Food conundrum

[dash201]

Hello ladies and gents.

I am banging my head against a wall here.

When first diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, August 2017, my appetite went and I stopped eating properly. Purely psychological thinking the next grain of sugar would kill me. I lose about 7 kg. Went down to 45kg which is not really healthy. I have managed to gain weight. Back up to about 52kg now.

However, after a check up today, my cholesterol is high, my kidneys are leaking protein and I have been given a med that turns my stomach inside out. Oh the joys.

I have been told to avoid the carbs etc but how am I supposed to keep weight or gain weight? I read adding this or that etc. but I am not creative in the kitchen at all.

Has anyone had a similar situation?

Thanks!

 

[trophywench]

Sounds to me that you have been prescribed Metformin - which does indeed have that side effect for some people. I don't know how long you've been taking it though - those side effects wear off for some after a couple of weeks.

If you haven't been taking it that long, try to persevere a bit longer but if it doesn't subside, back to the Dr with you and request the slow release version of the drug - it's not automatically prescribed because it's more expensive and not everyone needs it, hence they have to find out who does and who doesn't.

The ONLY think you have to reduce is carbohydrates - you don't have to reduce fats (unless you usually eat tons of it) because dietary fats don't affect our blood cholesterol. All protein (cheese, eggs, fish, meat) are absolutely A OK.

Anything that contains flour - bread, pasta, cake, pastry - isn't. Neither is rice.

Personally I'd rather eat virtually any other vegetable that exists than a boring spud, but those that grow above ground generally have a lot less carb than root veg.

So sugar itself is very very high carb, and anything ending in 'ose' is equally no good - eg sucrose fructose maltose dextrose. Fruit itself contains fructose - some, a LOT- things like tropical fruits, peaches, pears, grapes, cherries.
Berries have a lot less of it and we can normally tolerate them quite well.

Nothing difficult about anything there.

 

[dash201]

Jenny? Hopefully that is your name!

Thank you for this. Helps my mind a lot and the paranoia of it all. Love you so much right now!

I think I need to start planning my meals a lot more. I am going to start trying to cook a lot more and see what I can do to reduce this storm. I need to get experimental. I have a fire blanket, extinguisher and smoke alarm. Nothing to worry about there.

I do love a spud though in all of the wonderful forms it can be transformed in to! Unfortunately I am a bread and pasta lover but if it needs to stop, it needs to stop.

Can I ask about milk? I love milk, currently full fat. Does that need to change?

Thank you so much.

 

[trophywench]

Milk's OK but of course there's lactose in it - ie carbs. There is slightly less in full fat milk that there is in semi or fully skimmed milk, but the differences are very very small indeed. Just don't drink pints of it - it's not that thirst quenching but that's not really surprising bearing in mind it's a food really.