I suppose it's laziness, but I don't go looking at all the info on packaged foods. If I'm hungry, I eat, but I don't eat any of the recognised HC foods or sugary foods/drinks - NO bread, chips (UK - fries US), rice, root veg, beer, white wine, etc., etc. and I don't eat huge portions, either. I exercise and eat veg, salad, meat, cheese, etc., etc. and so on. As I write my BG is 9.6 an hour after eating my evening meal - chicken Kiev with a few peas and a cup of tea - yes, there were a few breadcrumbs on the chicken, but minimal on the carb-count scale, surely! I'm looking forward to the comments from my family round the Christmas dinner-table as I eat a portion of turkey, sprouts, a few peas and a little gravy. No roast or boiled spuds, parsnips, stuffing, carrots, cranberry sauce, etc. What a good boy I'll be.....until the Christmas pud arrives, and then I'll be very, very naughty!No, the buns, oats, and corn chips all come in packages that give you carb and calorie amounts by quantity-like one whole wheat bun is 20 carbs, 1 packet of oatmeal is 24 carbs, 15 corn chips =24 carbs and like that. The french fries I count how many I eat and look it up on McDonald's website-I think I ate half an order of small fries so I just divided the carb and calories amounts in half to get the values I ate. By the way those were not my best dietary choices and except for the oatmeal I rarely eat them anymore.
I can eat 80-100 carbs over a day with no problem the next morning. I am on metformin and lantus currently. My BG skyrockets even if I eat nothing without these medications. If I exercise more than usual I can occasionally eat up to 130 carbs per day, about 45 at one time and still stay below 7.0 fasting if I am well. The whole reason I began counting carbs and calories again though was because I was having too many BG readings over 7.0 fasting and over 8.6 two hours after meals. I felt I needed to go back to basics to get a handle on it again.
I do not actually weigh anything but I do measure volumes of things-like 1 cup or 1 Tablespoon. Today was our Thanksgiving Day which I spent with family I do not see very often-I tried to eat sensibly but I ended up at the end of the day home again with a much higher than usual BG reading at this time of the evening. I am a caregiver so can not go out to exercise, and my gym is closed on this holiday anyway, but will do some extra exercise here at home to try to bring my BG down. If my BG readings are decent over the next few days I will only count and measure for new foods but I already know what my standard foods do to my BG with my current medication at my current weight so do not need to pay so close attention to them. I hope that helps clarify for you-if you have further questions please ask me.
I suppose it's laziness, but I don't go looking at all the info on packaged foods. If I'm hungry, I eat, but I don't eat any of the recognised HC foods or sugary foods/drinks - NO bread, chips (UK - fries US), rice, root veg, beer, white wine, etc., etc. and I don't eat huge portions, either. I exercise and eat veg, salad, meat, cheese, etc., etc. and so on. As I write my BG is 9.6 an hour after eating my evening meal - chicken Kiev with a few peas and a cup of tea - yes, there were a few breadcrumbs on the chicken, but minimal on the carb-count scale, surely! I'm looking forward to the comments from my family round the Christmas dinner-table as I eat a portion of turkey, sprouts, a few peas and a little gravy. No roast or boiled spuds, parsnips, stuffing, carrots, cranberry sauce, etc. What a good boy I'll be.....until the Christmas pud arrives, and then I'll be very, very naughty!
Incidentally, my food intake today consisted of beef burgers for breakfast (there was nothing else suitable left in my 'fridge), lunch was fish soup and a stir-fry of mainly vegetables with a little bacon thrown in and the chicken Kiev mentioned above for my evening meal - and now a stiff single malt Scotch, just because I like it.
I have'nt eaten anything today as yet waiting until 8:00 pm to check blood sugar is below 100mg/dl then Ill have a small salad with a small chicken breast with some melted butterShare what you've eaten today with the rest of the DCUK community and maybe steal a few ideas for yourself!
Low carb contributions are of course welcomed, but please keep in mind that this is not the low carb diet section, and debates about diet should be kept out of this thread. Happy posting!
An interesting experimental eating and testing day today with some surprising results!
B: coffee & pecan muffin (BS before 6.0 +2hrs 5.1)
L: charcoal crackers + A LOT of cheese! (BS before 5.1 still +2hrs 5.7)
S: custard slice (so this is going to send it off the radar, right? BS before 5.7 +2hrs 6.6)
D: beef coconut curry, cauli rice
I'm not really sure what to conclude from this, other than unless you test, you really can't tell what is going on. Am going to experiment with some porridge tomorrow.
Must confess I was very surprised by the custard slice too!! Porridge was also ok. Bs went from 6.3 to 7.6 at +2hrs so will allow myself some every so often. Thinking that the full fat milk and cream I made it with may have helped.Wow! Great result with that custard slice.How did you get on with the porridge.
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