Type 2

[celast]

I have just been told I have type 2 just after my meal it was 11.8 2 hours later it was 6.3 is that ok ???

 

[Defren]

I have just been told I have type 2 just after my meal it was 11.8 2 hours later it was 6.3 is that ok ???

Hello Celast, welcome to the forum. Your 11.8 is far to high, but your 6.3 is fine. Do you have a meter? If not you must get one and test. The spike suggests a high ingestion of carbs for dinner. One thing you must do is cut down on carbs, wheat based and processed foods. Could you post your dinner menu, so we can try to understand why your spike was as high as it was?

 

[xyzzy]

Its high I'm afraid. You should aim for under 8 two hours after eating. If you've only just started changing diet it can take a while for things to start to settle down. Took me about 2 months before I could get all my readings consistently under 8. Do you know what it was before you ate? Again in the early stages try to aim to get back to roughly where you started out from. So if you were 9 before eating then you are doing ok if you end up at 9 two hours later. Gradually your levels should begin to fall especially if you cut down on the carbs.

If you post what you ate like Defren suggests we're all here to advise!

 

[celast]

Chipolata sausages 4, baked beans, 3 new potatoes, followed by muller rice,, 11.8 directly after eating----6.3 two hours later
where have I gone wrong ????

 

[Anonymous]

Well, looking at that list you need to realise that everything except the meat in the sausages, is carbohydrate.

The cheaper the sausages, the more cereal will have been added to them - so check the packets and buy ones with less grams of carbs per 100g. Baked beans are pretty evil - I can't eat them - I think it's the sweet sauce mainly. New potatoes are the best potatoes to eat (except perhaps roast) but you'll need to test to see how your body handles them. Muller Rice is just sugary rice and I'm surprised you didn't go higher.

It's not all doom and gloom though. replace the beans with some green veg - peas, runner beans, broccoli. Reduce the spuds down to 2 or 1 or replace with sweet potato or swede mash. Then have plain yoghurt (greek is best) with some red berries for pud - perhaps with some high cocoa chocolate.

and as the others say - test if you can. Not everyone is affected the same way.

 

[catherinecherub]

Chipolata sausages 4, baked beans, 3 new potatoes, followed by muller rice,, 11.8 directly after eating----6.3 two hours later
where have I gone wrong ????

Others have answered about your food choices.

Can I ask why you tested directly after the meal?

 

[celast]

Chipolata sausages 4, baked beans, 3 new potatoes, followed by muller rice,, 11.8 directly after eating----6.3 two hours later
where have I gone wrong ????

Others have answered about your food choices.

Can I ask why you tested directly after the meal?

As its only my second day of this I thought test after meal and then 2hrs later which told me how it had droppped

 

[celast]

I have just been told I have type 2 just after my meal it was 11.8 2 hours later it was 6.3 is that ok ???

Hello Celast, welcome to the forum. Your 11.8 is far to high, but your 6.3 is fine. Do you have a meter? If not you must get one and test. The spike suggests a high ingestion of carbs for dinner. One thing you must do is cut down on carbs, wheat based and processed foods. Could you post your dinner menu, so we can try to understand why your spike was as high as it was?

Do you mean the 11.8 is to high directly after a meal?

 

[Grazer]

Do you mean the 11.8 is to high directly after a meal?

Most of us mainly test only 2 hours after eating, and your numbers there were fine. We don't normally also test straight after eating, or an hour after and so on because it would be too expensive in strips. We might do as a specific experiment to check a particular food. So mostly wer don't KNOW how high our peaks are. The 11.8 sounds high, but I have peaks 40% higher than my 2 hour reading sometimes (from experimenting) so I could get into double figures sometimes I suspect. But not often! The good news is that if you hit 11.8 then got back to 6.3 two hours later, you are producing good supplies of insulin so your pancreas is pretty good compared to some of us.
The 11.8 probably means that your meal contained some high GI food, that is food high on the glycemic index that raises blood sugars quickly. Probably the muller rice and baked beans. It could also have been that it was high BEFORE you had your meal; any snacks?
For now, I'd test BEFORE you eat to ensure it's not high then, then two hours after to check how much it's gone up. Stick to low GI food, and keep the total carbs down. You can experiment with testing at other times when you're more used to things.
Good luck!

 

[xyzzy]

Celast

You should measure just before you eat and then 2 hours later.

I'm really surprised you were 11.8 before you started, if that's what you meant in your previous post. If you were it sounds like your levels had been raised by something you ate earlier in the day. If that was the case don't eat it again! 11.8 is far too high.

If you read this page http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes_care/blood-sugar-level-ranges.html you can see you should be between 4 & 7 before you eat and under 8.5 two hours later. If you are recently diagnosed you may find that you are well above those levels. To get them down to the safe levels you will need to think a lot more about what you are eating and cut out anything that has plain sugar in it then cut down drastically on rice, potatoes, cereals, pasta and bread.

So if you look at the meal you posted.

4 Sausages : should be fine BUT depends as some actually have a low meat content and will be bulked out by CEREAL
Muller rice: contains RICE
Potatoes: you ate three POTATO.
Baked beans: depends on the brand / type. Some will have had SUGAR added to the tomato sauce. Beans in general are not necessarily a bad thing.

When I started my wife and I went through our fridge, freezer and cupboards and just had a look at the labels on the tins and packets. Look on the labels found on the back of most things and look at the total carbohydrate number. If you do that across a lot of things it will give you a good idea of what things are low and what things are high. The knack is then to try and base meals mostly around low things. To begin with I based loads of meals around 250g of cheap frozen mixed veg and then added meat or whatever to that.