apples

[ally1]

are apples ok to eat?
i was eating about 3 bananas aday but have stopped eating them

 

[Engineer88]

No Ally1, Stick with berries such as blue rasp straw black etc and test with your meter to see if they agree with you. (pre eating and 2 hours post)

 

[catherinecherub]

Depends what your meter says @ally1.
You may find that if you eat an apple as a dessert the impact will be lower.
Some members find that adding some cheese with an apple as a snack does not spike them.
It's all trial and error and your meter has to be the judge.

 

[smartlady]

You need to test with your meter huni. Some people can cope with them, others a half, some not at all. Buy one & test & see how it affects you. No food is good or bad for everyone~it all depends on what the meter says. Good luck with trying one. I do miss my fruit

Smartie xx

 

[martinsk8r]

My opinion is...Thousands of years ago we gorged on apples in autumn when they were plentiful on the trees. This gave us large ammounts of fructose a sugar that prompted fat storage. This enabled us to survive the winter when we had little food and needed to burn off our fat reserves. Just like a grizzly bear in hybernation! Now we can get apples all year round from the local supermarket and stay fat. I try to avoid the sugary fruits.

 

[jack412]

make it easier for yourself, don't eat any fruit, till your BG is 6

http://www.lowcarbdietitian.com/blog/actually-i-do-mean-the-atkins-diet
I'm reading Atkins Diabetes Revolution: Control Your Carbs to Prevent and Manage Type 2 Diabetes, by Dr. Mary Vernon and Jackie Eberstein, RN, and I recently watched a video of Jackie's presentation given on this year's Low Carb Cruise. Last week I watched a series of videos about Dr. Atkins on You Tube (It's actually one hour-long program broken up into four parts). If you have time, I highly recommend watching it:Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

http://www.atkins.com/program/phase-1/what-you-can-eat-in-this-phase.aspx
recipes
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=125868
http://www.apinchofhealth.com/forum/vbb/showthread.php?4685-Atkins-Induction-Recipes

 

[Bluetit1802]

As others have said Ally, use your meter. First of all try half an apple with your meal, maybe with some cream or yogurt or cheese. If your meter says OK then try another half on its own as a snack and see what happens. The advice I was given was never eat fruit as a snack, always eat it with a meal.

Well done for kicking the bananas in to touch!

 

[Loobles]

I find I'm ok with them if my BG starts off ok (like in the 6's for me). If it's any higher than 7, I don't add insult to injury by having an apple. As with everything else, some people can have them and some people can't; let your meter be the guide @ally1. You're doing well, keep it up

 

[mo53]

@jack412 thanks ror the links there are some really good ones.

 

[Tracieo]

keep up the good work Ally, I too miss my fruit but don't like to see the spike if I eat it.

 

[ally1]

thank you all for the replies and advice
i will buy an apple tomorrow and test

 

[AnnieC]

My husband was a 3 to 4 bananas a day man for years before the T2 diagnosis this year also he would usually have a pear as a dessert with a fruit yogurt after his evening meal.He does not really like any other fruit so he still has a small banana one day and a pear the next but now with plain greek yogurt. He is 82 and has stopped all sugar foods like cake biscuits ice cream and anything sweet.which he loved but says he will not at his time of life give up everything he has always eaten but he has cut down on the starchy carbs He has only developed T2 in the last year probably his doctor said because he takes steriods for Polymyligia

 

[cath99]

aaaahhhhhhh apples i have two red lovley ones in the fruit dish i look at every day but had decided its not worth the spike so piece cheese it is ahah i love fruit but sadly fruit doesnt like us diabetics much stick to berries i like the frozen ones from farmfoods only 1 a bag xx

 

[Etty]

Apple slice with cheese: make sure the slice of apple is no thicker than the slice of cheese.

I'm lucky to have a free source of windfalls, so I peel a thin layer of skin with a little flesh, and give the sugar water insides to someone else, or the birds.