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Welcome @Thorney 🙂 If you click on the orange tab at the top of this page called Learning Zone, there’s some basic info there. You can also ask anything you want here - nothing is too trivial or ‘silly’.

How long have you had Type 2?
 
Inka said:
Welcome @Thorney  If you click on the orange tab at the top of this page called Learning Zone, there’s some basic info there. You can also ask anything you want here - nothing is too trivial or ‘silly’.

How long have you had Type 2?
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Thanks, & learning zone completed, handy. Only known for 2 weeks.
 
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Inka said:
Welcome @Thorney 🙂 If you click on the orange tab at the top of this page called Learning Zone, there’s some basic info there. You can also ask anything you want here - nothing is too trivial or ‘silly’.

How long have you had Type 2?
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Not sure if reply seen. Thanks Inka, learning zone completed, couple of good points picked up. Diagnosed just over a fortnight, so unsure of how long, but food management will help!
 
Do you know which foods there are that contain a lot of carbohydrate, which you probably ought to reduce your consumption of?
 
Jenny, not that far into it yet, so have just decided to do some batch cooking from the Diabetes UK Web for next 12 weeks. Tips welcome
 
The book or app Carbs and Cals is very useful as it gives carb content of various portions of a whole range of foods which helps make better choices. Other people use other apps, some free, some you have to pay for.
This link may also help as the principals are ones which many find successful in reducing blood glucose and reducing weight if you need to. https://lowcarbfreshwell.com/
Do you know what your HbA1C is as that will indicate how much work you will need to do.
 
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Not sure if reply seen. Thanks Inka, learning zone completed, couple of good points picked up. Diagnosed just over a fortnight, so unsure of how long, but food management will help!
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Welcome to the forum @Thorney

Well done for your positive start to your life with diabetes. Getting a good background of information will be a real help.

If you are posting from your phone (or an ‘Android’ tablet) and it keeps adding strange spaces into your posts, or generally behaving in a weird and confusing manner, you may find this post helpful?


No idea if it would work for you as I don’t know the first thing about Android!
 
Thanks Mike, for the help, it was on my Android phone, it seemed I had to write a reply, then it suddenly seemed to give the write reply box...I got there, but wasn't sure if I was sending double,haha!
 
Leadinglights said:
The book or app Carbs and Cals is very useful as it gives carb content of various portions of a whole range of foods which helps make better choices. Other people use other apps, some free, some you have to pay for.
This link may also help as the principals are ones which many find successful in reducing blood glucose and reducing weight if you need to. https://lowcarbfreshwell.com/
Do you know what your HbA1C is as that will indicate how much work you will need to do.
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Leading Lights thanks. I was 64 & 59 on bloods & good couple of stone to shift. Statins being introduced in a month, as I also have a bad fat count, which matters now diabetic. I want to be off the Metformin by 10 weeks (next appt), as nurse said if I get to 41 or below, she'll stop them. Statins for life now....and change of diet is for life
 
Thorney said:
Leading Lights thanks. I was 64 & 59 on bloods & good couple of stone to shift. Statins being introduced in a month, as I also have a bad fat count, which matters now diabetic. I want to be off the Metformin by 10 weeks (next appt), as nurse said if I get to 41 or below, she'll stop them. Statins for life now....and change of diet is for life
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That is an excellent attitude that it is not a diet but a new way of eating for life. Many find that by reducing carbs it also reduces cholesterol. I can see why you have been prescribed metformin with those HbA1C results, however don't be too impatient as reducing blood glucose gradually is better for your eyes and nerves.
Your eyes can change so things can be out of focus when you reduce blood glucose quickly but should return to normal when your level stabilises.
 
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