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<blockquote data-quote="JoKalsbeek" data-source="post: 1920303" data-attributes="member: 401801"><p>Hey, welcome! </p><p></p><p>It is a shock, isn't it... For me it felt like the floor opened up beneith me when I saw the readings on the meter. (Our cat's diabetic, I'd borrowed his meter to check myself. So I was alone, and I knew what it meant. Oh my, I cried so much that day!). In those first months all I really needed to hear was that it'd be okay. <em>How</em> was almost secundary, I just wanted the hopelessness to go away. So... <em>You'll be okay</em>, and you're off to a flying start. The low carb thing, it's different for everyone, as we all have different levels of insulin-resistance, insulin-response, liver dump etc.... But you've already got the tool that'll tell you where you need to be, carbwise. As someone else mentioned, test before a meal and 2 hours after first bite. If you went up more than 2.0 mmol/l, the meal was carbier than you could process back out. Otherwise, yay, a keeper, a meal that can be repeated! It does mean doing a lot of testing right at the start, but once you know certain meals agree with you, you can just guesstimate. I started at about 75/80 grams of carbs a day (I was advised 125, but once I saw what it did to my BS I scratched that), then decided to keep going lower... I have to admit, when I try to stick to a modertely high target, I lose count. So going keto (so low in carbs that your body enters ketosis, meaning it starts burning fat instead of carbs for energy), was really the thing to do for me. No miscalculations anymore, I just go for the lowest possible carbs, and I still rather enjoy what I eat. Which is also key, because it's a diet for life... If you start eating more and more carbs, the bloodsugars rise all over again, and you don't want that. So it has to be a sustainable, pleasurable eating-experience, this diet! So figure out what's low carb, AND what you like to eat, what it does for your bloodsugars and such... If you chose to go really low really fast you can feel flu-ish for a while as your body switches from high carb to low or even keto, but keeping hydrated and adding salts (for the dehydration) will help until it passes. Yay for coconut milk and bone broth, loads of electrolytes in those to make it easier. But that's all when you're hitting 20 grams of carbs or less... Could well be you're fine on 80, or 120. Your meter'll tell you. Yeah, I know, i'm going a bit fast... You might want to check dietdoctor.com or Dr. Jason Fung's books for more elaborate information, but for right now: High carb foods are spuds, fruit, rice, cereal, pasta, bread, corn... All of those will make your bloodsugars peak. Low carb stuff, that will most likely also positively impact cholesterol, weight, bloodpressure etc, are eggs, meat, fish, above-ground veggies, cheese, butter/ghee, nuts, olives etc. Meals could look like this: Full fat greek yoghurt with nuts, coconutshavings and a few berries. Two or three eggs with bacon, cheese, mushrooms, couple of cherry tomatoes, or some sausages. Green salad with a can of tuna, mayo, capers, olives and avocado. Green salad with lukewarm goat's cheese, vinaigrette and cherry-tomatoes. Meat or fish with cauliflower rice with bacon and cheese, herbs for flavor. It all sounds very fatty, and yeah, it is, but as it turns out it's the carbs that turn to glucose, which in turn gets stored in fat cells, that make us big ladies.... Dietary fat doesn't add anything to our hips, as it turns out. Better yet, it slows down the uptake of any carbs you do eat, so reduces the sugar spike and insulin response. (Which is good.).</p><p></p><p>It is a lot to take in. For me, the goal was to go diet-only because metformin didn't agree with me, and I discovered when treating T2 with meds alone, it is a progressive disease... With a diet change it can actually go into remission. (And it has.) Three months after diagnosis I was off the diabetes meds as well as off the statins for my cholesterol. My bloodpressure's actually low. And oh yeah, I lost 25 kilo's, while having bacon once or twice a day. Miracles never cease.</p><p></p><p>Good luck!</p><p>Jo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JoKalsbeek, post: 1920303, member: 401801"] Hey, welcome! It is a shock, isn't it... For me it felt like the floor opened up beneith me when I saw the readings on the meter. (Our cat's diabetic, I'd borrowed his meter to check myself. So I was alone, and I knew what it meant. Oh my, I cried so much that day!). In those first months all I really needed to hear was that it'd be okay. [I]How[/I] was almost secundary, I just wanted the hopelessness to go away. So... [I]You'll be okay[/I], and you're off to a flying start. The low carb thing, it's different for everyone, as we all have different levels of insulin-resistance, insulin-response, liver dump etc.... But you've already got the tool that'll tell you where you need to be, carbwise. As someone else mentioned, test before a meal and 2 hours after first bite. If you went up more than 2.0 mmol/l, the meal was carbier than you could process back out. Otherwise, yay, a keeper, a meal that can be repeated! It does mean doing a lot of testing right at the start, but once you know certain meals agree with you, you can just guesstimate. I started at about 75/80 grams of carbs a day (I was advised 125, but once I saw what it did to my BS I scratched that), then decided to keep going lower... I have to admit, when I try to stick to a modertely high target, I lose count. So going keto (so low in carbs that your body enters ketosis, meaning it starts burning fat instead of carbs for energy), was really the thing to do for me. No miscalculations anymore, I just go for the lowest possible carbs, and I still rather enjoy what I eat. Which is also key, because it's a diet for life... If you start eating more and more carbs, the bloodsugars rise all over again, and you don't want that. So it has to be a sustainable, pleasurable eating-experience, this diet! So figure out what's low carb, AND what you like to eat, what it does for your bloodsugars and such... If you chose to go really low really fast you can feel flu-ish for a while as your body switches from high carb to low or even keto, but keeping hydrated and adding salts (for the dehydration) will help until it passes. Yay for coconut milk and bone broth, loads of electrolytes in those to make it easier. But that's all when you're hitting 20 grams of carbs or less... Could well be you're fine on 80, or 120. Your meter'll tell you. Yeah, I know, i'm going a bit fast... You might want to check dietdoctor.com or Dr. Jason Fung's books for more elaborate information, but for right now: High carb foods are spuds, fruit, rice, cereal, pasta, bread, corn... All of those will make your bloodsugars peak. Low carb stuff, that will most likely also positively impact cholesterol, weight, bloodpressure etc, are eggs, meat, fish, above-ground veggies, cheese, butter/ghee, nuts, olives etc. Meals could look like this: Full fat greek yoghurt with nuts, coconutshavings and a few berries. Two or three eggs with bacon, cheese, mushrooms, couple of cherry tomatoes, or some sausages. Green salad with a can of tuna, mayo, capers, olives and avocado. Green salad with lukewarm goat's cheese, vinaigrette and cherry-tomatoes. Meat or fish with cauliflower rice with bacon and cheese, herbs for flavor. It all sounds very fatty, and yeah, it is, but as it turns out it's the carbs that turn to glucose, which in turn gets stored in fat cells, that make us big ladies.... Dietary fat doesn't add anything to our hips, as it turns out. Better yet, it slows down the uptake of any carbs you do eat, so reduces the sugar spike and insulin response. (Which is good.). It is a lot to take in. For me, the goal was to go diet-only because metformin didn't agree with me, and I discovered when treating T2 with meds alone, it is a progressive disease... With a diet change it can actually go into remission. (And it has.) Three months after diagnosis I was off the diabetes meds as well as off the statins for my cholesterol. My bloodpressure's actually low. And oh yeah, I lost 25 kilo's, while having bacon once or twice a day. Miracles never cease. Good luck! Jo [/QUOTE]
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