Blood sugars 10.1

[A b]

Hi everyone x
I was diagnosed 3 weeks ago with type 2 diabetes. My hb1c was 118 Blood sugars 17.
Im on 4 metformin a day ,however I cannot get my blood sugars below 10.1. Once they were 7.7 . But only once. I'm following a low carb (130g or less a day) low or no sugar programme Where am I going wrong TIA xx

 

[Ditto]

Hello and welcome to the forum. 🙂

People have different ideas of what low carb is. To me 20g a day is low carb. It's all trial and error, keep testing, you'll soon have it down pat I'm sure.

 

[A b]

Hello and welcome to the forum. 🙂

People have different ideas of what low carb is. To me 20g a day is low carb. It's all trial and error, keep testing, you'll soon have it down pat I'm sure.

Wow ,I couldn't manage on 20 carbs ,I'm impressed ! I hope so x thankyou for your reply

 

[A b]

I guess I mean low carb to what I used to eat😉

 

[Ditto]

I guess I mean low carb to what I used to eat😉

I'm not doing it now! In fact I hardly ever did it at all, but I did try. 🙂 I was amazed when I joined here and saw what others thought was 'low carb' and it's a relief really.

 

[Ljc]

Hello @A b , Welcome to the forum.
They are brilliant results for someone so recently diagnosed. I would try lowering your carbohydrate intake a little more imo it’s easier to do this gradually and fill up with things like veg , protein and good fats.

Providing you don’t mind
If you give us a typical days meals and snacks we can provide suggestions in changes.

 

[Docb]

Hi A b, I try to keep below 100 g/day and am pretty sure that 130g/day would put my post meal readings into double figures. So I'm with Ljc, see if you can lower your carb intake to see if that helps.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Well done on your progress so far @A b

Hopefully a few more slight adjustments will bring your BGs more into range.

How much have you experimented with carbohydrate type as well as quantity? I know from other T2s over the years that some simply can’t cope with some types (and not necessarily obviously sweet ones) which are fine for others.

 

[trophywench]

If you give us an idea of what you are actually eating it isn't for us to criticise your diet - it's so that we can look for places where it would probably be easiest to reduce those carbs because sometimes you can reduce em by just preparing it a different way rather than us saying you have to stop eating whatever it happens to be.

If a diet doesn't satisfy a person - it's doomed to failure and we aren't here to see anyone suffer.

 

[Drummer]

Your food choices might be the problem - I can eat 30 gm of carb with my dinner, but it has to be from vegetables. I recently experimented by eating 30 gm of carbs from a seeded bread roll, and saw over 10 on the meter instead of close to 7.
However - you could need to lower your general intake of carbs.
I dropped my Hba1c from 91 to 47 eating 50 gm of carbs a day - anything more pushed my blood glucose levels up, and stopped weight loss - it was the same amount as my CCLL when doing Atkins, so I was not at all surprised that it was what I needed. I dropped from 50 to 40 to try to keep losing weight, but now I am only losing volume, though I am regaining my strength.

 

[A b]

Thankyou so much everyone x
I understand what u mean about lowering to 100g of carbs and also types of carbs. Every day I have either 2 x slices of low carb seeded or a seeded flatbread Both are within my allowance but maybe I should leave bread off completely
Every morning I have asda high protein granola 20g of carbs with alpro milk. I have to have cereal or I can't keep the metformin in (sorry for the info)
For lunch I have a ham salad sandwich
Dinner varies last night home made minestrone, pasta counted on allowance. Cooked breakfast for dinner. Garlic and chilli chicken with green beans. I had a takeaway kebab and salad (no pitta) roast dinner (no potatoes or Yorkshire)
For pudding a muller light or sugar free jelly.
snacks a packet of puft crisps or a packet of pork scratchings. Melon
Hope everyone has a lovely day ,and thankyou for the replies x