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Hi All,
I was told I have Type 2 after a couple of blood tests, that was about 3 weeks ago.
Since then I have cut right down on my carbs, the practice nurse advised me to stick to 8 portions of 15g Carbs a day.
Glucose levels have come down but still over 6, the good thing is I have lost over a stone already(16stone 8lb to 15 stone 5lb in 3 weeks).
My question is this after counting carbs for the last 3 weeks and keeping a food diary I now find out about "Usable Carbs",
where if I understand it correctly you take the grams of fibre off the grams of total carbs to reach "usable carbs".
Or should I just be using Carbs "of which sugars" ? I was never confused
So is it "A".Total Carbs. "B".Total Carbs minus Fibre. or "C".Carbs of which sugars.
Cheers
latchy
I was told I have Type 2 after a couple of blood tests, that was about 3 weeks ago.
Since then I have cut right down on my carbs, the practice nurse advised me to stick to 8 portions of 15g Carbs a day.
Glucose levels have come down but still over 6, the good thing is I have lost over a stone already(16stone 8lb to 15 stone 5lb in 3 weeks).
My question is this after counting carbs for the last 3 weeks and keeping a food diary I now find out about "Usable Carbs",
where if I understand it correctly you take the grams of fibre off the grams of total carbs to reach "usable carbs".
Or should I just be using Carbs "of which sugars" ? I was never confused
So is it "A".Total Carbs. "B".Total Carbs minus Fibre. or "C".Carbs of which sugars.
Cheers
latchy