Hi Mick
I concur on the advice to watch out for carbs.
Unfortunately, Diabetes UK and the medical profession are still advising diabetics to eat plenty of complex carbs. This is meant to keep your blood sugar steady. It does! Steady and HIGH:shock:
Unless you want to keep increasing your insulin,and possibly getting onto the weightgain spiral, you need to reduce your body's access to glucose. Table sugar turns into 50% glucose,( the other 50% i fructose, which jhas little effect on BG) but starch becomes100 % glucose in the body, thus if you eat 10g sugar, your total glucose will increase 5g, or about 1 on your meter. if you eat 10g starch, your total glucose will increase by 10g or about 2 on your meter.