HbA1c level

mike gibson said:

switched to brown rice and pasta

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To be honest they aren't much better than their white equivalents (if any better at all!) and probably best avoided...especially if newly diagnosed and wanting to reduce blood glucose fast.

bulkbiker said:

To be honest they aren't much better than their white equivalents (if any better at all!) and probably best avoided...especially if newly diagnosed and wanting to reduce blood glucose fast.

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@mike gibson Testing your pre/post meal glucose would give you a fair idea how well you cope with brown rice and pasta...

Otherwise we would be labelled as low carb mafias...

here you can see the different levels, note that only the green area is the non-diabetic levels and the level to strive for. your number is in the dark red area now

initially, I did skip breakfast and if you immediately start counting the number of grams of carbs you eat in a day and keep it under 150 grams in total then you´ll probably soon get your levels very much down

foods with hardly any carbs are all kinds of meat, also fish but without coating, most nuts bacon cheese salat tomatoes and cucumbers avocado, LIDLs protein rolls , zucchini and most vegs grown over ground , cream full-fat yoghurt, olives olive oil , macadamia nuts are ideal also in the combination of fats.. if you stick mostly to those types of foods you´ll soon be lower in blood glucose.
after meals take a walk to lower it further, and do more exercise in general.
if you need a treat then prefer berries instead of fruits. and eat them with cream ..

all carbs counts also the ones on bread and brown rice