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Afternoon everyone. I’m really struggling with food. I was put on Metformin a couple of months ago and I have really been watching what I eat but I’m only consuming between 600 & 1000 calories per day. I have irritable bowel and I’m sensitive to gluten. I hate veg except carrots and peas and...
I wanted to share a quick story about myself and some exciting news I had received a couple of weeks ago.
I have been diabetic for coming on 10 years in that time I had more Dr & Nurses than I had dinners. ( For some reasons they all leave after 6 months ).
Within that time I was told I was...
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I was diagnosed type 1 in March so just getting to grips with everything! I am going travelling soon to South East Asia and need to carry with me some emergency long-acting carb hypo treatments with me, roughly about 20g and I want them low fat and low sugar as I've put weight on since...
Hi am needing a little advice and guidance. I have just started my new job as a care worker on nights and my eat and sleep pattern is all over a was wondering what’s the best times I should be eating with me being a wake on a night and sleeping during the day. Any idea would be fab thanks
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Mix cannellini with tomatoes and spring onions and stir balsamic vinegar, olive oil, mustard, lemon juice and some seasoning for the dressing and you have a tasty salad, healthy with not too many carbs in them...
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We thought that you might be interested to hear about our new healthy eating campaign which launched yesterday, featuring five people living with diabetes cooking the food they love, but healthier. Please feel free to share or sign up to receive free videos and more tips and...
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My name is Llinos. I live in Wales and I'm type 1 diabetic and was diagnosed in 2012 when I was 15 years old. I am a student studying health and social care with sociology and i'm a keen rugby and netball player. I am on a low-carb diet and I'm currently using Apidra solostar and Lantus...
Hi. I'm newly diagnosed. Cried at first as I'd previously had a negative result in july 2015 but now type 2. Been following a healthy eating plan and lost 9lbs since diagnosis 2.5 weeks ago. What I'm finding very confusing are yoghurts. Ive noticed that a lot of low fat ones claim 0.0 or 0.1%...