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I feel like I am going round in circles and I don't expect anyone to have the answers, but I have got to share.
Food is fast becoming a swear word for me. Fancy getting told you are prediabetic just when you are really poorly, terribly nauseous every day, and your appetite isn't very good anyway.
Don't forget I am new to all this and have only known about the prediabetes for a few weeks. I feel like I have gone round in circles with the diets mentioned on the forum. I looked up and read up on LCHF, GI, GL. I thought I had gleamed a lot from reading many posts about the foods that seem to raise BG and those that seem fairly safe for most. The first thing I have learned that was valuable, is that no two people seem to be the same and therefore it's all trial and error. I accept this. I test, I learn.
My acid reflux and IBS was already playing up when I got the BG test results. Now I am finding that a lot of foods ( more than usual), are actually making these conditions worse....and the nausea sometimes too. I ate full fat yoghurt a couple of times and it just made me feel sick if I am honest. I had butter on my Burgen...it made me feel sick too and felt very heavy in my stomach for hours. Had to abandon this high fat thing. My two highest BG post eating readings have been with a Turkey dinner with veg ( no potato) and berries with full fat yoghurt. Even an Atkins bar was less.
Leaves me with low carbing, for someone who is being weighed weekly because they are losing so much weight ( started pre test results). Doc concerned about me losing weight, family concerned. I bought a low carb cookbook to give me some enthusiasm and I just got Patrick Holfords The Low GL Diet cookbook....BUT I AM NOT TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT!!!! The first page I open randomly in Holford's book said apple cinnamon porridge for breakfast....porridge? Rice, pasta, albeit brown, but it's all there; all the things I have been led to believe are unlikely to do me any good. Confused isn't the word!
I hold my hands up. Apart from not eating any white starchy carbs, I don't have a clue what to do next. Due to speak to dietician soon but not holding my breath for anything useful to come out of it.
Food is fast becoming a swear word for me. Fancy getting told you are prediabetic just when you are really poorly, terribly nauseous every day, and your appetite isn't very good anyway.
Don't forget I am new to all this and have only known about the prediabetes for a few weeks. I feel like I have gone round in circles with the diets mentioned on the forum. I looked up and read up on LCHF, GI, GL. I thought I had gleamed a lot from reading many posts about the foods that seem to raise BG and those that seem fairly safe for most. The first thing I have learned that was valuable, is that no two people seem to be the same and therefore it's all trial and error. I accept this. I test, I learn.
My acid reflux and IBS was already playing up when I got the BG test results. Now I am finding that a lot of foods ( more than usual), are actually making these conditions worse....and the nausea sometimes too. I ate full fat yoghurt a couple of times and it just made me feel sick if I am honest. I had butter on my Burgen...it made me feel sick too and felt very heavy in my stomach for hours. Had to abandon this high fat thing. My two highest BG post eating readings have been with a Turkey dinner with veg ( no potato) and berries with full fat yoghurt. Even an Atkins bar was less.
Leaves me with low carbing, for someone who is being weighed weekly because they are losing so much weight ( started pre test results). Doc concerned about me losing weight, family concerned. I bought a low carb cookbook to give me some enthusiasm and I just got Patrick Holfords The Low GL Diet cookbook....BUT I AM NOT TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT!!!! The first page I open randomly in Holford's book said apple cinnamon porridge for breakfast....porridge? Rice, pasta, albeit brown, but it's all there; all the things I have been led to believe are unlikely to do me any good. Confused isn't the word!
I hold my hands up. Apart from not eating any white starchy carbs, I don't have a clue what to do next. Due to speak to dietician soon but not holding my breath for anything useful to come out of it.