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<blockquote data-quote="wookie101" data-source="post: 938684" data-attributes="member: 186332"><p>Hi Alan and welcome!</p><p></p><p>I'll start by staying I was only diagnosed a few months ago and when I got a meter and tested my reading was 16.1 two hours after eating, so you're in a much better place! After you pick up whats good and bad to eat and then put it into practice you'll slowly start seeing your readings go down.</p><p></p><p>The real bad boys on the food front are carbs such as bread, pasta, rice and potatoes so reducing them will help you lower your readings, but I'll just add that 8 isn't that high, obviously around the 6 mark is where you want to be, so you're not far off good mate. I hover between 5.5 and 9, but I'm still learning. And I've got there thanks to all the people on this forum with far more experience than me. </p><p></p><p>It looks like @Diasy will be giving your her fab sheet of tips shortly, so don't worry, you're in the right place and far better than how I started, having blurred vision countless toilet stops and out of energy. As for forgetting to take the tablets I still do that, I get carried away being busy, so if its not too late I'll take it, but otherwise I tell myself off and carry on again in the morning, after my porridge.</p><p></p><p>Where as I never used to eat regularly and never had breakfast, I treat everything as medicine and try and do things at roughly regular times, and as long as my readings 2 hours later are below 8 I'm happy, if they're not I go for a 30min stroll as that does help. But a calm stroll no use fretting and raising my blood pressure as well... </p><p></p><p>Still hang on in there, you're found some friends <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wookie101, post: 938684, member: 186332"] Hi Alan and welcome! I'll start by staying I was only diagnosed a few months ago and when I got a meter and tested my reading was 16.1 two hours after eating, so you're in a much better place! After you pick up whats good and bad to eat and then put it into practice you'll slowly start seeing your readings go down. The real bad boys on the food front are carbs such as bread, pasta, rice and potatoes so reducing them will help you lower your readings, but I'll just add that 8 isn't that high, obviously around the 6 mark is where you want to be, so you're not far off good mate. I hover between 5.5 and 9, but I'm still learning. And I've got there thanks to all the people on this forum with far more experience than me. It looks like @Diasy will be giving your her fab sheet of tips shortly, so don't worry, you're in the right place and far better than how I started, having blurred vision countless toilet stops and out of energy. As for forgetting to take the tablets I still do that, I get carried away being busy, so if its not too late I'll take it, but otherwise I tell myself off and carry on again in the morning, after my porridge. Where as I never used to eat regularly and never had breakfast, I treat everything as medicine and try and do things at roughly regular times, and as long as my readings 2 hours later are below 8 I'm happy, if they're not I go for a 30min stroll as that does help. But a calm stroll no use fretting and raising my blood pressure as well... Still hang on in there, you're found some friends :-) [/QUOTE]
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