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Christmas Dinner

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Kaylz

Kaylz

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The closer it's getting to Christmas the more I'm starting to worry I won't enjoy it, worried about eating dinner, what do I do for a pudding etc etc :( x
 
For me Xmas happens once a year the type2 will go on the back burner for 1 day and i will probably over indulge in everything naughty n nice 🙂
 
Hi Kaylz. It's just one day in the year. I'm not saying to go mad and scoff everything in sight , sorry I can't remember if you are on MDI or mixed insulin but if you're on MDI like I am then include a bolus for your pud .
I'm sure people who have T1 will be along soon with some good advise.
 
I have an appointment with my nurse and dietician on Tuesday who said at my last one we'd talk about it this time its just facing my first christmas and new year not long after being diagnosed is quite scary in a way i'm sure it will all become clear and i can have a good time just like anyone else positivity is the only way forward 🙂 x
 
Kaylz said:
I have an appointment with my nurse and dietician on Tuesday who said at my last one we'd talk about it this time its just facing my first christmas and new year not long after being diagnosed is quite scary in a way i'm sure it will all become clear and i can have a good time just like anyone else positivity is the only way forward 🙂 x
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Good luck with it, hope you get some Christmas cheer from her
 
Yes, be positive! You aren't going to let diabetes spoil your Christmas! If you are carb counting then you can eat a normal dinner and allow yourself a few treats as long as you adjust your insulin dose accordingly. If you haven't got that far yet, try to minimise the carbs (e.g.have less potatoes/Yorkshire/stuffing etc but more meat and green veg) and maybe just allow yourself a tiny bit of pudding. Everyone is allowed to be a bit naughty on Christmas Day, diabetes or not! 😛 And at the end of the day, if it all goes a bit wrong and you end up with sky high blood sugars, well it's only one day and it isn't going to hurt you as long as you make an effort to get back on track the next day. It's good that you are seeing your nurse this week - have you got a list of questions? Do you know how to do correction doses of insulin if you do go too high? That might be a good thing to ask.
Above all, try not to worry and have a great Christmas! 🙂
 
Sally71 said:
Yes, be positive! You aren't going to let diabetes spoil your Christmas! If you are carb counting then you can eat a normal dinner and allow yourself a few treats as long as you adjust your insulin dose accordingly. If you haven't got that far yet, try to minimise the carbs (e.g.have less potatoes/Yorkshire/stuffing etc but more meat and green veg) and maybe just allow yourself a tiny bit of pudding. Everyone is allowed to be a bit naughty on Christmas Day, diabetes or not! 😛 And at the end of the day, if it all goes a bit wrong and you end up with sky high blood sugars, well it's only one day and it isn't going to hurt you as long as you make an effort to get back on track the next day. It's good that you are seeing your nurse this week - have you got a list of questions? Do you know how to do correction doses of insulin if you do go too high? That might be a good thing to ask.
Above all, try not to worry and have a great Christmas! 🙂
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Yes I am carb counting but some of the stuff I'm not sure of like sausagemeat stuffing, homemade roasties, homemade gravy everything else I'm fine with and as for correction I'm not completely clued up on it yet but I use the Aviva Expert Meter which guides me as to corrections etc so I'm not worried about that part either I'm sure it will all become clear in time though, in a way I wish I hadn't been diagnosed at this time of the year if you know what I mean but I'm glad I was as if it had been left any longer I could have been seriously ill with it onwards and upwards though, still have nearly a full box of mil tray sweeties left over from my birthday so will have to start adding 1 in with my mea time insulin to get through them after all they were a present so no one is getting them haha 🙂 hope everyone here has a fab Christmas too just the stress of wrapping the presents to get through now 🙂 x
 
Do you have a smartphone? If so I'd highly recommend Carbs and Cals, it's a fab app with loads of pictures of all sorts of food which will help you carb count all those foods which don't have handy nutrition labels on! I usually allow 5-10g per roast potato (depending on how big they are, obviously) and 5 for a ball of stuffing. Carbs and Cals is also available as an actual book from Amazon if you prefer that. I found it invaluable in the early days until I got the hang of things!
 
Sally71 said:
Do you have a smartphone? If so I'd highly recommend Carbs and Cals, it's a fab app with loads of pictures of all sorts of food which will help you carb count all those foods which don't have handy nutrition labels on! I usually allow 5-10g per roast potato (depending on how big they are, obviously) and 5 for a ball of stuffing. Carbs and Cals is also available as an actual book from Amazon if you prefer that. I found it invaluable in the early days until I got the hang of things!
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I have the book my dietician gave me it but i don't really use it , and as for the app I can't get it as I have a windows phone, great phones but no decent apps for - diabetes, carbohydrates or anything related for us haha, the problem with the sausagemeat stuffing etc is it's fresh from the butcher so have no idea how to judge it x
 
Sometimes you have to just guess! If you're only having a small amount then the amount of carbs in it will probably be negligible. I would have thought from a butcher that it might be less carbs in it than the packet stuff, but who knows! 🙄
 
Kaylz said:
I have the book my dietician gave me it but i don't really use it , and as for the app I can't get it as I have a windows phone, great phones but no decent apps for - diabetes, carbohydrates or anything related for us haha, the problem with the sausagemeat stuffing etc is it's fresh from the butcher so have no idea how to judge it x
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If you're buying the sausagemeat yourself, try asking the butcher, ours has a list of ingredients and quantities for his sausages up on his wall, so you can see it, but if not, he can probably tell you. ( my butchers list says '85% pork' so you can assume the other 15% is rusk and go from there. The seasonings will be a negligible amount) If you're eating it at someone else's house, it's a question of guesstimating. It'll probably work out fine, because things you guess too low will be balanced out by things you guess too high.
 
Robin said:
If you're buying the sausagemeat yourself, try asking the butcher, ours has a list of ingredients and quantities for his sausages up on his wall, so you can see it, but if not, he can probably tell you. ( my butchers list says '85% pork' so you can assume the other 15% is rusk and go from there. The seasonings will be a negligible amount) If you're eating it at someone else's house, it's a question of guesstimating. It'll probably work out fine, because things you guess too low will be balanced out by things you guess too high.
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I already got in touch with the butcher who unfortunately do not offer nutritional values, worst part is sausagemeat and oatmeal stuffing is one of my downfalls I can't get enough of it, I know the turkey doesn't have much, my roasted brussels don't either so that's great news for me, roasted garlic i'm unsure of but my dietician says we will talk about it anyway and my nurse did say I was allowed to have it as a naughty day so to speak as it is Christmas and he wasn't going to ruin it for me by telling me to be very strict, Christmas for some folk is all about what gifts they get etc I'm not bothered about that I think my gift was being diagnosed last month so I didn't end up in hospital over Christmas seriously ill but i'm still looking forward to a couple of presents I am human after all, thanks Robin you've always been a great help to me x
 
Sally71 said:
Sometimes you have to just guess! If you're only having a small amount then the amount of carbs in it will probably be negligible. I would have thought from a butcher that it might be less carbs in it than the packet stuff, but who knows! 🙄
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As far as I'm aware it is less carbs will see how it goes, if i miss calculate and go to high it can always be corrected same if it goes too low so will be fine x
 
Very newly diagnosed T2B and determined not to let it get me down so I have decided to stick to one of everything naughty just on Christmas Day, one roast potato, one yorkshire pud, one glass of wine, one chocolate etc. Then counterbalance with loads of raw and cooked veggies and low fat alternatives. For dinner there are two of us who are pescatarian and two meat eaters. Starter is avocado and prawns. Dinner is roast turkey for them, nut roast for us. I will be doing roast garlic and roast onions along with the usual sprouts, parsnips, carrots and gravy but for me it will be sweet potato roasties with one of the tatties as a treat. All roasted in coconut oil. Quorn sausages for us, pigs in blankets for them. Little and varied seems to work for me at the moment. As for pudding, I am going for trifle made with low sugar jelly, tinned fruit salad in juice, swiss roll and low sugar home made custard which I will have a small bowl of because by then I am always full anyway! Happy Christmas everyone 😛
 
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