Thanks for the diet advice.

I have the greatest respect for dieticians.
If a consultant tells me I need a balanced diet without wheat, milk, meat or anything with an "a" in its name, I'll be really pleased to see the dietician.

However, I've always been a little dubious of their ability to provide advice about specific conditions.
This dates from the week when two members of my family went to see the same dietician. One was morbidly obese and the other painfully thin.
They both came home with the same diet sheet and identical advice.

So it was easy for me to recognise the general dietary advice offerd by health care professionals to diabetics.

Although my meds (medformin and gliclazide) did a good job of lowering my blood glucose from its dangerous high at first, no amount of tweaking my diet within the guidelines seemed able to improve it further.

Fortunately, a lot of diabetics talk about their condition all over the web so it did not take long for me to see discussion of much lower carb recommendations.

A light then went on. I was eating massively more starch after being diagnosed than I had done before.

Cutting out a lot of the (mostly slow-release) carbohydrates, along with lots of testing, allowed me to work out the beginnings of a much more effective food regime for my personal instance of type 2 diabetes.

So that's another prejudice confirmed.!

I've been off work for most of the time I've been working on my revised personal diet (7 days holiday = 11 days at home) so it will no doubt all go horribly wrong when I return to work on Saturday.

My work involves a lot of walking/running up steps, often carrying fairly heavy bags. There are also short burst of lifting heavy things. And on Monday I will be carrying and stacking at least 2 tonnes of old-style TVs. -  some of them large Sonys.

So no doubt I'll need to test again from scratch and adjust my carbs appropriately.

Just hope I can still do the job.