Hello
I am a Type 2 Diabetic which is controlled with Insulin and Metformin. I have been on insulin since approx 2002, but quite honestly have never got my head around my diabetes, food etc etc, and my sugar levels have always run high and been all over the place, and I have sunk my head in the sand and ignored it. As a result of this I developed severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy, and most of my peripheral eye sight has been lazered away and I am now registered as partially sighted.
Finally, I have after all this time, now woken up, and realised I need to get my life, especially my diabetes in order and that I need to loose weight, and totally change my eating lifestyle. I want to loose approximately 5 stone in weight.
I am about to embark on a healthy living life style regime, which will totally change the way I eat, understand and view food, coupled with 2 exercise sessions a week. I am attending a taster session tomorrow evening, but over the last week have started to make subtle changes following what I already know about the eating regime. I am cutting out bread, gluten as much as I possibly can, and if I eat pasta or rice limiting it to brown pasta or rice and limiting it to 5 cooked tablespoons of pasta, but if I can I want to omit these from my diet too. There will be lots of other changes too.
The problem I am having is what food to put with salad at lunch time to keep my sugar levels from falling. At the moment I have been having chopped up celery, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, mixed beans and pulses with 4 or 5 corn thins, with say a tin of fish in oil, or chopped up chicken. As I work full time I have to take something that is already prepared and easy to eat. However, I am finding that approximately 4 hours after having my lunch my sugars are dropping to 4 or thereabouts. I don't usually have my evening meal until around 7 in the evening, so this is quite a problem, as this drop could happen when I am still at work.
Are there any suggestions what I can add to my lunch time meal that would help give a slow release of sugars so my sugars don't drop too low, or any other alternatives for a working person to take for their lunch.
I am sorry if this is a bit long winded, but I needed people to understand my problem. I am committed and determined to get my blood sugars down and to loose the weight. It has been many years in the coming but hopefully this is not too late for me to sort out, and will extend my life and give me many extra years around to see my grandaughter who is due to be born in January.
Thank you.
Christine
I am a Type 2 Diabetic which is controlled with Insulin and Metformin. I have been on insulin since approx 2002, but quite honestly have never got my head around my diabetes, food etc etc, and my sugar levels have always run high and been all over the place, and I have sunk my head in the sand and ignored it. As a result of this I developed severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy, and most of my peripheral eye sight has been lazered away and I am now registered as partially sighted.
Finally, I have after all this time, now woken up, and realised I need to get my life, especially my diabetes in order and that I need to loose weight, and totally change my eating lifestyle. I want to loose approximately 5 stone in weight.
I am about to embark on a healthy living life style regime, which will totally change the way I eat, understand and view food, coupled with 2 exercise sessions a week. I am attending a taster session tomorrow evening, but over the last week have started to make subtle changes following what I already know about the eating regime. I am cutting out bread, gluten as much as I possibly can, and if I eat pasta or rice limiting it to brown pasta or rice and limiting it to 5 cooked tablespoons of pasta, but if I can I want to omit these from my diet too. There will be lots of other changes too.
The problem I am having is what food to put with salad at lunch time to keep my sugar levels from falling. At the moment I have been having chopped up celery, cucumber, tomatoes, peppers, mixed beans and pulses with 4 or 5 corn thins, with say a tin of fish in oil, or chopped up chicken. As I work full time I have to take something that is already prepared and easy to eat. However, I am finding that approximately 4 hours after having my lunch my sugars are dropping to 4 or thereabouts. I don't usually have my evening meal until around 7 in the evening, so this is quite a problem, as this drop could happen when I am still at work.
Are there any suggestions what I can add to my lunch time meal that would help give a slow release of sugars so my sugars don't drop too low, or any other alternatives for a working person to take for their lunch.
I am sorry if this is a bit long winded, but I needed people to understand my problem. I am committed and determined to get my blood sugars down and to loose the weight. It has been many years in the coming but hopefully this is not too late for me to sort out, and will extend my life and give me many extra years around to see my grandaughter who is due to be born in January.
Thank you.
Christine
well done for making the decision to make the changes, if you were to try low carbing you would reduce your weight, blood sugars and hopefully need less insulin, but as I know nothing of insulin I'll step aside and let folks who know help
