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<blockquote data-quote="KennyA" data-source="post: 2401199" data-attributes="member: 517579"><p>Don't panic. Lots of people are on 20g carbs/day or less and doing fine. Your starting HbA1c is not so bad, at that, and you might be able to make positive changes quickly. This is what helped me: </p><p></p><p>1. You need to unlearn <strong>all</strong> the standard NHS healthy eating advice, <strong>all</strong> the assumptions made by the media, your family and friends about what's healthy and what's not. <strong>I do mean</strong> <strong>all.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>2. As Type 2 diabetics we are not, by definition, good at handling carbohydrates. Some of us are better than others at it but we all have the same problem. Eating carbohydrates causes our blood glucose to rise out of control and that causes us physical damage.</p><p></p><p></p><p>3. Eating carbohydrates, of any kind, is therefore potentially going to cause us a problem as Type 2s. </p><p></p><p></p><p>4. Just how big of a problem depends on the individual.</p><p></p><p></p><p>5. Test your blood glucose and record your results to find out what your pattern and tolerances are. Then cut the things that cause the rises.</p><p></p><p></p><p>6. Nobody will do this for you. Only you can do this.</p><p></p><p>Best of luck. Lots of good advice and support on this forum, stick at it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KennyA, post: 2401199, member: 517579"] Don't panic. Lots of people are on 20g carbs/day or less and doing fine. Your starting HbA1c is not so bad, at that, and you might be able to make positive changes quickly. This is what helped me: 1. You need to unlearn [B]all[/B] the standard NHS healthy eating advice, [B]all[/B] the assumptions made by the media, your family and friends about what's healthy and what's not. [B]I do mean[/B] [B]all.[/B] 2. As Type 2 diabetics we are not, by definition, good at handling carbohydrates. Some of us are better than others at it but we all have the same problem. Eating carbohydrates causes our blood glucose to rise out of control and that causes us physical damage. 3. Eating carbohydrates, of any kind, is therefore potentially going to cause us a problem as Type 2s. 4. Just how big of a problem depends on the individual. 5. Test your blood glucose and record your results to find out what your pattern and tolerances are. Then cut the things that cause the rises. 6. Nobody will do this for you. Only you can do this. Best of luck. Lots of good advice and support on this forum, stick at it. [/QUOTE]
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