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I need to put this out there, somewhere, and am hoping that someone recognises the phenomenon from their own experience, I mean, it's less weird if other people are similarly weird. Or something like that that makes sense :grin Anyway ... I've lost a lot of weight so far doing low carb and...

Any other board game player about this place? Last night we played new favourite El Dorado, and old favourite Alhambra. We've recently been working through a lot of old favourites, and some new favourites (Puerto Rico, Flamme Rouge, Quacks of Quedlinburg - as some examples) This is also a...

It's regularly said on here that (for type-2 types), it is a good idea to aim for a rise of no more than 2.0mmol/l in blood glucose between pre meal readings and 2 hours after first bite. This makes perfect sense and I've been testing and noting such numbers for a while now, but then it...

I admit I've not read the whole of this properly, it's a combination of incredibly sad and incredibly infuriating. It's about how diabetes (pretty specifically type-2) is treated in the USA. One quote stood out for me, among oh so many: " “We had to be aggressive with his insulin,” given how...

This is mostly by way of a rant/vent/reminder of what I know. I've been losing weight since early summer, I've dropped a lot of spare lard. I've done it with low carb and increased exercise, I know this works because I've done it before a fair few years ago (then I fell off the wagon and...

Since getting the 'you are in the prediabetic range' phone call from the GP back in June I have gone fiercely low carb, I've lost something over 25kg, and I've been walking at least 5 miles a day (I think of the 5 miles as one of the 'medicines' I have to take - it's MUCH easier than wrangling...

I saw this in The Guardian this morning: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/27/people-who-cant-fit-into-jeans-they-wore-aged-21-risk-developing-diabetes OK, my thread title is a touch misleading, it's about the preliminary results of a study by Prof. Roy Taylor about how losing...

I've been working hard on my blood glucose numbers over the last few months since the GP told me I'd edged into pre-diabetic territory. This morning I was at 4.7mmol/L, which is lower than I've been seeing so far. As it is going to be stupid hot here today (OK, 26deg C maybe isn't furnace...

In June I went for routine blood tests because I have high blood pressure and am on medication for that. A follow up telephone appointment with the GP told me that I was pre-diabetic. Although he didn't give me the number for my A1C. He suggested an appointment with a diabetes nurse specialist...

I just saw this on the Guardian website. It's not something that is relevant to me, but I reckoned that this place was where there would be people who would be interested. It's not something I've heard of before now...

I was told a couple of months ago that I was pre-diabetic (having another A1c next month). I went very hard on low carb and also started walking a lot - from a base of effectively zero I'm now at between 5 - 6 miles a day walking. I've done low carb before, lost a lot of weight, let it slip...

I had a phone appointment with the GP a few weeks ago, he told me that my blood results were in the pre-diabetic range. I managed to convince him that I'd give diet and exercise a try before talking to a diabetic nurse (although he did - comfortingly - say the words 'low carb' when I was talking...

I've been testing my blood glucose regularly for a few weeks, since the GP told me I was pre-diabetic and muttered about appointments with 'diabetic nurse'. I wanted to try 3 months of controlling things myself and seeing what I could do before going to more medical intervention stuff. I've...

After my routine blood tests a couple of months ago I had a phone consultation with the GP who told me I was prediabetic (stupid me did not get my actual numbers from him, so I've no idea at what end of the range my number landed). He wanted to refer me straight to a diabetes education class or...