Thank you for the advice. The last 3 days I have stopped Gliclazide and my blood readings are reading higher, between 7 and 9 instead of below 7. I have also started eating some low GI carbs. I do not want to go backwards. Thanks. Jeff
Thank you for the advice. The last 3 days I have stopped Gliclazide and my blood readings are reading higher, between 7 and 9 instead of below 7. I have also started eating some low GI carbs. I do not want to go backwards. Thanks. JeffIf you are eating natural (i.e. unrefined) fat in whole foods, you'll be fine. Avoid margarine and veg/seed oils.
You're welcome. What kind of "low GI" carbs? Things like brown rice and whole meal baked things tend to raise blood glucose almost as much or more than the regular versions.Thank you for the advice. The last 3 days I have stopped Gliclazide and my blood readings are reading higher, between 7 and 9 instead of below 7. I have also started eating some low GI carbs. I do not want to go backwards. Thanks. Jeff
Carbs of any sort are not a great idea if you want to reduce blood sugars.Thank you for the advice. The last 3 days I have stopped Gliclazide and my blood readings are reading higher, between 7 and 9 instead of below 7. I have also started eating some low GI carbs. I do not want to go backwards. Thanks. Jeff
Excellent for you!!! The study of MY BODY says NO WAYCheck out this study about insulin requirements for low and high fat meals:
Diabetes Care. 2013 Apr; 36(4): 810–816.
This is true for me, I have changed my diet in recent years to low sat. fat (<10g/day) and high carbs, and my insulin requirements have almost halved (basal from 22 to 14 per day and carb ratio is up to 23 and still gives me hypos)! This isn't related to exercise either as I am doing less than before.
Hope you find what works best for you. Good luck
I didn't realise that tomatoes were off the list. I cannot have a salad without my tomatoes. I also like tin tomatoes,but choose the lowest sugar ones.
Thank goodness. I cannot do without my tomatoes. I only have 4 cherry small tomatoes on my salad.Don't worry.... I eat tomatoes (I've got a greenhouse full of tomato plants and harvest about 2kg a day at the moment). I just keep in mind that tomato is the carby ingredient in a nice mixed salad and only have one medium size one. If I'm having meat, chicken or fish with the salad and no other carb it still works out to be a low carb meal.
Thank goodness. I cannot do without my tomatoes. I only have 4 cherry small tomatoes on my salad.
I should also have mentioned when I first started insulin I was told to eat 20 carbs per MEAL ( not day, as I do now) While eating those carbs I was taking 5-8 units with each meal and yo yo ing. Now I eat less than 20 per day, mostly in avocado, above ground veg, nuts and seeds and I take 1/2-1 unit with meals. So my vlc/ high fat diet has reduced my insulin substantially as well.Haha I don't blame you Kristin251
Yes, good call Robbity: Dr. Bernstein is *very* strict, so I should be clear it's really a guideline: what I like about it though, is that it really outlines the foods that *may* be cause for concern. Honestly, when I was first diagnosed, I would have thought that things like bananas, tomatoes, oatmeal etc would have been healthy choices. I actually started my 'diabetes control diet' on a diet of oatmeal for breakfast, tomato soup for lunch and an orange or dragon fruit every day for my snack, because I had informed, credible sources that advised a diet along these lines. In fairness, the low-calorie angle and weight-loss I had doing this meant that my sugars *did* go down, but I wish I'd known Bernstein's list earlier, coz it really would have informed me as to what is, and isn't 'carby'. Banting's old-time pamphlet on corpulence was another good one (for the most part)
Oh blimey, I am losing my marbles..First I post in the wrong Genre then apologise in the wrong one. I have deleted my post on here apologising ha ha ha Thanks for alerting me Alison@derry60 this page is not in the type 1 section. The first post on this thread was by someone with prediabetes like us.
When you reduce carbohydrates, you need to replace them with an alternative food type as your energy source. With LCHF this is provided by fats and oils.
Low Carb High Fat is a slightly misleading name, as
And it's worth being aware that:
- you will be eating normal fats instead of reduced fat/lite products
- the fat content in an LCHF diet may often just be higher as a proportion of your total carbs/protein/fat ratio due to the reduction in carbs, rather than due to much extra fat being consumed.
I've eaten a low carb normal fat diet for over 3 and a half years, I've lost a fair bit of weight and kept it off, I've reduced my glucose levels from well into the diabetic range down to low pre-diabetic/just about normal and kept them there; I've also come of metformin and most of my other long term medications, and amongst other things have got rid of long term brain fog and reduced the incidence of food related migraines.... So for me LCHF and scoffing fat has done me much more good than any harm.
- there is nothing wrong with full/normal fat foods - they were an essential part of our diets for 100s of years prior to the 1970s, and we survived pretty well on them
- eating fat doesn't make you fat, it's generally a diet high in carbs that does so
- bad cholesterol levels are not necessarily related to dietary cholesterol
- you body is actually designed to use both fats and carbs as its fuel and will (re-)learn how to do so once you've reduced the carbs in your diet to a sensible low enough level to trigger this process again... and so be able to work more efficiently without you getting hungry every five minutes due to needing a carby top up to your fuel tank
Robbity
Watch those cherry tomatoes, they are higher in sugar than the normal ones.
I completely aggree. The fact is, if you eat more vegetables (as you should in LCHF) it is actually very hard to eat enough calories because they fill your stomach up so much. When I started I ate all I could and ended up around 1600 kcal a day. I actually had to almost force feed myself in order to come back to safer intakes (I didn't need to lose weight in the first place).
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