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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
- Dislikes
- Nosey Bossy people
Weight before starting to eat properly, 19 stone, waist size 42 inches, I now weigh 11 stone with a waist size of 32 inches.
It has taken me 10 months to achieve this.
Remember I am no Doctor and this is what workrd for me, It may not work for you because everybodies body works differently.
I was told that for a diabetic we cannot tolerate a high contents of carbs in our diet,carbs are hidden sugars, also try to avoid to many polyunsaturates.
Lurkpack or butter works better for me our bodies can cope with natural fats, bread,rice,wheat, corn, sugar,crisps, chocolate,batter that is made with normal flour, pasta and pasteries are not good for us.
Try to avoid baked beans, tinned soup because of the sugars in them, we brought a soup making machine and make all our own soups.
Some fruits can contain high levels of natural sugars, I avoid Banana, grapes,grapefruit I only eat an apple every couple of days and the same with clementines, a high comsumption of carrots may also contain alot of sugars.
Blood testing,
On waking (fasting) our blood sugars should read under 5.5 mm0l/L
1 hour after a meal, under 7.8 mmol/L
2 Hours after a meal under 6.6 mmol/L
Write a diary of what you eat and record your blood sugar levels, you will then see what foods higher your levels and what doesn't.
Remember it's all about food portion size, reduce your plate size, my plate size is now smaller than a dinner plate but bigger than a side plate, a food portion size is the amount of each portion of food that you can get in the palm of your hand.
I drink water, have vimto squash you dilute with water, which contains 0.3 per 100ml,
Black almond coffee with no sugar,
Tea with skimmed milk no sugar.
My typical day of food consumption is,
Breakfast, 20 grams of porridge, this because it's a slow realising carb,
First break snack, pork scratching, (puffy or normal) they have a very low carb contents. Home made cake which is made with almond flour, coconut flour and coconut flour with agave nectar (organic sweetener). I also use Total sweet xylitol sugar replacement in my cooking it as half the available cabs of sugar and 40% less calories than sugar.
Lunch, salad, with celery, lettuice, grated carrot, grated cheese,tomato's 2 desert spoons of full fat mayo and about 20 grams of peanuts.
This can also be, home made soup, home made chilli, home made indian all taken hot to work in a soup flask.
Afternoon break or second break, scratchings,
Dinner, roast chicken, or beef or pork with creamed cauliflower (mashed with butter and milk) boiled cauliflower, boiled runner beans, boiled carrots, boiled brocli and a small amount of gravy.
I also have bacon, sausage,egg with tinned toms.
I also have home made cottage or shepards pie with creamed mash cauliflower and creamed mash carrots or the vegetable squash mashed with butter and milk, ( you put this mash on top of the minced meat instead of potato).
Roast parsnips with my roast dinners.
egg, sausage with parsnip chips cooked in lard because vegetable or sunflower oil cantains polyunsaturates and diabetics can cope better with natural fats.
Fish, fish with parsley sauce or butter sauce.
I have a small pizza now and again.
If I do eat any bread which my be only a couple times a week, I eat weight watchers soft malted Danish which only has 9.2g of carbs and I have this with bacon sausage and egg sandwiches or a couple of pieces of toast.
Always look a the labels of any foods and try to eat low carbs, the lower the better.
If I have a take away I order yuk sung,beef and chilli chicken with a beef or chicken curry and no rice, I also order satay chicken on sticks.
With our own made curries or indians we make cauliflower rice, egg fried cauliflower rice also.
Remember eat small amounts but often through out the day, every 4 hours, but eat the right foods and try to avoid processed foods.
Fresh veg, fresh salads and you can buy these cheaper from the market than at the supermarket, but can you really put a price on your life.
We brought cookery books on cooking with almond flour, soya flour and coconut flour, we use coconut oil, also brought cookery books on low carb meals some of the meals are amazing.
Almond shortbread, almond sponge cakes, coconut flour, we use organic Cacao powder and organic cocoa nibs to make chocolate cakes and cookiesl etc.
You can get these fours from a local indian shop which are cheaper than your local health shop but Holland and Barrett have some great food ingrediants so do many local health shops also
My doctors are really pleased with me and have reduced my metformin 500g to 2 a day, blood presure are and cholestral levels normal and my diabetis is not traceable at the moment he is going to see if I can control it with my diet and stop my tablets all together. I don't snore anymore, do not suffer with indegestion or heart burn anymore and sleep more soundly without waking up coughing at night.
I have more energy, feel less tied, gone from a 4 XL to a medium. My food intake is not boring it's a challenge to try new foods I have made from the cookery food books.
Books which have helped me,
Reverse your Diabetes by Dr David Cavan.
Flat Belly Diet Diabetes by Liz Vaccariello.
Count your Carbs & Calories by Chris Cheyette & Yello Balolia.
The big book of low - carb recipies, 365 recipes by Nicola Graimes.
The Gluten - Free Almond Flour Cookbook by Elana Amsterdam.
Cooking with Coconut Flour by Bruce Fife, N . D .
Diabetes Cookbook by Fiona Hunter & Heather Whinney
It has taken me 10 months to achieve this.
Remember I am no Doctor and this is what workrd for me, It may not work for you because everybodies body works differently.
I was told that for a diabetic we cannot tolerate a high contents of carbs in our diet,carbs are hidden sugars, also try to avoid to many polyunsaturates.
Lurkpack or butter works better for me our bodies can cope with natural fats, bread,rice,wheat, corn, sugar,crisps, chocolate,batter that is made with normal flour, pasta and pasteries are not good for us.
Try to avoid baked beans, tinned soup because of the sugars in them, we brought a soup making machine and make all our own soups.
Some fruits can contain high levels of natural sugars, I avoid Banana, grapes,grapefruit I only eat an apple every couple of days and the same with clementines, a high comsumption of carrots may also contain alot of sugars.
Blood testing,
On waking (fasting) our blood sugars should read under 5.5 mm0l/L
1 hour after a meal, under 7.8 mmol/L
2 Hours after a meal under 6.6 mmol/L
Write a diary of what you eat and record your blood sugar levels, you will then see what foods higher your levels and what doesn't.
Remember it's all about food portion size, reduce your plate size, my plate size is now smaller than a dinner plate but bigger than a side plate, a food portion size is the amount of each portion of food that you can get in the palm of your hand.
I drink water, have vimto squash you dilute with water, which contains 0.3 per 100ml,
Black almond coffee with no sugar,
Tea with skimmed milk no sugar.
My typical day of food consumption is,
Breakfast, 20 grams of porridge, this because it's a slow realising carb,
First break snack, pork scratching, (puffy or normal) they have a very low carb contents. Home made cake which is made with almond flour, coconut flour and coconut flour with agave nectar (organic sweetener). I also use Total sweet xylitol sugar replacement in my cooking it as half the available cabs of sugar and 40% less calories than sugar.
Lunch, salad, with celery, lettuice, grated carrot, grated cheese,tomato's 2 desert spoons of full fat mayo and about 20 grams of peanuts.
This can also be, home made soup, home made chilli, home made indian all taken hot to work in a soup flask.
Afternoon break or second break, scratchings,
Dinner, roast chicken, or beef or pork with creamed cauliflower (mashed with butter and milk) boiled cauliflower, boiled runner beans, boiled carrots, boiled brocli and a small amount of gravy.
I also have bacon, sausage,egg with tinned toms.
I also have home made cottage or shepards pie with creamed mash cauliflower and creamed mash carrots or the vegetable squash mashed with butter and milk, ( you put this mash on top of the minced meat instead of potato).
Roast parsnips with my roast dinners.
egg, sausage with parsnip chips cooked in lard because vegetable or sunflower oil cantains polyunsaturates and diabetics can cope better with natural fats.
Fish, fish with parsley sauce or butter sauce.
I have a small pizza now and again.
If I do eat any bread which my be only a couple times a week, I eat weight watchers soft malted Danish which only has 9.2g of carbs and I have this with bacon sausage and egg sandwiches or a couple of pieces of toast.
Always look a the labels of any foods and try to eat low carbs, the lower the better.
If I have a take away I order yuk sung,beef and chilli chicken with a beef or chicken curry and no rice, I also order satay chicken on sticks.
With our own made curries or indians we make cauliflower rice, egg fried cauliflower rice also.
Remember eat small amounts but often through out the day, every 4 hours, but eat the right foods and try to avoid processed foods.
Fresh veg, fresh salads and you can buy these cheaper from the market than at the supermarket, but can you really put a price on your life.
We brought cookery books on cooking with almond flour, soya flour and coconut flour, we use coconut oil, also brought cookery books on low carb meals some of the meals are amazing.
Almond shortbread, almond sponge cakes, coconut flour, we use organic Cacao powder and organic cocoa nibs to make chocolate cakes and cookiesl etc.
You can get these fours from a local indian shop which are cheaper than your local health shop but Holland and Barrett have some great food ingrediants so do many local health shops also
My doctors are really pleased with me and have reduced my metformin 500g to 2 a day, blood presure are and cholestral levels normal and my diabetis is not traceable at the moment he is going to see if I can control it with my diet and stop my tablets all together. I don't snore anymore, do not suffer with indegestion or heart burn anymore and sleep more soundly without waking up coughing at night.
I have more energy, feel less tied, gone from a 4 XL to a medium. My food intake is not boring it's a challenge to try new foods I have made from the cookery food books.
Books which have helped me,
Reverse your Diabetes by Dr David Cavan.
Flat Belly Diet Diabetes by Liz Vaccariello.
Count your Carbs & Calories by Chris Cheyette & Yello Balolia.
The big book of low - carb recipies, 365 recipes by Nicola Graimes.
The Gluten - Free Almond Flour Cookbook by Elana Amsterdam.
Cooking with Coconut Flour by Bruce Fife, N . D .
Diabetes Cookbook by Fiona Hunter & Heather Whinney
