First time I've posted my food and only 3 weeks in so please be gentle with me but would love some feedback on my food vs my BS levels (see pic)
B - porridge oats made with semi skimmed milk ( hubby made it but didn't weigh it - he eyeballs everything!
) few strawberries
L - home made chicken n veg soup (chicken chunks, onion, peas, sweetcorn, small amount of grated carrot, green beans and oxo chicken stock. Followed by 1 plum, 1 very large Orange and about 10 green grapes
D - small jacket potato, knob of butter, cheddar cheese, 2 chicken drumsticks, mixed green leaves, Cucumber, spring onion, cherry tomatoes, red pepper. Followed by strawberries and a plum
Snacks: banana (between lunch and dinner). About 15 chocolate buttons (evening while watching TV).Normally I would have polished off the whole share bag without a second thought so quite proud of myself.
Clearly porridge is out!!
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I agree with Antje77. For me, oats of any kind, at any time, is a bad idea. Fruits are lovely but also have a bad habit of putting up the glucose levels - same applies to fruit juices - even more so. For me, full cream milk is best - more fat but fewer carbs. Same with yoghurts.
Bacon and eggs, or cold meats, are the only thing I have come across that doesn't put BS up at breakfast time. (The toast I had this morning will have put the level up, but I hope, not too far.)
Soups are great as long as they are not thickened with anything (flour/potato/cornflour etc) and as long as the vegetables are fairly low carb (onions, leeks, green leaves, courgette, maybe a small amount of carrot but legumes and corn are all fairly high carb and not good for BS).
I can get away with a small amount of tomato, but I'm not sure everyone can. I couldn't even eat one or two chocolate buttons - unless they are some of the 100% cocoa butter and no sugar ones. The trouble with normal chocolate buttons is not the chocolate but all the sugar that is in them. I have to say, most people don't like the 100% chocolate - it is bitter and they prefer something around the 90% level, which does have some sugar, but not much.
Having said all this, I am an extreme case and it takes almost nothing to put my BS up and even my starting level is higher than it should be. This, despite being on very high levels of insulin.
The thing is, to test your BS with everything you eat and see what it does to you. Everyone is different and what suits me, might not suit you, or anyone else on this forum.
The only thing that puts my BS down is to fast and even then, it will go too far down (hypo) and correcting that will shove it right up again (for example, I unintentionally more or less fasted yesterday but still BG went far too high (17.9), I took a correction dose of insulin around 10 pm but woke up at 2 am with a full blown hypo (3.6) then ate a boiled sweet and slept again until 7 am when BG was 12.0). I'm told that yo-yoing isn't good for me, but the alternative for me is to take even more insulin and eat absolutely no carbs, so only fish, meat and dairy really. By the way, I don't stick to my own rules all the time and I fall by the wayside. But I pick myself up again and try again tomorrow, and I'm still here to plague and puzzle everyone.
Don't think you will be like me. Mine is a very long standing condition which wasn't treated when it could have been. If you can get it right now, just recently diagnosed, you will do much better than me. So test before and after eating and you will find out what is right for you.
) few strawberries
