Pinkorchid
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The cost of the Codefree strips are 6.99 for 50 cheaper with a discount code if you buy 5 or 10 pots at one time
The cost of the Codefree strips are 6.99 for 50 cheaper with a discount code if you buy 5 or 10 pots at one timeI am curently paying £8 for 50 and i am totally fine and happy with the price and i will pay for as long as it takes.
It's just that the doctor wasnt happy to prescribe strips and judging by her attitude and advice to only test once a day , i am bit affraid that i could lose this priviledge for prescribed strips .
If i do lose it then whenever i will want to test i will have to pay the full price which is prohibitively expensive.
Thanks everybody for your kind answers.
A great source of frustration was not knowing how i would be able to count every carb, calories and protein from every item i have in order to be within the limits of my chosen daily intake of 1500 cal
After tons of reading i managed to work out how i would convert the recommended daily macros for a very low carber that is 70 % FAT, 25% PROTEIN, 5% CARBS into their coresponding fat , protein and carb per gram values...etc...
What i had difficulties with was how i would know what is the protein, fat and carbs content of each item and how i would combine them to give me the above ratios.
I had to calculate that 70% of 1500 is 1050 cal of FAT daily, 25% of 1500 is 375 cals from protein daily, and 5% of 1500 is 75 cals from carbs daily
So every day i should get 1050 cals from FAT 375 cals from protein and 75 cals from 5 % of carbs.
Initially i couldn't get my head around the fact that i have to get 1050 cals from FAT but then i discovered that only ingesting 100g of FAT would give you 900 cals already.
But i found an app, which lots of people use, which calculates the fat , protein and carb content of every item one can have and then adds them up giving you the total amount for that meal.
So this is the kind on mind bending gymnastics i had to get into in order to figure out how i would get the 70% FAT /25% PROTEIN /5% CARBS ratios based on my chosen daily intake of 1500 cal.
" Acu aviva check" the retail price for 50 is £27 and on prescription is £8.
I do not think that i could use strips of a different brand in my device.
But i could be wrong.
Thanks everybody for your kind answers.
A great source of frustration was not knowing how i would be able to count every carb, calories and protein from every item i have in order to be within the limits of my chosen daily intake of 1500 cal
After tons of reading i managed to work out how i would convert the recommended daily macros for a very low carber that is 70 % FAT, 25% PROTEIN, 5% CARBS into their coresponding fat , protein and carb per gram values...etc...
What i had difficulties with was how i would know what is the protein, fat and carbs content of each item and how i would combine them to give me the above ratios.
I had to calculate that 70% of 1500 is 1050 cal of FAT daily, 25% of 1500 is 375 cals from protein daily, and 5% of 1500 is 75 cals from carbs daily
So every day i should get 1050 cals from FAT 375 cals from protein and 75 cals from 5 % of carbs.
Initially i couldn't get my head around the fact that i have to get 1050 cals from FAT but then i discovered that only ingesting 100g of FAT would give you 900 cals already.
But i found an app, which lots of people use, which calculates the fat , protein and carb content of every item one can have and then adds them up giving you the total amount for that meal.
So this is the kind on mind bending gymnastics i had to get into in order to figure out how i would get the 70% FAT /25% PROTEIN /5% CARBS ratios based on my chosen daily intake of 1500 cal.
That is a good point actually.I'd agree with that. Fat has just over twice the calories per gramme as protein. So if you eat roughly the same weight of each you'll get the right calorie split almost without trying.
I'm an accountant by trade - it comes in handy when crunching numbers like this
That is a good point actually.
Thanks.
Im sorry i was obnoxious earlier but the last couple of days i had crash course in percentages, macros...etc, a marathon learning thing which is terribly time consuming and quite frustrating at times as i am totally new to the whole thing.
No problem at all.Im sorry i was obnoxious earlier but the last couple of days i had crash course in percentages, macros...etc, a marathon learning thing which is terribly time consuming and quite frustrating at times as i am totally new to the whole thing.
As from yesterday i started to follow the advice on LCHF given in this guide http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/a-new-low-carb-guide-for-beginners.68695/.
My food yesterday only had around 55 grams of carbs in it (100 grams of brown rice, 80 grams of butter beans 50g of sweetcorn, 4 tomatoes) and the rest was dairy, greens and chicken and no fruit at all.
Based on this, my BS levels were in the 8's and 9's.
This morning at 9 i had a salad where the only carb was 40 g of sweetcorn a tomatoe and that is about around 6 carbs
An hour after, i checked the BS levels and it was 12.6 mmol
I have no idea what is going on.
How low do i have to go in carbs intake to be at 6 or bellow 6 mmol?
Or does it take weeks and months for the LCHF diet to work and reduce the sugar levels?
Thanks everybody for your kind answers.
A great source of frustration was not knowing how i would be able to count every carb, calories and protein from every item i have in order to be within the limits of my chosen daily intake of 1500 cal
After tons of reading i managed to work out how i would convert the recommended daily macros for a very low carber that is 70 % FAT, 25% PROTEIN, 5% CARBS into their coresponding fat , protein and carb per gram values...etc...
What i had difficulties with was how i would know what is the protein, fat and carbs content of each item and how i would combine them to give me the above ratios.
I had to calculate that 70% of 1500 is 1050 cal of FAT daily, 25% of 1500 is 375 cals from protein daily, and 5% of 1500 is 75 cals from carbs daily
So every day i should get 1050 cals from FAT 375 cals from protein and 75 cals from 5 % of carbs.
Initially i couldn't get my head around the fact that i have to get 1050 cals from FAT but then i discovered that only ingesting 100g of FAT would give you 900 cals already.
But i found an app, which lots of people use, which calculates the fat , protein and carb content of every item one can have and then adds them up giving you the total amount for that meal.
So this is the kind on mind bending gymnastics i had to get into in order to figure out how i would get the 70% FAT /25% PROTEIN /5% CARBS ratios based on my chosen daily intake of 1500 cal.
Gravity-carb I agree with every word you wrote! I too stop recording after 2 days due to tedium, and buy books without reading them, lol.Holy S*** that is some mental yoga going on there.
Good for you but my 2pence worth is to chill a bit. Not to be as condescending as that sounds, as when I was first diagnosed I was angry, impatient and needed to understand my condition Now. Really this intensity was helping to keep my blood sugar high....all to do with physical stress response and your liver being instructed to pump out glycogen to fight or run from a suspected sabertooth encounter.
Your numbers are coming down... as a previous poster said, I think, write your food and amounts down. My fitness pal app can help with that. I haven't used it as I am old school and tend to write stuff down for 2 days and then think that's tedious and stop.
Once you add your blood glucose readings from before and after food, you will over time see trends. Its these trends your looking at. So if there is a dish you have occasionally and you notice that your BG raises the following morning. Then you might reduce what you had or avoid it or have it much earlier in the day with 30min of exercise afterwards to burn up that extra glucose in your blood.
This is the long game; the mere fact your 'eating to your meter' (the aim for no more than a 2mmol/L raise after 2 hours of eating or non-diabetic levels) you will lose weight if you have any to lose. Take up regular exercise, you will improve your numbers. LCHF on this forum you will see personal interpretation of that that either works for the individual or not. I would say I do a low carb some days <20g other days <50g, my BG can handle that flexibility right now. It might not in the future nor might it work for you; highish fat, cause I eat way more fat than I used to and even only just started having fat drinks which took me weeks to get my head around, but ultimately how I feel, what they taste like and what my meter shows, dictates stuff I eat. No biggy.
Be prepared for the NHS to not fund or recognise your aims for non-diabetic levels. My GP is convinced Type2 is a progressive disease and I'm basically ******. So that might mean purchasing your own meter and test strips. For that SD CodeFree is great. I get through a pot a week. Works out at approx £5.10 per week, with discounts. Knowing my BG numbers is worth more than 2 'flat whites' a week to me. Read books if you like, I got the Beirnstine (sp) book on kindle, but not read yet cause I prefer an urban fantasy book, I do like reading how real people with Type2 manage their own beast on the forums.....
But essentially your doing a Sinatra, your condition your way. Respect for that.
Wonder if my meds need upped? I'm on 2x metformin
Wonder if my meds need upped? I'm on 2x metformin
are you Type 1 or 2? Do you need more insulin or drugs to bring it down a bit - perhaps an extra unit per meal? I find my needs change all the time, I can get stuck in a rut where I need more insulin so I take a bit more which brings my levels down and they tend to stay down for a bit then and I need less insulin - it is complicated!
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