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Type 2 Carbs

stephanielovatt said:
I've just got used to eating a proper diet through a dietician and now been toldby my doctor to do a low carb plan I'm feeling a bit out of my depth and confused. Dietician says I should eat wholegrain\ brown carbs. and the doctor tells me I should not eat as many. CONFUSED !
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Many people still eat those and as your doctor said just lower the amount you eat of them smaller portion size is important
 
stephanielovatt said:
I've just got used to eating a proper diet through a dietician and now been toldby my doctor to do a low carb plan I'm feeling a bit out of my depth and confused. Dietician says I should eat wholegrain\ brown carbs. and the doctor tells me I should not eat as many. CONFUSED !
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I'm trying to eat less carbs myself. It is confusing sometimes
 
stephanielovatt said:
I've just got used to eating a proper diet through a dietician and now been toldby my doctor to do a low carb plan I'm feeling a bit out of my depth and confused. Dietician says I should eat wholegrain\ brown carbs. and the doctor tells me I should not eat as many. CONFUSED !
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Once you realise that all carbs be they white, brown or sky blue pink turn into glucose when you eat them and raise your blood sugar levels then it becomes clearer that for most Type 2 reducing them helps enormously. As to the amount you take in you should start to test and see what spikes your sugar levels least. As I'm an all or nothing type I try to eat as few carbs as possible which seems to work well for me. Everyone should eat and test though as it's really the only way to know what causes spikes and what is safe to eat.
 
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I was diagnosed with type 2 last November, told it was very serious, so I started to eat low carb. 80 days later I had a second set of tests done - my doctor didn't even want to see me - I am not cured, but it seems my readings are close enough to normal to be disregarded.
I have chosen to stay fairly low carb so that my blood glucose readings continue to go lower into the normal range. I expect that as time goes on that I will be able to cope with more carbs each day, but I really can't understand why there has been such an insistence on eating carbs - right back to William Banting and his weight loss plan the medical profession has ridiculed those who find they do not need carbs to any great extent, and actually really feel a lot better without any of the high starch or sugar foods.
If I overeat carbs I have dangerously high levels of glucose in my blood, eating less lowers blood glucose, and eating at that level day by day I see my levels continuing to drop - I am becoming more able to deal with carbs again.
The only disadvantage is that all my clothes are too large, and either flop around, or slide off. My feet have shrunk so I am wearing sandals I intended to throw away years ago - good thing I never got around to doing a thorough clear out.
I do not require any medication for diabetes, I feel great, have a wide variety of things to eat and when I test my blood glucose after meals I usually see numbers close to 7 mmol/l.
 
Resurgam said:
I was diagnosed with type 2 last November, told it was very serious, so I started to eat low carb. 80 days later I had a second set of tests done - my doctor didn't even want to see me - I am not cured, but it seems my readings are close enough to normal to be disregarded.
I have chosen to stay fairly low carb so that my blood glucose readings continue to go lower into the normal range. I expect that as time goes on that I will be able to cope with more carbs each day, but I really can't understand why there has been such an insistence on eating carbs - right back to William Banting and his weight loss plan the medical profession has ridiculed those who find they do not need carbs to any great extent, and actually really feel a lot better without any of the high starch or sugar foods.
If I overeat carbs I have dangerously high levels of glucose in my blood, eating less lowers blood glucose, and eating at that level day by day I see my levels continuing to drop - I am becoming more able to deal with carbs again.
The only disadvantage is that all my clothes are too large, and either flop around, or slide off. My feet have shrunk so I am wearing sandals I intended to throw away years ago - good thing I never got around to doing a thorough clear out.
I do not require any medication for diabetes, I feel great, have a wide variety of things to eat and when I test my blood glucose after meals I usually see numbers close to 7 mmol/l.
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Well done resurgam
 
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stephanielovatt said:
I've just got used to eating a proper diet through a dietician and now been toldby my doctor to do a low carb plan I'm feeling a bit out of my depth and confused. Dietician says I should eat wholegrain\ brown carbs. and the doctor tells me I should not eat as many. CONFUSED !
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It certainly appears to be confusing. That is because we all have different levels of carbs tolerance. While in general complex carbs that are wholegrain based should result in less glucose/insulin spikes, there is really no one size fits all. It boils down to regular testing to understand how specific carbs affects us. And then we adjust accordingly.

But some of us here simply find it easier to largely avoid carbs, embrace fats and proteins. Then we found that to have immediate improvements in our glucose control. Would it work for you? We don't know.

But the low carb program https://www.diabetes.co.uk/lowcarb/ offered by this site had seen success with the 180,000 participants. Perhaps you can join and report back.

You might also want to look at the success thread to see how others have achieved success with their glucose control. http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/category/success-stories-and-testimonials.43/
 
Jamesuk9 said:
As an absolute carb scavenging hound to the detriment of anything healthy for most of my life, I can categorically state that LC is perfectly sustainable indefinitely. I have no desire to eat carbs, I don't crave carbs any longer and the only carbs I eat are found in above ground veg and low carb diary and berries.

I'm actually enjoying all the foods I used to hate and finding foods I've never tried. It's actually really enjoyable and I look forward to meat with cauli, broccoli and Fried eggs with a Lidl protein roll and never get bored.

Perhaps it's the berries with double cream afterwards that excites me too....

Certainly beats jaffa cakes and chocolate eclairs.
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That is fine if you like the low carb, high fat dairy and all meats and green stuff but not everyone does and there is nothing worse than trying to force down food you really don't like or ever will so it will probably not really be a sustainable diet for them.
 
Pinkorchid said:
That is fine if you like the low carb, high fat dairy and all meats and green stuff but not everyone does and there is nothing worse than trying to force down food you really don't like or ever will so it will probably not really be a sustainable diet for them.
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I hated them, I had never eaten healthily all my life. Amazing how your taste can change when your health is at risk though.

Complete circle, I now love veg and salads, I realised I had never really given them a chance and this is a major issue for many people. Unwilling to at least try is a major issue in managing T2 effectively.
 
Jamesuk9 said:
I hated them, I had never eaten healthily all my life. Amazing how your taste can change when your health is at risk though.

Complete circle, I now love veg and salads, I realised I had never really given them a chance and this is a major issue for many people. Unwilling to at least try is a major issue in managing T2 effectively.
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It's not so much that people don't eat enough vegetables, it's that they eat too much refined carbs/sugar/factory produced food.
 
NoCrbs4Me said:
It's not so much that people don't eat enough vegetables, it's that they eat too much refined carbs/sugar/factory produced food.
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Guilty as charged....

I no longer miss sugar or processed food. I do miss potato, but I can live without and bread I just find alternatives.

Whilst I'm eating my veg and meat and missing spuds I take solace in the large glass of red that I now have daily with my evening meal and look forward to the berries and cream afterwards.

It's no hardship, just different to what I was used too.

I now pay attention to what I'm eating and am Thankful I got the heads up before diagnosis loomed.
 
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