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<blockquote data-quote="Bluetit1802" data-source="post: 1189582" data-attributes="member: 94045"><p>Hi and welcome,</p><p></p><p>My advice is to use your new meter to guide you on your diet, which sounds like it needs tweaking. Test immediately before you eat and 2 hours after first bite. Keep a food diary including portion sizes and record your levels alongside. If the 2 hour rise is more than 2mmol/l there are far too many carbs in that meal. It is preferable to keep any rise under 1.5mmol/l. You can adjust the carbs by cutting portion sizes or by eliminating certain ones. Bread, pasta, rice, cereals, potatoes and flour are the biggest culprits.</p><p>Happily, fats do not raise blood sugar levels. In fact they actually help keep the rises a bit lower. You can safely ditch all your low fat products and eat the real thing.</p><p></p><p>The role of carbs is very important.</p><p></p><p>I will tag [USER=25759]@daisy1[/USER] who has some excellent information for newcomers. Meanwhile, have a good read round these forum threads and ask as many questions as you like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluetit1802, post: 1189582, member: 94045"] Hi and welcome, My advice is to use your new meter to guide you on your diet, which sounds like it needs tweaking. Test immediately before you eat and 2 hours after first bite. Keep a food diary including portion sizes and record your levels alongside. If the 2 hour rise is more than 2mmol/l there are far too many carbs in that meal. It is preferable to keep any rise under 1.5mmol/l. You can adjust the carbs by cutting portion sizes or by eliminating certain ones. Bread, pasta, rice, cereals, potatoes and flour are the biggest culprits. Happily, fats do not raise blood sugar levels. In fact they actually help keep the rises a bit lower. You can safely ditch all your low fat products and eat the real thing. The role of carbs is very important. I will tag [USER=25759]@daisy1[/USER] who has some excellent information for newcomers. Meanwhile, have a good read round these forum threads and ask as many questions as you like. [/QUOTE]
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