Type 3c and eating wrong!

Heya DemonBat.
Like you, I am also type 3c and have been since Aug 2021. My blood sugar levels are in general really good. If you're going to eat ready meals, you need to try and make sure they are both low in sugar and low in fat. I'm guessing that you take Creon when you eat anything? If not, as far as I know, it's something you need. A lot of foods have a traffic light system on the ingredients. As long as the meal is either green for both sugar and fat, or yellow for one and green for the other, that's all good. At a push you could have one that has yellow colour for both, but don't eat something with yellow for both 2 days in a row. If I can be of any help, please feel free to message me.

MissMuffett said:

Hi @DemonBat i know it’s so difficult and to think it’s not worth bothering. It’s so easy to reach for the convenience foods just to stop us feeling hungry. I’m in a similar situation as I’m on my own now and can’t be bothered sometime. My daughter lives on her own and she batch cooks on a Sunday afternoon so she has something to eat when she gets home from work. I’m doing a similar thing now but with low carb. I’ve recently started roasting joints of meat; chicken, pork, lamb, so I can have a portion with salad or roast cauliflower, green beans, broccoli or just on its own. I don’t mind having the same thing for a few nights on the trot. I’ve just found a recipe for tuna melts - can of tuna drained, 1/4 cup of grated cheese, 1 egg. Mix everything together, divide into 4 patties and fry in butter on each side until slighty crisp. Give it a go. Also I’ve got rid of all ‘bad’ food from my fridge and cupboards so I’m not tempted.

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Hi carbs (Carbs, are found in foods like bread, rice, pasta, fruits, vegetables, and sweets) turn into sugar so try and limit them. The problem is sugar is known to be addictive. You could try substituting for Greek yoghurt, cheese, nuts, hard boiled eggs, meat, berries, If you’ve indulged in carbs then go do some exercise or go for a walk, straight afterwards… this will bring your numbers down. Good luck.

There are people on this forum Demonbat who could help, but I am not sure you are in the frame of mind to welcome it as you still seem to be eating only cake, energy drinks etc that you were over 2 months ago. I have been type 3c ( don’t think 3c was a drop-down option when I joined this site) for over 10 years following sepsis/ acute pancreatitis, and lost 3 stones soon after without trying. Until very recently I was completely treated as though a type 2, and never offered creon. I have had a Libre 2 continuous blood glucose monitor since Jan., which I presume you too also use since you refer to being ‘in the red/high ‘hi’’, can you start helping yourself by using this information better? I am slowly learning what foods/ drinks affect blood glucose more than others, and how order or combinations of eating makes BG change. For eg Crisps have no affect, but white flour and sugar in cake etc sends my BG vertical and very high, but also near vertical decline in a spike. I was told by my diabetic nurses that I could eat cake etc whenever I like, but just had to adjust the short dose insulin dose beforehand, but the shock of seeing what a coffee Victoria sponge did to my BG has largely put me off that type of eating. Some foods, with no/ few carbs like nuts or cheese ( might not suit your guts, but might be worth a try) act like a ‘buffer’, keeping me full, without BG spikes. Is there nothing unsweet or unprocessed you could try eating, and seeing how the Libre monitor reacts over the following few hours, as a starter to improve your BG hypers? I have incidentally been an intermittent faster 5x a week (fast for 16 hours a day) for a year…that sent the diabetic nurses rather anxious for a while!

Ps Autoantbodies testing will determine if you are type 1 or type 2. Worth checking if you don’t know. I’m type 1 but not requiring insulin injections and I take 250 mg of Metformin daily. I try and stick to a healthy low carb diet and go for a short walk after meals to keep those pesky numbers down. If I go for longer walks my numbers can get dangerously low so always have some glucose with me.

DemonBat said:

Hi, just over 12 months ago I was told I was diabetic. The diabetic nurse tried to tell me I was T2 but when I told her I knew I was T3c, the reply came back “there isn’t such a thing as T3c” !!! Anyway, I am T3c but I just can’t stop eating biscuits, cakes, ice cream, sweets, frozen desserts etc and the only thing I drink is Relentless (energy drink) it’s very rare my glucose levels are below 13 mmol/L
My HbA1c level is high at around 9.7% or 83 mmol/mol.
I’ve not had anyone talk to me about food, as in a diabetic dietitian. The man I see every 3 months about my diabetes, tells me to come on here and look at some of the recipes. Problem is, I live alone and can’t see the point cooking for one, I’m a very fussy eater and I suffer with severe depression. I find it hard to look after myself day to day as it is without cooking. I’ve read that people say eat nuts… I don’t like them. Avocado… Don’t like them …. I just don’t know what to do other than to give up and just carry on as I am!! While I’m typing this, my glucose level is 17.9 mmol/L
Has anyone got any suggestions please?? I’d really appreciate it. Thanks x

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Snack on pumpkin seeds,cottage cheese crackers,red grapes,high protein / low carb,(under 35 g per day, Brown rice! Wholegrain/ brown bread not white, omega 3 fats,fish, salmon etc .lots of different suitable diets and recipes,lots of sugar free substitute also