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GI, Glycemic index is about how a normal non diabetic person can tolerate the load from the intake of food.
Being T2 or diabetic is about how tolerant you are to certain foods such as carbs and sugars as they do produce higher blood glucose levels and spikes than proteins and good fats, as well as non starchy vegetables.
Each of us who has an issue with intolerance, will have different levels of GI, than a normal non diabetic.

That is why the advice to diabetics is eat to your meter.
 
I get that but I know my ratio and convert it appropriatly, do you not use something like MySugar to work it out?
 
mark.armstrong said:
I get that but I know my ratio and convert it appropriatly, do you not use something like MySugar to work it out?
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You are type 1, which is very different to type 2. What works for you may well not work for us. Of course I might be wrong in thinking T1 folks (in terms of their diabetes) are more like each other than T2 folks.
 
CatsFive said:
You are type 1, which is very different to type 2. What works for you may well not work for us. Of course I might be wrong in thinking T1 folks (in terms of their diabetes) are more like each other than T2 folks.
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With regards to insulin timing & the “working profile” of the bolus insulin used as a T1. I’ve ran at it from all directions with Novorapid on porridge.
I’ve found it easier to just avoid the stuff. :)
 
mark.armstrong said:
Any breakfast cereal sends my BG into orbit
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I just can’t do “breakfast.” Don’t fancy food first thing. (Maybe if I get up late?) I can do a “brunch,” but then not up for a midday meal?
As a kid on fixed doses of porcine insulin. I was a “hostage” to eating “3square” meals a day, & instructed on snacks (around 10/15g of carbs.) mid morning mid afternoon & before bed?
Lol, I feel this is where the misinformation on “eating all the time” for diabetes comes from?
Some carbs just don’t work for everyone. T1 wise I can’t “inject & go” with what others profess to do..

Though I can handle the odd pizza with no fuss after a gig at 2am bolusing upfront for the carbs with a 4 hour late basal injection & a reasonable amount of alcohol. Once the van key chain has locked my side kitchen door.. (nil by mouth booze wise. whilst performing & more to the point driving..)
 
mark.armstrong said:
Any breakfast cereal sends my BG into orbit
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It is the carbs and excessive sugars that do it! Also the milk you put on the cereal!
If I looked at a weetabix, my BG levels would do a pole vault!
And for a diabetic, is (deleted!)
 
My DN said Weetabix would be good for me when diagnosed. She did give me a meter and told me to test. She was horrified at my numbers and said she hadn't realized how much sugar there must be in Weetabix ( she thought it was only sugar that needed to be avoided). My results were so much better with eggs for breakfast.
 
Lamont D said:
It is the carbs and excessive sugars that do it! Also the milk you put on the cereal!
If I looked at a weetabix, my BG levels would do a pole vault!
And for a diabetic, is (deleted!)
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Milk; is like liquid banana for me? in my early childhood days milk was a hypo fix. “Lactose.” The “Janet & John”: book of diabetes I was given as a kid. “If you feel funny. Tell mummy…” Then the resolution, “she gave him some milk.” (This stupid illustrated book has stuck in my head some 47 years later.. ) It’s still my “go to.” But only with a basal low some T1s would suggest it acts too slow. But it stops the chance another recurrence for me. As opposed to “Lucozade.”
Yep, weetabix never worked for me neither.
 
Hiitsme said:
My DN said Weetabix would be good for me when diagnosed. She did give me a meter and told me to test. She was horrified at my numbers and said she hadn't realized how much sugar there must be in Weetabix ( she thought it was only sugar that needed to be avoided). My results were so much better with eggs for breakfast.
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It is horrific that a DN has no idea about carbs and thinks it’s just sugars. Sadly she’s not alone. And these are the people educating most new diabetics
 
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mark.armstrong said:
I read somewhere that cows milk can be a acause of juvenile diabetes
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I heard that too. Some sort of “autoimmune response” turning on the beta cells. Although, there was a recent topic regarding possible personal T1 causes. & ENT issues came up a fair bit. (From memory.)

I’m certainly not intolerant to milk, other than it drives up my BG. & helps stop a hypo recurrence that can happen if treating a basal low with something like, Lucozade.?
 
mark.armstrong said:
I read somewhere that cows milk can be a acause of juvenile diabetes
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Very similar to what some doctors attribute to childhood hypoglycaemia.
I have been intolerant to milk since very young and would have hot water on my weetabix.
You have to laugh at how healthy cereal foods which are manufactured really are?
 
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