ou can then continue testing as you introduce lower carb meals. After a while you can reduce the testing once you have a better understanding of what spikes BS
Eventually he will learn what he can and can't eat to keep BS down.
Hi, @seadragon I am very planing to follow the method you described to reduce my carbs daily in order to lower my BS level, basically to do testing, adjusting, refining. Wonder how long this process may take, say, are two months long enough ?
I have never done this kind of testing before, like to know more about the whole process.
Thanks
Avoid all carbs to reduce blood sugars. Avoid eating bread, including brown bread, nan bread. Avoid eating rice. Avoid eating breakfast cereals including bran flakes as they are pure carbs. For some low carbs meal ideas check out www.dietdoctor.comMy dad is T2 and on glicliside - (possible near to insulin, as levels still high) trying to bring his levels down at the moment, they are always usually about 10ish or above. He is really struggling trying to bring them down. He doesn't check levels in the morning,should he? Doc said don't take levels too often as they will fluctuate. He was unwell recently and not eating and that's when his levels were lowest. He is trying to cut out carbs and checks sugar level on most things he is eating but as soon as he starts eating again after being unwell his levels go up. He's unsure y? He ate brown bread and butter, bran flakes and a few bruschetta bites (low in sugar he thinks) Level was 12.6. Had a curry with some rice and a little nan etc later and 1.5 hrs later his level was 10.2 but he was expecting it to be even higher than the 12.6. Very confusing?!
Avoid all carbs to reduce blood sugars. Avoid eating bread, including brown bread, nan bread. Avoid eating rice. Avoid eating breakfast cereals including bran flakes as they are pure carbs. For some low carbs meal ideas check out www.dietdoctor.com
If you lower your intake of carbs you should see a difference next day - the consequences will stack up over the following days weeks and months, but lowering carbs one day will mean you wake next morning without having had to try to cope with them - a better situation to be in.Hi, @seadragon I am very planing to follow the method you described to reduce my carbs daily in order to lower my BS level, basically to do testing, adjusting, refining. Wonder how long this process may take, say, are two months long enough ?
I have never done this kind of testing before, like to know more about the whole process.
Thanks
I think I tested and kept a food diary religiously for a couple of months - then if I was eating foods I knew were 'safe' I wouldn't bother testing. Now over two years of low carbing I am aware of what foods I can safely eat and what foods will spike me, so I tend to only test in the mornings (I suffer from the dawn phenomenon so I like to see my morning fasting readings) or if I have eaten something different and want to see it's effects. Also sometimes I admit I give in to temptation and then I test after a meal and if it's higher than I'd like then I will usually do a brisk walk for 20 minutes or so which in my case usually brings blood sugars down to within 'safe' limits which I take to be lower than 7.8 mmol. My golden rule is to never go to bed on a level above 7.0. i have found that for me walking around (indoors or on the spot if necessary) will immediately reduce BS levels.Hi, @seadragon I am very planing to follow the method you described to reduce my carbs daily in order to lower my BS level, basically to do testing, adjusting, refining. Wonder how long this process may take, say, are two months long enough ?
I have never done this kind of testing before, like to know more about the whole process.
Thanks
I advise it's done slowly. It's not a race.
The arteries don't like fast changes. He should start by changing his breakfast first.
Give him eggs, no bread or beans. Maybe a bit bacon or ham, for now.
What does he drink?
Of course water is better. Although I cannot talk I drink diet lemonade some days.He drinks diet iron bru most of the time.
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