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<blockquote data-quote="keycare" data-source="post: 46315" data-attributes="member: 12187"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>My daughter is 7 and became T1 last august. She was started on twice daily injections. We had a very brief discussion with the dietician which involved a sainsburys shopping list. This still is our only contact with the dietician.</p><p></p><p>Initially, she was all over the place, we had no idea what effect any food had on her BG. My wife and I spent all our free time researching this evil condition and found that controlling her carb intake may be the way to go. Especially as she was on 2 injections/day. We figured that as she was having no isulin between breakfast and tea, we would evenly spread her carb intake during this time and 'feed her up' at breakfast and dinner. Her daily intake from breakfast to supper was 45g carb breakfast, 10g snack, 20g lunch, 10g Snack, 55g dinner, 10g Supper. Which was 150g carbs per day. Lunch and breakfast were the hardest because all cereal is just evil when it comes to sugar spiking and a packed lunch is difficult without bread. We followed the low GI cooking guides and tried to make everything she ate low GI as it reduces suger spikes.</p><p>Eg. now only buy Burgens Soya and Linseed bread in the because it's very low GI and only 13g carb per slice.</p><p>We managed to keep her sugars mostly under control.</p><p>She now has a pump, we still stick to low gi food but she now eats pretty much what she likes (in moderation). Xmas would have been a nightmare without the pump.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps dieticians are afraid to advise parents to cut down on refined carbs, I'm not sure why. My wife's a GP and the guildance given to GPs in relation to obese patients is to focus on low fat diets. It seems that the idea that all carbs turn to sugar which is then stored as fat does not figure. So they continue to eat too much bread, chips, rice and pasta thinking that that's all low fat.</p><p></p><p>The whole family now eat low gi and controlled portion sizes and we are all much healthier.</p><p></p><p>I don't advocate a diet as such, just low GI carbs and a more controlled ratio of carb in a meal. BTW wholemeal bread is just as bad as white bread in terms of sugar spiking!</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps.</p><p>Rich.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="keycare, post: 46315, member: 12187"] Hi, My daughter is 7 and became T1 last august. She was started on twice daily injections. We had a very brief discussion with the dietician which involved a sainsburys shopping list. This still is our only contact with the dietician. Initially, she was all over the place, we had no idea what effect any food had on her BG. My wife and I spent all our free time researching this evil condition and found that controlling her carb intake may be the way to go. Especially as she was on 2 injections/day. We figured that as she was having no isulin between breakfast and tea, we would evenly spread her carb intake during this time and 'feed her up' at breakfast and dinner. Her daily intake from breakfast to supper was 45g carb breakfast, 10g snack, 20g lunch, 10g Snack, 55g dinner, 10g Supper. Which was 150g carbs per day. Lunch and breakfast were the hardest because all cereal is just evil when it comes to sugar spiking and a packed lunch is difficult without bread. We followed the low GI cooking guides and tried to make everything she ate low GI as it reduces suger spikes. Eg. now only buy Burgens Soya and Linseed bread in the because it's very low GI and only 13g carb per slice. We managed to keep her sugars mostly under control. She now has a pump, we still stick to low gi food but she now eats pretty much what she likes (in moderation). Xmas would have been a nightmare without the pump. Perhaps dieticians are afraid to advise parents to cut down on refined carbs, I'm not sure why. My wife's a GP and the guildance given to GPs in relation to obese patients is to focus on low fat diets. It seems that the idea that all carbs turn to sugar which is then stored as fat does not figure. So they continue to eat too much bread, chips, rice and pasta thinking that that's all low fat. The whole family now eat low gi and controlled portion sizes and we are all much healthier. I don't advocate a diet as such, just low GI carbs and a more controlled ratio of carb in a meal. BTW wholemeal bread is just as bad as white bread in terms of sugar spiking! Hope this helps. Rich. [/QUOTE]
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