Hi
@chris, Welcome. Yes it is confusing, their is much misinformation out there, on here you will find we follow a variety of diets, with diabetes their is no one size fits all. we have to do what is good for our own blood glucose (BG) levels. Personally I have reduced my carbs a lot but I don't do low carb, I also do normal fats, ie I wont eat anything that is not naturally low fat, eg low fat yogurts, 3 reasons texture, taste and most importantly for me usually more carbs than the full fat version.
It sounds like you need some in between meal snacks and or perhaps larger portions of certain parts of your meal, IMO its no good cutting out/down on parts of your meal ie potatoes and not replacing them with something else, for instance more meat, veg or substituting with something else. for instance some here have cauli rice instead of rice, I'll have a couple of new potatoes instead of mash plus more veg, some have Bergen bread or Liddle high protein rolls instead of bread , I seem to be ok with wholemeal bread
To be perfectly honest unless you test your BG, you will be flying blind in what affects your BGs badly, I know they do the HB1ac blood test and usually tell us that's all that's needed but that only gives an average over the past 12 or so weeks And a blood bg meter often tells us a different story.
I don't know if you are testing or not, if your practice wont provide you with a meter and test strips, sadly most wont unless you are on meds that can cause hypo's (low BG) , many here use the SD Codfree meter available from Amazon Or directly from Homehealth , it has the cheapest testing strips that we know of, £8 for 50 compared to
£15 - £25
we use the mmol/L measurement in the uk and you're entitled to claim VAT relief
I hope you find this helpful
