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<blockquote data-quote="enb54" data-source="post: 2035877" data-attributes="member: 503649"><p>After my first initial diagnoses for type 2 diabetes (FBG about 20) in 2000 I followed the then Canadian Diabetes Association food guidelines for about one month and was not really getting much better. I decided to conduct some food experiments using my newly acquired blood glucose monitor. Those food experiments consisted of taking an initial BG reading before eating anything, then eating one food item, let's just say a bowl of oatmeal porridge. After finishing the porridge, test every 15 minutes for the first hour, then once an hour for the next 2 hours, recording the results. After about 2 weeks and many dollars worth of test strips I had a list of most of the stuff that caused my blood glucose measurements to negate the suggested T2D dietary guidelines. I then started consuming foods that did not significantly increase my BG measurements and unsurprisingly, started to get better. After about 16 months and losing 60 pounds, BG levels were normal and I was removed from taking metformin by my physician. Now, 18 years later I fell off the wagon and have been rediagnosed with T2D, but surprisingly the same old dietary guidelines (albeit somewhat modified) are being forced on the suffering. As others here have suggested, your blood glucose monitor is your best friend in guiding your intake of food and drink. You can follow any food regime you want as long as your BG monitor agrees with your food decisions. Am quite confident that most of us with T2D will benefit more from following the blood glucose monitor than from near useless programs designed to extract maximum cash and inflict ever increasing anguish. This internet site and others like it will hopefully cause the mainstream medical community to finally implement positive change to a broken T2D treatment program that effectively does not work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="enb54, post: 2035877, member: 503649"] After my first initial diagnoses for type 2 diabetes (FBG about 20) in 2000 I followed the then Canadian Diabetes Association food guidelines for about one month and was not really getting much better. I decided to conduct some food experiments using my newly acquired blood glucose monitor. Those food experiments consisted of taking an initial BG reading before eating anything, then eating one food item, let's just say a bowl of oatmeal porridge. After finishing the porridge, test every 15 minutes for the first hour, then once an hour for the next 2 hours, recording the results. After about 2 weeks and many dollars worth of test strips I had a list of most of the stuff that caused my blood glucose measurements to negate the suggested T2D dietary guidelines. I then started consuming foods that did not significantly increase my BG measurements and unsurprisingly, started to get better. After about 16 months and losing 60 pounds, BG levels were normal and I was removed from taking metformin by my physician. Now, 18 years later I fell off the wagon and have been rediagnosed with T2D, but surprisingly the same old dietary guidelines (albeit somewhat modified) are being forced on the suffering. As others here have suggested, your blood glucose monitor is your best friend in guiding your intake of food and drink. You can follow any food regime you want as long as your BG monitor agrees with your food decisions. Am quite confident that most of us with T2D will benefit more from following the blood glucose monitor than from near useless programs designed to extract maximum cash and inflict ever increasing anguish. This internet site and others like it will hopefully cause the mainstream medical community to finally implement positive change to a broken T2D treatment program that effectively does not work. [/QUOTE]
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