To be fair there’s still a lot of carb in your typical day. The porridge rice sandwich noodles crackers all stand out as quite high and probably doing you no favours at all. Do you have a meter? And test before and after meals, particularly theses foods so you can see what is happening as a result of them?
Have you seen the link in my signature to the nutritional thingy? You seem to be driving back to calorie based low fat ways of eating that don’t tend to work well for type 2. I’d have a (re)read of this and take a look at diet doctor.com. I think there’s a fair bit you can do without insulin that would lower levels and lose weight.
Hi, sorry to here this, sugars do go up and down, your body might like some foods more than others... don’t thin Turkey agreed with me! And whilst I walk 30 minutes every day it still wasn’t enough over the Xmas period...
On a normal day I usually do a mix of jogging and walking, but over the Xmas period I had just been walking, after hitting a high of 6.7 one morning I felt like I needed to run and so I did, not far, but hay ho, the next morning it was back to 5.7, not as low as usual but acceptable... So all I can say is, What exercise are you doing??
I take the dog for 30 min walks usually each day but over Xmas as I’ve had time off, the walks have been about an hour each day, I can no longer jog as I have arthritis in my knee so walks have to do.
Then I usually do two online aerobic classes each week lasting about 45 mins, and one yoga session a week. I can’t really fit much more in as work full time and care for an elderly Dad but next week it will be back to just 30 min walks each day.
Haven’t been swimming in ages as DSN didn’t want me anywhere near a swimming pool with the current pandemic so aerobic classes have replaced the swimming.
I guess it’s not enough exercise to bring the sugars down.
To be fair there’s still a lot of carb in your typical day. The porridge rice sandwich noodles crackers all stand out as quite high and probably doing you no favours at all. Do you have a meter? And test before and after meals, particularly theses foods so you can see what is happening as a result of them?
Have you seen the link in my signature to the nutritional thingy? You seem to be driving back to calorie based low fat ways of eating that don’t tend to work well for type 2. I’d have a (re)read of this and take a look at diet doctor.com. I think there’s a fair bit you can do without insulin that would lower levels and lose weight.
I’m sorry but you are falling for the typical and generally unhelpful mantra of diabetes. A low carb diet means you become fat adapated and you burn the fat on your body (or that eaten) for energy and have no need to rely on carbs. Long distance endurance athletes manage so I’m sure you could once adapted, and lose more weight than on a low fat diet such as you are right now. Exercise is helpful for diabetics, diet even more so though.There is a reason for the carb focus in my case. My exercise is around 2 hours of fast walking (7-9 miles) per day, and I need the carbs to fuel this. Saying this I don't think my carb count is excessive. I believe it's the carb that sugars that is really crucial to a diabetic, so all of the carbs I consumer are low glycemic index carbs.
My diet is largely protein based with low GI carbs or no carbs. I was one of the first people to successfully lose weight on a low carb regime (not Atkins by the way). The way my body works is, however, as confusing as it is frustrating.
I stopped using a meter and rely on the HbA1c. I suppose I could start going through that malarky once again, but to be honest, found the whole metering thing took over my life and my doctor wasn't interested so I stopped testing.
Since my original post, I have started using non-dairy milk alternatives.
I think there is something else happening. Not even sure I am diabetic, as other things cause high blood sugars, and if my diabetic medication is not working then my plan is to come off it, as a waste of time
Hi Mrpaulgee. Thank you for sharing your general daily eating pattern. You seem to be falling into the trap that the NHS advocates and which medics are obliged to follow. Type 2 diagnosis, prescribe Metformin and low-fat carbohydrate based diet. When this doesn't work add in additional medications. When these also begin to fail recommend a move to insulin. This is the equivalent of putting an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff instead of a fence at the top and is clearly stated in the NICE guidelines for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes!
So the alternative is to cut the carbs and increase the healthy fats in the diet to prevent hunger. Using this approach I have been able to lose weight, give up medication and put my diabetes into remission. At the moment the porridge, bread, crackers egg are doing you no favours. What is a healthy diet for many people is not a healthy diet for someone who is carb intolerant or a person with Type 2 diabetes.
Because I was testing for ketones and monitoring that at first. With the medication these were reduced to zero. The doctor explained that this is what the medication does. It's the one thing I have to agree with her onDiabetic medication does not prevent being in ketosis. I’m not sure why you believe this. Perhaps going back to the low carb diet (with or without the meds) is something you need to consider if you already know from experience it works.
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