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<blockquote data-quote="xyzzy" data-source="post: 480883" data-attributes="member: 40343"><p>Don't get down hearted. As you are new to this and presumably haven't paid much attention to carbs you're bound to find that at the moment you are really sensitive to them and will get large spikes from even small quantities of sugar and starchy foods.</p><p></p><p>The easiest way is at this stage to avoid sugar entirely and limit (say initially halve) your intake of starchy foods such as rice, pasta, bread, cereals (including porridge) and any thing that contains flour such as pastry etc. Try swapping to brown versions of everything you can on what's left. Use your meter and try to get to a point where after two hours your level is no more than 2 above where it started from. If you do that then you should start to see all the numbers begin to drop over a period of days or even weeks. It took me 6 to 8 weeks of effectively removing the majority of the starchy foods from my diet to get back to having safe bg levels. Once you've found your tolerance you can then adjust your carbs up and down as appropriate as after you've got control things get easier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xyzzy, post: 480883, member: 40343"] Don't get down hearted. As you are new to this and presumably haven't paid much attention to carbs you're bound to find that at the moment you are really sensitive to them and will get large spikes from even small quantities of sugar and starchy foods. The easiest way is at this stage to avoid sugar entirely and limit (say initially halve) your intake of starchy foods such as rice, pasta, bread, cereals (including porridge) and any thing that contains flour such as pastry etc. Try swapping to brown versions of everything you can on what's left. Use your meter and try to get to a point where after two hours your level is no more than 2 above where it started from. If you do that then you should start to see all the numbers begin to drop over a period of days or even weeks. It took me 6 to 8 weeks of effectively removing the majority of the starchy foods from my diet to get back to having safe bg levels. Once you've found your tolerance you can then adjust your carbs up and down as appropriate as after you've got control things get easier. [/QUOTE]
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