runner2009
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Mysterylady
My bad, I see that you wrote that you were diagnosed 2-weeks ago, if I may make a suggestion, IMO it is too difficult to determine the optimum diet for you at such an early stage. First, you have to adjust your life long eating habits and that is difficult task and second this is a life long commitment and just like a marathon you have to take small steps to get to the end.
My suggestion, would be for the next two months eat your normal diet with four changes. First, practice portion control, journal ALL your food with an app like mynetdiary or others, establish a consistent carbohydrate level for every meal and stick to that and lastly test your BG constantly and keep a record.
The consistent carbohydrate level would that you would pick 1 to 4 servings of carbos per meal and then adjust your calories around them. Out of Hospital I was told to eat 2-servings of carbos per meal - that is 30g per meal and a total of 90g per day.
I didn't go out to eat for 3-months and I was surprised at then when at first the portions looked so small that a 3.5oz of fish looked huge.
Sent from Runner2009 Burt
My bad, I see that you wrote that you were diagnosed 2-weeks ago, if I may make a suggestion, IMO it is too difficult to determine the optimum diet for you at such an early stage. First, you have to adjust your life long eating habits and that is difficult task and second this is a life long commitment and just like a marathon you have to take small steps to get to the end.
My suggestion, would be for the next two months eat your normal diet with four changes. First, practice portion control, journal ALL your food with an app like mynetdiary or others, establish a consistent carbohydrate level for every meal and stick to that and lastly test your BG constantly and keep a record.
The consistent carbohydrate level would that you would pick 1 to 4 servings of carbos per meal and then adjust your calories around them. Out of Hospital I was told to eat 2-servings of carbos per meal - that is 30g per meal and a total of 90g per day.
I didn't go out to eat for 3-months and I was surprised at then when at first the portions looked so small that a 3.5oz of fish looked huge.
Sent from Runner2009 Burt