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therock50

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hi everyone, I am having problems with bread, my dietition advised me eat granary or seeded bread as to which I do, so 2 hours after my dinner which was 1 slice of granary toast and scrambled eggs I tested my blood sugars and they was 17.2. im getting conflicted advice regards bread so not sure what im doin wrong..

thanks

Mick
 
Hi @therock50 and welcome to the forum.

You may be one of those people who cannot tolerate bread. Which make did you use and what was your blood sugar before your meal?
 
It looks as though you've had a very high spike - what was your pre-lunch reading?
 
Hi and welcome!

Are you type 1 or type 2, and what meds are you on?

What was your reading before you started to eat your meal? This matters!

Bread is one of the major carbs we have to be very careful with. Many type 2's can't manage any at all because there are too many carbs per slice, and it is carbs that raise blood sugars. It doesn't matter whether your bread is white, brown or pink. Heavily seeded bread is best but still raises levels. I can't eat granary at all. I am actually better on white bread than granary. Hovis Seed Sensations Wholemeal isn't too bad (14g carbs per slice) and there are also low carb breads such as Bergen (12g carbs per slice). Have you read the label on your bread? How many grams of carbs per slice?
 

Hi Mick I have taken a picture for you from my book Carbs & Cals which I have only just purchased as I am having trouble with all foods at the moment.I have photographed the bread page.
Hope it helps.

 
Snowy12 said:
Hi Mick I have taken a picture for you from my book Carbs & Cals which I have only just purchased as I am having trouble with all foods at the moment.I have photographed the bread page.
Hope it helps.

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Hi thanks for your replies, I am type1 I did not test my sugars before my dinner, I know I should, but I will try Bergen again as I was ok on that. where did you get that book snowy? im on Humalog 8 units in morning 6 dinner time and 6 units at tea time.. 20 units of lantus at night.
 
Quite a bg spike, as Catherinecherub has said bread may be off the menu for you.

There's some low-carb versions of bread on the forum, you may find them in the low-carb section of the forum, alternatively there's a low-carb bread sold in some supermarkets (Waitrose is one) called Livelife, it has under 4g of carbs a slice although the slices are rather small.
 

I got mine from water stones in my local town centre,it is the best gift I could of got tells you all about food and drink.
Very well worth buying.
 
Since low carbing I found I couldn't tolerate bread really at all. The only bead that doesn't spike me is Livlife (Waitrose) but it gives me indigestion. Got to say I do miss bread but like my lower levels!
 
I can't really eat "normal" bread at all - it doesn't matter if it's white, brown, granary or anything else - it sends my BS sky high. I did think I was ok if I ate granary with tuna in a sandwich but it still spikes (but at 3 hours rather than earlier).

The only bread I eat now is low carb bread such as livlife, low carb tortillas and low carb rolls (all 4g or less per serving)

It's not easy to get hold of though and I've been ordering it from Amazon
 
In all fairness you might not have spiked at all. It depends what your blood sugar was before you ate for starters, if it was 16 then no spike.
Why haven't you been taught to carb count and adjust your insulin as needed for carb content or blood sugar levels?
I for one would not inject insulin unless I knew what my blood sugar was before doing so.
Burgen bread I found was the best though for not spiking blood sugars. Can't eat it now though as coeliac.
 

The book is available from Amazon.
 
Hi sam72, have you tried sainsburys hi-lo its a bit dear but it's lo carb , the other bread I like is the German rye full seed from lydl at only 70 p :)
 
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