Hi Neil. I am eating a very low carb diet. Today I've eaten 1 slice of rye bread, small piece of cheese (size of a small matchbox,) 12 almonds, small bowl of porridge (half a portion,) plenty of water & that's it. I haven't got much of an appetite right now as I have flu. Usually in one day I have a slice of wholemeal toast, soup with 2 Hovis crackers, ham salad with coleslaw. Snacks are natural fat free or weight watchers yoghurt, almonds or cashew nuts, fruit such as prepared pineapple, mixed berries, pomegranate, pear, apple, orange. I would only have 2 snacks per day from the above list & no more than 2 pieces of fruit a day. Yet my BG is still high. I am overweight, but I'm working on that. I'm a "work in progress." My doctor has prescribed me Metformin 500mg twice a day & Gliclazide 160mg also twice a day. I'm testing before I take my medication at breakfast & dinner and at bedtime. I don't know what else to do. Any advice is gratefully received. Alison. X
Hi Alison,
Firstly, Having the flu could be contributing to higher blood sugars.
What you need to be doing is what most do on here, including myself, but you do not have to do it forever and that is Test just before you start to eat, then test (in the early stages) 1 hr after and then 2 hrs. From you original pre eating test the food you have eaten preferably should not move you more than 2mmol/L and on the 2 hr test after your meal it should have started to come down. This we all call eating to your meter.
Now you say that you have porridge, for some of us we cannot tolerate it at all, so you need to test to see what happens, if it spikes you more than 2mmol/L then you should cut it out. I have full fat yogurt berries sprinkled flaxseed and sm sprinkled granola. Or eggs and bacon Mushrooms omelette poached eggs scrambled eggs
Please check the carbohydrates in the Wholemeal bread , thats not 'of which is sugars' ignore that, it's the carbohydrate, lots here have the Bergen Bread, I think about 12carbs per slice or Hovis Seed sensations 13 carbs per slice. Sometime the wholemeal has more carbs than the white.
Is the soup home made as you may find the canned, has added sugar, carbohydrates. Check out the Hovis Crackers you may find that they are very high, I have 2 ryvita at 6 carbs each.
The nuts are OK, but some of the fruit is dubious, I am borderline diabetic, & I can only tolerate 1/2 an apple, Pineapple is so high in fructose and pears, oranges, (not sure about pomegranate) are not so good either, mixed fresh berries are OK but if cranberries they are very sweet, sultanas and raisins would also be out as very concentrated.
Now you have mentioned the Weight watchers Yogurt, you should change that for the full fat Greek yogurt.
You can have all the veg from which grows from above the ground, I manage swede, but you need to test any root veg. All the fish you want including the oily one like Salmon, Mackerel, fresh tuna,
What you have to do is test all your meals, if you get spiked then you either need to remove the offending food or reduce thew portion size. I don't need to test breakfast any more as I know exactly what would effect me, nor my lunches for that matter.
On here most are 'Low Carbohydrate High Fat' which initially is difficult to get you head round eating the fat but one of the government contracted dietitians a Trudi Deakin has just launched a book EAT FAT
http://www.xperthealth.org.uk/low-carb-living the fact is most are losing weight on here eating LCHF the fat fills you up so you eat less and we are all ending up with lower cholesterol too.
Hope this helps a little, do not despair, have a look around the forum there is threads on LCHF and a forum.
Neil
