10.6 this morning but going in the right direction. My mistake was eating half a dozen chestnuts last night.I didnt realise till this morning that they are very high carb. That’s a ****** cos I love chestnuts. Can I ask what about strawberry’s and grapes in small amounts if mixed in yoghurt. I worry that I won’t be eating enough fruit if I can’t eat baNNas and oranges. Which are my favourite fruit
Hi Daffy, I feel for you when you are trying to work all of this out. I'm afraid grapes in particular are like spoonfuls of sugar, in fact I sometimes use a few to get me out of a hypo. Strawberries too to a large extent, but one chopped up may be ok for you. I've read your other comments and out of all the foods you mentioned you ate (porridge, banana, bread and so on), the 2 cubes of aero was probably the best! Just to try and simplify it, as an insulin user I have to take it dependent upon what I eat, so if I eat something higher carb such as an apple, I have to take insulin for it. An innocent, healthy apple! If I were to eat a chocolate eclair (that has fewer carbs in it) then I could get away without taking insulin. I'm not suggesting you eat eclairs because obviously an apple has more nutritional value.
My point is that you should stop thinking about food as 'these items are healthy (ie nutritionally), and these ones are not'. For a diabetic who is focused on lowering glucose levels or keeping them low, then what matters is the carbs in the food not what the food is or looks like. Although you are on a low carb diet, ie under 130 per day, this does not mean that your levels won't soar if you eat a meal of 50/60 carbs. It doesn't work like that, if you eat 60g of bread or porridge you are likely to go high, the standard advice to eat no more than 50 odd carbs a meal is on the basis that it's better than a 100 carbs per meal, which the average person could easily eat in one meal.
I note you have gone onto insulin which will cause a whole other level of issues so be VERY careful about your carb intake along with insulin usage. How do you decide the amounts of insulin you use, and what are your current glucose levels when you test?