Re: Comments on Low carb diet - a newbies guide
Yes. I agree with Grazer.
If you can do the 30g of carbs a day thing, then you'll probably sort out your BG levels (and shift a lot of weight) in double quick time. I stuck to this for my first 3 months and dropped my HbA1c from 10.2% to 5.2% in one go.
It isn't easy, and it hurts a bit to start with (as you go a bit "cold turkey" from having normalish BG levels). But once you have your BG levels under control, then you can start to experiment and adding some carbs back in till you get a comfortable level (I do about 40-50g most days). Ultimately you need to find out what works for you.
There are other approaches, but this one is conceptually the simplest and probably the most immediately effective. It's a bit of a "fundamentalist" approach, but you'll learn exactly what the carb content of all the food you eat is, and the carbs that you do add back, will taste much better for it in the end.
Personally I wouldn't worry too much about cutting the fruit out all together, just include it in your carb count. Berries and great lowish carb fruits, and having the occaisional apple is always going to be better than eating a couple of slices of toast.
Good luck, and well done for finding such a progressive Doctor.