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Hi all,
Well, after 12 months of hubby refusing to do anything to help reduce his blood sugars, something has finally 'clicked'!
On an early post, I said about him getting his last HbA1c at over 100, and still not being prepared to change his ways. Well a week ago, he went back to his GP, to get permission to go onto the Newcastle diet. (A bit drastic I know, but he did this about 3 years ago, lost 1 and 1/2 stone, bringing his bloods right down, and kept it under control for the next couple of years, before completely falling off the wagon, and gaining a stone eating junk.)
Thankfully his doc is quite liberal, and takes the view that you need to control this as much as possible. Therefore he got the green light, and started on the shakes and veg.
He's lost about 5-6lb in 7 days, and his bloods have fallen to 5's before meals, 7's 2 hours after. (He is also testing 6 times a day now as well, as the doc gave him extra strips to the 50 per month that are on his prescription!!!) Seen as he was 10's and 14's the week before, he is over the moon with those figures.
So, I have a couple of questions:
He has been using the Asda shakes, as he still had some from before, which were in use by date. They are made up with water, and have about 25g carbs of which 6g are sugar. He looked to get some more at the weekend, but Asda have rebranded, and their new shakes are 25g carbs of which 23g are sugar! He looked at some others online (Tesco, Slimfast etc) but they all have about the same amount of sugar in. The Newcastle Diet site says to use Optifast, which also has 18g of sugars in.
Their site makes no reference to the sugar content of shakes; only the calories. So he is wondering if it will be ok to switch to one of these higher sugar ones?
Has anyone done the diet, and if so, what shakes did you use please?
Also, any ideas for recipes to help vary his 200g veg allowance? (Have done boiled, stir fry and made a nice soup that lasted for two of the days)
I don't want him to get bored of this, seen as its taken so long for him to realise he needed to do something about getting his levels down.
Any advice much appreciated.
Well, after 12 months of hubby refusing to do anything to help reduce his blood sugars, something has finally 'clicked'!
On an early post, I said about him getting his last HbA1c at over 100, and still not being prepared to change his ways. Well a week ago, he went back to his GP, to get permission to go onto the Newcastle diet. (A bit drastic I know, but he did this about 3 years ago, lost 1 and 1/2 stone, bringing his bloods right down, and kept it under control for the next couple of years, before completely falling off the wagon, and gaining a stone eating junk.)
Thankfully his doc is quite liberal, and takes the view that you need to control this as much as possible. Therefore he got the green light, and started on the shakes and veg.
He's lost about 5-6lb in 7 days, and his bloods have fallen to 5's before meals, 7's 2 hours after. (He is also testing 6 times a day now as well, as the doc gave him extra strips to the 50 per month that are on his prescription!!!) Seen as he was 10's and 14's the week before, he is over the moon with those figures.
So, I have a couple of questions:
He has been using the Asda shakes, as he still had some from before, which were in use by date. They are made up with water, and have about 25g carbs of which 6g are sugar. He looked to get some more at the weekend, but Asda have rebranded, and their new shakes are 25g carbs of which 23g are sugar! He looked at some others online (Tesco, Slimfast etc) but they all have about the same amount of sugar in. The Newcastle Diet site says to use Optifast, which also has 18g of sugars in.
Their site makes no reference to the sugar content of shakes; only the calories. So he is wondering if it will be ok to switch to one of these higher sugar ones?
Has anyone done the diet, and if so, what shakes did you use please?
Also, any ideas for recipes to help vary his 200g veg allowance? (Have done boiled, stir fry and made a nice soup that lasted for two of the days)
I don't want him to get bored of this, seen as its taken so long for him to realise he needed to do something about getting his levels down.
Any advice much appreciated.