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Never watched carbs

PatsyB

PatsyB

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I have had Type2 for three years now I was told to eat 4 slices of wholemeal bread per day and a cerial ir weetabix in the mornings , never once have I been told to watch the carbs i eat carbs, so me being me am asking how do you know what carbs you are eating, how much you are having per day and is there a list of good carbs and bad carbs, I have tried the net and come up with all these diets for reducing weight and I do not need to lose weight as am 8 stone 11pounds...forgive me for my noobness :P
 
Hi there, carbs n cals is a good book. It's very easy to understand and useful to work out foods.


Hina
 
Most people are told to eat lots of carbs and that they will be given the drugs to deal with the consequences. This is certainly one approach and, I note you are on metformin and gliclazide.
However, many on this forum and elsewhere prefer to try and reduce their sugar levels and drug intake by reducing carb intake. Some find they need or want to reduce more than others. If you want to low carb (and you may HAVE to reduce your gliclazide intake to do this safely) you should reduce/give up potatoes, pasta, cereals, bread and other flour produce and rice. You also need to give up all sugary things e.g. cakes, biscuits, sweets, sugary drinks, honey and, perhaps surprisingly most fruit and fruit juices.
Some say that wholemeal bread/ pasta etc is OK for them, others avoid it all.
The best way to find out what suits you is to test before and after every meal, to find out what different ingredients and combinations of ingredients do to you. Your diabetic nurse will, very probably be against you testing yourself - ignore her/him!
It is worth doing. Many T2's have reduced their sugar levels and HbA1c to normal non-diabetic levels and given up all diabetic drugs by low carbing - you could become one of them. Note that, as you are already an ideal weight, you will need to make up the loss of calories with more fats, e.g. cheese, cream, eggs.
Best of luck and do ask as many questions as you need to.
Sally
 
I test twice a day now was doing four times a day as was on Humiulin I told the nurse i wanted to try the new drugs as did not like the hypos the insulin was causing .... I find during the day my levels are fine but late at night they rise after my meal I do exercise two three times a day to keep the levels low but at times this is hard especially when throwing it down with rain....
 
The first thing is to work on your diet. And see what you can get a base level too, its good you have a meter and your bg needs coming down if you were on insulin. can you handle metformin ?

Lchf diet, have you heard about it, its what a few of us are doing
Have a read and watch the video and ask a lot of questions
http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf
 
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I have been on it for three years now and touch wood all appears fine I am also on Gliclazide x2 at evening meal and a new drug in the morning as did not ikek Insulin it gave me too many hypos.......
 
Hello HPL,

You are getting good advice

carbs are all the sugars including fruit and anything made from grains

Carbs send us high

Smaller serves of carbs or elimination will reduce high readings. You have your meter so you can test to see what carbs in what quantities you can handle.

If you can't control it with diet and tabs you have to go to jabs.

Good control avoids all the dramas, so good control is not negotiable, you just have to get it under control.
 
so according to this there are two ways to get levels down one is meds and the other low carbs ...will look into this way ..
 
Meds like Metformin wont bring your levels down much, Glic if you cut carbs can cause hypo's. Just be aware, but like everyone said test before your meal and 2 hours after, that way you can see if what you are eating is upping your levels.
 
which is sound advice however they seem to not want to give you test strips at the docs ...hence i cut down to two a day when i know my levels go up....
 
my goal is to get the levels low and keep them low I do feel fine on the tabs apart from my skin some times feels weird like I sweat a lot now now and never used to before, I find my levels are high after an evening meal but if I walk then it does lower the level so i can eat some supper, however untill i visited this forum I presumed everyone was on tabs or insulin.... so am looking into recipes now ...
 
I live the people on here we more advice here then what the nurses give you
I have got a new drug with gliclazide and my sugars through the day are at4-8 never been there before I do hope now it stays low, trying very hard not to eat what I was told at the doctors seems like eating pasta rice bread is not the way to go.


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hi, i've been low carbing 6 months and was told yesterday i've come down to pre diabetic, so very happy, i began with reading "diabetes no thanks" and Dr Bernstien " the diabetes diet" . i don't eat bread, rice,pasta or fruit, for me they push my numbers high, this works for me my numbers don't change by much if i'm 5.9 before a meal i'm 6.2 a couple of hours after, even been lower after a meal. all the best
 
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