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Any advice for improvement

gilbertsweet

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
My HbA1C is 6.5

This has been the reading in the last 9 months. Any advice for improvement?
 
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Its hard to make suggestions unless you give some sense of your current strategy ? diet, exercise?
 
CherryAA said:
Its hard to make suggestions unless you give some sense of your current strategy ? diet, exercise?
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Hi CherryAA,

I usually have cereal (4g sugar in 100g) with semi-skimmed milk and black coffee without sugar.

For lunch, I would go for vegetable soup with vermicelli.

Dinner usually end up with more meat, fish and stir fry vegetable.

Supper is the one I eat chips and cookies. This is probably what give me a higher BS reading the next day.
 
Your HbA1C of 6.5 corresponds to a blood sugar level of 8 mmol/l. If you want it to go lower you will need to cut back on the carbs, such as stop eating cereals for breakfast and chips and cookies for supper.
 
Art Of Flowers said:
Your HbA1C of 6.5 corresponds to a blood sugar level of 8 mmol/l. If you want it to go lower you will need to cut back on the carbs, such as stop eating cereals for breakfast and chips and cookies for supper.
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Yes, I've stopped eating chips and cookies. My cereal is all nuts, oats and brand. Ok?

Bran not brand
 
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Do you test your blood sugar during the day?
 
gilbertsweet said:
Yes, I've stopped eating chips and cookies. My cereal is all nuts, oats and brand. Ok?

Bran not brand
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Oats aren't a wise choice. Do you also add milk? If you have a meter you need to test before and 2 hours after first bite and see if your cereal has raised your levels too much. If so, perhaps a change of breakfast is on the cards. Eggs cooked any which way are a good idea. We do need to be careful with milk becaue of the lactose (sugar)
 
gilbertsweet said:
Yes, I've stopped eating chips and cookies. My cereal is all nuts, oats and bran. Ok?
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Check the ingredient of your cereal. Kellogg All Bran is 66% carbohydrate. Some other bran cereals are 80% carbs. Oats are also carbs and if you use milk, that contains sucrose which is a type of sugar. I measured my blood sugar two hours after eating porridge (oats) and it went from 6.5 to over 10. So I stopped eating it.

Vermicelli is about 80% carbs and chips and cookies have a huge amount of carbs also. If you really want to reduce blood sugars then you need to cut out as much carbs as possible, not just sugar. That means no pasta, bread, potatoes, rice and cereals. Test before and 2 hours after eating to see if what you are eating raises your blood glucose levels significantly.
 
Hi @gilbertsweet ..
Managing and controlling your diabetes through exercise, diet and testing seems to be the best way forward. For me, committing to an LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) lifestyle and testing 3-5 times a day, seems to be working There is a wealth of info about LCHF on the forum .. and a wealth of relevant advice and positive support.
I would suggest that you read up on the Low Carb Program and you might also find the discussion on the Low Carb Diet forum helpful .. together with the following websites ...
Low Carbs in 60 Seconds
Low Carb 10-week Programme

Hope this helps
 
The previous comments point to it, but to be clear just because something is low in sugar (4%) doesn't mean its any good. I found this quite starkly when I had a very small portion of cereal with 0% sugar, pure 100% wheat. My BG shot up. The point is carbohydrates have a really bad influence. So don't just look at sugar but carbs, and reduce them, a lot!
 

Yes, it raised my BS to 8.5 morning reading. I had Carman's fruit free muesli (less than 4g sugar) last night.
 
It turns up that it is carbs of 50 g & 8 g sugar for every 100 g of muesli
 
gilbertsweet said:
It turns up that it is carbs of 50 g & 8 g sugar for every 100 g of muesli
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There's lots of hidden carbs in all kinds of supposedly healthy alternative. Each of us have different tolerance. The best way to figure out how much it affect you is to test the pre-post meal glucose level. And adjust the portion size.

Alternatively some of us prefer to simply choose to skip carbs laden "healthy" food and opt for protein/fats friendly ones...
 
gilbertsweet said:
At 3:30am, my bs is 6.5
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Personally I find morning fasting glucose level most affected by dinner.

If I have a light dinner or skip dinner for a couple of nights, my FBG can go below 5.0 mmol

If I have regular dinner, it stays around 5.5 mmol

If I have a high carb dinner, it goes over 6.0 mmol.

So I find adjusting dinner to be most helpful.
 
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