My Filipina Wife Does Low Carb

Instead of breakfast try a coffee with a blob of double cream or even a knob of butter. Add sweetener if you need to. You will find it will fill you up. And you can defer breakfast til lunchtime. That’s if you feel you need breakfast.

No.
The letter didn't even have an address on indicating where it came from as I moved house a couple of months ago.
The GP Practice Code on it was my new doctors' practice but the date of blood results was 13/3/2020 which was my previous doctor.
The letter said "based on the results of a blood test taken in the last 24 months your blood sugar is higher than normal."

I spoke to my sister (ex staff nurse before becoming a lead health visitor) tonight who told me to phone the surgery early in the week to ask for either a "fasting blood sugar" or a HbA1c test.

I suppose the pandemic has slowed many routine practises, hence the delay from the blood test.

Spot on. Our surgery is doing them. They stopped them during the first lockdown. But have kept them going during this one. The HbA1c is a good test.

Yes. So if you have been eating plenty of carbs and sugar and your body isn’t dealing with it as it should, then the amount of glucose in the blood will be elevated. It picks up the average blood glucose reading over the 3 month period or near enough. Two consecutive elevated HbA1c readings and that’s you diagnosed T2 in most cases.

It isn’t such a bad habit as we have been led to believe.

I have a brunch and skip lunch, 2 jumbo fried or boiled eggs, cheddar cheese or mayo and a sausage. 1 Cup of black coffee.
And dinner, cabbage, coli, broccoli, tuna or ground beef or chicken. And drink 6 or 7 pints of water during the day.

Are you full throughout the day Jim? Is it staving off any hunger? Eggs and cheese are pretty filling.

I never get hungry. Sometimes I have a fat bomb just to boost my fat intake.

I have an App that keeps track of my carbs, protein and fat intake.
Carb manager.
https://www.carbmanager.com

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Your body needs time to adapt, Jim. I felt crap for 2 weeks until my "keto flu" stopped. Drink plenty of water and take electrolytes.

It sounds like you are in ketosis.

As Jim says at first you don’t feel great as your body adjusts to being a fat burner.

This description is as good as any.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/keto-flu-symptoms#symptoms

On the positive side Oss, once you have shifted a lot of weight you will be working less hard to stand for the 10 minutes. You should become a lot more spritely.

Are you still eating green veggies?

Potassium rich foods...

https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-rich-in-potassium#1