Blood Sugar in High 20's and GP not helping, please advise

Wouldn't suggest muller yogurts either.. Much better to have yogurt with berries added in.

We have ours in a large ramekin. Berries bought from lidl frozen, put in ramekins pre bed and left out covered over.. Yogurt or double cream added in morning (in my case with flax a d chia seed) and absolutely gorgeous...so simple and no messing around...

hi scottie and welcome to the forum. You have been given some really good advice on low carb living (I will not call it diet as if you follow it it will become a new way of living). To really help lower your Blood Glucose you could try a very simple exercise about 60 minutes after eating. You need no equipment just will power to get up and do it. Walk up and down the stairs for about 15 mins. It is hard to start with but I guarantee you will get faster do more and more and your BG levels will improve far more then using the medication.

I also was massively over weight on diagnosis with blood sugar levels really high and that was one year ago. I returned my BG levels to normal within 2 months by basically following a very low calorie diet (between 800 and 1000 calories per day). Have a look at the newcastle diet. It is not for everyone but it has worked for me - I can now eat whatever I like and stay within normal blood glucose levels so this has been an excellent solution for me. If you look in my signature there is a link to a thread detailing my first 3 month story. Worth a read just to give you some ideas.

As you bring your BG levels down your eyesight will return to normal. For me it has taken 9 months but I now do not need glasses for distance. That is rather surprising that over and above "blurriness" high BG levels can alter your your vision so much.

Finally, if you are going to test regularly you will find another link to some software that I have written that will help you track your food, weight, bg levels, waist measurements, blood pressure. I found having the graphs gave me motivation to make it better week on week and you will see that my HbA1c has improved over the course of the year from 91 down to 33 a year later.

I was someone that would eat 4 bars of chocolate in about 10 minutes and would still crave more and more. I was insatiable, but now I know that this is all part of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome and caused by carbs. Now you know this you too can beat this beast.

Good luck and go go go

You are doing so well now. It's great to see this positiivity.

We have to be very careful with milk. Whole milk has less sugar than either skimmed or semi skimmed, but still contains a lot. I just have a dash in my tea, and double cream in my coffee. Delicious! I think you will be better with a full fat Greek yogurt with a few berries added to it. I put a handful of raspberries or about 4 chopped up strawberries in mine, which makes it very fruity. You can only try one to see how you go on. You can also have a nice fry up for breakfast or lunch - high meat content sausage, bacon, eggs, toms, mushrooms!

scottie1 said:

So you can reduce the impact of carbs with excercise? Thank you Milly, that's something I need to think about.

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Great to see your attitude

One thing can balance another ... berries and cream, LivLife toast and butter, or in my case carrot and walnut cake and a four-mile uphill hike shan't forget that one in a hurry but it worked

scottie1 said:

So having 2 x sachets of porridge with semi skimmed is using a lot of carbs, even minus the porridge, Interesting.

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You could make the porridge with water and then add double cream to it. No sugar of course I've just discovered this which is teh best sweetener I've ever come across, no bitter aftertaste at all http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=279770034

scottie1 said:

Has milk got any carbs?

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Lactofree milk has almost half the carbs of ordinary milk and tastes just the same. Or you might like some of teh milk alternatives that have even fewer carbs. A supermarket online shopping site should give you details of carbs etc, helped me a lot over the lasty 3 weeks

Your GP may not be that helpful, but as you can see we are all willing to offer advise. The only problem is that if you ask 10 forum members for advise you will get at least 12 answers.

Keep positive and keep testing, you can do this and get control yourself.

Do you belong to Pinterest? If not, it is easy to sign up to it and if you search for typeonegrit you will find loads and loads of low carb recipes appear which are categorised into breakfast, lunch etc. You will need to rethink your store cupboard, goodbye cereals, flour, spuds etc and hello almond flour, coconut flour, coconut oil, peanut butter no sugar version etc etc. I am in the throes of changing all of my stuff over, this is week 3 of striving for less than 50g of carbs per day. Celeriac roasted instead of potatoes, cauliflower rice and hash browns are lovely. But, you do need to make an effort in the kitchen and none of it is particularly quick to do, with some exceptions. Tons of low carb pudding and biscuit recipes too, so you don't need to feel deprived, just to think differently about what you eat.

Ali

Ali H said:

Do you belong to Pinterest? If not, it is easy to sign up to it and if you search for typeonegrit you will find loads and loads of low carb recipes appear which are categorised into breakfast, lunch etc. You will need to rethink your store cupboard, goodbye cereals, flour, spuds etc and hello almond flour, coconut flour, coconut oil, peanut butter no sugar version etc etc. I am in the throes of changing all of my stuff over, this is week 3 of striving for less than 50g of carbs per day. Celeriac roasted instead of potatoes, cauliflower rice and hash browns are lovely. But, you do need to make an effort in the kitchen and none of it is particularly quick to do, with some exceptions. Tons of low carb pudding and biscuit recipes too, so you don't need to feel deprived, just to think differently about what you eat.

Ali

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Coconut flower, where can a buy some? Is it a zero carb ?
Thanks in advance

millysue said:

Coconut flower, where can a buy some? Is it a zero carb ?
Thanks in advance

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Yes coconut flour and almond flour both zero carbs, most of us use it to bake etc :)

scottie1 said:

I think I may be posting a lot on this forum, you'll all be sick of me.


Honestly, I have not felt this positive for years. I can do and I will do it. I've tried dieting in the past but it's never worked. This isn't a diet as such, more a life changing event. I have two children and a wonderful husband who I need to stick around for. I will do them no good being dead or ill in hospital.

Thank you Milly, for the smiley face.

Enclave, words of encouragement are always welcome, thanks.

Janie, I wasn't aware until now, that your bloods could be afftected by lack of excercise. I have been living in another world.

Clive, thank you.

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Fantastic post @scottie1 , proud of you

Ruth B said:

Your GP may not be that helpful, but as you can see we are all willing to offer advise. The only problem is that if you ask 10 forum members for advise you will get at least 12 answers.

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Most of them saying much the same thing though

Most of the almond flour/coconut flours etc have carbs in the form of fibre rather than those that are soluble and break down into sugar. But much much much lower, I think almond is 4 grams of fibre carbs per 100g from memory. Fibre is meant to be insoluble and therefore doesn't break down and cause a sugar rise.

Ali

Clivethedrive said:

Yes coconut flour and almond flour both zero carbs, most of us use it to bake etc :)

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Sounds good, where can I get the coconut one?

I get mine from amazon 2 kilo bags at a time ( cheaper)

We have had the Low Fat pushed at us so much that buying full fat options do seem wrong but it does work. Just be careful that you don't end up high fat high carbs, that is a recipy for disaster.