This with people that have these individuals in their lives.

I just switched from Levemir and Novorapid to Basalgar and Apidra. Much cheaper and seems to control my sugars more efficiently. Has anybody else switched insulins lately?

I have been trying to fast and every morning after waking up, my sugar is 6.5 or 6.7. I thought my sugar will go down if i dont have a snack the night before, but it goes up and when i have the snack, my sugar is 5.5 or 5.7 in the morning. I have No sugar, on no medications, very low carbs.

A chat with @A DiabetesTeam Member this morning inspired this with the caveat I am not a nutritionist and this is a heavily paraphrased/layman’s understanding of dietary fat

Most people like very simple answers – eat this, don’t eat that

For those of us who are more involved the various Food Guides are just far too vague

While FAT has got a bad rap I will try to demystify the various fats that we consume

(eating less fat means eating less calories and that is the driving force behind the… read more

All of us here have either been diagnosed with Diabetes or have someone close to us that have been given the news

So what is the "criteria" that separates us from Joe or Jane SugerEater?

Currently it is simply having an A1C, above 6.5% (47.5 mmol's in the IFCC scale) "twice in a row" measured 90 days apart

That's it, that's all - that "test" is all that is required for the Doc to determine "You have Diabetes"

No matter what you do after that, no matter how you control your blood sugar - no… read more

I recently began adding more healthy carbs back to my diet (as a test of sorts). Previously I was aiming for 50g carbs daily and now eat 100-110g daily. I am continuing to monitor my bg levels, and so far -so good (I think). It's been about a week. This week my weight has become stable, like never before. Before my weight would fluctuate 3 lbs from one day to the next- constant little ups and downs. The week I began adding back carbs my weight "flatlined"-something I've never seen before. Is… read more