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Greetings from South Korea

mcdark

mcdark

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Hi, Everyone My name Chang from South Korea, I'd like to say hi to everyone here before I go active on this community I spent more than 10 years in UK, and I got diagnosed T2D (at A1C 7.4% now 5.4% taking Metformin 500mg) Last year, I have been looking for Diabetes community for a while to get information for foods, treatment trends etc

I was a member of Korean diabetes community but the community wasn't much resourceful for my diet and health concern, Because Eastern Asian's main food are white rice (short grain), floured noodles, rice cake, and side dishes those are contain heavy amount of sugar and salt.
(based on my life background in UK, I eat more like British and now I'm on Keto)

then my mate told me about Diabetes.co.uk, I joined here because I wanted to fight the disease by communicating with good people and leanrning good health knowledge through the community.

:)
 
One very effective way to lower blood sugar is to go low carb. Not just cutting out the obvious sugar but reducing all carbs.
I never ate many potatoes before but loved rice - but I managed to switch to either having cauliflower rice or just leaving it out.
I grate the cauliflower, then bake it in the oven at 180C for about 11 mins, then cool and store in the fridge. I finish cooking it either in stir fry or just heating in the microwave to have with curry or meat in sauce.
Instead of noodles/pasta I have 'courgetti' - I have a very cheap hand gadget to spiralize the courgetti then cook it for 1-2 minutes either in the microwave or stir fried.
Cauliflower and courgettes do not soak up much liquid, as rice and noodles will, so make the sauces thicker.

I also used to like toast for breakfast but now I either eat a very low carb homemade cereal (based on flaxseed) or make 90 second almond bread.

Making these changes, plus swapping to full fat greek yogurt with berries for desserts and from milk chocolate to a low sugar one, made a huge difference.
 
TriciaWs said:
One very effective way to lower blood sugar is to go low carb. Not just cutting out the obvious sugar but reducing all carbs.
I never ate many potatoes before but loved rice - but I managed to switch to either having cauliflower rice or just leaving it out.
I grate the cauliflower, then bake it in the oven at 180C for about 11 mins, then cool and store in the fridge. I finish cooking it either in stir fry or just heating in the microwave to have with curry or meat in sauce.
Instead of noodles/pasta I have 'courgetti' - I have a very cheap hand gadget to spiralize the courgetti then cook it for 1-2 minutes either in the microwave or stir fried.
Cauliflower and courgettes do not soak up much liquid, as rice and noodles will, so make the sauces thicker.

I also used to like toast for breakfast but now I either eat a very low carb homemade cereal (based on flaxseed) or make 90 second almond bread.

Making these changes, plus swapping to full fat greek yogurt with berries for desserts and from milk chocolate to a low sugar one, made a huge difference.
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Thanks for your advice! :)
 
mcdark said:
Hi, Everyone My name Chang from South Korea, I'd like to say hi to everyone here before I go active on this community I spent more than 10 years in UK, and I got diagnosed T2D (at A1C 7.4% now 5.4% taking Metformin 500mg) Last year, I have been looking for Diabetes community for a while to get information for foods, treatment trends etc

I was a member of Korean diabetes community but the community wasn't much resourceful for my diet and health concern, Because Eastern Asian's main food are white rice (short grain), floured noodles, rice cake, and side dishes those are contain heavy amount of sugar and salt.
(based on my life background in UK, I eat more like British and now I'm on Keto)

then my mate told me about Diabetes.co.uk, I joined here because I wanted to fight the disease by communicating with good people and leanrning good health knowledge through the community.

:)
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Hi welcome! I’m currently live in Singapore, so I know firsthand how hard it is to avoid carbs in Asia lol. I love Korean bbq lol. Went to Jeju island once. Welcome!
 
LaoDan said:
Hi welcome! I’m currently live in Singapore, so I know firsthand how hard it is to avoid carbs in Asia lol. I love Korean bbq lol. Went to Jeju island once. Welcome!
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Haha yes! Specially in Korea there are sugar and salt everywhere (soju too) aww great I went to Jeju last summer for a two month of residency haha. Good to see you too!
 
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