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<blockquote data-quote="Shirley N." data-source="post: 1866380" data-attributes="member: 485798"><p><span style="font-size: 18px">You say you are not eating any carbs. whatsoever. What, no vegetables at all!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">I find that I cannot </span><u><span style="font-size: 18px">estimate</span></u><span style="font-size: 18px"> my intake at all. If I stop weighing to the nearest gram and then calculating the carb. content of what I am eating, my blood sugars rise rapidly and can stay up for many hours. My estimates get, I'm afraid, further from reality by the day! But if I weigh my food carefully, and then keep the carb. content of each meal at around 20 g, my blood sugars fluctuate between 5 and 8 mmol/l quite happily over long periods, without any medication.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The problem is certainly made worse by my varifocal lenses. Every time my prescription is changed, the size of the image of any object in front of me grows subtly. But, probably due to my age, 69, I cannot relearn and remember what size image corresponds to what weight. Meat, fish, cheese etc. have to be ordered strictly by weight otherwise me and my husband might get either tiny or huge portions! Tiny portions now look huge to me, so I over-compensated before I insisted on buying a definite weight. Also shop assistants, I find, vary considerably in their ability to make such judgments, even though they are doing it all day long.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shirley N., post: 1866380, member: 485798"] [SIZE=5]You say you are not eating any carbs. whatsoever. What, no vegetables at all! I find that I cannot [/SIZE][U][SIZE=5]estimate[/SIZE][/U][SIZE=5] my intake at all. If I stop weighing to the nearest gram and then calculating the carb. content of what I am eating, my blood sugars rise rapidly and can stay up for many hours. My estimates get, I'm afraid, further from reality by the day! But if I weigh my food carefully, and then keep the carb. content of each meal at around 20 g, my blood sugars fluctuate between 5 and 8 mmol/l quite happily over long periods, without any medication. The problem is certainly made worse by my varifocal lenses. Every time my prescription is changed, the size of the image of any object in front of me grows subtly. But, probably due to my age, 69, I cannot relearn and remember what size image corresponds to what weight. Meat, fish, cheese etc. have to be ordered strictly by weight otherwise me and my husband might get either tiny or huge portions! Tiny portions now look huge to me, so I over-compensated before I insisted on buying a definite weight. Also shop assistants, I find, vary considerably in their ability to make such judgments, even though they are doing it all day long. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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