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If I get into the very low 3s or 2s then I do finger prick. High 3s, I don't panic, just watch carefully. Always a couple of steps away from a packet of jellybabies and a piece of toast or rich tea biscuits makes me feel secure.
 
Usually, when I was on gliclazide I would go low and start to shake and panic, but on sitagliptin and metformin I can be in the low 4s or even high 3s and I wouldn't be shaking or panicking.
 
Tomorrow morning I will stop weetabix and have yogurt with berries and shall see if I get better readings. I will also.look up other options too
 
UsmanMo96 said:
How much carbs do you eat in a day?
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This year my average has been 10g
That's mainly from double cream in coffees and maybe a few raspberries with cream for dessert sometimes.
For January I'll try and tighten up again and just do meat and cream in drinks ( I simply hate black coffee tho).
 
bulkbiker said:
You may end up being pleasantly surprised. Good luck if you decide to give it a go..
A few of us gather here..
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/carnivore-corner.164920/
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bulkbiker said:
This year my average has been 10g
That's mainly from double cream in coffees and maybe a few raspberries with cream for dessert sometimes.
For January I'll try and tighten up again and just do meat and cream in drinks ( I simply hate black coffee tho).
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What benefits have you gotten from this carnivore lifestyle apart from blood sugar control?
 
UsmanMo96 said:
How much carbs do you eat in a day?
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My daily maximum was 50 gm of carb, got down to Hba1c of 41, but then it was 42 - I reduced down to 40 gm a day, but got 42 again, so I think that all the low calorie low fat high carb diets I was told would save my life have got me stuck at the top end of normal. I am very sensitive to carbs, even from legumes, I need to stick to low carb foods - not everyone needs to go as low as I do - but my meter is adamant about how carbs affect me.
 
UsmanMo96 said:
What benefits have you gotten from this carnivore lifestyle apart from blood sugar control?
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Lost a bit more weight, food prep a lot easier although had already healed a lot of stuff before with fasting and keto but have maintained all those benefits as well.
 
bulkbiker said:
Lost a bit more weight, food prep a lot easier although had already healed a lot of stuff before with fasting and keto but have maintained all those benefits as well.
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I will definitely give it a go for 1 month but if I see good results within a week. I will continue on. I haven't been able to sleep properly with my blood sugar levels so hopefully that will improve too and my energy too
 
Resurgam said:
My daily maximum was 50 gm of carb, got down to Hba1c of 41, but then it was 42 - I reduced down to 40 gm a day, but got 42 again, so I think that all the low calorie low fat high carb diets I was told would save my life have got me stuck at the top end of normal. I am very sensitive to carbs, even from legumes, I need to stick to low carb foods - not everyone needs to go as low as I do - but my meter is adamant about how carbs affect me.
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So with my weetabix I'm doing your daily max in just my breakfast alone. I will be trying the carnivore movement for a month to see if that helps.
 
I am sure that I was always sensitive to carbs, all my life I have found the advice to eat 'healthy' carbs was not right for me - gaining weight and losing muscle strength every time I was put on a diet. The 50 gm of carbs was my Atkins way of eating to control my weight, so I was pretty smug when I found it brought me down to normal blood glucose levels too. I lnly need to eat twice a day at the moment, and eat only about 10 gm of carbs for my first meal - I am more insulin resistant in the mornings - or I was when sorting all this out.
I am really quite normal now, I tend to keep to the way of eating to control my weight, and perhaps one of these years might see my Hba1c reduce down into the normal range - 42 is so near, but so far.
I hope that you find that watching the carbs will prove useful in getting a grip on the diabetes.
 
Hi- I'm another that is very low carb- less than 20 grams a day and most days much less- most from cream in coffee and some vegetables- broccoli and cauliflower and spinach leaves.

You may find once you have been low carb for a while that you can give up breakfast- that is what I have done. I couldn't find a breakfast I could tolerate that was low carb enough- I have coffee with cream instead.

The benefits are not just control of blood sugar levels there is also the loss off my lifelong asthma- in Australia with the bad fires the air has been really bad and I have not had one asthma attack- prior to very low carb I could have been in the hospital with the air quality. I've also lost weight which I needed. The improvement- disappearance of my asthma is something that shows that low carb way of eating is for more than just diabetics.
 
Today readings.
  • Before meal 5.6
    1hr 12.3
    2hr 12.6
    3hr 9.3
I will be going to see my diabetes doctor in 2 weeks time. I didnt have weetabix today and still got readings like this.
 
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