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<blockquote data-quote="HSSS" data-source="post: 2400716" data-attributes="member: 480869"><p>Have you tested with a meter to see if tomatoes actually do spike you or are you assuming?</p><p>The amount of baking powder is tiny. Again unless you are badly diabetic you don’t need to take it to these extremes. Following the general principles and avoiding the worst offenders is more than enough in your situation</p><p></p><p>Please don’t write off the website it is one of the better ones out there. Look at the visual food guides and choose foods from the better end. Understand a tiny amount of something is quite different to a whole plateful. Fill up and eat plenty from the good end of the charts. No absolute need to count anything if you don’t want to or aren’t able. Just understand what’s high carb and what’s low. </p><p></p><p>Carb counting. Three options. </p><p></p><p>First the no maths one. I use this and my type 2 is way way worse than your possible insulin resistance and I maintain levels below diagnosis level. Look to see what number of carbs per 100g an item is (not the “of which sugars” bit but the first ones for all carbs). Then consider how much you intend to have. If you’ll be having a very small amount eg a teaspoon then you can afford to have a higher carb per 100g item. If you want to eat loads of it then look for lower carbs/100g. Most of my foods are less than 10g/100 many less than 5g. A few are up to around 20g but these items I eat much smaller amounts. Combine this method with the food charts I talked about above. And you won’t go far wrong. </p><p></p><p>or you can weigh the food you are eating and calculate the exact number of carbs. Eg 125g of a food. The label (or Look at nutrition count on a U.K. supermarket internet page) says the food has 15g of carbs per 100g of the food. So divide the 15 by 100 to find how many carbs per 1g of food. Then times that answer by 125g which is the amount you are planning to eat. </p><p></p><p>or you can eat the recommended portion size/weight as most foods with a label will give this as well as the per 100g amount. So no maths just weighing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HSSS, post: 2400716, member: 480869"] Have you tested with a meter to see if tomatoes actually do spike you or are you assuming? The amount of baking powder is tiny. Again unless you are badly diabetic you don’t need to take it to these extremes. Following the general principles and avoiding the worst offenders is more than enough in your situation Please don’t write off the website it is one of the better ones out there. Look at the visual food guides and choose foods from the better end. Understand a tiny amount of something is quite different to a whole plateful. Fill up and eat plenty from the good end of the charts. No absolute need to count anything if you don’t want to or aren’t able. Just understand what’s high carb and what’s low. Carb counting. Three options. First the no maths one. I use this and my type 2 is way way worse than your possible insulin resistance and I maintain levels below diagnosis level. Look to see what number of carbs per 100g an item is (not the “of which sugars” bit but the first ones for all carbs). Then consider how much you intend to have. If you’ll be having a very small amount eg a teaspoon then you can afford to have a higher carb per 100g item. If you want to eat loads of it then look for lower carbs/100g. Most of my foods are less than 10g/100 many less than 5g. A few are up to around 20g but these items I eat much smaller amounts. Combine this method with the food charts I talked about above. And you won’t go far wrong. or you can weigh the food you are eating and calculate the exact number of carbs. Eg 125g of a food. The label (or Look at nutrition count on a U.K. supermarket internet page) says the food has 15g of carbs per 100g of the food. So divide the 15 by 100 to find how many carbs per 1g of food. Then times that answer by 125g which is the amount you are planning to eat. or you can eat the recommended portion size/weight as most foods with a label will give this as well as the per 100g amount. So no maths just weighing. [/QUOTE]
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