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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stephen Bond" data-source="post: 2623023" data-attributes="member: 561303">So so sorry to hear about your predicament. As everyone has said above, the dietician's advice was worse than poor. The food your wife is eating has far too many carbs. You say that she is not overweight so she possibly does not need to cut out all carbs completely and can slip a little. Drinks with any sugar in them are a big no no. Processed foods often have loads of hidden sugars and carbs which you do not notice unless you have a problem. Cereal for example is Kryptonite for diabetics!I got my HBA1C down from 43 to 32 in 6 months, and then started introducing a meal with 100g of starches once per week. Each person's reaction is different to different starches. For example i have a much lower spike with pasta than i do with bread or rice???. It is almost a year and my HBA1C is staying stable around 31. The trick is avoid carbs and sugar. Easier said than done, but you get used to it and fortunately your palate changes. I used to use sweeteners but now prefer without, so lost a lot of my taste for sweet stuff. Don't leave treats in the house!!! They are too tempting for a slip. Sadly same with most fruit.All berries are safe though, some have a bit more sugar, but nothing like that of an apple! Careful with nuts, some are low but a few are high. I mistakenly ate a lot of cashews at first thinking they were low carb. They are not! The finger prick testers are more accurate than the constant monitors and don't give worrying false alarms. I use a new needle each time and set the pricking device at 1, you can barely feel it. At first check her levels 2 hours after a meal to give you an idea of what that meal is doing. Lastly, use this forum a lot. It is brilliant and the people on here are very knowledgeable and very helpful. Chin up!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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