Type 2, need some advice

I don't think it's the Met, it will be the crisps etc. Met isn't prescribed to lower bg specifically but it is a mild appetite suppressant and helps with liver dumps which is probably why you are seeing a small lowering of your bg.

Diet is the key to control, not Metformin. Metformin is a mild drug. It helps a little with morning liver dumps (dawn phenomenon) so your morning fasting levels may be lower, and is an appetite suppressant. It will not help with post meal levels at all, but a good diet will.

You say you crave crisps? What is a typical day's menu for you?

If you can reduce your post meal spikes your fasting levels will eventually improve.

Might be difficult with your mobility (no doubt it is) but you need to remove those chips and the spuds

Eating carbs makes you hungry, so you eat more carbs. Best to avoid them completely. Otherwise you may eventually get serious diabetic complications such as blindness, chronic pain in your feet and legs from neuropathy and dementia. Metformin only helps a very small amount to reduce blood sugars, so you need to change your diet.

Food contains fat makes you feel full and does not raise blood sugars. So cheese, nuts, avocados are good to replace carbs in your diet. See https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb for some inspiration and recipe ideas.

For breakfast you could have a cheese omelette. Forget the potatoes, crisps and chocolate digestive biscuits. Have some steamed vegetables such as cauliflower, broccoli instead of potatoes. If you must have chocolate, have a couple of squares of Lindt 90% dark chocolate.

If I ate what you are eating I would blow my meter! Do you use your meter 2 hours after each meal to see the effect that it is having on you bg. Why not try 2 eggs in some form or yoghurt for breakfast. Check the weight watchers meals for carb content per 100g, adn try to get something as close to 10g as possible, some may be higher than you think! (It is a commercial organisation that needs people to keep coming back) Try above ground vegetables with your chicken or other meat in the evening; courgettes, green beans, tomatoes, mushrooms are all lower carb vege that will probably lower your readings. Stop buying the crisps, I found that this was the only way that I could stop eating them, instead I buy cheese from a local market and discovered a whole new taste world that I did not know existed, Harlech cheese with horseradish, various forms of Wensleydale etc.. Just before bed, if I feel really hungry, I will have a square of 90% chocolate and I find that satisfies me and sends me to bed feeling full and does not raise my bg level too high in the morning.

as the folks say its your diet.

I eat a low carb diet, take no medication and I tested 2 hours after I ate this evening - 5.9mmol/l.
If I am hungry I eat more low carb foods, my weight is dropping I feel great - I can only recommend stopping all the high carb foods and hope that you can get lower blood glucose levels too.

Hi, I have also found the only way to restrict my carb intake is to plan my diet. Sounds so simple right? I know that it is easier said than done. I too have trouble sleeping (pain etc), but I also know that it is during this time I am at my weakest.

I know that I can't be trusted with a multi pack of anything in the cupboards because guess what.... I eat it!! SO, now I just don't buy it in the first place.

You must ditch all those hefty carbs. I know that it goes against everything we were ever taught about food and eating habits.... but trust us.... we can't all be wrong in the advice we are giving?? Give it a try, 2wks and you will feel so different! You will have more energy, less cravings and it really is the only way you will get your BG under control.