- Messages
- 50
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Carbohydrates and lack of testing strips being supplied due to NICE rules.
No app but the physical one my meter! I did have an excel spreadsheet and logged every reading Wake up, 2 hour post breakfast, pre and post lunch and dinner. If I had a large portion of brocolli (a full head) and mushrooms and bean sprouts and if I tested high than I reduced certain portions and retested to see what difference it made. I found that the meter was my influencer not calorie, fat or protein levels. Remember my driving aim was to get an answer to my one question HOW DO I AVOID TAKING GLICAZIDE? Answer lose sufficient weight and tightly control my blood sugars and end up not taking anything as a direct consequence of eating to my meter. I can't emphasise that enough. If I simply focused on calorie count or protein or fat content the chances are I would still be taking Metformin, Linagliptin and would now be on Glicazide as well, that is the issue with blood sugar levels not tightly controlled. I saw the effect of certain food groups and their portion sizes on my sugar levels and reacted quickly to rectify be it the removal or reduction of that food group. Everything followed by that. If calorie counting is your thing than it shouldn't be too difficult to get that from the internet but I found no use in that method as blood glucose management was my primary aim.Ah, were you tracking your diet with any app or so? I am really curious to know about how much calories from carbs, fat, protein you were getting in general. This is because I have found it is hard to be low in carbs following a vegan/vegetarian diet, in relation to the overall consumption of calories.
Incidentally how long ago were you diagnosed I assume fairly recently as you are diet and exercise only? And what is your current weight and target weight and lastly do you have a recent HBA1C? (You may not have had an HbA1c test yet ).
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