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1st Christmas as a Diabetic

It's my first christmas as a diabetic as well. I was diagnosed in May and when I was thinking last month that this is going to be a very dull and bland christmas for me, with non of the usual goodies, I was very put off the idea of celebrating christmas. But then I got to thinking and researched more on T2 diabetes and read lots and then experimented. I ate chocolate, not as I usually did, but more then I know I should, but I planned the eating of it with vigerous exercise for an hour each time before and after. I found that my system coped very well with the "added sugar" and now christmas is not going to be as daunting as it seemed a month ago.... I think it is ok to enjoy treats if you don't do it all the time and if you do exercise as you are meant to anyway, not like a mad person gone wild, but a good brisk walk for an hour should do quite well.
 
Im gonna take it easy on myself this year, I dont eat chocolate normally anyway so that wont hurt me, also I have never eaten pudding or cakes etc cos I dont like them, so on Christmas Eve I will be making and eating a couple of scotch eggs, and will be glazing a huge gammon with honey and mustard for a late supper with pickles.

Then Christmas Day I will have a couple of goose fat roasted potatoes and a yorkshire pudding with my Turkey, then a lovely turkey curry on boxing day :)

Then back to normal after that, I am very strict with my diet and food intake so Im not going to worry about enjoing my Christmas at all.
 
As a recently diagnosed T2 this will also be my 1st Christmas as a diabetic. Have to admit I was a bit worried there but found this thread very encouraging. Will go only go ever so slightly mad then back to normal afterwards - whatever that is! :lol:
 
Last year was my first diabetic Christmas and just as others have said in this thread I was concerned about what I was going to eat. However I was pleasantly surprised that I didn't record any OTT readings even though I had a full Xmas diner and a couple of small home made mince pies afterwards, and a slither of cake with my tea.

I just looked on it as a normal Sunday roast and had just a couple of small roast pots and probably a little too much turkey if I'm honest :D I covered the mince pies in cream to help slow down their digestion, it was this coupled with the two glasses of red wine I drank which I believe help me eat a near normal Xmas diner.

I shall no doubt be doing the same this year
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All your replies have been so encouraging thank you - I never noticed just how much chocolate is around but I AM noticing NOW that I can't eat it - one thing will be my chocolate orange - my husband said well you can have 1 slice yeah 1 slice could I stop there NO so no slice. The adverts for chocolate also seem to be coming up thick and fast and I just can't look. I never took much notice of it before but now see so much and think "I can't have that" and have to walk pass. :roll:

I have made some differrent foods to what i have been eating made a chicken casorole with swede, 2 small turnips, mushroom, sweet potatoe, leek, celery, carrots and used a stock cube as well and found my BS to be 6.2 2hrs later and 5.8 3hrs later which was great as I was really worried because of them being root veg. Only had small portion.

So am experimenting with a few more things and hopefully my BS wont react to them as its hard to eat a salad now that its cold.

Has anyone seen that Genius loaf that is being advertised gluton free I haven't as of yet and was wondering what the carbs were in it :?:

hope you all have a lovely Christmas with low BS
Sue :)
 
Sue Morton said:
How have other diabetics got on with Christmas especially as its the time to "eat Drink and be merry" does this cause problems :?:
Sue :)
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Well Sue, the sweet things at Christmas don't bother me too much as I have never really had a sweet tooth even before I became diabetic. As long as I have a nice Christmas roast with all the trimmings and my cheese and crackers on the night-time I am as happy as Larry! :D

Oh yes, as for drink............well I drink till I'm merry! :wink:

Nigel
 
thanks for the link went into it and it is lower in carbs then the white loaf i buy for my husband (as he will only eat white bread) per slice for that is carbs 20.4g and per slice of the genius os 14g the brown is 15g which you would have throught would be lower and calories for the brown was 110 and the white 95 the white had no sugar but the brown had 1g of sugar. Ummm. :roll:

If I see a loaf I might give the white a try and see what my BS is. I did once had 2 slices of toast of hubbies bread and it put my BS up to 10.3 so never again. Bread seems to be the hardest thing to find that a diabetic can eat :x

thanks everyone
Sue :)
 
Everyone who has a bit of a relax with food over Christmas is lucky. I have my annual review just after Christmas. I think this is mean and nasty ....
 
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Everyone who has a bit of a relax with food over Christmas is lucky. I have my annual review just after Christmas. I think this is mean and nasty ....
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It's downright cruel..........
 
You soon get to know how good you are at controlling your eating. A small crumb (not a lot more) of comfort is that chocolate (the proper stuff) is a Low GI food and so does less harm than a Mars Bar or some such. That is why, if you need to take something for a hypo, chocolate is not good because the sugar doesn't get in to your system as quickly as, say, a biscuit or sweet might. The higher the amount of cocoa the better. I think you can get 85%, which personally I think is disgusting, but 70% is bearable.

Good luck.

Russ
 
It works that if you stick to your usual way of eating and have a TINY bit of the treat you fancy, allowing for it in the calculations, Nothing horrendous will happen. Works for me anyway
Hana
 
Christmas and Diabetes

This is my first Christmas as a diabetic - obviously an interesting time with chocolate and alcohol....

I've been good with the alcohol so far but want to have a few drinks at Christmas.

Wondering if anyone else is planning the same and what I will need to watch out for.
 
Christmas Food

I was diagnosed Type 2 fairly recently, and am on Metformin. I'm still trying to get to grips with it all!

I'm trying to find out what I can eat and can't eat of the traditional Christmas food. Can anyone help?
 
This will be my first Xmas since being diagnosed with Type 2 in January of this year.
Last Xmas I was eating a tin of Roses in two days, as well as all the other Xmas "goodies" so God knows what I am going to do this year ?
Maybe a gag will be the only solution.
 
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