It works fine for me...... Or carbs don't do me any harm.

[CR741]

Re: It works fine for me...... Or carbs don't do me any harm

why is the medical advice to base your meals around startchy carb if so many people disagree? there is so much conflicting advice, i think its best to just eat a normal amount and stick to a balanced diet.

 

[ShyGirl]

Re: It works fine for me...... Or carbs don't do me any harm

why is the medical advice to base your meals around startchy carb if so many people disagree? there is so much conflicting advice, i think its best to just eat a normal amount and stick to a balanced diet.

I'll NEVER understand why the NHS still advocates a high carb diet. Consultants vary too. One of mine pulled a face when I asked about low carbing , another intimated that it was good.
It's confusing and sometimes I wonder if they want us to live as long as possible , not that id want another 50 years if it was full of bad health but that's not the point.

 

[noblehead]

Re: It works fine for me...... Or carbs don't do me any harm

I'll NEVER understand why the NHS still advocates a high carb diet. Consultants vary too. One of mine pulled a face when I asked about low carbing , another intimated that it was good.
It's confusing and sometimes I wonder if they want us to live as long as possible , not that id want another 50 years if it was full of bad health but that's not the point.

Not too sure about the NHS advocating a high carb diet, I can't honestly say that I have been told this in 30 years of diabetes. My diabetes care team don't really give a upper limit of carbs to aim for, only last year I was talking with my consultant and he said that he fully endorsed my reduced carb diet but suggested that 120-130g of carbs a day should be the lower limit for diabetics to aim for, but he will not here of ketogenic diets and considers these to be unsafe due to the potential long-term risk to the kidneys.

I do often eat less than this some days, mainly averaging 100-120g, and hope to live many a year yet, but I don't go into this rubbish that our HCP are trying to shorten our lives or kill us off. :roll:

Nigel

 

[sdgray22]

Re: It works fine for me...... Or carbs don't do me any harm

I think it is just a case of do what you need to, to be safe. If I ate 120 carbs a day I would not be well, I would have to take more medication which is something I would not really like to do I will save that for later if needed. I do however feel that putting your head in the sand and hoping you will be OK is not a good thing. Ignorance is not bliss and in later years I am sure it would be a cause for regret. I also think we have a responsibility to ourselves to be as well as possible for as long as possible. I am not completely convinced diabetes is progressive and I think keeping it under control - however you do it- will help you not to suffer the consequences later. I know other T2s who live their life in complete oblivion and because they do not go over a reading of 11 and show up on their urine sticks they feel they are fine. Well, I am not a Dr but I don't think any Dr would say levels of 9 and above are actually good for you, but the T2s I know will never know as they are oblivious to it, and in a perverse way we probably do not want to know they are happy bumbling along until it all goes wrong. if you are diabetic I think you need to take responsibility for yourself and deal with it however you need to. I have high blood pressure and deal with that in the same way, although medication is a necessary for me I do monitor it carefully myself I do not leave it to a Dr to do once a year, it is my disease and my body and I am responsible for keeping it as well as possible. I am not a fanatic and aften forget to exercise and have a glass of wine extra but I don't eat a mars bar or eat a spoonful of salt because I know it is bad for me the same as I would not eat McDonalds every day because it has been proved it will kill me! It is a fact that tomorrow will come and bring whatever we have helped it to pile up for us. I can honestly say it will not be for the want of trying not to pile too much up for me.