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<blockquote data-quote="Daphne917" data-source="post: 2097997" data-attributes="member: 124172"><p>[USER=509965]@chrisd1[/USER] I never read any books. I found this forum and quickly realised that my ‘healthy’ diet of low fat, low sugar, whole meal bread, brown rice and pasta, bran flakes, jacket potatoes and 5 portions of fruit per day inc bananas and grapes etc was not good for me and, once I got my head around the idea of eating full fat and less fruit, switched my diet to low carb and, with my meter, began to test to see what effect the food I ate had on my BS. It was quite an eye opener! Although I eat a reasonable number of carbs, averaging 100 - 130g per day I have maintained my hba1c within non diabetic levels for approx 6 years. I still test usually in the mornings but don’t tend to bother otherwise - although I will if it’s a food that I think will cause my BS to spike - Scampi is still my nemesis! Over the years I’ve also learnt that I can eat bread, albeit high protein, small portions of potatoes either roasted, mashed, new, baked or boiled and I am not adverse to having the odd piece of cake or two. For me it’s a balance between the higher the carbs the smaller the portion but it seems to work. For info I am diet controlled and stopped taking statins when they increased my hba1c from 48 at diagnosis to 54.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daphne917, post: 2097997, member: 124172"] [USER=509965]@chrisd1[/USER] I never read any books. I found this forum and quickly realised that my ‘healthy’ diet of low fat, low sugar, whole meal bread, brown rice and pasta, bran flakes, jacket potatoes and 5 portions of fruit per day inc bananas and grapes etc was not good for me and, once I got my head around the idea of eating full fat and less fruit, switched my diet to low carb and, with my meter, began to test to see what effect the food I ate had on my BS. It was quite an eye opener! Although I eat a reasonable number of carbs, averaging 100 - 130g per day I have maintained my hba1c within non diabetic levels for approx 6 years. I still test usually in the mornings but don’t tend to bother otherwise - although I will if it’s a food that I think will cause my BS to spike - Scampi is still my nemesis! Over the years I’ve also learnt that I can eat bread, albeit high protein, small portions of potatoes either roasted, mashed, new, baked or boiled and I am not adverse to having the odd piece of cake or two. For me it’s a balance between the higher the carbs the smaller the portion but it seems to work. For info I am diet controlled and stopped taking statins when they increased my hba1c from 48 at diagnosis to 54. [/QUOTE]
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