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[Suagrrush39]

Hi and welcome. Yes, keep the carbs down but you can have some so they aren't banned. Try to stay below something like 150gm/day for starters. That's Total carbs as listed on the back of food packets. Get hold of a glucose meter so you can check your BS from time to time. When using the lancet on a finger, use the side of the finger and not the central pad as many nurses wrongly do. If you keep your blood sugar reasonably under control you shouldn't suffer any major health problems if any during life. Diabetes is serious but the good news is that it can be well controlled fairly easily.

Hello mr diabell,

This is great advice I will try to listen so I can be more healthy and not die early.

I asked the doctor for a prickly thing but he wouldn’t give me one and said they don’t give them to type 2 people, I asked why he said because it can be misleading and say I could eat chicken but if my blood sugars go high I will stop eating chicken and they don’t want me to do that.

Thanks for the support

 

[Suagrrush39]

Of course you feel all over the place now, but this is all totally do-able, and MUCH easier to actually do than to worry about. It's a bump on the road of life, but there are lots of those. We here offer loads of support and information from actual experience. Best of all is the chance to take control!

Now - there are lots of diabetic-friendly foods, so don't mourn what you can't eat - embrace all the luscious things you CAN eat. And drink. Learn what carbohydrates are, and which foods contain them, which contain sugars (or both). This is a fabulous opportunity to work with your body not against or in spite of it. Overall you will become much healthier, have more energy, great skin. All the information is here, so carve out time in your day to sit and read what we can tell you. It's a lot, so take it in easy stages. I have been on the forum for nearly a year, and I learn something new every day.

I will try and be more healthy it’s the top priority and am sure with all your peoples help I can do This.

I will defo research foods which I have been doing already.

I have managed to stop drinking full fat coke now

I have moved onto Pepsi.

Thanks

 

[Fenn]

Hello mr diabell,

This is great advice I will try to listen so I can be more healthy and not die early.

I asked the doctor for a prickly thing but he wouldn’t give me one and said they don’t give them to type 2 people, I asked why he said because it can be misleading and say I could eat chicken but if my blood sugars go high I will stop eating chicken and they don’t want me to do that.

Thanks for the support

Hi, I’m sorry but your doctor is an idiot! It’s better to not know what pushes up your numbers? This is crazy advice I’m so sorry you have this person “looking after you” keep reading here.

 

[Antje77]

I have managed to stop drinking full fat coke now

I have moved onto Pepsi.

The Pepsi with or without sugar?

 

[Suagrrush39]

The lancets they use in hospital can be quite painful, but there are much kinder lancets that many of us use, and the finger pricking device can be set to different levels, so usually I don't find it at all painful at home.

I will listen to everyone on here and get a machine I read least night Apple might be bringing out a watch soon that checks blood sugars non invasive looking forward to that

 

[Suagrrush39]

Yes, I do prick my fingers to get blood glucose readings. I used to have to do that before every meal, but now that I use glucose monitors I do it less frequently. The finger-pricks hurt every time, but only for a few seconds, so I can bear it. It is not as bad as having a needle put in my arm for blood tests. I have always been accident prone, starting with one of my fingers being crushed at age four, so I have often had worse, longer lasting, pain.


Having to be careful what I eat is a nuisance, and counting carbohydrates all the time (I am type 1). However, I have learned to be moderate with everything. It is not easy to do, but there is no choice if I want to avoid complications.


You mentioned that you were worried about leg ulcers and toes being amputated, but you can avoid those by keeping you blood glucose readings in a healthy range. This will not mean much to you at the moment, but the diabetes nurses will teach you after you get your diagnosis. None of this is going to be easy, but you can do it.

Hello elena,

Thanks so much you are very nice and kind person, I will try and do it.

Glad to hear it is going well with you keep it up please

 

[Suagrrush39]

Hi, I’m sorry but your doctor is an idiot! It’s better to not know what pushes up your numbers? This is crazy advice I’m so sorry you have this person “looking after you” keep reading here.

Yea that’s what he said because they don’t want me to stop eating good food.

Apparently sometimes your sugars can go up and down sometimes and it’s normal so they don’t want me eating something good but my bloods going up normally and stop eating that?

I don’t know, will listen to the advice and still check my sugars

 

[Suagrrush39]

The Pepsi with or without sugar?

Hello antje,

With sugar but I don’t think it has as much as coke baby steps

 

[lovinglife]

Hello antje,

With sugar but I don’t think it has as much as coke baby steps

You really need to stop the sugary drinks, they are the worst thing for you, there really isn’t any baby steps where full sugar drinks are concerned. Replace with Coke Zero, sugar free fizzy drinks or sugar free squash for now, this will go a very long way to getting your numbers down

 

[Fenn]

Hello antje,

With sugar but I don’t think it has as much as coke baby steps

Wait, you switched from coke to Pepsi? Lol, for real?

 

[Suagrrush39]

You really need to stop the sugary drinks, they are the worst thing for you, there really isn’t any baby steps where full sugar drinks are concerned. Replace with Coke Zero, sugar free fizzy drinks or sugar free squash for now, this will go a very long way to getting your numbers down

Hello loving life,


If I have to stop sugary drinks I will not be loving life.

Maybe if I have a shot of it once a day?

My next step will be sparkling water

What did you do to get your numbers down?

 

[Suagrrush39]

Wait, you switched from coke to Pepsi? Lol, for real?

Yes but I will try now because my mum and my doctor have told me to stop being naughty but I do find it hard.

But I heard an Apple a day keeps the doctor away, but the doctor told me today I can’t have fruit so don’t know how that works!

 

[Antje77]

If I have to stop sugary drinks I will not be loving life.

What about switching to sugar free coke or Pepsi? You'll likely get used to the flavour pretty soon, even if you don't much like it at first.

 

[Suagrrush39]

What about switching to sugar free coke or Pepsi? You'll likely get used to the flavour pretty soon, even if you don't much like it at first.

I have had an idea if I but a bit of full fat coke in a glass and top up with Coke Zero like a dilute pop? Would that be ok?

 

[Antje77]

I have had an idea if I but a bit of full fat coke in a glass and top up with Coke Zero like a dilute pop? Would that be ok?

Why?
Makes much more sense to just drink the Zero as it is.
Why would you want to add a drop of the original to that, it would only serve to make your blood sugar go up.

 

[Suagrrush39]

Why?
Makes much more sense to just drink the Zero as it is.
Why would you want to add a drop of the original to that, it would only serve to make your blood sugar go up.

Because I think I am addicted to Coca Cola

I get all weird when I don’t have it

 

[Antje77]

Because I think I am addicted to Coca Cola

I get all weird when I don’t have it

Chuck it out, you'll do fine on the no sugar version!

 

[MrsA2]

Because I think I am addicted to Coca Cola

If you Google coca cola addiction you'll find lots of sites that say it's a possibility, and that's its a harmful addiction. There's loads of help there to kick the habit, but same as here everywhere says it mist be kicked

 

[lovinglife]

Hello loving life,


If I have to stop sugary drinks I will not be loving life.

Maybe if I have a shot of it once a day?

My next step will be sparkling water

What did you do to get your numbers down?

I’m gonna be brutally honest and say no one shot a day is not ok. Once again it’s the worst thing you can do.
I never drank sugary drinks to begin with, I drank sugar free and still do occasionally, I now drink sparkling water, always took my coffee and tea black no sugar so I had nowhere to go drinks wise, You have because you drink full sugar drinks the small change to sugar free will make a big difference to you.

Food wise I went low carb. Started on 130g carb a day slowly reduced my carbs until I got it down to 20g carb a day and now do full keto, (have done for the last few years) also reduced my meds over time (under my GP) until I got rid of all meds except metformin.

nobody is saying it’s easy, it’s not it’s **** hard especially at the beginning but it does get easier until it becomes the norm. Nobody wants to change but we have to if we want to be as healthy as we can be. It’s early days for you and it can be overwhelming but if you drop those drinks you’re making a good start. You can do this!

 

[Suagrrush39]

If you Google coca cola addiction you'll find lots of sites that say it's a possibility, and that's its a harmful addiction. There's loads of help there to kick the habit, but same as here everywhere says it mist be kicked

Thanks mrsA,

I agree it does need to stop I will try

I will read about food and drinks.

I should have listened at school when they was telling me about different food types.