Pink lady apples

[PBrown55]

Morning,
so new to changing my dietary habits at 55yo - are pink lady apples good to have with low fat Greek style yoghurt as a breakfast

also are over night weetabix breakfast pots ( weetabix, skimmed milk, fat free Greek style yoghurt with a teaspoon of Nutella mixed in) a good way to replace oats or not.
hearing I need to eat more protein to stabilise blood levels?

I am just newly diagnosed (52 count of something) and trying to get my head round all of this

many thanks
Paul

 

[Art Of Flowers]

If you have diabetes then avoid all foods labelled “low fat”. In general, they remove fat and add sugar. I eat Alpro NO SUGARS yoghurt, which has no sugars or carbs.

Take a look at this video. I found it helpful when I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes…

I eat a LCHF diet = low carb, high fat. So I eat avocados, cheese, nuts etc rather than high carb foods.

 

[KennyA]

Morning,
so new to changing my dietary habits at 55yo - are pink lady apples good to have with low fat Greek style yoghurt as a breakfast

also are over night weetabix breakfast pots ( weetabix, skimmed milk, fat free Greek style yoghurt with a teaspoon of Nutella mixed in) a good way to replace oats or not.
hearing I need to eat more protein to stabilise blood levels?

I am just newly diagnosed (52 count of something) and trying to get my head round all of this

many thanks
Paul

Hi Paul and welcome to the forums. The issue for us T2s is that it's not only sugar. All carbohydrates metabolise to glucose, and that will (if you're T2) perhaps be more than your insulin response system can cope with. Carbs once digested are either used or stored, or hang around a bit in the bloodstream. They're stored as fat, in the main.

The way you find out what affects you is to test your blood before and after eating. The NHS does not recommend this because the NHS does not want to pay for the meters and test strips, and also because the official belief is still that there's nothing you can do about T2.

I would advise testing. First test is immediately before you eat. That established a baseline. The second test is two hours later. You are not testing to see "how high you go" - you'll have hit the peak somewhere in the first hour, probably. What you're testing for is your body's ability to handle the carbs in whatever you ate. By two hours it should have brought it back down to close to where you started off. That's why the target is usually given as the second result being within 2mmol/l of the first: and not above 8.5 (I use 7.8 myself as the "non-diabetic" figure).

The low-carb diet doesn't restrict fat at all - and in fact many things marketed as "low-fat" have sugar added. I don't go out of my way to eat "addditional" fat, but I certainly don't avoid it. What I do generally avoid is carbohydrate - starches and sugars - and aim for around 20g carb/day, mainly from green veg. In food terms 20g carb is about one apple. You might find the food/carb information on this website - Diet Doctor - very useful.

A Low Carb Diet Guide for Beginners – Diet Doctor

In this top low-carb guide, we show you what to eat, what to avoid and how to avoid side effects. Get delicious low-carb recipes and meal plans.

www.dietdoctor.com

Best of luck, keep asking questions.

 

[ianf0ster]

Hi @PBrown55 and welcome to the forum.
From a diabetes point of view, there is nothing special about Pink Lady Apples - they are just another variety of apple. another source of fructose and carbohydrates.

If you know that your body can handle the sugars and carbs load of an apple, then fine, but some of us are more sensitive to carbs in certain food than others.
So, although some T2D et an apple and their Blood Glucose is less than 2.0 mmol higher after 2hrs, in others it is higher than that - which is not ideal. For this reason, I encourage use of a BG meter (or a CGM but ignore the peaks between eating and 2hrs afterwards). I found that I can't eat a whole apple (not even a Granny Smith), in fact I can't even eat a whole big raw carrot!

 

[lovinglife]

or a CGM but ignore the peaks between eating and 2hrs afterwards)

@ianf0ster, I think this one of the most important bits of advice that isn’t mentioned enough when T2 diet controlled are using a CGM. More & more I’m seeing posts where people are panicking because of a “spike” that isn’t actually a spike at all but a normal rise after eating. We tend to forget that everyone even none diabetics can get into double figures, it’s the time it takes to come back down that’s important