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My diabetes by Klinio

miriamy

Well-Known Member
Messages
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Location
South Cotswolds
Type of diabetes
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Dislikes
Medics who tell you what to do.
Politicians who blame people for being poor and praise bankers for being rich.
TV
Butter Beans
Does anyone have 3cpwrience if this programme? It's being heavily promoted with hard to resist marketing atm on social media.
Before I succumb I'd like to know Is the programme any good?
Have you personal experience of it?
Thanks
 
If it's on social media or you have to pay or apply!
Then I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

They won't know your health history, your likes, dislikes, affordibility and much more.
Would you pay for my dietary requirements?

If you want advice, get a glucometer, use a food diary and find out which foods spike you too high.
Eat to your meter.
Have a look at our low carb forum
Or have tagged @Rachox or @JoKalsbeek for the nutritional thingy.
 
Hi @miriamy ,

No experience with it, but did check their website. Alas, couldn't see their method without paying, but they do assume I eat 3 to 6 meals a day... Which I don't. (Two, usually, sometimes one). https://josekalsbeek.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-nutritional-thingy.html is my own so-called Thingy, which is absolutely free to use, unless of course you absolutely insist on paying me, haha. Nah, seriously.... There's a bunch of companies out there that'll take advantage of the diabetic pandemic. Some honestly do know what they're on about, like this place's Low Carb Program, or DietDoctor.com... But a lot of information is offered for free, by them, too... When you can't get anything done without subscribing/paying etc before you even know what their idea of a treatment plan even is, I'd say, flee.

Good luck,
Jo
 
miriamy said:
It's being heavily promoted with hard to resist marketing atm on social media.
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I'm a frequent user of Facebook and I've never even heard of this.
Marketing on social media depends on your behaviour: click something, or even stop scrolling to read, and you'll get more advertisements of that kind.
So it could be you keep seeing this because you looked at it, or something similar once.
 
Is that why I keep seeing something called the Dull Man's Club?

(Wrong on both counts! )
Sorry for derailing...
 
MrsA2 said:
Is that why I keep seeing something called the Dull Man's Club?

(Wrong on both counts! )
Sorry for derailing...
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You too?!
Has been happening for a couple of weeks. I still haven't visited the group, but I do tend to read the posts I see, they're often amusing.
Fb also shows you things your friends have liked. Can it be we have a mutual friend who's a member of that group? First suspect coming to mind is @KennyA . Kenny, is this your doing?

Edit: I just had a search for that group and it looks like I'm onto something, I happen to have two friends in that group, both of whom I share a sense of humour with, and there are lots of members in the group I share different friends with. I guess that's why I get to see it too, will join now.
 
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Guilty as charged. I have been a member for a very long time, before the group was anything like as big as it is now. It is a Club, you don't need to be a man, but it does help enormously to be a bit dull.
 
I love reading the Dull Man’s Club posts, I’m not a member though
 
I will say reading this makes me sigh !
 
Hi @miriamy

Going back to your original question on klinio.

I typed it into google and clicked on the link, which for me was in US Spanish (I'm learning Spanish so it was good practice). Asked me lots of questions: allergies, food likes and dislikes, illness (diabetes or prediabetes was one but suspect they assume T2). Asked age, height, weight desired weight.

I wasn't able to get to end of quiz without giving an email so I didn't finish. Off to do more research....using the American English language option.

OK, here is their blog on prediabetes, looks to me like standard UK eatwell plate advice? (But on a US site so US units for diabetes)

How to Prevent Prediabetes from Progressing? - MyBody

For people diagnosed with prediabetes it is important to know how to stop it from progressing. Learn how to do it on our blog.
klinio.com

They lost me at more whole grains, though more exercise and giving up smoking seems good.

Disclaimer: I'm T1 so I don't think their programme is for me anyway.

And they claim to have been going since 2019 with a website in German, Spanish, French and Italian as well as (American) English. Looks like the log in page has a UK option though?

Not sure how they deal with T2s who are low weight or end up having a different type of diabetes.

There's nothing on this forum about this program (using the forum search function just gives me this thread) which suggests to me that the UK branch is fairly new? (And there is nothing on the diabetes org site either).
 
I did give my email address. The next step is payment for subscription. I stopped there, and of course got some "I am the nutritionist working on your application, but you didn't finish the sign-up" malarkey. As if there's a bunch of nutritionists ready and rearing to go before someone's even handed over a cent. Very pushy, unsubbed immediately of course, which was always the plan. Just wanted to see how far it'd go, but @Antje77 has a point, with her algorithms... Now I'm bound to get stacks of this sort of thing for the foreseeable!
 
JoKalsbeek said:
but @Antje77 has a point, with her algorithms... Now I'm bound to get stacks of this sort of thing for the foreseeable!
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Always use an incognito window for things you don't want popping up in advertisements!
At least you'll likely also get to see the Dull Man's Club on Fb.
 
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