And now a technical or practical question for posting. Since my first post was in the "Introduce Yourself" section, how can I continue posting in a more appropriate section? I'm still trying to navigate this site and am getting lost. Or, should I create a new post in one of the sections that I would fit into now instead of continuing in the "Intro..." section?

I start from (and return to) this Index page, where you see new activity: http://forum.lowcarber.org/index.php?

Easy to see the main sub-forum headings there. You could start new posts where appropriate. If it is specifically Bernstein diet related, or your BG readings, the Diabetes forum under Health. How to LC in general can end up under Newbie Questions, Atkins, or General LC. Then there is the Tips and Stalls advice I linked. Definitely not perfect, but this forum welcomes all versions of LC, it is not just for one diet. Look around all of them and maybe read back through a page of posts in forums of interest. Great information buried in all those sub-forums. If searching for a topic, use Advanced Search..regular box is useless.
And the Recipes are all indexed, find one in the sticky at top, and it is linked to the post. That is organized well!
And in your account settings, be sure you get daily alerts to any posts in any thread. If you subscribe to a thread like the one on dairy, there can be weeks without activity, then an update, so you don't lose track if interested in various forums.

Glad you are working with PT. We think we are doing something healthy for ourselves, elliptical for you, yoga for me, when we are just aggravating the situation.

Long answer to where you get calcium without dairy:
http://whole9life.com/2012/02/what-about-calcium/

My suggestion for dairy follows any Paleo elimination diet...remove all dairy entirely one month and then challenge it back very carefully. Whole30 linked above, or Chris Kresser's Your Personal Paleo Code, etc have the details how to do it correctly.

Thanks for your advice, Jey. I do need some time to wander around this site. There are so many places!

I wish I could even find full-fat yogurt. Gave up looking, they all seem so proud to be "fat free!" Bah.

I saw a video on the ketogenic diet for epilepsy yesterday. It showed a stay at home Dad making "yogurt" for his kid--heavy cream whipped until thick but still a little wet, and then blended with a bit of sour cream for a yogurt-like tang.

Ha KDH, know you not fond of Trader Joe's , but ours has a few whole milk versions. Not many to be sure. And like Teaser's idea, Dr. Eenfeldt adds heavy cream to his http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf-breakfast-in-the-summer Which is yummy, the cream sweetens a lot right there.

And speaking of Low Fat..Horrors! Yesterday Target had Reduced Fat KerryGold Butter! What is the world coming too?!? They were sold out of regular ($2.59 best price in the area) but had stacks of Reduced Fat Butter.

Ew. Reduced fat butter, it shouldn't be allowed to be called butter anymore.

I keep meaning to check at Central Market and forget. Or a quick scan shows so many "low-fat" and "fat free" labels that I write the section off altogether.

Low fat KERRYGOLD!? Blasphemers.

"My doctor (who is new to us in the past year) referred me to a RD last month and she gave me handouts from the ADA - 45 gr. carbs per meal. I told her I've been doing low-carb but she said that was not healthy. Well, I did follow a meal suggestion three times and recorded blood sugar over 200 each time, so I'm taking these results to her this week. Not sure if I'm going to smack her or not but there's no way I'm going back to her."
Same experience. I do try to get some carbs through beans and lentils, my BG reacts very well to those, but if I eat the carbs the dieticians recommend I will be on insulin. They don't care, I do. You'll have to learn who you can fully share with, especially if you risk losing clearances of any kind.

Exactly, Mama Sebo. One of the handouts she gave me was from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics which also suggest "3 to 5 servings of carbohydrate foods at each meal and 1 or 2 carbohydrate servings for each snack..." That can be 45 or more gr. carbs at a meal. As a diabetic, that's suicide in my opinion.

All vegetables have carbs: bell peppers, cucumbers, mushrooms, zucchini squash - and I eat these. I will also eat some lentils and beans (a spoonful, for example) with other food.

The RD implied my way wasn't healthy. I have my notes to show her but I'm nervous to face her in person because I don't trust myself to be calm and collected. My meters don't lie (I'm using two as I'm using one strips for one that's not covered by our insurance anymore.) and as I'd told her when I first saw here, "The bottom line is what my blood sugar is."

It might be worth looking on your country's Fage website to see if they list a stockist near you or a chain of stores that carry it so you can ask your closest one to get it in.
http://usa.fage.eu/storelocator

Or worse than suicide. If it were a clean, quick death I wouldn't mind so much - it's the real possibility of dying by inches and ending up without limbs that really bothers me.

Good morning, Bonnie. Yes! And I know from personal experience because my type 2 mom died after having a leg amputated at the knee because of gangrene from an untreated foot wound that never healed. She ignored the discolored foot and had such neuropathy that she hadn't felt the pain. She was 72. It was a heart attack that ultimately killed her, however. In those days, there were no meters, only urine test strips, but she didn't eat correctly. Well, this was in 1982 and the only thing doctors probably told their patients was not to eat cake or cookies. And today we have the Internet. For me it's been my saving grace!