Type 2s: What have you eaten today?

sandysan

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Meter reading this morning................................5.5
Breakfast = 2 slices of toast with marg and jam followed by a 2 1/2 mile walk
meter reading 2 hrs on........................................5.2
Dinner = 2 x quarter pounder burgers, 3 x large bratwurst sausages, portion of shredded lettuce and a dollop of greek yoghurt followed by 1/2 hour on treadmill and a walk to town and back (3 miles)
meter reading 2hrs on..........................................5.4
Tea will be pasta with cheese sauce and bacon sprinkled on top.
Hello I'm still learning ,are these very high in carbs ? As my nurse told me to cut out all this type of food , and I really dont know what to eat ?
 

nerovergil

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1st meal = fried curry rice with egg.+ half slice of cakes. = 700 calories total

2nd meal = probably go keto or fasting = 300 calories more to go
 

JoKalsbeek

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I reversed my Type 2
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Diet only
1st meal = fried curry rice with egg.+ half slice of cakes. = 700 calories total

2nd meal = probably go keto or fasting = 300 calories more to go
You can't "go keto" for a single meal. It takes days to get into ketosis and a little longer to be completely fat adapted, it's a way of life, not a dinner. You're counting calories instead of carbs, and it's the carbs that raise blood sugars. Rice and cake will both be carb-laden and thus spike your blood glucose.

If you're on insulin you probably should know this or you'd inject wrong... Unless you're on basal only? Mixed fixed dose? One moment you're on insulin, then diet controlled... What is it? Because if you are injecting without knowing what you're doing... I mean, if you have a carb free meal and inject/bolus for that, that could get very dangerous, very fast.

Not calling you out, just really concerned for your well-being.
 
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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
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I like dis and dat and a little more a dis
Four strips of bacon, two eggs fried in the bacon drippings, a skillet full of spinach also sauted in the drippings. For supper I had a taco salad (spicy ground beef, onion, tomato, cheddar cheese, avocado, refried beans [a few spoonfuls], and lettuce) with a dried corn tortilla. Washed down with half a glass of beer. Then a half of an apple for an evening snack.
 

stuffedolive

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
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Daily Mail, you know the sort
Need to start monitoring my carbs again. So this looks like a good place to focus my mind.
All meals cooked from ingredients pate is homemade :)

Breakfast - Porridge + milk 35g
Lunch - 2x ryvita + pate + chutney 3x dried apricot + p.nut butter 50g
Snack - 2x ryvita + pate + chutney 25g
Dinner - meatballs and redpeppers in tomato and onion sauce with salad leaves 20g
Whisky
Total = 130g carbs
 
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hankjam

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Type of diabetes
Type 2 (in remission!)
Treatment type
Diet only
Cbeese and 1 oatcake
2 poached eggs
A fish curry, no extras such as rice, naan, dals, etc
1 cup of tea
2 cups of black coffee, 27 g of beans for each
Glass of red wine
 

Crocodile

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Dislikes
I can't have it often
1 bowl of porridge. I can handle it as long as it is traditional rolled oats and only 30g. With this virus thingy and working at home I'll be having my sausage, bacon, tomato and egg for lunch.
 

Craigmartin

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Breakfast bacon and scrambled egg.
Lunch oxtail soup and nice wedge of cheddar.
Tea. Chicken skewers with peppers.
Plenty of water and Green Mint Tea.
2 bottles Michelob ultra just now as a treat.
The beer is only 2g carb a bottle.
Had physio for my back and feel a new man..
 
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Jus455

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Salmon and salad for lunch.

Dinner was a keto chicken curry with spinach and broccoli.

Beer was only 3 carbs per bottle.

Looks like the numbers are coming down.

I've noticed alot of you eat bacon. I was told bacon is processed meat and not good same with salami
 

LaoDan

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Dislikes
The term “new normal “
Breakfast- smoked salmon, kimchi and a few olives.
Lunch- my super shake, an avocado, a scoop of whey protein, chia seeds, psyllium husk.. 2 slices of turkey breast sandwich meat.(not in the shake, that would be gross)
Dinner- stirred fried bok choy with pork belly
 

Jus455

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
2 sausages and eggs. Looks like my blood sugar has come down a little.
 

Paulbirch

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Breakfast - porridge with coconut milk and diced apricot
Snack- wholewheat biscuit with cheese
Lunch - 2 egg omelette with mushroom and cheese
Snack - beef jerky
Dinner - turkey mushroom tomato beansprouts stir fry

Had this yesterday and my 3 readings were all between 5-7 so I'm well chuffed as it was 15 last week lol
 
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Estragon

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Dislikes
Too many to list here . . .
All in pursuit of the Science, of course :

1 x Caramel Donut PLUS 2 slices of Coffee Walnut iced cake

Readings:
12.0 @3pm
5.3 @ 5pm​

Wow, I have to be achieving something beneficial
 
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Paulbirch

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Had a stressful day so ordered dominos with some hit cookies. 2 hours after and it's 10.2. And I feel bloated and like meh lol
Back to healthy tomorrow
 

JohnEGreen

Master
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13,188
Type of diabetes
Other
Treatment type
Diet only
Dislikes
Tripe and Onions
Breakfast Pilchards on a slice of low carb toast.

Lunch one pork sausage, one egg and a rasher of bacon with a fried tomato.

Dinner roast beef cauliflower and broccoli and two small roast potatoes
 

toddy35

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115
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Lunch, scrambled eggs (2), tomato small, one slice of ham
Dinner, salmon fillet, cabbage, courgette and a little red pepper
spoonful of yoghurt and 8 raspberries