Blood sugar levels

Wendy53 · May 2, 2010

Hi
I wonder if anyone can help explain about blood sugar levels. Still new to this. My husband is Diabetic type 2 and I am pre diabetic. We have both been doing the low carb high fat diet to try to control our problem. We have been very or we think we are been very careful. For Breakfast yesterday my husband had 2 medium boiled eggs 1/4 avocado 1tsp mayo 1 oz cheddar cheese. His blood sugars before food were 6 mmol and 2 hours after were 7 mmol. I know this is not a big rise but don't understand why it has not come to nearer before food level.This seems to be happening quite a lot. Any help would be appreciated. Don't know if I am being paranoid or not

Wendy

hanadr · May 2, 2010

Wendy
A low fat high carb diet will Never control your blood glucose. The medics have that one quite wrong.
Since blood glucose comes from carbs, that is what you heed to control to a greater or lesser degree. You might find portion control sufficient, or GI/GL control.
I find I have to cut my carbs very drastically.
You need to check your BG numbers after different foods to find what works for you individually.
What if any medication are you using?
The breakfast you have written for your husband is actually low carb and fairly high fat. Which actually has worked.
The protein content is probably what kept the number up a bit.
, for myself, would have found the eggs sufficient breakfast and kept the avocado for lunch
Hana
NO you are not paranoid.
the medics talk glibly about what to do and your body ddoes its own thing and it's not always consistent.

sugarless sue · May 2, 2010

Wendy53 said:
Hi
I wonder if anyone can help explain about blood sugar levels. Still new to this. My husband is Diabetic type 2 and I am pre diabetic. We have both been doing the low carb high fat diet to try to control our problem. We have been very or we think we are been very careful. For Breakfast yesterday my husband had 2 medium boiled eggs 1/4 avocado 1tsp mayo 1 oz cheddar cheese. His blood sugars before food were 6 mmol and 2 hours after were 7 mmol. I know this is not a big rise but don't understand why it has not come to nearer before food level.This seems to be happening quite a lot. Any help would be appreciated. Don't know if I am being paranoid or not

Wendy

This may help.

Here is the advice we usually give to newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics.This forum doesn't always follow the recommended dietary advice, you have to work out what works for you as we are all different .

It's not just 'sugars' you need to avoid, diabetes is an inability to process glucose properly. Carbohydrate converts, in the body, to glucose. So it makes sense to reduce the amount of carbohydrate that you eat which includes sugars.

The main carbs to avoid or reduce are the complex or starchy carbohydrates such a bread, potatoes, pasta and rice also any flour based products. The starchy carbs all convert 100% to glucose in the body and raise the blood sugar levels significantly.

The way to find out how different foods affect you is to do regular daily testing and keep a food diary for a couple of weeks. If you test just before eating then two hours after eating you will see the effect of certain foods on your blood glucose levels.

Buy yourself a carb counter book (you can get these on-line) and you will be able to work out how much carbs you are eating, when you test, the reading two hours after should be roughly the same as the before eating reading, if it is then that meal was fine, if it isn’t then you need to check what you have eaten and think about reducing the portion size of carbs.

When you are buying products check the total carbohydrate content, this includes the sugar content. Do not just go by the amount of sugar on the packaging as this is misleading to a diabetic.

As for a tester, try asking the nurse/doctor and explain that you want to be proactive in managing your own diabetes and therefore need to test so that you can see just how foods affect your blood sugar levels. Hopefully this will work ! Sometimes they are not keen to give Type 2’s the strips on prescription, (in the UK) but you can but try !!

As a Type 2 the latest 2010 NICE guidelines for Bg levels are as follows:
Fasting (waking).......between 4 - 7 mmol/l.
2 hrs after meals......no more than 8.5 mmol/l.
If you are able to keep the post meal numbers lower, so much the better.

It also helps if you can do 30 minutes moderate exercise a day. It doesn't have to be strenuous.

Anonymous · May 2, 2010

Wendy53 said:
Hi
I wonder if anyone can help explain about blood sugar levels. Still new to this. My husband is Diabetic type 2 and I am pre diabetic. We have both been doing the low carb high fat diet to try to control our problem. We have been very or we think we are been very careful. For Breakfast yesterday my husband had 2 medium boiled eggs 1/4 avocado 1tsp mayo 1 oz cheddar cheese. His blood sugars before food were 6 mmol and 2 hours after were 7 mmol. I know this is not a big rise but don't understand why it has not come to nearer before food level.This seems to be happening quite a lot. Any help would be appreciated. Don't know if I am being paranoid or not

Wendy

Hana, the OP quite clearly states that they are low carb high fat, Why are you telling them about low fat high carbs ?

hanadr · May 2, 2010

Sorry
got the wrong glases on I expect.
Hana

Wendy53 · May 2, 2010

Thank you for your replies. We have read the book Trick and Treat and Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solutions therefor we are trying the high fat diet.
Hana I am not sure what you were telling me. Did you mean we should not be doing high fat ?

I did wonder if it might be too much protein but am getting a bit confused with trying to sort every thing out.

Thank you

Wendy

Synonym · May 2, 2010

Hi Wendy.

Would thoroughly recommend Sue's above post - worth it's weight in gold! 8)

Cassie4 · May 3, 2010

Sue

Thank you so much for the advice in this post for newbies, I've been so confused with my diet and at times knowingly eating the wrong foods when I'm stuck for ideas while trying to fit carbs in with every meal as advised by the dietician. The only other advice received regarding my diet was not to eat more than four eggs a week (I normally eat about 10) and to change from wholemeal to granary bread.

Also I wasn't aware that I needed to test so often to identify how different foods are affecting my sugar levels, I know it's commonsense now I've read it but no one mentioned home testing to me so I bought a meter thinking it must be a good idea but have only been testing once a week!!

I can't tell you how relieved I am to finally have a starting point to work with.

Thanks again.

Synonym · May 3, 2010

Hi Cassie4 and welcome

This forum is a real mine of information and there are usually folk on here happy to help with any questions too. 8)

Hope you get your diet and testing sorted out now!

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