Stupid is as stupid does.
Advising someone out of ignorance certainly is an act of stupidity (does she have an -ology? Bad puppy!)
Logging in to this forum and having a minor rant about stupid - now THAT's a
smart move
Read the label (don't worship it - if the User Sheet says 1 in 100,000 people get a bad reaction it means that 99,999 probably don't (but it's as well to be warned and prepared just in case you're the lottery winner!) ("Do you feel lucky, punk. Well do you?")
Apart from the insulin (novorapid, levemir) I am on almost 10 different medications (including Metformin) plus vitamins and things. I rattle when I move I'm taking so many tablets. I always
read the instructions, just to suss out the just how bad it can get. I frighten myself occasionally, by listing what can go wrong and then looklng for symptoms.
Eat what I like and just take the said tablets and stop filling my head full of nonsense on web sites and books.
Poppycock. Read on, dear Julie42. The web and books are full of advice. Some of it needs to be taken with a pinch of (low sodium) salt.
Find out what you like, what suits you (I eat carbs, usually at each meal. It apprears to suit me. I watch the sugar thing but occasionally indulge myself with a pudding. (There are such things as sugar free desserts (Sainsbury's does a good Instant Whip type range) (OK so I don't hold back with cake - which my dear wife makes - no more than abour 3 oz of sugar for a 9" cake). But then one man's carbohydrate rebuced bread.......
....... .I said how I must get to grips with this due to my age and I want to be well, once I figure out a diet plan that suits me
The short response is "Go figure". Keep a food diary (jot down food, carbs, calories, sugar. If you liked something new, in the diary it goes. If you don't - so be it.)
I will be fine but I feel the reduced carbs must play a part.
YES IT WILL BE (fine that is). I don't regard carbs as the enemy. Maybe I should, It will make life very 'interesting' if I decided to give them up.
They disagreed and rung off thinking I am going potty
Going potty is something I know and live with! It's not suchh a bad place and you meet some really interresting people.
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