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Message: <blockquote data-quote="silky1" data-source="post: 938347" data-attributes="member: 203636">Still working on that atm - but I do have small orange juice with copious amounts of ice - and it certainly hasn't impacted on my post meal BGI've got fruit here because I am now (first time for quite a while) starting to get sugar lows - I'm disabled and it's nigh on impossible for me to cook whilst home alone - I've also got coeliac which puts a fair few options out of reach for meI'm sure I will learn as i go along - but when you think of what I was doing until shortly before the diagnosis (I horrify myself now - but I could not stop drinking sweet drinks) - so my body has had quite a dramatic change - loving the headaches (not) - but my sugar levels are considerably better and my BP diastolic although not particularly high to start with - has dropped by around 15 pointsI start Weight Watchers on Monday courtesy of being a newly diagnosed diabetic meeting their criteria (overweight) - so have 12 weeks to see where we go - it's the same group my daughter goes (she's in Oz for just over 3 weeks - so would be nice to lose some before she gets back) - she's lost over 6 stone since having my grandson - she also specialises in diabetes (as did my sister) and she was saying that the majority of WW customers who are Type II are no longer on any type of medication - we shall see how things go</blockquote>

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