Hi all. I just wanted to know people's opinions about the above approach to managing diabetes. I am recently diagnosed T2 (diet only) and have been reading and reading about how to minimise the effects of diabetes - which seems to be all about normalising blood sugars as far as possible. I have lost a lot of weight and I have reduced my carbs significantly. However, sometimes my bloods at 1 hr are quite high - today at (9.7) after 2 slices of cheese on toast (10g of carb per slice) and the (5.3) at 2 hrs (after 20 minutes walking). I realise that seems quite a lot of carbs - but many examples I've seen talk about 30 - 40g of carbs per meal - which is half what I had. The above approach is talking about drastically reducing fast carbs and minimising slow acting carbs to give Phase 1 insulin response a chance to handle to food in the beginning and the phase 2 insulin response a chance to handle the remaining food over the next few hours. It seems to make sense to me but I wondered if anyone knew about this approach and / or whether its safe or just more "hair-brained" postulating.
Any thoughts would be helpful to a 54 yr old who is stressed and (getting) anxious and depressed about his situation. Ultimately I would love to feel comfortable about what goes in my mouth so (to some extent) I can predict food intake with blood sugar effect with a reasonable degree of confidence.
