Any advice for a t2

@Sammy99 you certainly have heaps of motivation so that is a massive positive. No one "knows" how many carbs your body will tolerate now or in the future never mind what food you can bare to eat. Everyone's tastes are different. A general guide seems to be to check bg before first mouthful then again at 2 hrs. A rise of under two points is considered ok by many but even then some foods and meals only produce their highest rise at maybe 4 hrs. May be a good place to start. I wish you well but you have strong motivation and reached out for help so you are well on the way to a better future.

 

We all have to find what suits us because we are all different there is no one diet to suit everyone. I was diagnosed 6 years ago in my 70's and I found it was trial and error to find what suited me best and my way is small portions of most things Just had my blood test and review also a retinal eye scan all good and I do not take any diabetes medication

 

Another rule of thumb is not to have foods that are more than 10g carbohydrate per 100g of food.
@Mbaker once posted a very useful coloured coded chart of the carbohydrate values of different foods and I am trying to find it for you!

 

Have you looked at dietdoctor.com, full of useful information.

 

Testing after meals will show you your personal tolerance for carbs - testing before is of little use except for type ones needing to calculate insulin doses.

 

Ah - I never tested 10, you see - by the time I had a tester I was under 9 and then sank down gradually to under 7. Only things such as peas or beans would push me up again, and once I reduced the portion size that didn't happen.

 

I tested just before and the 2hrs after first bite of every meal for the first couple of weeks. That uses up a lot of test strips, but by then I had my 'safe breakfasts sorted out'. Next easiest to sort was lunch, so after 6 weeks the only meals I was testing was dinner, though I did test my fasting BG before breakfast just to see if it was coming down since I suffer for 'Dawn Phenomenon' or 'Foot on the Floor' which means my liver 'helps me out' by dumping glucose (from stores) into my blood stream to give me the energy to go and hunt/gather my first meal of the day like a cave dweller.

 

@Sammy99 Because you are in a medication ending "flozin" DON'T go reducing all carbs suddenly as there is risk you will get very ill with soemthing called dka or severe hypos. Its rare in type 2s, except when on this medication and when carbs are reduced too quickly.
Instead reduce them slowly so your body and the medication have time to get used to. For example, swap out the carbs in breakfast for one week, the next week swap out one piece of fruit a day, a couple of weeks after that drop bread etc etc

Here's a link to similar medication. Read the warnings carefully
https://www.nhs.uk/medicines/dapagliflozin/