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AT A LOSS WHAT TO HAVE FOR BREAKFAST

Lauraann said:
burgen is a type of bread that you can get from most supermarkets, it is seeded and comes in a couple of varieties, I have the linseed one :)
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Thanks, I'll give it a try. After a few weeks I still can't believe how much there is to learn...


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how do you type 2's get on with porridge? I've always loved it and find that it doesn't make my blood sugars spike as it's a very slow release carb.

I use large oats and water or almond milk, add toasted nuts or sunflower/pumpkin seeds and maybe a handful of raisins or top with unsweetened stewed apple/rhubarb. Comes in around 40g carbs for a large bowl.
 
ElyDave said:
how do you type 2's get on with porridge? I've always loved it and find that it doesn't make my blood sugars spike as it's a very slow release carb.

I use large oats and water or almond milk, add toasted nuts or sunflower/pumpkin seeds and maybe a handful of raisins or top with unsweetened stewed apple/rhubarb. Comes in around 40g carbs for a large bowl.
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I'm T2 and porridge oats makes my levels fly and stay up for a while.

I've always been baffled by this low GI thing. I've always found low GI carbs like chana daal, porridge to raise my bs levels high and keep them there for a while (probably the slow release thing?). We are talking like 11s, 12s, 13s here - so the numbers are serious.


As a suggestion for the OP try the linseed porridge from Lidls maybe?
 
I'm still experimenting, but I've had spikes with slow release carbs like beans and lentils, going from 4.9 pre-meal to 10.7 2 hours later and 12.2 at bedtime, but I think that is becasue the release was slow enough to miss the 2 hour novorapid window.
 
Dave, 39yo, diagnosed T1 age 39, Novorapid and Levemir
Training for a 70 mile ultra-marathon in August 2013
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Dave I hope you don't mind me asking but how did you get diagnosed as type 1 at 39?

I was always told T1s usually get diagnosed in childhood?
 
Squire Fulwood said:
You could also try cooked chicken bits from the supermarkets. (avoid kievs at all costs) Corned beef is very low in carbs so now you could try chicken salad or a corned beef salad.

If anything needs cooking do it the night before so breakfast is not delayed.
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Hi Squire Fulwood, I never knew cornbeef was low in carbs,don't know why I just give it a pass will be getting some this week,
If you remeber I post on behalf of my husband Mike,diagnosed 10 of April this year type 2...he was 16 stone 1 pound now he is 14 stone 7 pounds lol can't work the metrics.

To nights tea is ribeyed steak 2 eggs and a box of micro chips followed by ever populor jelly cream and a few strawberries..we have tested this meal before and good reading but might test again just to be sure.
 
I just read the label on the Tesco slices of corned beef I got this morning and it says 0% carbs of which sugars 0% so that sounds fine.

On this topic I put my money where my mouth is and for lunch I had two pieces of peppered flat iron steak with two eggs and a portion of chips + one slice of my home cooked bread with a layer of Kerrygold butter on it.

Before 4.8 and after 7.1. I am now drinking the wine. I have earned it.

Goodnight everyone .............hic.
 
Squire Fulwood said:
I just read the label on the Tesco slices of corned beef I got this morning and it says 0% carbs of which sugars 0% so that sounds fine.

On this topic I put my money where my mouth is and for lunch I had two pieces of peppered flat iron steak with two eggs and a portion of chips + one slice of my home cooked bread with a layer of Kerrygold butter on it.

Before 4.8 and after 7.1. I am now drinking the wine. I have earned it.

Goodnight everyone .............hic.
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Juat a quick one before you go ,thank's for sharing every little help's.
 
"corned" beef doesn't actually have any corn in it. One of the cheffy programmes had a recipe a while back, it was basically a preservation method to get cheap Argentinean beef back to the UK without spoiling, lots of salt and cooking if I remember correctly.

Pickled Pepper, yes T1 is also known as Juvenile diabetes, or used to be. It seems to me that there is a genetic element that may manifest young, or in later diagnosis such as mine, an external cause. In my case I can track my symptoms almost to the day, back in Feb where I had a nasty dose of flu. It seems that the T-cells then go bonkers and attack the beta cells in the pancreas as an auto-immune thing.

There seem to be a few others here with simialr stories to mine.
 
Squire Fulwood said:
ElyDave said:
"corned" beef doesn't actually have any corn in it.
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We are just lucky it doesn't have horse in it but it is zero carbs. That's all I said.
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Not intending to imply anything, just pointing out that it's a stupid name, apparently coming from the curing method, a bit like kippers being "kippered" herrings.

Which are also very goood for breakfast with scrambled eggs.

Why am I always thinking about food?
 
Hi Pickedlpepper. Diagnosis of T1 after childhood is quite common and called Late Onset T1 or LADA or T1.5. Some T2s are in fact LADA's; even I may be wrongly labelled as a T2. The diabetes professionals have been quite late in realising diabetes is a spectrum of types and fortunately this website and forum is up to date and has a stream for T1.5.
 
Daibell said:
Hi Pickedlpepper. Diagnosis of T1 after childhood is quite common and called Late Onset T1 or LADA or T1.5. Some T2s are in fact LADA's; even I may be wrongly labelled as a T2. The diabetes professionals have been quite late in realising diabetes is a spectrum of types and fortunately this website and forum is up to date and has a stream for T1.5.
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I was told quite categorically by my consultant that I was T1
 
Daibell said:
Hi Pickedlpepper. Diagnosis of T1 after childhood is quite common and called Late Onset T1 or LADA or T1.5. Some T2s are in fact LADA's; even I may be wrongly labelled as a T2. The diabetes professionals have been quite late in realising diabetes is a spectrum of types and fortunately this website and forum is up to date and has a stream for T1.5.
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Thanks for letting me know. My previous nurse (she retired) was unsure of my categorisation (of T2) because of my slimness and generally low blood pressure.

I'm just wondering how they make the diagnosis of t1.5?

Sorry to hijack the thread OP and change the topic! :oops:
 
I was also diagnosed at 32/33 with type 1. Very slim as I had a rapid weight loss.

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Diagnosis usually involves a gad test to test for antibodies that attack insulin producing cells. Also a c peptide test can be done to get an idea of how much insulin its being produced, though not often done due to cost. A positive gad test usually indicates type 1 or slow onset type 1 (lada). Plenty of info on tbe 1.5 topic.

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brett said:
Diagnosis usually involves a gad test to test for antibodies that attack insulin producing cells. Also a c peptide test can be done to get an idea of how much insulin its being produced, though not often done due to cost. A positive gad test usually indicates type 1 or slow onset type 1 (lada). Plenty of info on tbe 1.5 topic.
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A quick one for the experienced.

Is there any possibility that a misdiagnosed T1.5 could still be surviving on diet and exercise 3 years after diagnosis??

If not, does this essentially confirm that I'm not a t1.5??
 
have had a slice of hovis granary toast with benecol spread and a yeo valley greek honey yoghurt (14g carbs) bs this morning 7.1 waiting to see what happens :?
 
hmm bs up to 13.4 so thinking maybe the yoghurt, anyone got any suggestions on yougurts that are suitable, don't like anything lumpy prefer smooth types thanks :lol:
 
In answer to the OP, anything yoiu want to eat. Think outside the box.

I don't eat breakfast never have but when it comes to any meal, my answer is whatever is in the fridge. That could be a bit of leftover stew, pickled eggs, cold hard boiled egss, a slicce of cold, crustless quiche, pasta free lasagne, cold meats, cheese, anything really.

wiflib
 
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