sensible diet

Welcome! Lots of good advice here. Take a look around, especially in the success stories threads. You have to find a diet you can stick to for teh rest of your life.

A bit more info about what you eat at the moment and those crucial numbers (HbA1c etc) might help us make some suggestions.

Whatevery dietary approach you opt for in the longer term, you will need to reduce your intake of starchy carbohydrate as that is what sends your blood sugar readings up and out of control.

FYI, exercise is overrated for weight loss, although it does help wake up he insulin receptors that might reduce the amount of medication you need, or make it work more effectively.

Ask as many questions as you like, there are lots of people here with great control and who have lost weight and managed their condition very well.

Hi Leveya, and welcome to the forum. A sensible diet for diabetics is one where you lose weight and also control your blood sugar.
As diabetes is an inability to metabolise glucose properly it makes sense to try and reduce the amount of Carbohydrate that you eat.
By reducing the portion sizes of carbohydrate in your diet you take the first step to reducing your blood sugar levels and losing weight.

Hi Leveya, and welcome to the forum, i'm no expert but a 30 day ave of 9.0 is too high, i'd say you need to try and get this ave down into the 6's or lower. As the others have said start by reducing your intake of bread, rice, pasta and potatoes and avoid the higher sugar fruit (pinapple, grapes and plums spike my readings). As a start reduce your portions of these by 50% and see what that does to your levels, most cereals are high in carbs too so go for bacon & eggs for breakfast.

:? those numbers are too high, whatever time of day you got them. How often do you test and do you test before or after meals?

Tell us about your diet - what do you mean by sensible diet? Detail is good...

Hi.

On Spiral's and the rest of us behalf we need to know exactly what your daily intake consists of, itemised.
Only with this information can we suggest things that might help ?
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner. any snacks, drinks etc.

I know virtually nothing about using insulin, but I do know that high blood sugar numbers, like yours, in the presence of large amounts of insulin will mean that the weight goes on. If you are T2 and are carrying extra weight, you will be insulin resistant - this means that you need more insulin to get the same effect :? This is not good.

You can carry on with those "everyday foods" you are currently eating and use insulin to cover it, but your weight will continue to rise, and with it the insulin resistance as well as the quantity of insulin you use.

Succesful diabetics reduce the amount of starchy carbohydrate they eat - bread, pasta, rice, potato, banana and flour products. This is much more than cutting out obvious sugar.

I think you need to inform yourself about how blood sugar works and then decide how you want to deal with your high readings. The most useful information on blood sugar I found before I found my way here was at http://www.bloodsugar101.com an American website which now has the UK blood sugar readings listed too - this means it is much easier to read if you don't have American as a second language. Really simples!

I reduced my HbA1c from 7.8% at diagnosis in Feb to 7% in May by cutting out all added sugar and junk food and adding fresh and raw, mostly glycaemic index (GI) principles. I went low carb in may and further reduced that to 6% on a low carb diet and no medication at all. I'm now taking metformin as I want to lose weight and get to a normal blood sugar a bit faster than diet alone.

Whatever you decide to do, you need a diet you can stick to for teh rest of your life that will help you lose weight and manage your blood glucose.

Hi,

Those numbers are too high - you really do need to get them lower!

From what you have written about your meals, it looks mainly like a bread problem. Cut back on that and you should see an improvement. Possibly, also, biscuits and pie depending on how much you eat.

Best Wishes - John