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Watermillock

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Carb counting is new to me, can anybody confirm carb content of a cup of tea with semi skimmed milk? I am trying to consume 100 carbs per day tricky! Today got the result of a fasting blood sugar test and was told it was 48..... this confuses me as your members refer to figures under 10. Also, where can I buy a blood testing machine? I have type two and take metformin. Where could I track down a diabetic group ? Sorry to ask so many questions. He.
 
you measure how much milk you´ll put into our coffee and then you read on the milk how much carb there is in it pro 100 grams of milk.. I guess it depends on how much milk you pour in the tea
 
Watermillock said:
Carb counting is new to me, can anybody confirm carb content of a cup of tea with semi skimmed milk? I am trying to consume 100 carbs per day tricky! Today got the result of a fasting blood sugar test and was told it was 48..... this confuses me as your members refer to figures under 10. Also, where can I buy a blood testing machine? I have type two and take metformin. Where could I track down a diabetic group ? Sorry to ask so many questions. He.
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Hi and welcome

The 48 is most likely your HbA1c result. This is a sort of average of your blood sugar over the previous 2 to 3 months and equates to an average of 7.7mmol/l in the units you see from our own meters. That is a reasonable HbA1c and only just over the edge from pre-diabetic to diabetic. Under 48 is pre-diabetic. Under 42 is non diabetic.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-hba1c.html

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-to-blood-sugar-level-converter.html

Have a look on the nutrition label on your skimmed milk. It should show you how many carbs there are. (look for total carbs). There are no carbs in tea.

A good purchase is the book Carbs & Cals available on Amazon. (also an app) as this details the carbs, calories, protein, fat and fibre in most common foods along with photos. It is an excellent book. Otherwise, learn to read nutrition labels on all packaged foods. They have to list all the nutrients including "total carbohydrate". Failing that, the major supermarket websites list the nutrients of the products they sell- just google "skimmed milk Tesco" for example.
 
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Hi @Watermillock and welcome! There's 5g CHO in 100ml skimmed milk.

I don't tend to count milk in tea, but if I wanted to start doing so I would measure how much I'd got through during a typical day (by eyeballing the milk bottle), and if I'd got through 200ml of milk by the end of the day, and I'd had 5 cups of tea, well, that's 2g CHO per cuppa!

All depends on how much per cup - and it's tea, so presumably not masses (not like a caffe latte!).

Your username has brought back many lovely memories of childhood summers spent sailing on Ullswater! My grandparents lived in Watermillock!

Thanks for the smiles!

:)

Edited - sorry - you'd asked about semi skimmed, not skimmed! Semi is 4.8g CHO per 100ml. Similar enough....!
 
Snapsy said:
Hi @Watermillock and welcome! There's 5g CHO in 100ml skimmed milk.

I don't tend to count milk in tea, but if I wanted to start doing so I would measure how much I'd got through during a typical day (by eyeballing the milk bottle), and if I'd got through 200ml of milk by the end of the day, and I'd had 5 cups of tea, well, that's 2g CHO per cuppa!

All depends on how much per cup - and it's tea, so presumably not masses (not like a caffe latte!).

Your username has brought back many lovely memories of childhood summers spent sailing on Ullswater! My grandparents lived in Watermillock!

Thanks for the smiles!

:)

Edited - sorry - you'd asked about semi skimmed, not skimmed! Semi is 4.8g CHO per 100ml. Similar enough....!
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Thankyou for your detailed reply...... Yes I can just see the lake now (in my mind) we used to have a static caravan overlooking the glistening water.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Hi and welcome

The 48 is most likely your HbA1c result. This is a sort of average of your blood sugar over the previous 2 to 3 months and equates to an average of 7.7mmol/l in the units you see from our own meters. That is a reasonable HbA1c and only just over the edge from pre-diabetic to diabetic. Under 48 is pre-diabetic. Under 42 is non diabetic.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-hba1c.html

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/hba1c-to-blood-sugar-level-converter.html

Have a look on the nutrition label on your skimmed milk. It should show you how many carbs there are. (look for total carbs). There are no carbs in tea.

A good purchase is the book Carbs & Cals available on Amazon. (also an app) as this details the carbs, calories, protein, fat and fibre in most common foods along with photos. It is an excellent book. Otherwise, learn to read nutrition labels on all packaged foods. They have to list all the nutrients including "total carbohydrate". Failing that, the major supermarket websites list the nutrients of the products they sell- just google "skimmed milk Tesco" for example.
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Thankyou all for your very prompt replies........ I have the carbs and calorie counter, my bible, but there are one or two items which I question, such as the tea with milk at 4gm. I think I am trying to trim the odd few numbers from my daily intake mainly because at my weigh in at the surgery today I had gained 1kg......... Shock horror.......... Must be the election !
 
If you use a smartphone an excellent app is "my fitness pal" it gives you a breakdown of all nutrients in your food and you can set them for your goals
 
Watermillock said:
Thankyou all for your very prompt replies........ I have the carbs and calorie counter, my bible, but there are one or two items which I question, such as the tea with milk at 4gm. I think I am trying to trim the odd few numbers from my daily intake mainly because at my weigh in at the surgery today I had gained 1kg......... Shock horror.......... Must be the election !
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If you get the full fat lactofree milk from Arla it has only 2.6g of carbs per 100 ml less than ordinary milk.
 
See https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb for what food is low carb. A HbA1C of 48 is only just into the diabetic range, so not far to go to get below 42 to be in the non-diabetic range. You should get there quite soon if you cut down on the carbs. :)
 
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