Sugar Levels

Liz Ashcroft said:

Please can someone help me . . . .In a morning my sugar levels are high eg before food this morning I was 8.7 had porridge just over an hour ago and it is 13.0 now, I have only had porridge, Cup of Tea and my Metformin tablet. I have onlybeen diagnosed 4 weeks and was told to eat Low GI food so have got myself a book listing the GI and Fats etc. I am really getting quite depressed about this. Wish there was also a group I could join

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Hi there Liz good morning porridge is good for you if only you are doing some sort of exercise in the morning to burn of the carbs ok if I was you I would start your day with bacon and eggs only one piece of toast if you wish too your Bg is high because of what you are eating the night before eat plenty of fish chicken meat mince salad veg ok but you got to watch out for the carbs ok the best bread to get is go to Asda and look for burgon bread ok look at the carbs and it will say only about 10g ok

I find porridge sends my bg very high too so I avoid it altogether ,boiled eggs are good too .....

Hi

Low GI is good but in my opinion not as good as low carb. In broad terms carbs turn into sugar in the blood and porridge is full of carbs.

If you can reduce your carbs you should see an improvement. Watch out for potatoes,pasta, rice, bread, fruit juices.
If you can increase exercise and lose weight if you need to that will help too.

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Cara

The more modern advice is to reduce your total carbohydrate intake first then look to do low gi on what's left. So to start with I would avoid every thing with sugar and at least halve your intake of rice pasta bread cereals potatoes and anything made from flour. Replace with green veg eggs cheese meat and fish. Look at the labels on packets most have a number for total carbohydrate per 100g. Treat anything greater than 10g per 100g with increasing suspicion. Ignore the "of which sugars" number on the label as sugar is just another kind of carbohydrate. Swap to brown types for any rice pasta and bread you keep but recognise that even though they are low gi they are still high carb foods and it's carbs that make your levels rise.

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Liz Ashcroft said:

Please can someone help me . . . .In a morning my sugar levels are high eg before food this morning I was 8.7 had porridge just over an hour ago and it is 13.0 now, I have only had porridge, Cup of Tea and my Metformin tablet. I have onlybeen diagnosed 4 weeks and was told to eat Low GI food so have got myself a book listing the GI and Fats etc. I am really getting quite depressed about this. Wish there was also a group I could join

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Everyone's different.
I normally have ryvita with ham and low fat cheese for breakfast, but I'm also ok with porridge. I tend to eat that if I'm doing some hard work later though. I generally low GI, and avoid refined sugar and carbs. Having said that, I checked my bs after eating anything when I was diagnosed, so I know what I can eat , and what affects my bs badly. then I built my diet around that.

It takes a while to get your head round it, so you're doing ok so far.

Hot porridge is high-GI as the oat cells have been broken down. I sometimes have oats in a home-made muesli with seeds etc. It still spikes me but not too much. Eggs and bacon is much better. Yes, low-GI food is good but as others have said keep the carbs down as well as low-GI

Great! I recommend the book Carbs and Cals - it shows very clearly where those pesky carbohydrates hide themselves.

You should get a welcome message from Daisy the moderator with useful info.

But please ask as many questions as you want.

Cara

carraway said:

Great! I recommend the book Carbs and Cals - it shows very clearly where those pesky carbohydrates hide themselves.

You should get a welcome message from Daisy the moderator with useful info.

But please ask as many questions as you want.

Cara

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Hi Liz and welcome to the forum

Here is the information we give to new members and I hope you will find it helpful. Ask more questions when you need to and someone will help.

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/basic-information-for-newly-diagnosed-diabetics.26870/

Hiya

Mine has been around 9.6 in the morning first thing with only a couple of sips of tea. Not eating at night after 7.30 - 8pm so not sure why it's so high.


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Hiya Liz

I am the same, have to hold onto the banister to use the stairs and feel very wobbly and just no energy! Once I get going I am ok but it's the first 15mins or so. Started testing my levels and consistently high 9's. Don't eat after 8 the night before but will still have a cuppa (only cos I am trying to cut the weight down). Not sure what I am doing wrong here......


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