Is it best to....

[davealan1962]

Hello everyone,
I have been in the past 2x weeks been diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. While I have not seen anyone since I was diagnosed by my GP, I was wondering, is it best to have 3x meals a day, e.g., breakfast, lunch, evening meal. Or have the full meal of the day and devide it up, so it spreads more evenly throughout the day. Would this stop bs spiking? I am a truck driver, so it can be difficult to match evenly throughout the day, but can probably be within +- 30 mins of set times. Thank you for any advice given. It's such a nightmare with details and information that contradicts each other and what to chose what is right, what is wrong.

 

[ickihun]

Hello everyone,
I have been in the past 2x weeks been diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. While I have not seen anyone since I was diagnosed by my GP, I was wondering, is it best to have 3x meals a day, e.g., breakfast, lunch, evening meal. Or have the full meal of the day and devide it up, so it spreads more evenly throughout the day. Would this stop bs spiking? I am a truck driver, so it can be difficult to match evenly throughout the day, but can probably be within +- 30 mins of set times. Thank you for any advice given. It's such a nightmare with details and information that contradicts each other and what to chose what is right, what is wrong.

If I was you I'd.......
Realise your not doing a very active job and you sit alot. So when not working it is even more important to walk or do enjoyable movement, not on bum.
To compliment that your diet needs reducing, especially carbs.
Potato, bread, pasta, rice. Of course cakes, biscuits and crisps, pastries or milk/white chocolate.
If you do eat these carbs.... stop buying them and encourage others not to buy them for you.
Base your 2 or 3 meals on protein. If you skip a meal make it a habit (e.g breakfast) have a coffee and cream so fat can curb your liver from dumping glucose in your blood in times of a fast.
Nibble cheese before bed to slow your liver from dumping in sleep, unless you use red wine or similiar to do the same.

I have reduced my insulin need enormously recently. No gym to be seen. Clever food eating only.
Have 2 or 3 meals but not overeating or waiting til ravishing to eat. Carry nuts, meat, cheese around if you take reducingyour carbs seriously.
Are you on any medications?

 

[davealan1962]

If I was you I'd.......
Realise your not doing a very active job and you sit alot. So when not working it is even more important to walk or do enjoyable movement, not on bum.
To compliment that your diet needs reducing, especially carbs.
Potato, bread, pasta, rice. Of course cakes, biscuits and crisps, pastries or milk/white chocolate.
If you do eat these carbs.... stop buying them and encourage others not to buy them for you.
Base your 2 or 3 meals on protein. If you skip a meal make it a habit (e.g breakfast) have a coffee and cream so fat can curb your liver from dumping glucose in your blood in times of a fast.
Nibble cheese before bed to slow your liver from dumping in sleep, unless you use red wine or similiar to do the same.

I have reduced my insulin need enormously recently. No gym to be seen. Clever food eating only.
Have 2 or 3 meals but not overeating or waiting til ravishing to eat. Carry nuts, meat, cheese around if you take reducingyour carbs seriously.
Are you on any medications?

Hello at the moment, I'm on 1x 500g metforming to be taken with breakfast. I do not smoke, neither do I drink alcohol. I stopped eating chocolate over 5x weeks ago and stopped drinking fizzy drinks like cola Pepsi and other brands about the same time. I have also stopped using any type of added sugar, like for breakfast and or tea and coffee.

 

[Bluetit1802]

I mentioned on your other thread that 2 or 3 meals a day is ideal. More than that can lead to problems for us, as can snacking between meals. With insulin resistant people (as most of us are) it is wise not to eat too many carbs at breakfast. In fact, zero carbs is best. Then divide your remaining carb allowance out between lunch and main evening meal, with most of them at evening meal providing it isn't eaten very late.

Good, ideal breakfasts are eggs cooked any which way, cold meats, cheese, bacon and egg fry up maybe with mushrooms or a tomato, or just a coffee with cream and no food.

Intermittent fasting is also a good plan. Skipping breakfast is the easiest way to do it, but also skipping lunch or skipping evening meal is just as effective. You could work that into your job.

The only thing that will stop spiking is to eat less carbs. We spike when we eat carbs. If we eat carbs 5 times a day, we will spike 5 times a day. If the portions are a bit less we may not spike as high, but may still spike enough to keep our blood sugars up when we are next due to eat. The higher we start before a meal, the higher we will be after the meal.

 

[Bluetit1802]

Hello at the moment, I'm on 1x 500g metforming to be taken with breakfast. I do not smoke, neither do I drink alcohol. I stopped eating chocolate over 5x weeks ago and stopped drinking fizzy drinks like cola Pepsi and other brands about the same time. I have also stopped using any type of added sugar, like for breakfast and or tea and coffee.

That is a very good start, but you need to do more. It isn't just sugar that gives us problems. ALL carbs turn to sugar once inside the system, so carbs need to be reduced. Sugar is just one sort of carb. Your meter will tell you this.

 

[ickihun]

Hello at the moment, I'm on 1x 500g metformin to be taken with breakfast. I do not smoke, neither do I drink alcohol. I stopped eating chocolate over 5x weeks ago and stopped drinking fizzy drinks like cola Pepsi and other brands about the same time. I have also stopped using any type of added sugar, like for breakfast and or tea and coffee.

I have been drinking diet lemonade but advised to drink dilute juice with no added sugar which on it's label states less than 1g per 100ml of carbohydrate. Both don't affect my blood glucose levels.
Have you a meter?
Can you manage to stop eating bread or potatoes?
I can eat protein bread and reheated fresh mashed potato. Give them a try to take the edge off the big diet change.
Do one of two things at a time if all too overwelming?
You will get there. It's a marathon not a sprint this diabetes lark! Slow, steady and sustainable is the key.