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Chop1

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Type of diabetes
Prediabetes
Treatment type
Diet only
Thank you for allowing me to join.
My Name is Peter, I am borderline/prediabetes looking at my NHS notes.
I'm 67 years young, I've always thought I was healthy, but the last few days has opened my eyes.
I'm going to see my Doctor on Tuesday morning, so I will know more then.
We have been and brought a Blood Glucose monitor, to check our blood glucose levels.
All the tests I've had done at the Doctors came out ok, except the borderline reading.
We decided to purchase the Blood Glucose Monitor, so I could show the Doctor I want to do something about it.
We have started to change our lifestyle, our food choices will change.
It's amazing the difference in the readings, it's a bit overwhelming.
Not knowing what you can, and can't eat, or the different foods that effect your body.
I've joined the group to hopefully learn about diabetes, what we can do to help make it better/easier to live with.
Over the next few days/weeks hopefully I'll understand about diabetes.
We've brought the blood glucose monitor on Thursday, and it's mind-blowing the difference in some of the readings.
Once I've been to see the Doctor on Tuesday I will know more, then I'll be able to post more and have a few questions.
The Monitor has shown us already, that changes need to happen, hopefully over the weeks/months our readings will level out, as we get our levels under control.
Once again thank you for allowing me to join.
Peter Butcher
 
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Jaylee said:
Hi @Chop1 , (Peter.)

Welcome to the forum.

It’s great you invested in a meter.

I’ll tag in @Rachox @lovinglife @Pipp @KennyA to say hello & give a few tips diet wise to help lower those BGs.

Best wishes,

Jay.
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Hi JayLee
Thank you for your reply
I've got a lot to learn, the readings are erratic.
But I understand it can take months to get them under control.
But we're going to look at living a healthier lifestyle.

Peter
 
Hi Peter and welcome to the forum. If your prime concern is to keep your blood sugars in a normal range by modifying your diet. Here’s a link to a useful blog written by one of the members here:
JoKalsbeek

Thread 'Jo's Nutritional Thingy'

There’s a few things you should know.

1. Practically all carbs turn to glucose once ingested, so not just straight sugars, but starches too. Food doesn’t have to taste sweet to make your blood sugars skyrocket.

2. A meter helps you know what foods agree with you, and which don’t. Test before and 2 hours after the first bite. If you go up more than 2.0 mmol/l, the meal was carbier than you could handle. (It’s easy to remember, as you’re a T2: all 2’s, all over the place!)

3. In case you didn’t know already, this isn’t your fault. It’s genetics, medication, decades of...
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Hi @Chop1 and welcome to the forum.
While Blood Glucose levels do change during the day (and night), they mainly fluctuate due to the immediate impact of a meal or during strenuous exercise, though there are over 40 different factors which can affect BG. They include illness, injury, stress and lack of sleep. During the day our liver will try to keep our BG stable at a level it 'feels' comfortable with. So when our BG goes down a bit, due to eating fewer carbs or even due to exercise, it will try to put enough glucose into the blood so as to counteract that.
This makes initial reduction of BG slow until the liver is more accustomed to lower values. This can be a good thing, because too rapid a drop can cause temporary (or in a very few cases even permanent eye sight problems. Slow and steady is best - so reduce the carbs rather than trying to just cut them out even though in theory we don't need any carbs for fuel despite the brain requiring Glucose for some functions. This is because our bodies can manufacture glucose form fats ad proteins, so carbs really are a non-essential nutrient!
 
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