Fresh fruit - YES, but remember fresh fruit is about 10% sugar (ripe bananas 20%) so 3 is a reasonable limit. NOT fruit juice, a 250 ml glass of which is 25 g sugar.I am currently eating 3 pieces of fruit a day, green apples, pears and kiwi fruit, and I have dried apricots and raisins.
Yes - I agree with that Synonym.Synonym said:Hi Ian
I suggest that you keep a total food diary and also note your BG levels before and after. In that way you will get a clearer picture of what is happening.
ianmetaxa said:Hello all,
just thought I would update you.
After taking the advice offered in this thread, i.e. not eating fruit before bed, last night my supper snack was cheese and also I delayed my insulin shot until 1 hour before bed. This morning my BG was 12.4!After 3 days of 'Morning Phenomenon' this was a great start to the day. If my sugars come down today along the lines of what they normally do during the day I should have a really good reading tonight.
Cheers and thank you again.
Here is the advice we usually give to newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics.This forum doesn't always follow the recommended dietary advice, you have to work out what works for you as we are all different .
It's not just 'sugars' you need to avoid, diabetes is an inability to process glucose properly. Carbohydrate converts, in the body, to glucose. So it makes sense to reduce the amount of carbohydrate that you eat which includes sugars.
The main carbs to avoid or reduce are the complex or starchy carbohydrates such a bread, potatoes, pasta and rice also any flour based products. The starchy carbs all convert 100% to glucose in the body and raise the blood sugar levels significantly.
The way to find out how different foods affect you is to do regular daily testing and keep a food diary for a couple of weeks. If you test just before eating then two hours after eating you will see the effect of certain foods on your blood glucose levels.
Buy yourself a carb counter book (you can get these on-line) and you will be able to work out how much carbs you are eating, when you test, the reading two hours after should be roughly the same as the before eating reading, if it is then that meal was fine, if it isn’t then you need to check what you have eaten and think about reducing the portion size of carbs.
When you are buying products check the total carbohydrate content, this includes the sugar content. Do not just go by the amount of sugar on the packaging as this is misleading to a diabetic.
As for a tester, try asking the nurse/doctor and explain that you want to be proactive in managing your own diabetes and therefore need to test so that you can see just how foods affect your blood sugar levels. Hopefully this will work ! Sometimes they are not keen to give Type 2’s the strips on prescription, (in the UK) but you can but try !!
As a Type 2 the latest 2010 NICE guidelines for Bg levels are as follows:
Fasting (waking).......between 4 - 7 mmol/l.
2 hrs after meals......no more than 8.5 mmol/l.
If you are able to keep the post meal numbers lower, so much the better.
It also helps if you can do 30 minutes moderate exercise a day. It doesn't have to be strenuous.
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