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Just Been Diagnosed with type2

phil1966 said:
That's definitely encouraging - your readings are similar to mine when I was first diagnosed (my reading when I was diagnosed was 17.9 and my fasting reading after my first day was 11.4)
I test before eating, 1 hour after and 2 hours after and 3 hours after if it's still high after 2 hours. It took me a couple of weeks to see any big stabilisation of my blood sugar but after that it went pretty smoothly.

Sorry I didn't see your post until now so it's probably a bit late for lunch but when I first started taking control, I reduced my carbs gradually: Initially to 100g a day, then to 50g, then to 30 and finally to < 20g per day. I found doing it that way made it easier and avoided the shock of dropping right down immediately.

Here are some typical menus from my diary back then

Breakfast: Bacon and cheese wrapped in an oatcake
Lunch: Tuna salad sandwich with wholemeal bread
Dinner: home made kedgerie with slim rice and salad
snacks: Cheese Strings, pork scratchings
1500 calories, 99g carbs


Breakfast: Bacon and eggs
Lunch: Tuna salad sandwich (wholemeal bread)
Dinner: Chicken breast stirfry with lentils, leeks and beans
snacks: pumpkin seeds, pork scratchings
1400 calories, 69g carbs


Breakfast: Bacon and mozzarella in a low carb tortilla (from Amazon)
Lunch: Ham and cheese salad wrapped in a low carb tortilla
Dinner: Chicken in peri-peri sauce served with salad, strawberries and double cream after
1355 calories, 29g carbs


Breakfast: Bacon and eggs
Lunch: Crayfish and avocado salad
Dinner: Chicken drumsticks with green beans
snacks: pork scratchings
1,155 calories, 10g carbs


Also, here's my menu from Christmas day (about a month after I'd been diagnosed)
Breakfast: Bacon and egg in a low carb tortilla
Lunch: Prawns in Mayo with avocado and salad followed by roast turkey, sprouts, leeks, cauliflower, one roast potato, beans, broccoli, Kale, Spinach and 1 pig in a blanket and a splash of gravy
Dinner: Turkey and ham salad
snacks: None (all those veggies filled me up!)
1,411 calories, 53g carbs
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Hi Phil , what snacks do you have, just out of M&S with loads of nurse.
 
Rog said:
Hi Phil , what snacks do you have, just out of M&S with loads of nurse.
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Phil listed his menu a few msgs back with some snacks included :)...hope you're doing okay Rog
Rog said:
Hi Phil , what snacks do you have, just out of M&S with loads of nurse.
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I think Phil listed some of his menu a few messages back Rog...examples of his snacks are included on it :) Hope you're doing okay
 
Gezzabelle said:
Phil listed his menu a few msgs back with some snacks included :)...hope you're doing okay Rog

I think Phil listed some of his menu a few messages back Rog...examples of his snacks are included on it :) Hope you're doing okay
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Evening Gezzabelle.
Is smoked salmon and manuka honey ok?

Rog
 
Gezzabelle said:
Salmon is good....any honey is sugars....which are carbs so it would probably spike your BG ........1 tablespoon = 17 to 18g of carbohydrate
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The one touch Verio is driving me nuts, I am doing something wrong as it keeps saying error put in other strip, is is because I am lifting it up?
Thx
 
Gezzabelle said:
Phil listed his menu a few msgs back with some snacks included :)...hope you're doing okay Rog

I think Phil listed some of his menu a few messages back Rog...examples of his snacks are included on it :) Hope you're doing okay
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It keeps saying strip fill problem retest with new strip.
 
Rog said:
The one touch Verio is driving me nuts, I am doing something wrong as it keeps saying error put in other strip, is is because I am lifting it up?
Thx
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I don't know anything about the Verio tester...you are putting a fresh strip in aren't you?..isn't there a hand book with it ?
 
Rog said:
It keeps saying strip fill problem retest with new strip.
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That sounds like you haven't applied enough blood which would show up as an error so you have to put new strip in and try again but this time putting more blood...they suck it up by caplliary action and usually beep when is enough blood on the strip
 
Gezzabelle said:
That sounds like you haven't applied enough blood which would show up as an error so you have to put new strip in and try again but this time putting more blood...they suck it up by caplliary action and usually beep when is enough blood on the strip
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Ok
 
Gezzabelle said:
That's not so bad is it...glad you worked out the problem :)[/QUOTE

I worked out the problem with your help thx. Considering it was 16.9 yesterday all this good eating and walking and the meds have got it down in two tests to 7.8, I'm starting to believe.
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Keep believing Rog....it gets easier as the days go by :) You're doing great...just keep asking questions as you need to ....and remember always....sugar is carbohydrate....just under another name ;) Keep cutting those carbs down and your BG will more stable and in time you will recognise what makes it spike ...so then you can avoid those foods
 
Rog that's a good result mate glad you got the monitor sorted , your getting somewhere already keep it up things will become clearer ;)
 
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