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[SueEK]

hi all, have just joined the group and spent quite a bit of time looking through posts, particularly to do with food. I’ve gathered the worst things to have are carbs and obviously sugar. What on earth do people have for breakfast. I thought I would be ok with weetabix as would normally have two pieces of toast but it seems I shouldn’t have cereal either, virtually no fruit either. Could, I have some suggestions please, only diagnosed 6 weeks ago and getting more bewildered as the days go on. Thanks

 

[trophywench]

Protein Sue, that's what they eat. You might not entirely have to dump every bit of carb in your repertoire, if a reduced amount doesn't cause your BG to soar - that's why it's a good idea generally to invest in a blood glucose meter.

So you can see exactly what that amount of whatever carbs you eat, does to your pre-meal reading - if it sends it too high, reduce it. What would one piece of toast do or one Weetabix? etc. What if that one slice of toast was a low carb bread instead of Warburton's sliced?

 

[Madeline]

Yep, nice big plate of scrambled eggs, or what I usually go for, as I can’t do ‘food’ early is a bowl of full fat greek yoghurt and a few blueberries for flavour. Berries best for fruit, I’m ok with a few (and I mean a few, 8 or less, not a handful!), but test before and after and you’ll find out what you can tolerate. Some can cope at Burgen bread, or rye, I can treat myself occasionally with that, but it’s better as an afternoon thing for me. Or a small portion of oats - cut better than rolled, and not instant or quick ones, but again you’ll need to test to find your limits.

 

[SueEK]

Thanks Jenny, I have a meter and did pre meal reading this morning at 8, 2 hours after seeded whole meal toast it was 11.4.

 

[SueEK]

Yep, nice big plate of scrambled eggs, or what I usually go for, as I can’t do ‘food’ early is a bowl of full fat greek yoghurt and a few blueberries for flavour. Berries best for fruit, I’m ok with a few (and I mean a few, 8 or less, not a handful!), but test before and after and you’ll find out what you can tolerate. Some can cope at Burgen bread, or rye, I can treat myself occasionally with that, but it’s better as an afternoon thing for me. Or a small portion of oats - cut better than rolled, and not instant or quick ones, but again you’ll need to test to find your limits.

Thanks Madeline, I don’t like Greek yoghurt but may try whisking some raspberries in, at the moment it just seems so boring, guess I need to get my head around it all.

 

[silentsquirrel]

Eggs in any way; full English but leaving out bread/toast/hash browns/beans, and sausage needs to be high % meat so lower carbs than cheaper ones with lots of rusk as filler; ham or other cooked meat, cheese, tomatoes; full fat Greek yogurt with a few berries. Smoked fish eg salmon - good with eggs.

I cannot eat plain porridge without spiking too much but am OK using a small portion of oats, then after cooking mixing in chopped nuts, milled flax seeds and a dessert spoon of double cream - the latter slows down the spike and also fills you up to compensate for the greatly reduced carbs.
Once you have your meter you can experiment to see what works for you.

 

[Madeline]

You will get used to it. Honest.

 

[SueEK]

Eggs in any way; full English but leaving out bread/toast/hash browns/beans, and sausage needs to be high % meat so lower carbs than cheaper ones with lots of rusk as filler; ham or other cooked meat, cheese, tomatoes; full fat Greek yogurt with a few berries. Smoked fish eg salmon - good with eggs.

I cannot eat plain porridge without spiking too much but am OK using a small portion of oats, then after cooking mixing in chopped nuts, milled flax seeds and a dessert spoon of double cream - the latter slows down the spike and also fills you up to compensate for the greatly reduced carbs.
Once you have your meter you can experiment to see what works for you.

Thanks, I thought I wasn’t supposed to have processed such as bacon, sausage, ham, have I got that wrong?

 

[Madeline]

Thanks, I thought I wasn’t supposed to have processed such as bacon, sausage, ham, have I got that wrong?

The average diabetes nurse will tell you to make sure you have your carbs with every meal and to eat low fat. I seriously disagree with that, I eat low carb and (as someone else said) normal fat. Fat is fine, it’s helpful as it slows the carb uptake, but you’re right that lots of processed food isn’t healthy.

 

[merrymunky]

hi all, have just joined the group and spent quite a bit of time looking through posts, particularly to do with food. I’ve gathered the worst things to have are carbs and obviously sugar. What on earth do people have for breakfast. I thought I would be ok with weetabix as would normally have two pieces of toast but it seems I shouldn’t have cereal either, virtually no fruit either. Could, I have some suggestions please, only diagnosed 6 weeks ago and getting more bewildered as the days go on. Thanks

It pays to look around for lower carb options to old favourites. I was only diagnosed just over three weeks ago and am also finding my feet. I cannot cut carbs out entirely but I can reduce them. I always had a big bowl of fruit salad for breakfast with an activia vanilla yoghurt I follow slimming world and it was always a great option on that. Since diagnosis I’ve tried to cut down on fruit. I also though about weetabix. Instead of those I have found that Fuel do their own version and they taste exactly the same but the carb content is considerably lower. I only have one a day with warm milk.

 

[silentsquirrel]

I wouldn't have every day, but personally see no need to cut them out completely.

 

[merrymunky]

I struggle for breakfasts too as I am a vegetarian who doesn’t eat eggs who has always had toast, cereal or fruit salad.

I don’t like avocado...or many of the breakfast options many diabetics opt for so I will befollowing this thread too in order to see if there are any other suggestions that may work for me.

 

[Eddy Edson]

Breakfast is tough! Changing brekkie habits was the hardest thing for me. My progression:

- Start with ham'n'cheese croissant + melon/fruit + extra-large flat white.
- Cut the croissant and replace with 2X whole wheat toast + ham as part of initial "c**p cutting" after diagnosis. Not such a big deal.
- Cut down to 1X toast as I worked out that bread is my nemesis.
- Cut portion size of melon/fruit.
- Cut down to large from extra-large FW.
- Finally cut the bread-cord and replaced with 30g of chia seeds dumped in the coffee (for fibre, as initial motivation) and ditched the ham completely. I now don't miss bread at all and love that chia-coffee!
- Upped melon/fruit portion size as I observed that my BG could now handle it very well.

That's just me, but the general point is that often you learn to love whatever it is you're eating and it is possible to change habits fairly quickly, with a bit of focus.

 

[Ljc]

Quite a few people have Burgen Soya and linseed bread , personally I can’t stand it . You might be ok with a slice of wholemeal bread . TBH you really need to test your BG just before then 2 hrs after starting to eat to determine what and the amount of carbohydrates your body can and can’t tolerate as we are all so different in this respect.