sineadk said:
Thanks for the advice but now I am totally confused. Are you saying no carbs at all?
Hi,
I'm sorry to confuse you; and it is confusing!
The general advice we get as diabetics is to eat carbohydrates and to minimise fats/proteins; what many of us have found is that the opposite works; to eat fats/proteins and minimise carbs.
It's pretty impossible to eat zero carbohydrates so that's not what I'm saying; have a look in the low-carb element of this forum for many discussions and lots of really good recipes.
The real test of what you are eating though is your blood sugar monitor; you cannot guess what your blood sugars are - you need to test them after eating to see the effect that that food has on your blood sugar. Like I said some people can eat quite a lot of carbohydrate without problems, but the key point is we are all here because we have problems metabolising carbohydrate to some degree. You need to find out what that degree is with you.
I posted this the other day in response to another thread but hopefully this will give you some comfort that this advice is not totally crazy:-
http://authoritynutrition.com/23-studie ... fat-diets/
Kind regards
Dillinger