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    sleep and low-carb

    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...
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    A six-month update

    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...
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    how many carbs is "a lot"

    Hi, I'm pre, with FBGs around 6, and usually bouncing around 5.5-6.5 during the day on low carb. My GP says I'm totally fine on the back of a HbA1C test which (for reasons which are dull and time consuming to explain) is not reliable for me, and an oral glucose which returned perfect results...
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    Fasting BG rising - when to worry

    Hi, I had some classic symptoms during the lockdown, and rather than go to the doctor I got a BG test kit and came out at 6.4 fasting. I kinda think that I was constipated because of dehydration, so I was eating tonnes of high fibre cereal (also high carb high sugar - thanks cereal marketing...