Ideal Menu For Type 2 for the day?

[Sunshine_Kisses]

My HbA1c came in today and is 5.9 % which is I think a 41, and my Glicose was 92 mg/dl, so what I have been doing is working, but I don't want to risk ruining all the good work I have done. When people say having something "forbidden" once a month isn't going to cause a problem is it really true ?

I can't see how you can come to any harm by trying a particular food. If you 'spike' after one meal, what's the harm? I can't see how that would ruin your good work . So far I have found that my bG drops by around 1.0 points (in UK speak) every 20 minutes or so to fasting level. So, even if I get an occasional high reading as I did recently after three quarters of a bar of chocolate (9!), that doesn't concern me ... the bG is on the way down all the time and I won't eat chocolate every night. I believe it's persistently high (or low) readings that create the problems, so I'm sure the occasional treat won't make a difference.

Whilst it is obviously right to keep track, I think some people can become obsessed with bG readings. If 'normal' is between 4 & 8 (approx.) then I am not sure what the real difference is between, say 6.0 and 6.5, in the scheme of things. I would be down to fasting level (4-5) within about 30 minutes of that.

It would be interesting and useful to get the views of others.

Pretty much agree with you... I think when you're first diagnosed, it's useful to test often so you can really figure out which foods do what, but I'm starting to get to the point where I'm testing much less as I know what regular meals do.

I'm also increasingly thinking that we're all SO different, that some of us have certain treat foods we can get away with - for example I know I can't have grain carbs; a bowl of quinoa will make me spike to 14! Same with breads etc; doesn't matter how much fats/protein I combine with them to try and reduce the spike, it always comes back high. But I can, occasionally, have sugar carbs as long as they're not with grains... so I can have ice cream, cheesecake (not the base), chocolate, eton mess etc etc about once a week and it causes me no spike whatsoever - yay!

For me it's great to have discovered this as it means I don't feel like I can never have any treat ever again!

But I agree with you, my view is that once in a blue moon a high reading can't hurt too much... It's when you start to believe that it'll be ok regularly that things become a problem; a trap I've fallen into before ;-)


Diagnosed Type 2, 22nd Feb 2013
Hba1c 7.5
Three month trial of managing through diet & exercise - low-ish carb, pescatarian and attempting to become a runner ;-)

 

[Sunshine_Kisses]

Soz, so interested by others posts, forgot to write what I actually eat!

Generally along the lines of this:

Breakfast:
'Smoothie' which I invented myself and has loads in it inc; ground flax, coconut oil, almond milk, honey, pea protein powder, wheatgrass, desiccated coconut etc.

Lunch:
Something with eggs; omelette, poached, boiled etc and a salad.

Afternoon snack:
A piece of cheese or homemade chocs I make without sugar.

Dinner:
Something with fish; curries, stews, baked, fried etc with veggies.

Nighttime snack:
Greek yogurt with a small handful of blueberries and flaked almonds or a glass of red wine.

Generally my day to day diet is low carb, medium protein, high fat - which is keeping my blood sugars mostly in the 5s.

I am low carb because any sort of grain seems to send my blood sugars through the roof, but I *can* tolerate the occasional sugar hit (weird!?).

So, about once a week I have a splurge meal; last night went for dinner and had salmon for main, with three scoops of oh so yummy ice cream (chocolate, ginger and vanilla ) for pud washed down with a large amaretto - heavenly - and my blood sugars were 6.2 afterwards.

So my advice is to experiment *lots* to start - it took me three months of tweaking and testing to figure out that's what works for me. Good luck


Diagnosed Type 2, 22nd Feb 2013
Hba1c 7.5
Three month trial of managing through diet & exercise - low-ish carb, pescatarian and attempting to become a runner ;-)

 

[mousemat]

Sometimes you are in a rush and haven't planned a menu.

Quick tip...if caught having to buy a snack..

Look at the back of the packet, sandwich wrapper etc.

Go down the list to where it says;

Carbohydrates.

Under this it will say..

Of which are sugars..

If this is under 10.. You can eat it.