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Hi there I’ve been diagnosed 4 months and have been restricting to 25g sugar daily (120 carbs). Reading my type 2 magazine it talks about eating your 5 a day. My question is how do you eat more than 1 piece! When an apple or an orange takes up all of my daily allowance?
 
I don't think that is good advice for type 2s as fruits can be problematic. Do you test your blood sugar after to see how you react ? Everyone is different but I can manage a small portion of berries, small satsuma, half an apple with some peanut butter (not all at the same time, usually have one once a day). Vegetables probably better for your blood sugars so have more of those than fruits if you are aiming for the 5 a day.
 
TCFK said:
My question is how do you eat more than 1 piece! When an apple or an orange takes up all of my daily allowance?
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Eat smaller quantities of fruit if you want to stick on 25 grams carbs. Cut the apple into quarters, take one piece wrap the other segments up in a airtight bag. Segment the orange, divide the sections up in to small portions, keep one portion to eat. Do this for the other fruit you might take a fancy to to make up five portions.

Remember that fruit has a lot of carbs, I can tolerate most fruits in small portions.
 
I don't. My fruit intake totals a few strawberries or blackberries maybe once or twice a week. The "five a day" advice is part of the same "base all your meals around starchy carbs" set-up that causes T2s such problems. I can't be neutral about this as the NHS so-called healthy eating advice is positively dangerous for T2s. You can either go with that high carb / high fructose diet (following that advice probably gave me T2 in the first place) or stick to low carbing. You can't do both.

I believe that the key thing on being diagnosed as T2 is to forget all the "healthy eating" advice you've ever heard. It might be OK for some (although I doubt it) but it's no good for T2s. On the other hand, low carb will bring your BG down, no question. It might happen quickly, or take a little time. You only need to read this forum to find plenty of examples.
 
This is well-stated and important: a lot of "diabetes advice" is actively injurious to our health. Never more so than when we are advised to eat large amounts of glucose and fructose in the form of grain based food and fruit. Green leafy veg is fine, but fruit is tolerable in small doses only.
 
I will still eat berries in small-to-moderate amounts, but other fruits are mostly off my list. Apples are a hard no, and oranges only when I can get the really tiny satsumas. Grapes, bananas, pineapples: all big nopes. They're just pure sugar. During the vanishingly short cherry season I'll pretty much eat NO other carbs so that I can enjoy those, and if by some random stroke of luck I can get my hands on a truly ripe peach, well, that's maybe twice a summer.... I do take a multivitamin with vitamin C in it.
 
"5 a day" refers to 5 fruits OR vegetables. There is no need to eat more than 1 portion of fruit. You could eat 1 portion of fruit and 4 portions of vegetables or just eat 5 portions of vegetables, Berries tend to be lower carb than apples. 'Above ground' vegetables tend to be lower carb than 'below ground'.
 
(Vegetarian here)

I base my meals on piles of green vegetables - so cucumber, celery, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage (all but the cabbage I prefer raw to cooked - I've always been happy to eat a lump of cauliflower the way most people would eat an apple). I acknowledge I may be unusual in this.

Then, once I've prepared the vegetables I add in some eggs or cheese generally.

For me it works - although just now I've gone very hard on the low carbing. I need to lose weight and sort myself out quite a lot. I find it much easier to go hard for a short time and then see if/where I can relax things.

Preparing the vegetables and then adding in other stuff I have no problem getting my '5 a day' in.
 
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