Food Nazism

[Kaylz]

Well, I had a picnic bar last night, delicious!

Yuck haha, now a star bar is my aim! haha xx

 

[Bubbsie]

Yuck haha, now a star bar is my aim! haha xx

Nooooooooooooo Kaylz...I used to love Picnic Bars😛😛😛.

 

[Kaylz]

Nooooooooooooo Kaylz...I used to love Picnic Bars😛😛😛.

Na not for me I'm afraid xx

 

[stevieh]

The mincemeat we have in pies at Christmas in the UK doesn't actually contain any meat it's basically a mix of dried fruits. Strange but true.

Historically it did, many mincemeats sold today contain suet as an echo to our past.

 

[stevieh]

What kind of insulin have you been given, Steve? The only reason I can think of for a type 1 to have a specific diet is if you've been put on mixed insulin (2 injections a day), which is a very old-fashioned treatment for type 1 - if you're on that ask them to change it to MDI! If you're giving yourself 4 injections a day (MDI) then you can eat what you like, you just have to learn to inject the right amount of insulin for it.

I still eat bread, potatoes, rice, pasta, oats, cakes, biscuits, fruit, jam ... um, pretty much everything I ate before. I do stick to granary bread, brown rice, and brown pasta rather than white. The only thing in my diet which the dietician told me was unsuitable for a type 1 diabetic was fruit juice - it sends blood sugar up too fast so it's only suitable as a hypo treatment - but actually I've ended up having more fruit juice than I used to because I have so many hypos! The only things I've cut down on are raisins (I used to eat handfuls of them as a snack, now I eat handfuls of nuts instead) and honey (it spikes my blood sugar so I only eat it if I need it for a cold or sore throat).

I think some of the recipes you've been looking at are aimed either at type 2s who have to be much more careful what they eat, or at people who want to lose weight. If you're not overweight there's no need to diet!

Novorapid before meals 3 times a day, Lantus in the early evening and Metformin twice daily.

 

[trophywench]

The suet in mincemeat is to stop the sugar (in all the fruit) burning when you cook it - in mince pies, down the middle of baked apples, etc. and keep it lovely and moist. Also helps preserve it after you've put it in the jars.

You're on multiple daily injections already, the Metformin being to try and counteract what your steroids for the Addison's do to your BG and any insulin resistance it causes.

So sometime reasonably soon, they'll start teaching you to carb count and adjust the Novorapid to suit - so don't think at all that you have to stick to eating boring stuff for very long! However it is important at first, to be as 'routine' as possible, so you and the docs and nurses can see exactly what's what with the doses of insulin they've started you on. Once they can get your insulin to carb ratio sorted out - and also the basal (Lantus) dose correct for your metabolism - then food choices will be back to normal. The only difference now is that for the rest of your life, you need to know the carb count before you jab for it and eat it.

No-one knows that instantly but the things you usually eat will soon be engraved in your memory without having to think or read a label.

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

However it is important at first, to be as 'routine' as possible, so you and the docs and nurses can see exactly what's what with the doses of insulin they've started you on.

Which I'd say means eat normally now - don't try to low-carb if you don't want to low-carb in the long term (though maybe don't binge out on pizza and chips!). Once your diabetes team see how the doses they've given you work (or don't work) with the food you normally eat, they can adjust the doses to fit the food. You don't want to end up adjusting the food to fit the doses, you want to end up knowing how to adjust your own doses so you can eat whatever you feel like eating.