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Hi and welcome. You've had lot's of comments about diet and I can only add to keeping the carbs down. Your GP seems to understand that which is good. Ignore food Traffic light labelling. It's complete nonsense as you will find out and has a lot to do with the food industry lobby on the government. You can buy Ketostix or similar brand sticks if you want to test your ketones. Metformin never has that much effect on blood sugar but does help. I suspect the GP will increase the dose shortly. Exercise is always good but the right diet is the highest priority. Ignore any of the 'branded' diet clubs as they will offer you whatever you want to eat and often contain too many carbs
 
I’m pretty certain that when you get a cartoon level if will suggest to test for keytones you need a separate strip for that

As far as I’m aware there is only 1 meter on the market that has a combined glucose and keytone strip
 
KennyA said:
I have an Rx and it definitely doesn't test ketones.
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The glucorx hct model also has keytone strips I think the more common nexus just give the warning when high
 
Rachelpoppet said:
Oh no I didn’t realise brown bread and rice noodles were bad ☹️. The nutritional traffic light on the rice noodles are all green I thought they were good . I’m struggling what to eat as potatoes, pasta and rice were previously my main stable diet. I’ve been told by the doctors receptionist that slimming world is the best diet for diabetes, does this sound right?
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It sounds as if you've had some proper comedy advice. It's actually unforgiveable for you to be left with a diagnosis and zero info, and what receptionist think they're doing given diet advice to diabetics....

One of the things you will have to unlearn is all the stuff the media, your friends, and the NHS tells you is "healthy" eating. You cannot as far as I can see do "low-carb" and stick to the NHS Eatwell plate, which recommends starchy carbs, weetabix, all that. My 20g a day diet consists of meat, dairy, and some vegetables. I have a few berries 2-3 times/week. You may not want to go that low and you will need to find a level that works for you - by "works" I mean lowers your BG and you start to lose weight. Use your meter and find what foods (clue - they will be carbs) raise your BG unacceptably - that is, a rise of 2.0 or more mmol/mol or a rise over 8.0. Stop eating the things that cause the rises. Keep that up and you will see change , it could happen within a few weeks or months.

This is a sort of summary of that things I found out during my first year....might help.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog/kennya.517579/
 
Hello and welcome,

Yes when first diagnosed itv can feel very overwhelming g and you are right there is a lot of contradictory advice that people give.

You have been given the link to @JoKalsbeek nutritional thingy which is a great read.

The best thing is to trust your meter. I started by googling everything before I ate to see the amount of carbs in it. I found it easier to stick to stuff with no or very low carbs in them. Things like meat, chicken fish, cheese, eggs, cream etc. This meant that I could eat them without weighing them. I have been a calorie counter from way back. I found that keeping low carb quickly reduced my blood sugar levels.

My suggestion is to start by just focusing g on reducing your blood sugar levels- don't worry too much about weight just blood sugar levels. Keep posting here and ask questions- people here really want to help.

Welcome and good luck.
 
KennyA said:
It sounds as if you've had some proper comedy advice. It's actually unforgiveable for you to be left with a diagnosis and zero info, and what receptionist think they're doing given diet advice to diabetics....

One of the things you will have to unlearn is all the stuff the media, your friends, and the NHS tells you is "healthy" eating. You cannot as far as I can see do "low-carb" and stick to the NHS Eatwell plate, which recommends starchy carbs, weetabix, all that. My 20g a day diet consists of meat, dairy, and some vegetables. I have a few berries 2-3 times/week. You may not want to go that low and you will need to find a level that works for you - by "works" I mean lowers your BG and you start to lose weight. Use your meter and find what foods (clue - they will be carbs) raise your BG unacceptably - that is, a rise of 2.0 or more mmol/mol or a rise over 8.0. Stop eating the things that cause the rises. Keep that up and you will see change , it could happen within a few weeks or months.

This is a sort of summary of that things I found out during my first year....might help.
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog/kennya.517579/
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Thank you,
 
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