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Angelloubjr33

Angelloubjr33

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
i have been dieting for a week now and not sure I’m eating enough today I have eaten
Breakfast
X1 weetabix with a few strawberries and raspberries
Snack
A packet of quavers and a kiwi
5 Brazil nuts
Dinner
X2 chicken burgers without the bun and salad
Apple
 
Hi there, are you on meds? Have to ask before giving advice.
 
I am not insulin dependant so I'm not absolutely sure of the advice on diet but I have read on this forum that if you choose to lower your carb intake you have to do it slowly and carefully.
Lowering your calorie intake alone would, I assume, just leave you hungry and prone to raiding the fridge but I'm sure that other people who are insulin dependant will be able to advise you much more fully.
By the way, there are members on the forum who managed to lower their bg and lose weight and come off their meds.
 
Guzzler said:
I am not insulin dependant so I'm not absolutely sure of the advice on diet but I have read on this forum that if you choose to lower your carb intake you have to do it slowly and carefully.
Lowering your calorie intake alone would, I assume, just leave you hungry and prone to raiding the fridge but I'm sure that other people who are insulin dependant will be able to advise you much more fully.
By the way, there are members on the forum who managed to lower their bg and lose weight and come off their meds.
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Hi I’m type 2 diabetic I have lowered my calories carbs and portion size to
Today I have eaten
Breakfast X1 weetabix with a few strawberries and raspberries
Snack
A packet of quavers kiwi and five Brazil nuts
Dinner
2 chicken burgers no bun with salad
And a apple
 
If you are lowering carbs then weetabix is high carb, all cereals are high carb. The berries are fine in small portions with cream or greek yoghurt. The quavers are high carb and the kiwi is ok-ish but as long as it is eaten as part of a meal.
Your evening meal sounds spot on.

Don't be afraid of adding a little fat to your diet, I like Boursin with celery sticks and I put a splosh of good olive oil and balsamic vinegar on my salads.
 
Angelloubjr33 said:
Hi I’m type 2 diabetic I have lowered my calories carbs and portion size to
Today I have eaten
Breakfast X1 weetabix with a few strawberries and raspberries
Snack
A packet of quavers kiwi and five Brazil nuts
Dinner
2 chicken burgers no bun with salad
And a apple
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The amount of food we eat is different for all of us. The total of your food today would leave me hungry but for you it might be fine. We have to experiment to find where we are comfortable with what and how much we eat.
 
Guzzler said:
If you are lowering carbs then weetabix is high carb, all cereals are high carb. The berries are fine in small portions with cream or greek yoghurt. The quavers are high carb and the kiwi is ok-ish but as long as it is eaten as part of a meal.
Your evening meal sounds spot on.

Don't be afraid of adding a little fat to your diet, I like Boursin with celery sticks and I put a splosh of good olive oil and balsamic vinegar on my salads.
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It’s so hard to know what to have for breakfast and the packet of quavers was my first pack in a week I like my fruit but try not to have more than a couple in a day my blood sugars last Friday were 18.6 and managed over this week to get them down to the 7s /6
 
Angelloubjr33 said:
It’s so hard to know what to have for breakfast and the packet of quavers was my first pack in a week I like my fruit but try not to have more than a couple in a day my blood sugars last Friday were 18.6 and managed over this week to get them down to the 7s /6
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That's good progress. I used to eat a lot of crisps but since I have actively being lowering my bg I have had just one packet during a 'wobble'. I still miss them but I would miss my toes more so I have managed to give them up. The recipes on Dietdoctor website are nice, try looking on there for ideas for breakfasts. Keep up the good work.
 
Angelloubjr33 said:
It’s so hard to know what to have for breakfast and the packet of quavers was my first pack in a week I like my fruit but try not to have more than a couple in a day my blood sugars last Friday were 18.6 and managed over this week to get them down to the 7s /6
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I have the Diet Dr low carb coconut 'porridge' for breakfast with double cream and strawberries. Just chuck everything in a non stick saucepan over a low heat. Takes a couple of minutes and it's delicious :hungry:
 
Guzzler said:
That's good progress. I used to eat a lot of crisps but since I have actively being lowering my bg I have had just one packet during a 'wobble'. I still miss them but I would miss my toes more so I have managed to give them up. The recipes on Dietdoctor website are nice, try looking on there for ideas for breakfasts. Keep up the good work.
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What kind of things do you have for breakfast!?
 
[Qdon't ="Angelloubjr33, post: 1575518, member: 167965"]What kind of things do you have for breakfast!?[/QUOTE]

I don't often have brekky but when I do it is good ol' full English without the bread or hash browns. I might have half of a Lidl protein roll with it. It took a little while to get used to it without toast but the bacon makes up for it. Sometimes I will have two or three boiled eggs with a knob of butter and a knob of Boursin.
 
Don't think of it as breakfast with "breakfast" type foods - it's just a meal and you can eat anything you want - I've eaten leftover casserole, veggies, fat head pizza, cold chicken, tinned fish - see where I'm going here :)
 
With the Gliclazide increasing your insulin your treatment is in opposition to the aims of eating low carb, which lowers the need for insulin and allows your pancreas to get its breath back, as it were.
You'll need to watch out for lows and test before driving, and keep up some amount of carbs in each meal.
My decision was to lower my blood glucose without any medication, and I noticed that I am now 15 percent lighter than at my heaviest - unfortunately although I know that was fairly recent, the tablets I was prescribed damaged my memory and I don't remember when it was, other than it was pre diagnosis as I put on so much weight on a 'cholesterol lowering' diet.
Unfortunately that means that the way to lower weight and blood glucose I use would not be appropriate for your needs.
 
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