Patch said:I've managed to get my Trigs down to around the 5 mark (still very high - but they were up at 20(!) at one point) - so still no luck getting prescribed either Byetta or Victoza.
Has anyone experienced and trouble with higher Trig levels and Byetta?
susiewoosie said:Hey Ken
I'm still having problems with my carbs. I think this is more to do with my depression than anything else. On a good day I'm fine but when the depression hits then I just bingeAlso all the medication I'm on seems to help to increase weigh gain.
I know I will have put weight on this week as it was my birthday and there was an awful lot of cake and alcohol. I've lost just over a stone since 7th March and I'm really going to try and be at least semi healthy again from tomorrow. Slimming World red days for me I think.
Wish me luck or threaten to nag me if I don't start behaving. Do we have a weight loss section? If not do you think we could?
Sue
jane22 said:I have only ever had one appointment with a dietician a couple of years ago. She just gave me a few leaflets and showed me a healthy balanced diet. Well of course that was nothing new to me. Sticking to it when you are very hungry and have the signs of a hypo coming is the difficult bit! Any way I had no advice on carbs at all and don't know what 20 - 30g of carbs would be. At the moment I just yearn for carbs all the time so I wouldn't mind betting I exceed this all the time. Years ago I did the Atkins diet and lost considerable amounts of weight while feeling on top of the world and full of energy but so many people told me to stop as it was in their opinion an unhealthy way of eating. I have felt pretty lousy and tired for some time now and the weight has crept on again.
What would constitute 30g of carbs. Is it literally a potato, pasta or bread etc weighing 30g? 30g doesn't sound all that much to me!
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 as bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, starchy root veg and 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. Some foods, which are slow acting carbohydrates, are absorbed more slowly so you may need to test three or even four hours later to see the affect that these have 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.
Ken/Sue.
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