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<blockquote data-quote="urbanracer" data-source="post: 717343" data-attributes="member: 140811"><p>You'll probably need to experiment a bit and find out what's right for YOU. <em>himtoo </em>above states that cereals spike his BG levels, I have cereals every workday morning and they have little effect on me, which is fortunate as I simply don't have the time or the inclination to prepare a cooked breakfast on workdays.</p><p></p><p>Shortly after being diagnosed I went out for an Indian meal with the missus, I ate what I would have normally eaten and was horrified that my BG levels were high for about 36hrs afterwards. On the second occasion, I didn't have poppadoms, mango chutney (check the sugar in that stuff!) or naan bread. I had only a small portion of rice and and tried not to eat too much of the sauce that came with meat dish. A couple of hours after the meal my BGs were just over 8, so I am happier that I can carry on eating Indian food but realise that I have to pay a bit more attention to what I order.</p><p></p><p>I got a bit down about the diagnosis in the beginning, but I decided that MY approach would be to treat this as a challenge and a learning experience. Right now, I'm trying to eat the same amount of carbohydrates every day, inject the same number of units and monitor my BG levels. I find this easier to do on workdays when I have a routine, and less so at weekends when I might not get a coffee and biscuit mid morning or end up unexpectedly going without lunch. Came home that day to find my BG was 2.3 and I'd had no hypo feelings at all.</p><p></p><p>So have fun experimenting, and above all else try not to get stressed at such an early stage. Stress and diabetes are not good bedfellows.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="urbanracer, post: 717343, member: 140811"] You'll probably need to experiment a bit and find out what's right for YOU. [I]himtoo [/I]above states that cereals spike his BG levels, I have cereals every workday morning and they have little effect on me, which is fortunate as I simply don't have the time or the inclination to prepare a cooked breakfast on workdays. Shortly after being diagnosed I went out for an Indian meal with the missus, I ate what I would have normally eaten and was horrified that my BG levels were high for about 36hrs afterwards. On the second occasion, I didn't have poppadoms, mango chutney (check the sugar in that stuff!) or naan bread. I had only a small portion of rice and and tried not to eat too much of the sauce that came with meat dish. A couple of hours after the meal my BGs were just over 8, so I am happier that I can carry on eating Indian food but realise that I have to pay a bit more attention to what I order. I got a bit down about the diagnosis in the beginning, but I decided that MY approach would be to treat this as a challenge and a learning experience. Right now, I'm trying to eat the same amount of carbohydrates every day, inject the same number of units and monitor my BG levels. I find this easier to do on workdays when I have a routine, and less so at weekends when I might not get a coffee and biscuit mid morning or end up unexpectedly going without lunch. Came home that day to find my BG was 2.3 and I'd had no hypo feelings at all. So have fun experimenting, and above all else try not to get stressed at such an early stage. Stress and diabetes are not good bedfellows. [/QUOTE]
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