That's great. Don't let 'em grind you down Deb. Think of you. You matter and you need to cater to your needs right now
Hi Annelise, thanks for your feedback. I've only been recently diagnosed, and so for the moment everything is trial and error as my Nurse told me just to eat anything only smaller portions.Liz, glad to see that you and other posters in this thread are fighting to get your bgs down
Sorry, however, but I have to - ever so slightly - rain on your parade:
Whole wheat grains (flour) will contain the same amount of starch (= carbs) as normal flour. The only difference may be that the absorption may take slightly longer - but nevertheless the same amount of carbs. - The same goes for whole grain pasta instead of plain pasta.
Personally, I avoid both (whole grain and plain) - they will skyrocket my bg - same as with all cereals (porridge!). But your way may vary.
Annelise
Is that one of Patricks recipes ? I love cheesecake, my daughter sat and ate a gorgeous one in front of me yesterday.......I nearly caved in.Ok so for lunch my post reading was 5.8 after ham and cream cheese salad with chickpeas.
Had peanut butter cheesecake and a coffee for snack and I'm so pleased!! 5.6 after two hours. So if I can't master sponge cakes at least I'll have cheesecake!
And it froze well too!
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Hi Annelise, thanks for your feedback. I've only been recently diagnosed, and so for the moment everything is trial and error as my Nurse told me just to eat anything only smaller portions.
I've since found that doesn't work, and so I'm still in the testing stage of seeing what affects me. I've found porridge is not too bad for my BG a and surprisingly last evening had some ravioli made with spinach and ricotta cheese, and my BG was only 7.3 ...when the last days it had been going up to 12+ .
I'm hoping I will be able to reduce that even further soon.
Is that one of Patricks recipes ? I love cheesecake, my daughter sat and ate a gorgeous one in front of me yesterday.......I nearly caved in.
I m not really that keen on peanut butter, but thinking it may be a good source of protein and maybe I could do with introducing it into my diet.
Hi, GL and LCHF are two completely different methods. In LCHF you cut down on carb rather severly, keep protein intake normal and eat fat instead of carbs. The carbs in LCHF comes mainly from nuts, dairy and vegetables (but rarely roots). It is common to keep carb intake at 5-10E% or less.I'm doing low GL which is similar to LCHF but looks at the relationship of food combining which should stabilise BG.
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Hi, GL and LCHF are two completely different methods. In LCHF you cut down on carb rather severly, keep protein intake normal and eat fat instead of carbs. The carbs in LCHF comes mainly from nuts, dairy and vegetables (but rarely roots). It is common to keep carb intake at 5-10E% or less.
My Post pasta reading was 8.0, which although high is much better than last week when I first started testing. This morning my fasting BG was 7.0, so like you said its a slow decline. But again for me that's better than it has previously been.Liza - After your pasta last night, how was your morning reading this morning? When I did my initial testing, on pasta, I found the rise was not too extreme, but my readings remained elevated, a bit, for over 24 hours. Very odd.
As the rise, but more so it's prolonged elevation was more than I was willing to tolerate, I stopped having pasta. Curiously, I can have Malaysian style noodles, without any unacceptable impact on my levels. I must get around to trying pasta again, as it's one of those potentially easy store cupboard meals we all like to call upon, from time to time.
Test that at 3 hours next time and may be even at 4.So tonight's delicious chicken korma with about 50g cooked brown basmati had no impact on my BG as I measured 5.6 two hours later. It's good to know I can still have some rice!
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It was a ravioli with spinach and ricotta filling Deb. No meat. But the still high morning result shows it is very slow to be absorbed .Liz - did you have neat with the pasta? That would slow down the spike.
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Diagnosed prediabetic Easter 2014.
High protein gives elevated levels for hours. So also consider this. I find beef takes the longest
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Now I'm even more confused. If we are cutting down on Carbs and so increase the protein for energy, and the BG levels are elevated, then how is that helping? How will I know if that's my bodies reaction to the small amount of carb I've eaten or the meat?High protein gives elevated levels for hours. So also consider this. I find beef takes the longest
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