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Kiggy

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I have been following low carb diet but losing a lot of weight in the process. I've been having cooked breakfasts or yogurt and a few nuts and berries and the blood reading has been around 7.8.

Longing to have a breakfast cereal again, I tried a very small bowl of Special K with berries. I tested my blood one hour after and it was 12.

I am trying to control with diet only, does this mean no carbs at all?

I haven't had bread, crackers or rice, pasta, pastry, cakes etc for 3 months and thought I may be ok with the Special K. I tried Bran Flakes and that had same effect. Any advise please.

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Kiggy said:
I have been following low carb diet but losing a lot of weight in the process. I've been having cooked breakfasts or yogurt and a few nuts and berries and the blood reading has been around 7.8.

Longing to have a breakfast cereal again, I tried a very small bowl of Special K with berries. I tested my blood one hour after and it was 12.

I am trying to control with diet only, does this mean no carbs at all?

I haven't had bread, crackers or rice, pasta, pastry, cakes etc for 3 months and thought I may be ok with the Special K. I tried Bran Flakes and that had same effect. Any advise please.

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Well according to Tesco website Special K with berries is 79% carbohydrate so I'm not surprised by the spike.
Have you thought of a low carb "cereal" type food for breakfast? I think that @Rachox has a recipe?
 
Kiggy said:
I have been following low carb diet but losing a lot of weight in the process. I've been having cooked breakfasts or yogurt and a few nuts and berries and the blood reading has been around 7.8.

Longing to have a breakfast cereal again, I tried a very small bowl of Special K with berries. I tested my blood one hour after and it was 12.

I am trying to control with diet only, does this mean no carbs at all?

I haven't had bread, crackers or rice, pasta, pastry, cakes etc for 3 months and thought I may be ok with the Special K. I tried Bran Flakes and that had same effect. Any advise please.

K
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All cereals are usually made with high carb components, like grain, oats, rice, corn and often, sugar. So far as that goes, basically all cereals are out... I'm sorry. I have to wonder though, have you checked your bloods before breakfast? Seeing as it is the morning, you might be experiencing Dawn Phenomenon. A liverdump of glucose in the morning. (The liver thinks it's helping you start the day by giving you some extra energy to burn. The busybody.). So it is quite possible that the raise in BG is still acceptable. If you test before a meal, and 2 hours after first bite, and you didn't go up more than 2 mmol/l, then that meal was fine. So odds are that 7.8 reading is actually quite okay. The 12 obviously isn't, but you gathered that already. And it is quite possible 2 hours after that cereal it might've gone up even higher... Some thing you just kinda don't want to know.

You can control by diet only, and it sounds like you already are. If you hit 7.8 after a meal, I'm thinking you're doing a pretty good job of it. You didn't hit an 8 or higher, so that's still within the normal range! Yay! If that's not a pretty good result, then what were you aiming for? (You might be aiming for a target that's not do-able?) So no, you don't have to go no carb at all. It's a bit of trial and error, and maybe breakfast isn't the best meal to go by... With lunch and dinner, dawn phenomenon isn't an issue, so those meals will tell you more on how you're doing than breakfast will. Like i said, test before the meal and 2 hours after first bite... That'll give you a LOT of information.

You might want to check dietdoctor.com for their coconut porridge and other breakfast alternatives. Who knows, might be something you like in there!
Good luck,
Jo
 
Special K is my nemesis.

I cut out most carbs and all breakfast cereals to bring my numbers down and was averaging around 7-9 for the 2-hr post meals. But in the evening when I'm feeling lazy and not wanting to cook, my mind wanders to my kids' cereal. I avoided the obviously covered in sugar things, but thought Special K would be okay. So I had three (yeah, I know...) bowls full. Without milk because I know milk spikes me;)

And... my glucose meter read 21 two hours later....:arghh:

Not even rice does that to me. Well, maybe three bowls would. I've never wanted three bowls of rice though.
 
A lot of diabetic food advice is what you would normally have as a breakfast if you didn't have diabetes or other issues with intolerance to certain carbs..
For instance, the advice I heard given to a T2, was to have weetabix, with skimmed milk, and then add a sweetener (granules) on top!
Along with tea or coffee with skimmed milk and sweeteners again!

It's absolute madness!

All breakfast cereals are processed and have added artificial sweeteners and industrial additives, cheap and nasty!
These so called healthy breakfast cereals are not healthy for most diabetics!
And Special K, is one of the worst!
 
I often keep a few veges from dinner and have an omelette, or I do scrambled eggs with cheese and a tomato - cooked with a little olive oil.
That keeps me going all day, where for some a carby breakfast seems to mean starvation by eleven a.m. or sooner if for some reason I am delayed when out of the house, I begin to feel a bit hungry by eleven p.m.
You might need more fats or oils in your diet to keep your weight up - the low fat mantra is so insidious - maybe add some desiccated coconut to your yogurt, cream in coffee or with dessert - just to up the calories without much increase in the carbs.
 
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