Johnjoe13
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 398
- Location
- England - United Kingdom
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Tablets (oral)
Chri
Christmas is a hard time to start. Most of us allow ourselves a few extra carbs at Christmas to enjoy time with our families. As said above though Turkey is good for you, salad is great. Non starchy vegetables, eggs, and cheese are all good. I personally have problems with cookies and allow myself one or two but reduce other carbs so I can have them.
First thing I would do is get a Glucose meter as I understand that glucose will only start to show in your urine at concentrations greater than 10(180), by that time it's too high.
With a glucose meter you can tightly control your blood glucose thoughout the day, and monitor how exercise and dietary changes (what's good or bad for you) over the weeks and months have helped.
For a start, I would recommend testing fasting(when you wake up) and before and after meals(2 hours after) so you can get a picture of what's happening, then as you understand what works for you, you can just do spot checks after some meals to ensure all is fine.
Also just add with regards to high blood pressure, you may find that if you're able that cardio exercise will help in that area. It will aid with weight control too, in which will also help lower blood pressure.
Hi @Johnjoe13, you seem to have come a long way in a very short time - well done you for all your efforts. There's a heck of a lot of information that you're having to take on board just now, so perhaps take it a bit slowly and try out only one or two things at a time. Particularly with Christmas coming up, maybe cut yourself some slack till into the New Year, and learn as much as you can in the meantime, practice testing different food and how your blood sugars respond at various times, as mentioned in other posts above. Then perhaps get down to brass tacks in earnest & work at finding the right foods for you that result in reducing your blood sugars. Don't forget about all the info in daisy1's post - including the low carb programme, coz that could help you a lot, and you won't have to think much about "what foods shall I try". You could also take a look here: https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb
As for breakfast, sorry about the banana and porridge not being a good option for your blood sugar levels. How about good old bacon & eggs in true Brit style; add some grilled toms and mushrooms - will likely fill you up for the rest of the day
hell i'm down from 20 units of booze a week to 10 and less so I can't see whats wrong there. Stopped smoking a month now too!
In December with all the Christmas-related mail I personally would never trust ordinary first class post from anyone to be delivered reliably the next day (second can though come as quickly as first!). Amazon struggles sometime too, even with their in-house system. Hopefully though it will turn up.
Incidentally regular naan bread is typically around 50% carb.
Thank you Jay-Marc
Yes maybe I should have been more realistic in terms of postage this time of year, i'm just very stressed out atm with a few things on my mind, but very anxious to get started with this meter and get some more accurate reading around my levels as well as what i'm eating. These urine test strips are now showing 4 ++++'s to start with after 30 seconds, where as before they started at 3 after this amount of time. Yes I know they are naff in the big scheme of things and not accurate to what is in the blood but they do show there are 2000( 110) mg/dl (mmol/l) of glucose in me and that's just the last reading there is on the chart.
Also do you know anything about this Metformin? I thought this stuff was supposed to help me from having high glucose even with the slow release 500mg a day i'm on. You know what is weird? my mum who is still with us at 78 was diagnosed with this at 58. She's had regular Hba1C test every 6 month ever since then and has never had a problem, never tested herself and never had any health issues synonymous with T2. She's always eaten normally and this includes biscuits, cakes and a litre of cola a day habit. I've taken her to see the nurse now for the past 3 years, that's about 6 times and every time I take her back for the results he says 'all's good you are doing fine'. Now I dont know what her numbers are as he doesn't discuss anything with me but I think the next time i'm going to ask about them and tell him about her eating habits see what he says (if he's tell me)
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