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Looks like there are NO low carb bread options on ANY supermarket shelves at all now. HiLo (Sainsburys) and LivLife (Waitrose) been de-listed in recent months. So annoying, as the high fibre / high protein options have stopped working for me in recent weeks and I've had to stop eating them as...

My local sainsburys discontinued the HiLo bread some months ago. Told me I could get them at another branch 20 miles away. Great. The Warburtons Protein Power loaf is worth a look. My local Tesco stocks it and it's very nice, if a bit more expensive then the rest of their range. Just finished...

Good grief no !!! Vinegar on chips is truly disgusting! I assume they're cooked in vegetable oil - I'll ask them next time I am there.

a bump (hopefully to inspire recent joiners) and a little update. About 15 months in.. last A1C was 40, and I'm sticking to the diet to keep that down. To keep me honest, I continue to self-fund a CGM.. have switched to the Dexcom 1+ as it provides better value for money (about £2.30 per day)...

I was diagnosed as diabetic (T2) just about a year ago - a1c was 63. First thing I did after reading this forum was to try and control it by diet. My first step was to get a GlucoNavii tester and a load of strips, carried on with my normal diet for a couple of days, and tested. This is...

I find that watching my local team Bournemouth raises my BG! Having eaten virtually no carbs all day, my BG rose into the 8s as we made our comeback from 0-2 down with 15 mins left to get it back to 2-2 and very nearly win the game at the death. Even watching on the TV when we played Burnley...

Thank you! I had my followup with the diabetic (well... not diabetic) nurse yesterday - she had to double and triple check I was not on any treatment and that I really had done it by diet!

Might give the Livlife a try.. thanks for that tip. Only thing is there is no Waitrose within reasonable walking distance from me.

Now discontinued, as I found out today when I went in to buy some for my tea. Shame, as it's only that and the HiLo (when I can get it) that I can eat without spiking my BG.

I can eat these rolls with impunity, guess the levels of protein and fibre offset the carbs. Unfortunately, Lidl informed me today that they have been discontinued when I asked the bakery where they were. Why is it that the supermarkets cater so badly for those of us on keto diets for medical...

3 Months after diagnosis.... Blood test yesterday and I'm quite pleased with the results. A1c down to 39 (from 63 in October). Libre app (estimated a1c 39) and Shuggah apps (estimate 37) were actually pretty spot on. I have found my pre-meal BG has come down from the 7s in December to the...

So here I am, six weeks later.... On the minus side, I have early signs of Macular Oedema, but that is stable ( did not get any worse between 2 sets of tests), so I'm hopeful that I can avoid needing any treatment for that now that my BG and BP (which was too high as well) are under control...

Thanks. Seen other posts about low readings early on, guess it's wait a day or two. Having been very low (less than 2) over the past couple of hours, it's starting to recover now. One thing I have noticed... I have switched to Shugga for real time readings on my watch, at this point in time...

Hi all, Got my trial Freestyle Libre 2 CGM today. (Had one last week but it was faulty. The replacement one included a return bag, but they want the battery removed. How do I do that?!) So at first the readings seemed to closely match the strip readings, but in the last hour I am getting...

I won't test quite so much after a few weeks and once I have a good run of data. Having just done the school walk and done a bit of housework, I've got a case of the wobbles as mentioned in a previous post - did a quick check and I'm 5.4 (lowest yet) Decided to eat a couple of "rocky road...

Ok, so a few more days in. Getting more of a handle on what I can and can't eat without much of a jump between pre and +2 hours. A Tesco Finest cottage pie (45g carbs) jumped me up 4 points. Think any ready-meals are going to be a no-go. A steam-fresh rice and veg to go with my chicken and...

Thanks... that make sense.

So, I'm a few days in and some trends are fairly obvious. Bread and my morning cereal would appear to be no-go's. Toast or a sandwich (36g) leaves me 4 points up after 2 hours, and a 75g (in weight = 48g carbs) bowl of muesli leaves me 5-6 points up. So it looks like they may both have to go...

I was slightly out - the Tesco Cranberry drink is 0.4g/100ml, still negligible. It's a drink rather than pure juice, but tastes the same as Cranberry Classic... to me at least! I see Freestyle are offering a free trial of the Libre 2 CGM - I may take that up in a week or two to try and better...

The Asda one in the fridge is 4g/100ml - I usually get the Tesco one which was (IIRC) virtually carb-free, I will check this when I next buy some. Lunch today added 2 units to my BG - 6.7 before, 8.7 after which I gather is about what one would expect.