So…..
Spoke to nurse today and she is giving
Me 3 months to sort myself out….And then she wants to put me on metformin (slow release) I think it was
Adjusting to this life style is so hard however I know some times I don’t help myself so I’m really going to try
I love my food and I like to just eat I was 16st but now 14st which she was happy about
But my cholesterol and triglycerides (is that the same ? )
She wasn’t happy about and asked if eat alot of cheese and dairy…well i suppose I do but I don’t think I over indulge and as for milk I just drink
semi skinned
What’s the best food logger ?
There’s plenty you can do to sort yourself out on your own but the very first thing you may want to consider is to ditch your nurse
(just don’t tell her as you may want to keep her on your good side)
They give you standard advises which unfortunately do not apply to everyone as no two people are the same and that’s especially true if you have T2D.
How does she even know you should have no more than 120gr of carbs a day? Is she a clairvoyant?
My tolerance of carbs at diagnosis was 20gr per meal (it has increased now). Had I followed my nurse advise I am not sure where I would be today : eat normally just reduce portions - have 5 a day and eat apples and pears – don’t get a meter as you don’t need it – BG after 2 hours from eating should be no higher than 11mmol (?!?!) etc...
The only person who can establish your tolerance to carbs is...YOU!
Get a meter, take readings of your BG before and after eating and see what it says: that is the ONLY way you can know for sure how the food you eat is affecting you.
That can seem daunting at first yes, but with time you will learn what portions you can tolerate and being able to prepare food according to your needs will be second nature.
I measured food religiously for the first 6 months of diagnosis, now I can tell what my portions are without the need of a food scale.
Cereals are tricky; if you insist on having them (as I do) then you need to accept the fact that you can’t have a ‘normal’ portion anymore but just enough not to trigger a BG spike.
I have them with yogurt (Alpro no sugar), mixed seeds (to compensate the reduced portion of cereals), some vegan proteins and blueberries (and a sprinkle of cinnamon too).
Check labels as not all cereals are the same; as far as I am aware the ones with the lowest amount of added sugar are Weetabix and Kellogs prebiotic but your tolerance to the same food will change with time too (at first 10gr of weetabix would give me high readings now they don’t anymore).
The most important step to treat your condition you have already taken by joining this site: no nurse can give you the knowledge you will find on here because no one can advise you on something they do not know! Who better than someone who live with the condition is better qualified to give you advise?
I went from an Hba1c of 96 (October last year) to 32 (last August) and that was only possible to reading about people experiences on here NOT to my nurse! (WITHOUT medications).
Before diagnosis I considered myself a chocoholic, pizzaaholic, ice-creamholic..basically if it didn’t have carbs I wasn’t interested! Never in a million years I would have imagined I could change my diet so drastically.
I lost 3 stones within 3 months of diagnosis (not that I advise that as I looked ill) now put half of that back on (and look more ‘normal’); my tolerance to carbs has increased and can have the occasional chocolate, grapes and other forbidden food (if mixed with the right food i.e fat).
Bottom line: if I can do it (and I really thought I couldn’t!), so can you no doubt! Just stick around here long enough and you will take control of your life as a TD2
for over 4 days now which makes me feel twitchy lol
