diet and diabetes

I am really sorry to trouble anyone here to talk about my own situation again. I was diagnosed T2 few years ago and managed to have HbA1c 36 as result first time found out. I was positive and I thought I can put it into remission. But few years later after having eye tested during pandemic...

I've been a diabetic type 1 for a number of years now and I'm struggling like hell despite trying almost everything I can think of, stopping eating food, just drinking water during the day... I had really bad stomach cramps and became very hungry and being sick daily the four days that I...

My wife is 66. She has suffered from diabetes since she was 18. She was eventually diagnosed with MODY in 2009,when she was 53 and prescribed glymepiride. Since then her health has declined (stroke in 2016, heart attack in 2019), she has put on weight and needs to take insulin in addition to the...

Does anyone follow the paleo diet? Interested to hear the advantages and disadvantages of this meal plan. Chris type 2

Hi everybody, I am 77 years old, with Type 2 and have been on a very strict diet for the last few months, which has reduced my diabetes readings significantly. But the diet is extremely hard to stick too and with the tiniest lapses, my sugar level goes racing up to roughly what it was before...

I would like to know of anyone suffering from the above medical conditions please. I need to reduce my Hbac1 level which is 53. I need a diet please for breakfast, lunch and dinner and food to definitely avoid please. If someone can give me a meal plan of what they eat I would be very grateful

Hi All, Recently my daughter (12 years) diagnosed with T1D, while exploring the healthy eating I found Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) could reverse the pancreas function. Is it true? What is the difference between FMD and Keto diet? Any experience or suggestions? please share. Thanks in advance.

Do you need insulin for yams as they are a vegetable (I'm not talking about sweet potato)

Good Morning, Just been reading about the NHS Shake and Soup plan in this mornings news! Does anyone have any experience of it? How is it going and what sort of GP support is offered? ATB Bill

Guys Sorry to post again but I'm having a bad day. My BS this morning was 4.4 which is normal so I should be happy. But this morning I was seriously lacking in energy again and having to rest having climbed the stairs. Honestly I'm 53 not 103. I haven't done any major physical activity beyond a...

Hey all, hope everyone is keeping well. I keep having hypos, like ALL THE TIME. They started as night time hypos so I've been reducing my basal as this is something I was taught on DAFNE (I know some don't agree with this method but this is all I know). I have had little success with this and...

Hi all.....New to this so I apologise for mistakes I have had type 2 for 15 years and have basically buried my head in the sand until now. I have been following the weight watchers app suggestions for meals etc and have managed to loose 5kg in 2 weeks...which is really good for me. Eating very...

Hi, I was diagnosed with borderline diabetes 2 years ago. It runs in my family but no one is overweight. My main issue is gaining weight without consuming anything that’s bad for me. Basically, I’ve been trying to find a list of specific foods I can eat that will help me gain fat but not contain...

Hello, I was wondering if I ate late at night would that affect my morning fasting blood glucose reading ? I talking about 300-400 calories about 2 hours before bed. Low carbs but with maybe 30g protein. Many thanks in advance T

As a type 2, through diet and exercise can you increase your insulin sensitivity a lot better than before like someone without diabetes?

From doing a lot of research I’ve read that lentils, beans and pulses are better carbs as it has high fibre which doesn’t spike blood sugars, I saw at work we do a red lentil fussili, all it contains is red lentils and water and has 19g protein per portion, 44g carbs, 0.9g fat... Is this a much...

Hi everyone so I am newly diagnosed t2, my main goal is to of course get my bg to normal range and lose weight, I am currently doing slimming world which is working very well for me, In 4 weeks I have lost 9.5 pounds which I am very pleased with. I know slimming world can be a very high carb...

It's absolute **** to be honest... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45195474

This week sees the ending of my first year on a low carb diet. The past six months have been a challenge with my body sometimes struggling to fatten itself up again and me desperately resisting, and a long slow plateau in which my weight sometimes went up a bit, and where I did well if I...

Good Evening. Glad I found you lot. Diagnosed T2 in January with crazy high sugars of 30+ and put straight on insulin and metformin. Took a couple of months to reach anything near normal. Recently, I've been put on Trulicity, which is a weekly jab to help reduce appetite and kid my brain...