How many of you who are in remission eat beans/lentils/legumes?
Oatmeal? Root vegetables?
How many units of raising on glucose meter is acceptable after 1 - 1,5 hour?
It should go back to original after 2 hours?
Do you eat LCHF or low carb?
Thanks for helping!
I occasionally eat a small amount of beans/lentils/legumes (e.g. as part of sausage and chicken casserole, adding a few cannellini or borlotti beans, having a few lentils with chicken in parma ham, or with a pheasant -once this year, and pheasant was as tough as old boots :-( ) . I do have hummus more frequently, but careful about the amount.
No oatmeal (forced myself to eat porridge for breakfast for years for supposed health benefits, while barely tolerating the taste, so was delighted to find it spiked my blood sugar
). No grains, pasta, rice.
Root vegetables: do have garlic, onions, ginger since part of so much of many dishes I / we cook, and also celeriac, and fennel. Some carrots & a few radishes. Occasional small amount of sweet potato.
(My amazing wife does at least 50% of the cooking, she is not T2D , so there is compromise involved).
I don't worry too much about the 1 to 1.5 hour reading, I aim to get back to within +2 mmol/L after 2 hours and getting back to "normal" after 3 hours. I also want to peak to be less than 9. I'm trying to be more relaxed about these targets given the Libre shows just how complicated my blood sugar response is.
Eating a moderate low carb diet. Necessarily that means I eat more fat than I used to, which I am still twitchy about.
When I accurately tracked food for a week, found was having around 70g carbs a day, sometimes as low as 30g
(when doing a rough estimate I thought it was around 50g per day, whereas accurately counting all the milk in tea, coffee, the odd handful of nuts & every single small ingredient such as garlic, herbs etc in recipes , realised it was more like 70 to 80).
Some caveats and personal stuff:
Everyone is different (e.g. I no longer have a gall bladder), but for me :
-I am most sensitive to carbs in the morning, so have to have a low carb breakfast (eg under 10g carbs). This also means if I skip breakfast /IF, eating a "normal" lunch (eg 20to 30g carbs) can cause issues
- The total carbs seems to be the determining factor for my bg levels, rather than whether they are composed of say carrots or cauliflower, but I haven't done any isolated testing of root vegetables
- Used Libres for 12 weeks , which showed how complicated things are, and has helped me with trends which I wouldn't have picked up with just finger-prick testing.
I am new to being in remission, so don't have the experience of some of the other posters here.
For a variety of reasons I have gone low carb rather than keto.
It was working for me, although for some reason my levels have started to increase in the New Year (I didn't go off script over Christmas and New Year, apart from more wine than usual!).