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First hba1c

Well done! I see on your profile you are Diet only. If you’d like to post what you eat in a typical day you might get some suggestions to as to how to tweak things to get your reading down further.
 
Stable is good! It has only been a few weeks, onwards and downwards.
 
Thanks, I have just updated my profile as I am now on Metformin SR 1000mg per day.

My diet is a lot better than it was.

Lunch: mini babybel, walkers baked crisps and yogurt. 2 discs of dark chocolate. (Lily O'Brien's)


Snacks grapes, apples, strawberries.

Dinner: keto chicken, chicken with wholewheat noodles (1 nest) low salt soy sauce and veg.
Steak stir-fry.
Tuna with peas sweet corn and wholemeal rice.
Burgers wedges and salad
Chicken burritos diabetic forum.
 
You need far more refinement on the diet ... Rice, corn, grapes, sauces? Not recommended.
 
It doesn't seem to affect my blood too much. The only thing that spikes is large meals and bread. 125g cooked rice seems ok.
I had keto pizza tonight but the shock of using so much cheese to make it (200g) frightens me more that diabetes. Albeit I had a small amount but still too much fat.
 

Wrong ... as you're taking the diet in totality and not testing the components. Grapes (for one) are murder, the sauces totally an unknown and BTW there's nothing wrong with fat
 
Mike D said:
Wrong ... as you're taking the diet in totality and not testing the components. Grapes (for one) are murder, the sauces totally an unknown and BTW there's nothing wrong with fat
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Nothing wrong with fat in general but the saturated fat in that amount of cheese is a no no.
A balanced diet but generally I am testing to see what I can have and can not have.
 
@Thecrazy_1 - are you using a blood glucose meter to test your bloods after eating and drinking? That'll certainly help you get to grips with things

If you can keep a food and blood glucose diary (what you ate when, along with your blood scores before and 2 hours after eating), that'll help you look back to be able to maybe make the odd tweak or two.
 
Thecrazy_1 said:
Nothing wrong with fat in general but the saturated fat in that amount of cheese is a no no.
A balanced diet but generally I am testing to see what I can have and can not have.
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Nothing wrong with the sat fat in cheese, would be a far better choice to replace some of the high carb stuff you are eating if you want to get that Hba1c down lower. Your health will improve as well, it's not just about lowering a few numbers here and there. We've been taught to fear fat and wrongly so. Fat is an essential energy source. Don't fear it.
 
Your Hba1c would seem to indicate that your blood glucose is averaging just under 8.6mmol/l - so half the time your level is higher than that.
Were you just left without any information about what was wrong, or about how carbohydrate raises blood glucose levels?
 
@Thecrazy_1 - you don't seem at all keen on saturated fats, could you help us understand your feelings a bit more?

There are so many stories - some having more scientific rigour behind them than others, around saturated verus unsaturated fats that sometimes the landscape can become a bit befuddling.
 

Firstly..congrats on taking initiative and stabilising BG.

Unsure if burrito and burger included the bread, ..but all those struck out I personally wouldn't eat.

I guess I would see it that to lower the BG and aim for a healthier HBA1c, that needs a more dynamic approach.
Certainly test before meal, then at one hour, two hour intervals to see if any spike.

But I'd say the aim, is to lower the sugar content inside of us to get back to ''normal" reading as soon as possible, and adding unnecessary sugars will just delay that process.

Once there, then I'd say sit back, and test the foids that you might WANT to be able to eat without too much issues.
And see what impact they then have.

But we all travel this diabetic road in our own chosen way.

Good luck finding your safe route.
 
I don't fear fat, on on f I am a firm believer that fat doesn't make you fat sugar makes you fat. However, I feel some are misinformed about saturated fat and the damage it can do to your arteries.
 
Thecrazy_1 said:
I don't fear fat, on on f I am a firm believer that fat doesn't make you fat sugar makes you fat. However, I feel some are misinformed about saturated fat and the damage it can do to your arteries.
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Misinformed how?
 
Thecrazy_1 said:
I don't fear fat, on on f I am a firm believer that fat doesn't make you fat sugar makes you fat. However, I feel some are misinformed about saturated fat and the damage it can do to your arteries.
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Hi there, it looks like you have a plan and are following it and that is great! I agree with others though, it is WELL worth checking to see how different foods affect your glucose levels, it can be an eye opener. My Mum was a chronic, unstable type 1 diabetic and when she was feeling poorly we used to feed her grapes in the hospital when she wasn't eating much. We got round to testing her after a handful of grapes once and she shot up to above 20! It was like eating spoonfuls of sugar, we were mortified and thought we had poisoned her. Sometimes the comments may sound a little dictating but that is only because people on this site KNOW that some foods (however healthy they may sound) are not good for their glucose levels, it is nothing personal. It is absolutely fine that individuals follow whatever plan they want but personally before I set it into concrete, I like to know exactly what each food does to my levels. A person can follow a perfect, balanced, nutrionally great diet but it won't necessarily lower their A1c if parts of it are keeping them at too high a level. x
 
I found going lchf very odd as it ran counter to everything I thought I knew about diet, particularly fat. However since carbs were clearly my problem and avoiding them the solution and I had just metabolised my way through 25kg of my own body fat quite happily I made the leap of faith.
The results are remarkable.
I no longer worry about fat since I am maintaining my weight without conscious thought which suggests I am eating what is required for me to function but not so much that risks anything untoward cardiovascular wise. I believe we evolved as a species eating a naturally lchf diet and that the advice to avoid fat is the same side of the coin that urges us to eat carbs, in other words plain wrong, certainly for T2's and perhaps for everybody.
 

Well done and bringing down your A1c, looking at what you eat, if you want to lower it more, can I suggest to ditch your carbs, as these are what it is keeping your levels elevated..
Crisps grapes, apples, noodles, rice, bread, sweet corn. Saturated fats are fine.
 
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