diet, but I did hope that he might be more positive about the benefits of low carb, maybe mention insulin...

So I seems to have picked up a bug - how this is possible I really don’t know since I only go to the supermarket once every 10 days, and out on my bike once a week. This last activity with the same, single person I have been ‘bubbling’ with since bubbles were a thing. Anyway, I have a flu-y...

Soon as I decide that yes, “Mr Porky’s Crispy Pork Strips” are indeed the pork snack of choice, the scratching-based product that won’t break your teeth, full of salty crunchy savoury yummyness, Tesco run out. Of course they do. :banghead:

Craving cappuccino? I have mentioned before that my two particular carb kryptonites are milk and bread. I have really missed my weekend lattes and toast with peanut butter. Unfortunately, the bread I cannot reconcile, but the coffee.... I’ve cracked it! Now this might come under the category...

For those (like moi) who are too idle to make their own, Cardini Caesar dressing only has 1.4g of carbs per 100g, and I really like the taste. It’s not horribly sweet. However the main ingredient is rapeseed oil if this is important to you.

... With my meter tonight. Following last week’s yummyness of stewed rhubarb and cream for pud, I tried to buy more this week and of course, there was none. However there were cheapo plums. You know the ones, in a punnet labelled ‘Butterfly Haven Farm’ or some such (to inspire misty visions...

Was it worth buying the waffle maker? Ooooh yeah! Garlic and herb chaffles, sweet chaffles with butter and a small shot of low carb syrup... why has it taken me so long to try these crispy fluffy wonders? I feel a chaffle pizza lies in my near future, and a burger in a chaffle ‘bun’, and...

I have posted elsewhere about the amazing keto scone recipe I found recently which has reintroduced to my diet something which feels carby even though it isn’t. This makes me happy.... sometimes only something cakey will do! Anyway, coconut flour... it’s a necessary evil as it does improve the...

Unusually, I woke up hungry this morning and was seized by a sudden craving for doughy goodness. Obviously all the normal carby stuff is out, so I made keto “biscuits” (scones, to those of us in the UK) from this website: https://greenandketo.com/keto-biscuits These are delicious. I added...