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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dawniet" data-source="post: 524321" data-attributes="member: 105293">Oh my, thank you all very very much for your lovely replies. I take Metformin twice a day and cholesterol tablets and also diet and exercise. My diet isnt that bad, its when I eat that probably doesnt help. I have a busy job and sometimes I get to mid afternoon and realise the time. Then I get home all different times and then eat later than I should.My nurses answer to help with a diet and possibly joining a diet club was 'if you want to waste £5 a week to get yourself weighed then go ahead'. But then she didnt offer any other advice. I know they cant condone any one diet and that it is all about long term life style changes but a few pointers would have helped haha.I asked about getting a monitor etc and was told to not bother.....I think, from my DESMONDS course, that advise and help differ from surgery to surgery.I know that I have to do the changes myself and I am and will but I dont like the assumption of - oh well you are overweight so you deserve it, which is what I seem to get from some people.I spend a lot of time crying but dont know if this is due to diabetes, my age (45) or other hormonal reasons.We spoke about testing ourselves at our DESMOND meeting and were advised against it, mainly due to if we had a high reading and were say at work, we wouldnt be able to do anything about it and would worry etc. We were told that exercise can bring it down but if at work that wouldnt be possible. I can understand this but seem to be getting lots of differing information from different resouces and my brain is spinning.Thank you again everyone for all your help, it means a lot and am very glad I have found this site. Thank you. x</blockquote>

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