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Well that’s all quite a puzzle. So if the tri’s are fine, you don’t have to worry about that? And if the insulin/gad is clear then you’re clear on late t1 and still in the managing t2 club? Thyroid is a maybe given the weight loss, but it would be a coincidence if thyroid happened at the...

I’m going to wait until I can get a full health check done after covid finishes and everything opens up. Right now the system is perhaps rightfully kicking nutcases like me into the long grass. The endo said they thought I was actually very insulin sensitive, on the back of passing oral glucose...

My scores are slightly higher than yours - 6months average FBG of 5.8 on low carb. My GP says I am definitively not diabetic. I saw an endo privately and was told that I am slightly outside normal, but that I’m not diabetic. I should carry on with a healthy diet and avoid processed food. The...

Breakfast cereal is the enemy. If anyone reads this who is eating cereal - please stop immediately until you've tested the effect it has. My symptoms entirely coincided with when we closed our work canteen's cooked breakfast service. I stopped eating sausages and eggs for breakfast and...

6.6 today. highest since i went low carb. i had a slow improvement over the last 5months to my best ever average of 5.5 in mid dec. now it's going up again and nothing seems to stop it. maybe i could just live on fresh air and apple cider vinegar.

I think my weight loss has stabilised at about 10/6lbs 21.5 BMI, 22lbs lost. Certainly the lightest I've been for 25 years. I am a walker rather than a runner, 6km a day average. I think the answer might be swapping out some cardio for weights. Right now you take calories in and burn them off...

If you cut out bread, pasta, pastry, sweets, potatoes, cereals, and fruit you might find you’re 70% of the way there. I like the testing because you get immediate feedback. There’s no hiding from what you’ve eaten. Sure if you do the diet perfectly you could just come back in six months and see...

If it’s any consolation, I’m pre, 22 BMI and I’ve passed oral glucose test (although I’m at the stage where I now doubt my doctor administered it correctly). I just had one of my kids sweets, estimated 10g of almost total fructose. I’m now at 160/8.8 1.5 hrs later. I think refined carbs like...

I’ve eaten like a pig today. Totally off the rails. I felt off from about 2pm onward and I’m just starting to feel normal again now at 11pm and back below 6.0. This is good. I genuinely would rather not eat carbs than feel like the bloated yucky mess I did today. It all starts again tomorrow...

Most people I've read who experienced DPhenomenon need to eat something asap and that stops the rise. So yeah, wake up and eat a hardboiled egg in bed if you have to. If you have a partner, he/she will no doubt be delighted with this change in routine. If you don't have a partner, well...

Well I tried stuffing myself with carbs anyway to test the theory - about 100g over the course of the evening. Peanuts and dried figs. Went to bed at 8.5, woke up in the middle of the night just the same. Theory busted. But I suppose it gave me another datapoint on the effect of carbs - 4.9...

I’m sleep deprived. Three hours of solid sleep isn’t doing it for me. But I’m surviving. Ah well, I thought it might be a low carb “thing”.

To Lucy’s point, about 10pm. Very vanilla. Have tried booze, makes no difference. Strange that you had the opposite to me but it also suggests there might be some connection. Probably not apnoea I don’t snore and I’m at target BMI. I did have a series of wild dreams a few weeks ago, which I put...

I am a pre T2 (I believe), with about 6months of low-carb under my belt. One of the things I've noticed since I started this, is that almost every night I get off to sleep fine, completely sparko. But then I wake up at some point and drift in and out of sleep for the rest of the night. At...

If your (and mine I suppose) HbA1C keeps going up despite the lifestyle changes, I guess we have to take it to the next level and try intermittent fasting, OMAD, keto, all that stuff. And then if that doesn't work it ends with medication. If that's where it goes it's still bearable and there...

25 hba1c, that's amazing, that's a 4.5 average isn't it? Very much under control. But your FBG is 6.0. A bit of a puzzle. That's a big dawn jump every morning that must drop very quickly. Can you tell us any more about your scores?

Well yeah we're all in a different place and we all interpret things differently, sounds like your version of low carb is pretty militant compared to most. I have to eat sub-20g to get in the normal zone... well that's basically a serving of broccoli and a serving of greek yoghurt and boom...

Very timely interjection bud I was getting a bit down about the whole thing today and smashed a load of chocolate digestives at lunchtime which didn't help. It's always good hearing that other people have similar experiences (and also thanks to you MrsA2), this place is very useful and...

For anyone who has read my slightly self-obsessed journey on here: Discovered a 6.4 FBG after being curious about some classic symptoms. Went low carb and in the first few weeks plunged the numbers down into the 4's and lost 20lbs (BMI 22), but this lasted just a few weeks until FBG slowly...

That is brilliant. Well done. Make sure to check in when you get your 6months. Noticed that your BP is slightly elevated considering your BMI and all the miles you run. Mine is slightly higher and I'm watching salt. Are you going to think about doing anything about it? I suppose it depends...