Welcome to the forum and happy(?!) dia-versary
@Iceskatemum 🙂
Sorry to hear you are still feeling a bit lost with your diabetes self-management. Don’t panic! Diabetes is a marathon not a sprint, and even when you’ve been playing the game for decades, there will still be things to learn, and positive tweaks you can make.
As well as the Learning Zone that
@Windy has recommended (which is brilliant, and jammed full of really useful information), you might also like to add to the information you've already picked up by going back to basics with
Maggie Davey’s Letter to the Newly Diagnosed and Gretchen Becker’s book
T2 Diabetes, the first year, which you can work through gradually and will give you a solid starting point. These aren’t official DUK publications, but have a good reputation on the forum.
Many members wanting to give their diabetes self-care a bit of a reset, often find it can be really helpful to keep a brutally honest food diary for a week or two. Note down everything you are currently eating and drinking, along with a reasonable estimate of the total carbohydrate content in your meals and snacks (not just ‘of which sugars’).
It might sound like a bit of a faff, and will involve weighing portions, squinting at the fine print on packaging, and possibly looking up things on the internet, 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 resulting diary might also suggest some likely candidates for swaps, drops, portion reductions, or using lower carb alternatives (eg celeriac or swede mash, or cauli ‘rice’).
Good luck, and keep asking questions too, we have centuries of lived diabetes experience on the forum, and everyone is gradually finding their own way through the maze
🙂
