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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2413766" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Hi [USER=544959]@Ginnyhen[/USER], I realise your post was specifically about the 2 days when you didn't eat carbs (apart from the tomato juice) but your diet is high in carbs overall. It must seem weird to you because your diet is also a perfect example of a varied, very healthy menu and was very similar to mine prior to diagnosis. I did not eat sweets or cakes or the zillion other items that we all recognise as garbage for anyone. The problem is as I soon found out, the amount of carbs in those meals was way too high for my body to cope with, for example an apple has 3/4 teaspoons of sugar in it, so does the bread whether white or wholemeal, so do the beans and the couscous, etc. If I eat this now I have to use much higher amounts of insulin to combat it, YOUR body is also making its own insulin to combat what you eat and if you are a type 2 (generally speaking) your body may be resistant to insulin so it's not getting through and those carbs are raising your glucose levels.</p><p></p><p>Also I find that what I eat one day, if it is higher in carbs, has a cumulative effect over 2/3 days, so if I carb up on a Monday but have no/low carbs on the Tue & Wed, my fasting levels will stay slightly raised on the Tue & Wed because of what I ate on the Monday! I know our bodies work differently across all types of diabetes but essentially it's all about the carbs. If we eat them to an extent where we cannot cope with the aftermath, whether by the use of insulin or not, then we all have to adjust I guess and what may seem a healthy diet on paper for a non diabetic (debatable) it's not a healthy one for us. As for the test strips, well they do have a use by date but I don't think they go off the very next day so how old are yours? </p><p></p><p>Your numbers aren't bad at all and your body seems to be coping with your meals but the problem is that your hb1ac may continue to rise because your body has an issue processing carbs. x</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2413766, member: 451727"] Hi [USER=544959]@Ginnyhen[/USER], I realise your post was specifically about the 2 days when you didn't eat carbs (apart from the tomato juice) but your diet is high in carbs overall. It must seem weird to you because your diet is also a perfect example of a varied, very healthy menu and was very similar to mine prior to diagnosis. I did not eat sweets or cakes or the zillion other items that we all recognise as garbage for anyone. The problem is as I soon found out, the amount of carbs in those meals was way too high for my body to cope with, for example an apple has 3/4 teaspoons of sugar in it, so does the bread whether white or wholemeal, so do the beans and the couscous, etc. If I eat this now I have to use much higher amounts of insulin to combat it, YOUR body is also making its own insulin to combat what you eat and if you are a type 2 (generally speaking) your body may be resistant to insulin so it's not getting through and those carbs are raising your glucose levels. Also I find that what I eat one day, if it is higher in carbs, has a cumulative effect over 2/3 days, so if I carb up on a Monday but have no/low carbs on the Tue & Wed, my fasting levels will stay slightly raised on the Tue & Wed because of what I ate on the Monday! I know our bodies work differently across all types of diabetes but essentially it's all about the carbs. If we eat them to an extent where we cannot cope with the aftermath, whether by the use of insulin or not, then we all have to adjust I guess and what may seem a healthy diet on paper for a non diabetic (debatable) it's not a healthy one for us. As for the test strips, well they do have a use by date but I don't think they go off the very next day so how old are yours? Your numbers aren't bad at all and your body seems to be coping with your meals but the problem is that your hb1ac may continue to rise because your body has an issue processing carbs. x [/QUOTE]
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