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[Wandering]

I found last year eating meat or fish with lots of veg filled me up and i lost weight. The nhs site for bmi advises on various bmi. I was 32 in July now 26. It advises waist should be half your height. Suprisingly when I was 18 I could be described as plump but was 8st 10 with a waist of 26 inches which would now be described as slim. It was the seventies. I particularly like sea trout poached or cooked in the microwave. My favourite veg are tenderstem broccoli or Swiss chard. If I do a salad which I will have tomorrow with crab i add all sorts of bits eg olives, strawberries pumpkins seeds. I'm due to see the Diabetes Nurse on Friday for a review. My blood test showed low iron despite a love of watercress and I've been on iron pills.
Apart from adding sugar to drinks or fruit - stop or use sweetner nothing is actually off limits. You decide what you want to eat then reduce portion size of carbs. I was told not to eat more than 200 gms a day but eat between 100 and 130, many go much lower. I had a mango today but it's my first this year. I usually have British fruit eg berries and occasional apples and pears though earlier in the year raspberries and blueberries were from Southern Europe. I'm off tonight to an aquafit class which I find a joy

Thanks for the info. I wondered about the waist size. Half my height is easy. I've already lost 4.5 lbs in the 3 weeks since I got my results. So it's more about portion control and heavy on the vegetables. I think I can do that. Thanks.

 

[Wandering]

If its the drawing of blood that worries you it's worth paying a bit more for a decent lancing device

I'd recommend the AccuChek fastclix system

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It is painless and has multiple settings to get the depth right so it doesn't hurt at all but always gets enough blood to test

You need to get the cartridges too as it only comes with one (containing 6 needles)

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You get 204 in a box so last ages - I have used it for the past year or so (after recommendations on here) and is so much better than any others I've tried

Thanks, I'll check it out.