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rebrascora
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Hi Justine and welcome.
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis but pleased you have found the forum for support. Have they given you any medication or are you trying lifestyle changes first?
If you have any questions, no matter how trivial you think they might be, do feel free to ask them. You might get half a dozen slightly different answers, but reading them will help you figure out what the right one might be for you. Diabetes can be quite individual, so there is no one right way 🙄.... just the one that works for you.
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis but pleased you have found the forum for support. Have they given you any medication or are you trying lifestyle changes first?
If you have any questions, no matter how trivial you think they might be, do feel free to ask them. You might get half a dozen slightly different answers, but reading them will help you figure out what the right one might be for you. Diabetes can be quite individual, so there is no one right way 🙄.... just the one that works for you.
Hi. I have been given metformin, just waiting on it to be delivered, one three weeks into slimming world (referred by gp) and have lost 8lbs already, I am still overweight but plan to see this weight loss through. I have also recently given up smoking so lifestyle changes are in progress also.Hi Justine and welcome.
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis but pleased you have found the forum for support. Have they given you any medication or are you trying lifestyle changes first?
If you have any questions, no matter how trivial you think they might be, do feel free to ask them. You might get half a dozen slightly different answers, but reading them will help you figure out what the right one might be for you. Diabetes can be quite individual, so there is no one right way 🙄.... just the one that works for you.
Thankyou do your reply xx
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Oh! Very well done with quitting smoking and great weight loss progress. You need to be a bit careful with Slimming World as they do sometimes encourage people to eat more carbs than would be good for a Type 2 diabetic, so you have to keep that in mind when you are choosing meals. Just to clarify, diabetes isn't just about sugar, but all carbohydrates sugary and starchy turn to glucose in our digestive system and are absorbed into our blood stream where we as diabetics, struggle to metabolise or store them, so our BG levels rise. SW sometimes promote high carb "free foods" like pasta or baked potato which would raise our BG levels, even the brown/wholemeal/skin on ones, so we have to keep portions of bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, breakfast cereals etc a bit smaller to reduce the amount of glucose going into our blood stream. It helped me to think about a medium slice of wholemeal bread which is about 15g carbs as the equivalent of 3 teaspoons of sugar, so your average 2 slice sandwich has as much glucose from the flour used to make it (not actual sugar) as 6 teaspoons of sugar and then maybe a bit from the filling depending upon what you put in it. I thought I had a healthy diet eating lots of wholemeal bread and things like beans on toast but it was putting a massive amount of glucose into my system..... and worse still, it was making me hungry, so I wanted to eat more. Now I follow a low carb diet, I no longer feel hungry. I still enjoy my food but I am not always looking for what I can eat next and needing snacks. I eat less now than I did before but I don't feel hungry now whereas, the more I ate, the more I wanted before. Not saying SW is no good for you, but you do have to think about modifying it slightly for your diabetes.
Good luck with your continued success and do ask if there is anything you don't understand.
Good luck with your continued success and do ask if there is anything you don't understand.
nonethewiser
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Wife did SW after being told she was prediabetic, she went on to lose 5 stone & thankfully all bloods have been normal since, so keep weight loss going & maybe you could reverse diagnosis.
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Welcome to the forum @Justine
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis
The feelings you describe are perfectly natural - even if they may have felt quite shocking. Some people liken a diagnosis with a long term condition like diabetes to a form of grieving, with the torrent of emotions that can involve - including anger, bargaining, denial, depression, and acceptance.
Sounds like you have made some very positive changes so far - and that you are already seeing positive effect.
One of the biggest questions when trying to get to grips with your diabetes is often ‘what can I eat’ and while there are obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks that you will want to cut out straight away, you might be surprised how much *all* carbohydrate affects your BG levels, including rice, pasta, potatoes, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits.
Many new members find it can be really helpful to keep a wholly honest food diary for a week or two. Note down everything you eat and drink, along with a reasonable estimate of the total carbohydrate content in your meals and snacks - it’s total carbohydrate that best predicts glucose response to food rather than ‘of which sugars’. It will involve weighing portions, squinting at the fine print on packaging, and possibly looking up things on the internet, and might sound like a bit of a faff, but it will give you a really good idea of which foods are the main sources of carbs in your menu.
Once you can see which meals or snacks are your ‘big hitters’, and where carbs might be unexpectedly lurking, the process might also suggest some likely candidates for swaps, portion reductions, or using lower carb alternatives (eg celeriac or swede mash, or cauli ‘rice’).
We’ve had a few members who have successfully used and adapted SW to successfully help manage their diabetes.
Good luck! And let us know how you get on 🙂
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis
The feelings you describe are perfectly natural - even if they may have felt quite shocking. Some people liken a diagnosis with a long term condition like diabetes to a form of grieving, with the torrent of emotions that can involve - including anger, bargaining, denial, depression, and acceptance.
Sounds like you have made some very positive changes so far - and that you are already seeing positive effect.
One of the biggest questions when trying to get to grips with your diabetes is often ‘what can I eat’ and while there are obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks that you will want to cut out straight away, you might be surprised how much *all* carbohydrate affects your BG levels, including rice, pasta, potatoes, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits.
Many new members find it can be really helpful to keep a wholly honest food diary for a week or two. Note down everything you eat and drink, along with a reasonable estimate of the total carbohydrate content in your meals and snacks - it’s total carbohydrate that best predicts glucose response to food rather than ‘of which sugars’. It will involve weighing portions, squinting at the fine print on packaging, and possibly looking up things on the internet, and might sound like a bit of a faff, but it will give you a really good idea of which foods are the main sources of carbs in your menu.
Once you can see which meals or snacks are your ‘big hitters’, and where carbs might be unexpectedly lurking, the process might also suggest some likely candidates for swaps, portion reductions, or using lower carb alternatives (eg celeriac or swede mash, or cauli ‘rice’).
We’ve had a few members who have successfully used and adapted SW to successfully help manage their diabetes.
Good luck! And let us know how you get on 🙂
I spoke to my sw consultant on Friday, and they have a special pack for diabetics which she is going to give me on Tuesday at meeting, I’m lucky in a way that mum is type 2 so have a little awareness about the carbs which is handy. I also have an appointment booked for nurse on the 28th so will get more info then too. I also know I need to watch my fruit which is a pain as I’ve had a thing for grapes and apples lately lol xx
Aww she’s done so Wel xx
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If you can combine weight loss with watching your carb intake that should show some good improvement. Many who follow a low carb regime have no more than 130g total carbs per day so you can see how the SW program compares. You may need to make a few substitutions if it looks a bit much.
But whatever works for you and is enjoyable and sustainable long term is what is important.
Absolutely I’m pretty good at substituting things in an out of recipes, very fussy partner lol this looks like a good place for help too xx
Thankyou. I will be getting the info Tuesday of the swaps etc from sw so that should help. Yeah but if shock but I think having already made a few cha he’s it’s not gonna be as much of a blow to make changes needed. I do t know whether I’ll be monitoring blood sugar daily as of yet, as the earliest appt with nurse is 28th xxWelcome to the forum @Justine
Sorry to hear about your diagnosis
The feelings you describe are perfectly natural - even if they may have felt quite shocking. Some people liken a diagnosis with a long term condition like diabetes to a form of grieving, with the torrent of emotions that can involve - including anger, bargaining, denial, depression, and acceptance.
Sounds like you have made some very positive changes so far - and that you are already seeing positive effect.
One of the biggest questions when trying to get to grips with your diabetes is often ‘what can I eat’ and while there are obvious things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and sugary drinks that you will want to cut out straight away, you might be surprised how much *all* carbohydrate affects your BG levels, including rice, pasta, potatoes, bread, pastry, grains, cereals and many fruits.
Many new members find it can be really helpful to keep a wholly honest food diary for a week or two. Note down everything you eat and drink, along with a reasonable estimate of the total carbohydrate content in your meals and snacks - it’s total carbohydrate that best predicts glucose response to food rather than ‘of which sugars’. It will involve weighing portions, squinting at the fine print on packaging, and possibly looking up things on the internet, and might sound like a bit of a faff, but it will give you a really good idea of which foods are the main sources of carbs in your menu.
Once you can see which meals or snacks are your ‘big hitters’, and where carbs might be unexpectedly lurking, the process might also suggest some likely candidates for swaps, portion reductions, or using lower carb alternatives (eg celeriac or swede mash, or cauli ‘rice’).
We’ve had a few members who have successfully used and adapted SW to successfully help manage their diabetes.
Good luck! And let us know how you get on 🙂
nonethewiser
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So have you, keep at it.
Hello I know its easy to blame yourself from past mistakes but look at it as a positive at 32 I got diagnosed with type 2 mody my symptoms was vision loss was so scary but ite been a massive kick up the bum to stop sugar change my diet and in reality I think its the best thing to happen to me because its give me will power I never stuck with
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