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Now there's an aspiration. Excellent work. Yes it's definitely addictive, in a good way. I would have to drop to about 13 stone for that. Long way to go still. Not sure my wife will like that, she likes the big burly blokes like I am/was, might have to get down the gym and bulk back up lol

Thanks for all your lovely positive reactions folks. As of last few days I'm now below 16 stone (actually 15 st 8 lb at the last count!). So the lightest I've been since I was about 26-27 years old at least! I have a feeling I might now have dropped 6 inches off my waist. Bought some 36"...

Thanks all. I’ve never quit rice, though a much smaller portion is certainly the thing. They’re my dodgiest meals glucose-rise-wise these days though. Incidentally in my first week of this I lost 10 lb in weight almost overnight which I initially put down to a glycogen dump from my liver...

Okay... been a while. Just had my 3 month follow up HbA1c result...... 36!!!! :cool::cool::cool: 125 kg (ish, not really sure where to start with the drop - I was about this in March... 123.5 kg in June when 'diagnosed') to begin.... I am now about 102 kg in weight (Around 16 st 2 lb in old...

7.3 this morning and high yesterday too. My current nasty cold has turned out to be (after slightly frivolously using my last remaining test kit) the first definite time I’ve caught COVID-19. Plays havoc with your blood sugar so it does apparently :-/.

Everything you want is already here. Thanks for this thread folks. Getting all giddy with the success of my LCHF diet since getting the diabetes problem last month has been tempered by a gout attack last couple of days. Might just have been overdoing the fish I suppose- certainly I will cut...

Interesting- might give that a try though we’ve just a load of konju noodles - have read they’re a good alternative.

Yes, keeping readings less than 2 mM (rise) for each meal does not just inform on what you can eat (in my opinion) but also portion size. I second this post strongly.

Hi Mo R, you sound very similar to me. It’s not that hard really. Just test before a meal then 2h later. Try and keep below about 7.3 and no more than a 2.0 mM rise after the meal. I’ve found I can tolerate basmati rice and moderate beer consumption (yay). But potatoes, peas, bread and even...

I won't mention the 9.3 I had after too much pie last night ;) Oh whoops. Yeah, pastry needs to be limited in portion.

Most of my readings are in the normal range now (they've ranged from as low as 4.1 to mid 6s. Though I think I got a bit complacent last couple of days and have seen spikes too high. Fishcakes... I can't eat fishcakes. And I had seconds on a slice of pie last night... no seconds. Typical...

Well another update. Finally saw the nurse today. It went really really well. She was very pleased to hear that I'd researched and changed my lifestyle in a positive way already, that I was monitoring my bg levels etc. Told me she wouldn't have put me on metformin with my HbA1c results...

6.3 this morning

That's brilliant info. Thanks, I will push for it harder now.

Hello, welcome. I'm almost exactly the same except my general practice won't see me about it until July. So I got nearly all my advice here (and from reading). I would ease off on the worrying to be honest. I was HbA1c 49. Hopefully that's dropped a bit now. Some people here report readings...

6.2 mM this morning. Back to normal after yesterday's 'cold' although I was still quite light headed frequently on my walk... I wonder if this the so-called 'keto-flu' thing I've seen talk of. I have fairly rigorously chopped carbohydrates out of my diet of late.

Cheers Pipp, not even seen a nurse yet, so no medication for me (yet)... and I don't think I'll need it tbh. Fairly convinced I'm pre diabetic really. I felt no problems at all with that 4.4 and I had my tea soon after so it went back up reasonably soon. I didn't know you could change the...

I have been 'screened' for it. If having had one blood test, probably around 6-7 years ago now means anything of that sort. My GP refused to do the genetic test, which is what I'm supposed to have according to information from my sister's doctors passed on to my brother and I, 'you didn't have...

My meter gave me a red flag for a reading of 4.4 mM - hypoglycemic. I was a bit confused by this. Is 4.4, 4.3 OK or not?

7.4 this morning, but also 7.4 after breakfast. Been doing really well (5-6 mM for more than a week consistently) so got pretty miffed at high readings all yesterday for no apparent reason. This morning I clearly have a cold. Interesting that my monitoring spotted it before the symptoms started.