My Filipina Wife Does Low Carb

After they stabilised me and my pancreas I then waited for surgery to remove the bladder. I actually had it removed via BUPA so it was done at my convenience.

Pay heed @Druk1

From the Torygraph………Glucose Tracker


“I am not diabetic. Nor am I prediabetic. I do however have a sugar problem. I start my day with croissants; chocolate, almond, even plain if there’s raspberry jam to go with it. I’ve long suspected that my diet habits at work have me on a glucose roller coaster. My job as a writer is conducive to a lot of sitting and snacking.

However, I’m not overweight – around my work days I pack in yoga, tennis, rock climbing and dance classes. My mindset has always been: if I want your portion of Colin the Caterpillar as well as my own, I’ll have it and work it off later.

My cavalier attitude towards sugar is not unique. There are more than 4.9 million people currently living with diabetes in the UK, 90 per cent of those with Type 2.

How many of us, who outwardly look pretty fit, are telling ourselves that we’re managing just fine with the poor choices we’re making day in and day out? And what effect is this having? The more glucose spikes, caused by eating sugar, we experience, the more insulin is released in our bodies. In the long term, chronically elevated levels of insulin bring problems of their own. Too much insulin is the root cause of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.


When I recently interviewed former Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson, who reversed his diabetes, he suggested everyone with prediabetes should be prescribed a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) on the NHS.”

Mrs Ash weighed in at 48kg this morning. Some 15 kg less than when she started. She hasn’t eaten rice since she started. All done on restricting carb levels. She doesn’t go hungry. She doesn’t count anything.

Just seen an advert in the gym.

Well done to the good lady on her weight loss.