Drowning here but willing to learn

[Lampman]

Welcome Trekbabe. You will find a huge amount of good advice and encouragement here. Never sit and worry, ask questions! Your blood glucose levels and your own comments show you need to change what you eat to get your levels down. Carbohydrates are very definitely the enemy here. But you have come here and asked, so you are already on the road, grab the opportunity and learn from what is to be found here. Don't eat boring food, look for all the recipes to be found through this and other sites. Why is some food to be avoided and some increased? Its all in the information on this site. As my mother always said, its for your own good, and you will be healthier too so go for it!

 

[kumera]

Get to know glycemic load as it's much more informative than glycemic index.
IMO.
You have to take this disease seriously or die early.
You clearly haven't and aren't ....taking it seriously.
Not to late to start hopefully.
I have never weighed or measured anything other than using my meter and looking at food on a plate with a more educated eye.
I got my educated eye from joining this site and taking the disease seriously.
The only good thing about this disease is those who don't take it seriously cannot spread it to others around them.
I consider 8 on my meter as having crossed a red line from safety to nerve damage.
We're all different so we all have to find what's right for us.
For me it was all sugar gone.
Six months of eating nuts full fat yogurt no carbs other than porridge.
Some people can't tolerate porridge.
I soak it overnight and have it every morning even summer with a spoonful of coconut oil in it.
High fat low carb.
After six months I relaxed the rules a little but ate to my meter.
Two hours after my bowl of porridge I would be back down below 8.
Coffee with a spoonful of unsalted butter with it.
Any coffee will do and for me it's plain old Nescafe original.
Starting the day like this means not even the slightest desire for food/snacks till around 6 pm.
I started on Metformin but now take no medication for T2.
I have reversed the damage behind my left eye.
No statins as the porridge handles that job.
Noo blood pressure medication as the porridge handles that job.
Full fat products as in milk butter cheese and so on.
No low fat semi skinned no fat products are tolerated.
Full fat everything.
Weight loss and an almost reversed T2 situation here.
For the last year I think ... I get time figures wrong all the time .... I have been eating more or less what the rest of the family eat.
Full fat raised fat as in veg and dairy mean I'm not craving food.
Right now I'm having a glass of whiskey and a bowl of nuts.

Yay, I love my oats and have them raw, muesly style every morning, with fullfat milk. Good to see someone else sticking with the humble oats on a LCHF diet Maybe I should add some coconut oil??

 

[JTL]

Yay, I love my oats and have them raw, muesly style every morning, with fullfat milk. Good to see someone else sticking with the humble oats on a LCHF diet Maybe I should add some coconut oil??

High fat bit for me is more or or less dairy and plant.
Coconut oil is a simple way for me to start the day with a spoonful of fat in my food.
I think high fat is a little misleading.
It's more normal fat as in normal before industrial processes started producing low fat semi skimmed no fat products .... which aren't normal.
I'm eating what was deemed food .... before the seventies mass industrialisation of our grub.