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tom1179

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I bought a metre to check my blood in the beginning my readings was 9s 8s and but since I cut back on a lot of stuff my readings have been below 7.8 I'm getting 7.00 a lot of 6.5s and I had one two hours after eating 5.7.

I would need to keep them at this level? also dose this mean my Habc1 is coming down or not or still a long way to ?

Thomas
 
Yes if your daily levels come down so will your HbA1c. But your HbA1c is a sort of average of your levels over the last 12weeks or so.
A few low daily readings will not make too much of an impact on the HbA1c, so basically keep up the good work, eat more meals like the one that gave you that 5.7. If you can get most of your after meal results around that level, your next HbA1c should be greatly reduced
 
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Great work Thomas, keep at it and yes your heading in the right direction to lower your overall HbA1c.
 
Yet today I had the same as yesterday to eat in afternoon two hours later 8.00 what a pain maybe it was the banana two hours earlier not sure.
 
Yes bananas will do that, they are packed with sugar, that's why tennis player's have them in between sets.
Not the best snack for a T2,
 
I read online they are ok very confusing what some sites say and others say the opposite what do most try on here to eat
 
tom1179 said:
I read online they are ok very confusing what some sites say and others say the opposite what do most try on here to eat
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Hi - yes, one of the problems is that there is a lot of contradictory and confusing information about carbs on the internet. Some of it seems to be almost deliberately misleading and difficult to work out.

In brief - by definition, anyone with Type 2 diabetes has a problem dealing with sugars. That includes not only sucrose but also fructose (in fruit) and lactose (in milk) and other carbohydrates. If we eat them a lot of the sugar ends up not being used for muscle fuel but gets converted to fat or just hangs around in the blood.

So you didn't have the same thing to eat, as you added a banana, and the additional (and considerable) sugar from that banana probably bumped up your blood glucose. So, a learning experience.

I don't eat bread, pasta, rice, most fruit, potatoes, beer, most root vegetables, or sugar.

I do eat meat, fish, dairy (double cream, cheeses, etc) green veg, some berries, and some pulses and legumes (I am not too bad with these but many people report unaccptable BG rises, so be careful), onions and tomatos.

I aim for around 20g carbs/day - equivalent of around one apple. You don't have to do what I or anyone else does, and what I'd recommend is continuing what you're doing, working out what's best for you. Learn from the results and make the changes that help you.
 
tom1179 said:
I read online they are ok very confusing what some sites say and others say the opposite what do most try on here to eat
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The old school, was fat phobic... they said you had to eat carbs otherwise hell would break loose because of fat...

There is a new school of doctors and scientists who are pro elimination of as much carbs as possible and to replace them with fat (things like meat, eggs, olive oil, cheese and so on),

I was diagnosed a litle over 2 months ago (A1c 10.5% means average estimate of 14.2 mmol/L, morning level: 11.4 mmol/L).

I switch to a keto diet, I now eat meat, fish and eggs, with green leaf stuff (less than 10 g of net carbs a day). Recently I started adding cheese.

Anyway, for several weeks now my morning levels have been below 5 (4.6-4.9) consistently.

I have a continuous monitor now and it usually is well below the 6.0 level even at the peak after meals.

My cholestrol levels and triglycerides were very high, in 2 months after this diet change they are well within normal range level.

I would recommend for now to ditch fruits and all sorts of carbs (potatoes, rice, pasta, bread), and eat only meat with green leaf (raw like lettuce or boiled like cabbage /broccoli). Cocumbers and celery are good too. Give it a try for 4 weeks and measure the differences.

Online you can search "Low Carb" "Keto diet".
 
Thing is Tom you will read all sorts of things, everyone seems to have an opinion on what we should eat. Most of them don't have diabetes, some may have a different type of diabetes.
Someone with Type 1 for example would have no problem eating a banana because they can take the appropriate amount of insulin. For them a banana is a healthy, nutritious piece of fruit, why would they think otherwise.
For us though carbohydrates when digested will turn to glucose and cause our blood sugar to rise.
It matters not if that carb is complex slow release, wholemeal, brown, white, a jam doughnut or a healthy piece of fruit, the result will be the same.
So if we avoid carbs as much as possible, what do we eat,
Any meat, fish, eggs, cheese, butter, most veg apart from spuds, be careful with the ones grown below ground (check with your meter) most salad is fine check with your meter, be careful with fruit, most is too carby, a few strawberries, raspberries maybe a small apple, check with your meter.
 
Thanks
 
Well I ate the same thing this morning like yesterday I tested 2 hours later I was at 6.00 had the banana today tested two hours later thinking it will be high and it was 5.5 very strange must be just one of those things anyway I will keep away from bananas
 
I’m a type 1 and wouldn’t touch a banana with a barge pole these days. Far too much insulin required. Not worth the effect they have.
 
How are you testing tom
Are you checking your level before the first bite and again later, it's the difference between the two that is important.
If you are just testing 2hrs after eating, you could easily miss the spike from a banana.
Different things hit our blood at different times, the 2hr thing is not set in stone.
Where that comes from is someone who doesn't have diabetes would generally have processed all the glucose from a meal and find their blood sugar back to where it started, within 2hrs. Of course it depends on the meal, even non diabetics would take longer with a particularly high carb meal. But as a rule of thumb it's a good target to aim for if you have T2.
If you want to discover how you react to any particular meal or food stuff, you can test before first bite to get a base level. Then at 60min - 90min and again every 30 min until your levels are back close to your base level.
Lots of testing I know, and I'm not suggesting that you do it for every single thing you eat. But if something is puzzling you, like the banana, you would know how quickly and high It raises you sugar levels, and how long it takes for them to come down.
 
Hi, I tested before the first bite then 2 hours later.
 
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