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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mrsmac247" data-source="post: 870466" data-attributes="member: 177800">[USER=88961]@AndBreathe[/USER] I totally get where you are coming from and thank you for your response, I am definitely not offended and appreciate your honest comments and observations. I guess I was trying to see if I could find a solution for all of us but that may not be possible. I guess I was thinking along the lines of making it easy for all but as you said, that would require an element of sacrifice of myself in order to achieve this.As you said, adding more carbs could trigger a response I am not yet able to deal with and I haven’t given that much thought, I guess because I done the diet before I was quite disciplined with my portion sizes. It would indeed be disappointing to change my eating plan and then jeopardise my current good BG levels.Food is a big deal in our family and we always eat our meals together. It was just the other day that my parents said they haven’t invited us around for dinner as they don’t know what we are now eating! That made me sad. The issue with my daughter is quite deep in that I had undiscovered gestational diabetes, I could only keep down carbs at the time and when she was born she was considered a big baby which led to complications and a permanent disability. She has always been a funny eater and doesn’t even drink her allocated milk but she still maintains a “chubbyish” structure. Having just typed that, I think the way to go with her is to seek support and not to confuse it with my condition now.Meal planning will have to feature in this as feeding 5 people at the best of times can be difficult and although organisation is not my strong point, I see hoe this may help some of what I am feeling at the moment.I am definitely happy with the good readings I have been getting and thinking about it, I have been following the guidelines of the low carb eating and not really testing outside of the box which I may start doing and set myself a challenge of one food a week other than sticking to what I know is ok if that makes sense.Yes, basically the plan is you eat from a list of free foods depending on what plan you are following and “point” or “syn” everything else. So say you have 15 syns available and you’ve eaten your “free” food, you choose how to spend those “syns”. Indeed those foods have a higher calorific and sugar value than the free foods. My thinking was that on the plan, I could occasionally have that milk chocolate bar. I know I could substitute it for dark chocolate now, but I have always hated dark chocolate.I indeed will give everything written here some thought, you guys are very knowledgeable on diabetes and are a great help to someone like me<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Sorry, edited to add that I believe I had signs at the start but some of them can be attributed to too much weight. My back was crippling to the stage that the night time bottles were difficult so was standing, on the left side of my foot feels like a tight elastic band that sends electric shocks when I tried to walk and my vision was becoming really bad but none of these were proven. Since eating the way I do, my back pains have eased and my foot is more comfortable, my eyes still play up from time to time but I will be getting that checked out by Specsavers!</blockquote>

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