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What to eat and what not to eat please.

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Nige118

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Tablets (oral)
Hello everyone I'm new to the forum, only diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 5 days ago. If anyone could give me any useful information of foods to eat and foods not to eat. Kind regards.
 
@Nige118 welcome to the forum pleased you've found us and that you are looking at ways of turning your health round. it can seem overwhelming to start with but a fair few of us on here have counted carbs and kept them low to put ourselves back to lower blood sugar levels. A good quick place to start would be working out which foods are high carb and which low try looking at these visual charts to start making lower carb choices.
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/visual-guides
I'm sure you'll get lots of advice and support on here just keep asking and read some of the success stories on here to get inspired about what's possible
You don't say what your hba1c was on diagnosis but even high scores can be turned around. Personally mine was 97 on diagnosis but I've maintained it at normal levels now in the 30s for last 5+ years by eating low carb and managing my stress and sleep better.
 
Nige118 said:
Hello everyone I'm new to the forum, only diagnosed with type 2 diabetes 5 days ago. If anyone could give me any useful information of foods to eat and foods not to eat. Kind regards.
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Hi Nige118 and welcome to the forums. At lot of us here have had great success with low carb eating, I'm one of them. There's a "success stories" forum on here which has details. If you go down that path (I'd recommend it) the basic issue is to reduce your carbohydrate intake. That means cutting down on rice, pasta, bread, sugar, most fruit, most heavily processed food, and root vegetables. I'd advise looking at the diet doctor website which has information on how much carb each food contains. The website this forum is attached to also does a "low-carb program" to help with this.

I'd also advise getting a blood glucose meter and testing before and two hours after meals. That shows the impact particular foods have on your blood glucose levels. You may not have been told about testing or been advised not to test. Testing is however the only way to see how you're getting on. Your HbA1c tests will be months apart, but the fingerprick tests shows how how you're doing now. It's like setting off on a journey and not checking your map for hours. If you've a Satnav running it stops you making a wrong turn right at the beginning. By all means check the satnav against the map, but by doing the fingerprick tests there shouldn't be any surprises and you'll see your progress.

I'm tagging @Rachox who has a list of available meters.

This forum is a great source of advice and support. You'll find a range of opinions and approaches, and it's important to find the one that works for you. Best of luck.
 
Hello everyone I'm new to the forum, only diagnosed with type 2 diabetes since 7 years ago. If anyone could give me any useful information of foods/fruits/vegetables/ beans/grains to eat and foods/fruit/vegetables/beans/grains not to eat.
Best regards
Gholamreza Siah Dousti
 
Welcome @Nige118 & @Siah Dousti
All of our food contains three macronutrients, protein, fat and carbohydrates.
When we eat carbohydrates they are broken down into sugar that our bodies have trouble using.
We have no trouble eating the other two macronutrients, protein and fat. If you base your diet around protein, healthy fats and lower carb above ground vegetables and avoid higher carb foods like bread, pasta, cereals, rice and the starchy veg like potato, sweet potato, parsnips, you should have better control of your sugar levels.
Here's a few links to useful websites and check out the link for the "Nutritional thingy" at the bottom of my post
https://lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk/
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb
https://www.bloodsugar101.com/
 
I mix and match from this list, i can always build a meal out of them on a moderate low carb healthy fat way of eating.

Beef, pork, lamb, mutton, goat, bacon, eggs, chicken, fish, seafood, cheese, butter, greek yoghurt.. Various salad stuff, small porrtions of veggies.

We a can also get a low carb bread here which I eat as well.
 
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