How much carbs daily? Type 2

[Teasel Too]

Hi, I know that the nhs advice regarding how much carbs you should eat us considered wrong by many, me included too I think.
How many grams of carbohydrate is right for type 2 diabetes? Or do you have useful links also?
Thanks

 

[Antje77]

Hi, I know that the nhs advice regarding how much carbs you should eat us considered wrong by many, me included too I think.
How many grams of carbohydrate is right for type 2 diabetes? Or do you have useful links also?
Thanks

It's not the same for everyone.
Some find their blood glucose does well on as much as 150 grams of carbs over the day, others find they need to go as low as 20 grams.

Do you have a meter? You can use it to test right before eating and about two hours later, this will give you an indication on how your diabetes did on that meal. Most look for a rise after 2 hours of no more than 2mmol/l.

 

[Member496333]

Dietary carbohydrate is the only non-essential macronutrient, so really it depends on your personal goals, choices and circumstances.

 

[Deleted member 475901]

I tested in the morning then before and after every meal for the first few weeks to check how low I needed to go. You may also find some foods spike more than others in spite of having the same amount of carbs - in my case strawberries are a problem but I can have raspberries.

 

[Deleted member 543160]

We don't actually need any carbs, just protein for our body maintenance and repair and fat for energy. However we do need a small amount (approx 130g) of glucose for some parts of our brain to function, and our livers are designed to generate this for us if required.

Experience and my meter have taught me that my body is comfortable with a range of around 20-50g carbs a day, so this is what I've chosen long term to enable me to both eat a variety of suitable food and to keep my glucose at high end of normal/low pre-diabetic levels. But this is entirely personal, and we all need to use our meters to find how many carbs we can tolerate or how many we can choose to eat and keep our glucose within an appropriate range.

 

[Teasel Too]

Do you have a meter? You can use it to test right before eating and about two hours later, this will give you an indication on how your diabetes did on that meal. Most look for a rise after 2 hours of no more than 2mmol/l.

That's very helpful thanks. Yes I've a blood test kit, I'll see how different meals affect me ta muchly

 

[Mr_Pot]

That's very helpful thanks. Yes I've a blood test kit, I'll see how different meals affect me ta muchly

Bear in mind that the same amount of carbs may affect you differently according to the time of day. I can eat a lot of carbs with my dinner in the evening but almost none at breakfast. Testing is definitely the way to go.