Search
Search titles only
By:
Search titles only
By:
Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
Search
Search titles only
By:
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Install the app
Install
Reply to Thread
Guest, we'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the
Diabetes Forum Survey 2024 »
Home
Forums
Diabetes Discussion
Newly Diagnosed
Newly diagnosed looking for advice
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Message
<blockquote data-quote="ianf0ster" data-source="post: 2474026" data-attributes="member: 506169"><p>Hi [USER=551682]@T2 Woman[/USER] and welcome to the forum.</p><p>Have you read this (Jo Kalsbeek's wonderful 'nutritional thingy' : <a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/the-nutritional-thingy.2330/" target="_blank">The Nutritional Thingy. | Diabetes Forum • The Global Diabetes Community</a></p><p></p><p>You may be lucky and get good advice from your healthcare professional. It's not possible to predict either what diabetes specific knowledge they will have, or how up to date that will be. People still arrive here telling of absolutely terrible advice they got through their local GP practice.</p><p></p><p>Unless they prescribe Gliclazide or Insulin for you then you are very unlikely to be prescribed a Blood Glucose Test meter. Even if on is prescribed, most of the NHS doesn't know how to use it in relation to a lower carbohydrate way of eating. Notice I said 'way of eating' rather than diet. This is because it's best not to reduce overall calories - so increase Protein and Fat to make up for the calories in the carbs you are cutting out.</p><p></p><p>I consider a BG meter ( 2 most commonly used in this and the other forum are either SD Gluco Navii , or the Spirit Healthcare TEE2+ ) to be extremely helpful for anybody trying to reduce their carbs without going too hard which can cause psychological burn-out and giving up. But some can't afford to self fund them, or have too big a 'needle phobia' to be able to use them. Unfortunately those with such a large phobia of needles may inadvertently push themselves toward insulin injections to control their Blood Sugar. The main cost of a BG meter in in the test strips (of which you use many at first when testing before and then 2hrs after every meal. But after testing exactly the same food on different days and t different times of day and keeping notes, eventually you will be able to predict the glucose response to more and more meals and so no longer need to test (except periodically to check nothing has changed). Look for a 2 mmol rise (or less) from before eating to the 2hrs after first bite mark. Don't concern yourself about BG readings at other times because there is little you can do to influence them, while you have total control about what food you eat.</p><p></p><p>There is no magic formula for how many carbs a person can cope with because we are all different and we even have different carb sensitivity at different times of day. Despite having a much lower HbA1C than you, I found I was highly sensitive to carbs and so I had to cut down harder than most. So while 40gms per meal may be OK for some, <strong>for me it's 40gms maximum per day! </strong>But I only know that because my BG meter told me so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ianf0ster, post: 2474026, member: 506169"] Hi [USER=551682]@T2 Woman[/USER] and welcome to the forum. Have you read this (Jo Kalsbeek's wonderful 'nutritional thingy' : [URL='https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/blog-entry/the-nutritional-thingy.2330/']The Nutritional Thingy. | Diabetes Forum • The Global Diabetes Community[/URL] You may be lucky and get good advice from your healthcare professional. It's not possible to predict either what diabetes specific knowledge they will have, or how up to date that will be. People still arrive here telling of absolutely terrible advice they got through their local GP practice. Unless they prescribe Gliclazide or Insulin for you then you are very unlikely to be prescribed a Blood Glucose Test meter. Even if on is prescribed, most of the NHS doesn't know how to use it in relation to a lower carbohydrate way of eating. Notice I said 'way of eating' rather than diet. This is because it's best not to reduce overall calories - so increase Protein and Fat to make up for the calories in the carbs you are cutting out. I consider a BG meter ( 2 most commonly used in this and the other forum are either SD Gluco Navii , or the Spirit Healthcare TEE2+ ) to be extremely helpful for anybody trying to reduce their carbs without going too hard which can cause psychological burn-out and giving up. But some can't afford to self fund them, or have too big a 'needle phobia' to be able to use them. Unfortunately those with such a large phobia of needles may inadvertently push themselves toward insulin injections to control their Blood Sugar. The main cost of a BG meter in in the test strips (of which you use many at first when testing before and then 2hrs after every meal. But after testing exactly the same food on different days and t different times of day and keeping notes, eventually you will be able to predict the glucose response to more and more meals and so no longer need to test (except periodically to check nothing has changed). Look for a 2 mmol rise (or less) from before eating to the 2hrs after first bite mark. Don't concern yourself about BG readings at other times because there is little you can do to influence them, while you have total control about what food you eat. There is no magic formula for how many carbs a person can cope with because we are all different and we even have different carb sensitivity at different times of day. Despite having a much lower HbA1C than you, I found I was highly sensitive to carbs and so I had to cut down harder than most. So while 40gms per meal may be OK for some, [B]for me it's 40gms maximum per day! [/B]But I only know that because my BG meter told me so. [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post Reply
Home
Forums
Diabetes Discussion
Newly Diagnosed
Newly diagnosed looking for advice
Top
Bottom
Find support, ask questions and share your experiences. Ad free.
Join the community »
This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
Accept
Learn More.…