Just interested in what other people are doing with their meals compared to what i do
I have been diagnosed with Type 2 almost a year now - i'm 31 yearold male - I take 2 metformin a day - I have gone from 10 st 8 to 9 st 4 in the year since diagnosis - my test result was 7.3 on diagnosis and 10.8 two hours after the Lucozade drink - Getting diabetes really gave me a wake up call and since then have tried to eat more healthy with lots of vegatables and fruit in my diet (i used to eat none, just junk food every meal) - I was given 100 strips at diagnosis and told i could have no more so i used these to help me check what was good and bad etc etc (the info they give you is terrible) anyway i found that eating a bunch of carbs like a lasagne, big bowl pasta, lots of spagetti with bolenese etc etc did make my blood sugar go up quite high - So anyway what i do is try and eat no more than about 50g carbs in one sitting and no more than about 140g per day - my last Hba1c in december was 5.6 so im sticking to this - I would be really really interested to know what you are doing and what a typical meal day for you is like - Obviously what works for some doesn't work for others
Typical eating day for me would be something like
Breakfast
a sausage or some slices of meat with 2 rivita crackers (5g carb per cracker) 1 apple
Lunch
half tin of soup or reduced salt/ sugar beans with spinach leaves and some pepper (i use pepper alot), a sandwich (2 slices burgen linseed bread (10g carb 1 slice) which i fill with LOTS of leafy crispy salad and maybe cheese or cooked meat, an apple
Tea
Sometimes i make a curry or maybe chicken stir fry - I basically cook a dish with meat and lots of veg say 2 or 3 maybe peppers, mushrooms, carrots, corn,spinach,onion, tomato, kidney beans - i will have a bit of rice but not alot only a very small amount or if no rice maybe 1 wholemeal pitta bread, - sometimes maybe have an omelette containing lots of cooked ham or cheese and vegetables
Evening snack
usually something like 2 rivita crackers with cheese, olives, pickled onions, few peanuts or maybe a small bowl of branflakes/museli/shreddies with nuts and dry fruit
My big miss is Pizza but i do allow myself to have pizza maybe once a month as a treat - it has to be a very thin one and i only eat the amount of it that would be 50-60g carbs (usually about 2 3rds of a very thin one) and i tend to put loads of extra topping on it to compensate and have that with some leafy salad
I have been diagnosed with Type 2 almost a year now - i'm 31 yearold male - I take 2 metformin a day - I have gone from 10 st 8 to 9 st 4 in the year since diagnosis - my test result was 7.3 on diagnosis and 10.8 two hours after the Lucozade drink - Getting diabetes really gave me a wake up call and since then have tried to eat more healthy with lots of vegatables and fruit in my diet (i used to eat none, just junk food every meal) - I was given 100 strips at diagnosis and told i could have no more so i used these to help me check what was good and bad etc etc (the info they give you is terrible) anyway i found that eating a bunch of carbs like a lasagne, big bowl pasta, lots of spagetti with bolenese etc etc did make my blood sugar go up quite high - So anyway what i do is try and eat no more than about 50g carbs in one sitting and no more than about 140g per day - my last Hba1c in december was 5.6 so im sticking to this - I would be really really interested to know what you are doing and what a typical meal day for you is like - Obviously what works for some doesn't work for others
Typical eating day for me would be something like
Breakfast
a sausage or some slices of meat with 2 rivita crackers (5g carb per cracker) 1 apple
Lunch
half tin of soup or reduced salt/ sugar beans with spinach leaves and some pepper (i use pepper alot), a sandwich (2 slices burgen linseed bread (10g carb 1 slice) which i fill with LOTS of leafy crispy salad and maybe cheese or cooked meat, an apple
Tea
Sometimes i make a curry or maybe chicken stir fry - I basically cook a dish with meat and lots of veg say 2 or 3 maybe peppers, mushrooms, carrots, corn,spinach,onion, tomato, kidney beans - i will have a bit of rice but not alot only a very small amount or if no rice maybe 1 wholemeal pitta bread, - sometimes maybe have an omelette containing lots of cooked ham or cheese and vegetables
Evening snack
usually something like 2 rivita crackers with cheese, olives, pickled onions, few peanuts or maybe a small bowl of branflakes/museli/shreddies with nuts and dry fruit
My big miss is Pizza but i do allow myself to have pizza maybe once a month as a treat - it has to be a very thin one and i only eat the amount of it that would be 50-60g carbs (usually about 2 3rds of a very thin one) and i tend to put loads of extra topping on it to compensate and have that with some leafy salad