On 7 November I stopped eating bread except Ryvita,I have no pasta, no pastry, no potatoes, no added sugar, no rice. This was because my GP saw a reading of 139 and with no talk of diet or metformin put me straight on half dosage Eucreas tablets.
I have decided to go the diet route.
Twelve days after my last blood test gave 139 BG my latest reading was 120.
In 23 days I've lost nearly 8 pounds weight. I bought an exercise bike. I had never sat on one before. I am totally nonathletic.
Now I cycle 4.5 Km at least once a day.
Next stage will be finishing off all the sugar laden jars of pasta sauces. I do not want to throw out good food ---it will probably just not be replaced. And I have a trick to eat very little but still taste it.
I've become a keen jar label reader. I used to eat half a jar of Mango chutney with curry I used to make about every 5 weeks. Half a jar is 77 GRAMS OF SUGAR. Thailand made Sweet Chilli Sauce is basically pure liquid sugar with crushed chilli flakes suspended in it. That will have to be thrown away.
The attention to detail needed is high I find. I had a full English fry up the other morning. 2 eggs and sausages and bacon plus Tomato plus mushrooms plus hash brown toast and a tube of brown sauce was my reward for my reading of 120. But I ate less than half the hash brown and brown sauce and a quarter of the slice of toast. This was my intake reduction system. I cannot believe i have such self control.
Please if anyone has a comment I will be grateful. Can I realistically expect to keep lowering my BG ? Are there any problems with a carb free (almost ) diet. I think I prefer to cut it all out instead of trying to reduce it . I just cannot face testing all the time . But I worry if i should worry about spikes. I don't understand that business really.
Thank you for reading.
I have decided to go the diet route.
Twelve days after my last blood test gave 139 BG my latest reading was 120.
In 23 days I've lost nearly 8 pounds weight. I bought an exercise bike. I had never sat on one before. I am totally nonathletic.
Now I cycle 4.5 Km at least once a day.
Next stage will be finishing off all the sugar laden jars of pasta sauces. I do not want to throw out good food ---it will probably just not be replaced. And I have a trick to eat very little but still taste it.
I've become a keen jar label reader. I used to eat half a jar of Mango chutney with curry I used to make about every 5 weeks. Half a jar is 77 GRAMS OF SUGAR. Thailand made Sweet Chilli Sauce is basically pure liquid sugar with crushed chilli flakes suspended in it. That will have to be thrown away.
The attention to detail needed is high I find. I had a full English fry up the other morning. 2 eggs and sausages and bacon plus Tomato plus mushrooms plus hash brown toast and a tube of brown sauce was my reward for my reading of 120. But I ate less than half the hash brown and brown sauce and a quarter of the slice of toast. This was my intake reduction system. I cannot believe i have such self control.
Please if anyone has a comment I will be grateful. Can I realistically expect to keep lowering my BG ? Are there any problems with a carb free (almost ) diet. I think I prefer to cut it all out instead of trying to reduce it . I just cannot face testing all the time . But I worry if i should worry about spikes. I don't understand that business really.
Thank you for reading.