Confused newly diagnosed Type 2

[Chief Cook Bottle Washer]

As the partner of gwalmsley - i must say that food labels are a nightmare due to lack of consistency - national standardisation of this should be a legal requirement - is the organisation campaigning for a change in the law ?

 

[Ljc]

I'm not sure, @Northerner should be able to find out.

Food shopping is a nightmare at first , it takes blooming ages having to read all those labels doesn't it.
I just check the 'Total number of carbs' and ignore everything else even the 'Total of which is sugars' ,as they're already included in the Total carbohydrates. I also ignore the traffic light system on the front.

 

[MikeTurin]

Traffic light system doesn't tell the truth especially due the "fat is bad" ideology.
I tend to buy unprocessed food thad doesn't have a label, if this is possible, and to read the ingredients.
Plain unsweetened yoghurt doesn't change a lot between brands, and the sames applies for quality cheeses. Real Parmigiano Reggiano and Grana Padano shouldn't change a lot between brands.
Hams are another story because even genuine Parma ham changes the fat and salt content while aging and because in prepackaged from is allowed to add preservatives.

 

[Jimjan]

Hi gwalmsley,
As I'm newly diagnosed too I'm also feeing over whelmed and confused!

 

[gwalmsley]

Welcome to the forum!

I have found the people on here to be absolutely fabulous. They are very supportive and full of good advice. Hopefully you have found the discussions above to be useful?

Graham

Hi gwalmsley,
As I'm newly diagnosed too I'm also feeing over whelmed and confused!

 

[Ditto]

Hello JimJan and Chief Cook. 🙂

I don't find food shopping a nightmare. I just avoid packaging. Needs must with cottage cheese though, but most good things don't come in a package. They put packaging on stuff that doesn't even need it, cluttering up the Earth and the Pacific, that huge swirling rubbish dump worries me big time. Why put mushrooms in cellophane and a tray that won't degrade for 100s of years if ever. Agh.

 

[Maz2]

I agree reading the labels is a nightmare at first but have got used to it now. I tend to buy more or less the same things each week.

When I am eating out I generally go for salads and ask for the dressing separate or I can manage without one although I do appreciate everyone cannot. I have got used now to looking at menus and deciding it might be better not to choose about 80 percent of the things. I tend to go for fish without batter, or chicken and I ask for extra veg instead of potatoes. Most places will let you have them. I was out last Friday with ex work colleagues (retired a few months back) and I asked for the chips to be left off and asked for the side dish of veg which was an additional cost but they did not charge because I had not had the chips.

Sometimes I will have a dessert but have now got used to going without. one of my friends who we eat out with is a long-term diabetic and another friend is pre-diabetic so I am sometimes in good company.

 

[gwalmsley]

At work today, hunting for something to eat and decided on a brown baguette with Salmon, Brie and Rocket... bad decision... Before eating 6.1, 90 minutes later a reading of 11.6! As I eat a lot of salmon it looks like either the bread wasn't as wholemeal as it looked, or brie is right off the menu

I had been doing so well... 5.7 after my 2 mile walk this morning.

Graham

 

[Ljc]

At work today, hunting for something to eat and decided on a brown baguette with Salmon, Brie and Rocket... bad decision... Before eating 6.1, 90 minutes later a reading of 11.6! As I eat a lot of salmon it looks like either the bread wasn't as wholemeal as it looked, or brie is right off the menu

I had been doing so well... 5.7 after my 2 mile walk this morning.

Graham

I think it was more likely to be the brown baguette. Was their a dressing on the salad ?

 

[Chief Cook Bottle Washer]

What a shame after such a good "run" still it's a steep learning curve and your doing fantastic , give yourself a break you have only been diagnosed for a couple of weeks - one mistake is nothing in the scheme of things

 

[Maz2]

I would have thought it was the bagette too. I think even wholemeal bread will raise blood sugars temporarily but at least it is better than white.

Don't think cheese would affect it but maybe depends on the person.

 

[Bubbsie]

At work today, hunting for something to eat and decided on a brown baguette with Salmon, Brie and Rocket... bad decision... Before eating 6.1, 90 minutes later a reading of 11.6! As I eat a lot of salmon it looks like either the bread wasn't as wholemeal as it looked, or brie is right off the menu

I had been doing so well... 5.7 after my 2 mile walk this morning.

Graham

I wouldn't worry too much...you're testing...able to identify the spike...it's all about experimenting...like @Ljc says the likely culprit was the baguette...wholemeal gives me a huge spike...I tend to stick to High protein bread...probably best to make yourself something at home to take with you...all a good learning curve.

 

[Ljc]

What a shame after such a good "run" still it's a steep learning curve and your doing fantastic , give yourself a break you have only been diagnosed for a couple of weeks - one mistake is nothing in the scheme of things

I totally agree 🙂

 

[gwalmsley]

I think it was more likely to be the brown baguette. Was their a dressing on the salad ?

Having done a bit of research it must have been the baguette. Next to no carbs in Brie or the Salmon. I estimated the bread content to be about the same as the 2 thick bread slices I have for breakfast, but the carbs must have been a lot higher. You live and learn (avoiding the canteen bread in the future) and I immediately went out and did a mile walk to burn some of it off. On a train at the moment but I will test again when I get home.

No dressing, just dry rocket leaves.

 

[gwalmsley]

Thanks for everyone's kind words and encouragement.

 

[Mark Parrott]

I was out & about & absolutely starving. The only place I could find was Gregg's. Found a chicken roll with wholemeal seeded. 2 hours after I was 9.6! I was shocked.

 

[Martin Canty]

I once got a too high reading after stroking my cat.

Blame the cat, eh Mark😛

 

[gwalmsley]

Walking the spike off seems to have done the trick, back down to a 5.7 🙂

 

[stephknits]

Baguettes are surprisingly carby at 10g per inch! Although of course the men among us might overestimate the number of inches.. 🙂

 

[gwalmsley]

Baguettes are surprisingly carby at 10g per inch! Although of course the men among us might overestimate the number of inches.. 🙂

That may have been my mistake, I just looked at it and guessed at the same amount of bread as 2 thick slices of wholemeal. Being a man I obviously couldn't measure 😉