stevie2065
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Hi guys, does anyone know what the daily recomended carb intake would be for a guy thats 6ft and 17 stones, thankyou
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I'm afraid there is really only one answer to that:
'Whatever amount of carbs your body can tolerate.'
Basically, your diabetes and my diabetes act differently, and there is no simple rule we can apply.
Do you have a blood glucose meter? It is the best way to find out how much of a certain carbohydrate food you can tolerate without your blood glucose rising too high.
You test before food, eat, wait 2 hrs and test again.
If your BG rises to high, you avoid or reduce the food portion.
'Whatever amount of carbs your body can tolerate.'
Basically, your diabetes and my diabetes act differently, and there is no simple rule we can apply.
Do you have a blood glucose meter? It is the best way to find out how much of a certain carbohydrate food you can tolerate without your blood glucose rising too high.
You test before food, eat, wait 2 hrs and test again.
If your BG rises to high, you avoid or reduce the food portion.
Arab Horse
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I think it probably depends on where you started. I was diagnosed as T2 last year when I went for my free NHS health check. I was totally gobsmacked to find I was diabetic with a random glucose of 18.6mmol/L and an HbA1c of 10.4%. As I worked in labs I knew exactly what that meant! Not good news. The diabetic nurse couldn't believe that I had absolutely no symptoms and I had clearly been diabetic for quite a while.
I can eat virtually no carbs at all so no bread (I always ate seeded/granary anyway), pasta, potatoes,root vegetables, breakfast cereal (had bran flakes with chopped fruit every morning for the last 20 years), almost no fruit, the list goes on; very depressing.
I started at 8 stone 9lb and am 5' 3" so was about the correct weight for my height. I rapidly lost weight and now seem to have stabilised at 7 stone which is too thin for me. If you are newly diagnosed and your glucose and HbA1c aren't too raised you should be able to have some carbs and still keep your results in range; sadly I can't. I assume you have a glucose metre and test strips so that you can test after eating carbs; that is the only way to find out what your tolerance is; just hope it is better than mine! I test 1 hour after meals if I have any carbs as I can be quite high at 1 hour and not too bad at 2 hours, this tells me that I shouldn't have had the carbs. I had three Chocolates at Christmas and my glucose was very high at 1 hour but no worse than normal at 2 hours so no more chocolates for me. I had a very frugal Christmas!!!
I can eat virtually no carbs at all so no bread (I always ate seeded/granary anyway), pasta, potatoes,root vegetables, breakfast cereal (had bran flakes with chopped fruit every morning for the last 20 years), almost no fruit, the list goes on; very depressing.
I started at 8 stone 9lb and am 5' 3" so was about the correct weight for my height. I rapidly lost weight and now seem to have stabilised at 7 stone which is too thin for me. If you are newly diagnosed and your glucose and HbA1c aren't too raised you should be able to have some carbs and still keep your results in range; sadly I can't. I assume you have a glucose metre and test strips so that you can test after eating carbs; that is the only way to find out what your tolerance is; just hope it is better than mine! I test 1 hour after meals if I have any carbs as I can be quite high at 1 hour and not too bad at 2 hours, this tells me that I shouldn't have had the carbs. I had three Chocolates at Christmas and my glucose was very high at 1 hour but no worse than normal at 2 hours so no more chocolates for me. I had a very frugal Christmas!!!
kimbo1962
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As Brunner is said, we are all able to tolerate different levels of carbs, more to do with how we react than height weight I think? I'm tall, 6.2 1/2 (not skinny either!) But have so far since July lost 4. 1/2 stone doing lchf. I set myself a target of 50gm per day, rarely even used that in the first weeks and settled into 30gm max but last few months never use that either! All to do with good testing control and clever choices!! Keep asking questions if you are in need!
Kezzer4321
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As everyone else have said you have to work out what is best for you. From one of the books I have read on LCHF I am going for the ratio of 15% carbs, 15% protein and 70% fat. I use myfitnesspal to work out the calories I can have and then what the ratio of carbs, protein and fat are...for me personally it works to have these limited...and I only struggle with keeping the protein in line.. once you start cutting the carbs it's amazing how easy it is to stick to.
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Sigalit
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There isn't one right answer to that. It depends on how fit you are (ratio of muscles vs body fat), what your lifestyle is, what kind of job you have...
A fit person who has a difficult manual work and uses a lot of energy will be able to eat more carbs. Or a pro sportsman. Someone who isn't fit, overweight , the job is mostly sitting in the office and doesn't do regular sport, it will be less.
And it also depends on what those carbs are. Same amount of carbs in white bread and carrot will affect you differently.
10 grams of carbs are 1 slice of white bread (20-25 grams) , with GL 8.5
10 grams of carbs are 3 carrots (80 grams), with GL 1.
