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Hi I’m julieclarke I’ve joined to find out more about T2 diabetes

@julieclarke for us to understand how well you are doing you need to write a post like this for example:
“Blood sugar immediately before breakfast was 5.5.
Breakfast was two slices of brown bread with butter.
Blood sugar 2 hours after the first bite of breakfast was 6.8.”
We can then advise you if the breakfast you ate was suitable for you.
 
It's important as your blood glucose should have fallen sufficiently to see how your body copes with what you've eaten, @julieclarke. It should be 2 mmol/L or less two hours later.
 
julieclarke said:
Brown bread and brown flour
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thats very very vague. one small warbatons wholemeal slice for instance contains ~9g carbs where as the normal medium size 17g. eating one slice vastly different than eating 2-3 in terms of carbs.

you should be marking carbs before eating and then again around 2 hours after to see how it effects your glucose should you be wishing any advice as stated approx max 2mmol difference after 2 hours is what you should be looking for to see how your body handles that particular meal.



julieclarke said:
I have been on brown bread for breakfasts and I have been having crumble
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crumble especially if shop bought or indeed at a restraunt/cafe usually is fairly high in carb content and indeed sugars need to be of that. if your making something yourself and wish to try lower carbs/sugar so you have more controll over try prefix google search with "keto", eg "keto crumble recipe" https://ketohh.com/keto-rhubarb-berry-crumble/ which body should handle a little better on the blood sugars front. need to be really careful if trying to switch fresh fruit for tinned as tinned a lot is kept in a very sugary syrup to help preserve it, the tins that are kept in fruit juice are usually condensed juices where the fructose content can be a lot higher which also can help as a preservative neither is really a friend to stablising blood glucose levels.

it's very difficult to give any specific advice without having all relevant data. its akin to saying to someone you don't feel well, then not saying what you feel is wrong and expecting them to automatically know and provide some detail on how to possibly assist. It could be for instance tummy upset/headache/sore or whatever else.

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Rachox said:
@julieclarke for us to understand how well you are doing you need to write a post like this for example:
“Blood sugar immediately before breakfast was 5.5.
Breakfast was two slices of brown bread with butter.
Blood sugar 2 hours after the first bite of breakfast was 6.8.”
We can then advise you if the breakfast you ate was suitable for you.
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julieclarke said:
My sugar levels was 8.6
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As we all keep saying. A random reading like this of 8.6 is useless without telling us whether this is before or after food and what the food was.

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julieclarke said:
My husband made a homemade sugar free crumble for tonight with whole wheat flour
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72g carbs in 100g wholewheat flour. All carbs convert to sugars. Would like spike less high however for perhaps a longer period of time as wholegrains are more complex and take longer to digest. Pretty much all fruits contain fructose which are in effect sugars. If tinned fruit (which usually used making crumble) you would also consider that.

Where abouts are you from?
 
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