I only got one full day with both beginners course and then the Xpert refresher course .
Got them both done in a full day session .
How times have changed in less than 5 years .
It would be interesting to inform health care professionals that the top bod is now advocating low carb!!
Wonder how long it will take to pass the the line?
Wonder what qualufications the course leaders of the xpert courses have?
From Xpert website : http://www.xperthealth.org.uk/It would be interesting to inform health care professionals that the top bod is now advocating low carb!!
Wonder how long it will take to pass the the line?
Wonder what qualufications the course leaders of the xpert courses have?
Brilliant, @donnellysdogs . I am glad I never did one of these courses, but can't help feeling more than a bit miffed that someone can have such influence on many peoples' health, then change have a complete about turn on the advice given. I wonder does she recognise or acknowledge that previous info could have caused many T 2s to damage their health?I'm going to check with my GPs on Weds whether they send people on xpert courses and then update them that the designer of the course has now brought out a book "eat fat".
Not a t2 but as part of the gp patient group I can get information to the gps easier than a direct patient appointment...
Seems those of us not having attended a course, but getting our education from here on forum are the lucky ones.I am in Ribble valley too I have never been offered a course but we have 1 surgery in Blackburn and 1 in Ribble Valley so maybe that is why
CAROL
Don't be annoyed -- be smug. It's much more satisfyingPeople I know who have attended T2 X-pert courses say such things to me as ' I can eat what I always ate'. "I eat healthy carbs now, brown rice and wholewheat pasta, jacket potatoes, brown bread, bran flakes. Have to include some carbs at every meal". They think I am uneducated about T2 because I haven't been on a course, and say I am wrong to restrict the carbs in my diet, yet many of them have ever increasing BG, despite medication. Some have complications such as neuropathy and retina changes, whereas I am not on medication, and have well controlled BG.
I am getting quite annoyed!
Don't be annoyed -- be smug. It's much more satisfying
Hi all,
I went to my first (of 6) x-pert classes last week and we were all asked if we regularly tested ourselves. Out of almost 30 there were only 2 of us that did and we were then told we didnt need to. We would be monitored on our routine blood tests, as ordered by our GP's.
How are we meant to learn to control our diabetes if we dont test to see what spikes us?!
Its frustrating because I find that diabetics in general are slated and told we're diabetic because we're fat and unhealthy and told to "take control" but then denied the tools we need to do that.
I did Expert too and told the same "unless you are type one or taking Metformin you do not need to test" then we were served tea coffee and MALT LOAF I have had better control following forum advise and tips
oooh, that turned into a bit of a rant, didnt it?
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