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I would urge you to rethink the banana as an option if you do start feeling hungry and next time you shop, buy full fat natural yoghurt. It tastes better and the fat will keep you feeling full for longer. Part of the craving to snack all the time is because the carbs are raising your BG and then they are dropping 2 hours later and making you feel hungry again. If you cut the carbs you need an alternate source of calories and that is protein and fat, so the full fat yogurt will provide more calories, take longer to digest and keep you feeling full for longer. The banana will start the rollercoaster of high and low BG levels and trigger the hunger again. If you start to feel hungry, have a chunk of cheese or a few nuts or a boiled or scrambled egg or two or a chicken drumstick/thigh. These things will not spike your levels like a banana will and will sate the hunger.
 
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I would urge you to rethink the banana as an option if you do start feeling hungry and next time you shop, buy full fat natural yoghurt. It tastes better and the fat will keep you feeling full for longer. Part of the craving to snack all the time is because the carbs are raising your BG and then they are dropping 2 hours later and making you feel hungry again. If you cut the carbs you need an alternate source of calories and that is protein and fat, so the full fat yogurt will provide more calories, take longer to digest and keep you feeling full for longer. The banana will start the rollercoaster of high and low BG levels and trigger the hunger again. If you start to feel hungry, have a chunk of cheese or a few nuts or a boiled or scrambled egg or two or a chicken drumstick/thigh. These things will not spike your levels like a banana will and will sate the hunger.
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Didn't mean to HaHa just a like.
 
Leadinglights said:
Didn't mean to HaHa just a like.
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You can change them you know, but maybe not once I have seen them. Always good to have a laugh though, even if you don't mean to.
 
For lunch, at midday, I had a Ginsters's Cornish Pasty. My blood glucose level was 6.2 at 1 pm.
 
Why would you have two packets of crisps two days in a row? Is this a daily habit? A single packet is a portion you know, so you are eating double. It is this over eating which can lead to diabetes and since you now have a diagnosis, it is time to rein it in a bit. I am not saying this in a judgmental way, but just to make you stop and think about what you are doing to your body, as I know how easily this happens and I was guilty of it. I could demolish a multipack of Snickers in one afternoon and still want more, but it absolutely is not healthy and I stopped all that as soon as I was diagnosed.

Did you feel hungry this afternoon or is it just habit that caused you to eat the crisps? They put stuff in them to make them addictive you know! I stopped buying anything which I could not restrain myself with, to prevent temptation and bought other healthier things instead until my tastes changed.

I appreciate that you didn't get a high reading an hour after eating them but crisps are high in fat and fat slows down the digestion of the carbs in the potato, so the spike will likely happen later and to be honest testing one hour after food is probably a waste of a test strip because it often doesn't tell you any useful information or could even give you misinformation in that you assume your body coped OK with the crisps, when it may well be that your levels spike later.
 
Funnyday said:
I eat crisps each day. It's not from hunger but habit.
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You are taking 3 different medications to manage your diabetes and whilst it it a way, it is not the best way as you are chasing your tail all the time.
I use the analogy that if you have an overflowing sink (high blood glucose), you can bail out the water ( take oral medication) but it will still overflow unless you turn off the tap ( reduce the carbohydrates you are eating)
What you are eating his high carb with little nutritional value. You really need to break the habit.
Plan to do something which will take you away from having snacks all the time, go for a walk, do the ironing, do a jigsaw. Don't buy the crisps!!!
 
I had a curry and rice at 5 pm. My glucose level was 9.2 at 6 pm and 6.9 at 7 pm.
 
The meds seem to be helping you to cope well with the meals you are choosing @Funnyday

Is your weight stable? And in the place you’d like it to be? (Don’t feel you have to answer if you’d rather not!)
 
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Funnyday said:
My weight is stable but higher than I want it to be.
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Funnyday said:
I'm not very active so hence being over weight.
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Well, there are two things you can work on to improve your diabetes management.

What can you do to increase your activity levels? Are you able to walk? It doesn't have to be far or necessarily in the country. Just a walk round the block after your evening meal, rather than sitting watching the TV or whatever, can have a significant impact on improving your health. Walking really is one of the best activities for diabetes and something that most people can do without it being expensive or needing special equipment. Even just putting some music on and having a bit dance every day after your evening meal, in the privacy of your own home can make a difference.... both mentally and physically. Sounds daft, but getting your blood flowing and your heart pumping a bit faster and breathing a bit more deeply, can have significant benefits to many aspects of your health, not just diabetes and will help you to lose a bit of weight if you do it regularly, especially if you can also knock the crisp and snack habit on the head. Make one small change every day or so and try to form a good habit and soon you will start to see positive results. Wouldn't it be nice if you actually had to reduce your medication instead of needing more. Losing weight and getting more active can make you feel happier and more confident too. I know there have been lots of benefits to me changing my diet and in fact I feel younger, fitter and healthier than I have for many years and I have much less joint pain/bad back issues and I no longer get debilitating acute migraines, so it has been really worthwhile making those changes.
 
Yes, I can understand that as I too struggle with motivation sometimes. Try to find something really easy to do, that doesn't need much motivation. Maybe it is walking up and down stairs 10 times on the trot once a day, or 5 times if 10 times is too much. Put some favourite music on whilst you do it. It will only take about 10 minutes and try to make it a daily routine.... maybe after lunch or evening meal. Put it on a "To Do" list and tick it off when you have done it. If it gets to bedtime and you haven't ticked it off, make a point of doing it before you go to bed. Promise yourself that you will do that one little thing every day for a week or a fortnight. Then maybe make it twice a day. By the end of 2 weeks you will probably be fit enough to do it in half the time anyway, so no more time involved, just a bit more activity. Once you start doing regular exercise, it improves how you feel mentally and physically and that helps to motivate you to keep at it. Once you are doing the stairs regularly then look at taking it another step, so maybe out the door and round the block. Plan your route. Little and often is actually better with exercise than a long drawn out spell from what I was listening to on the radio recently. I think they called it exercise snacking or something like that. Short spells of exercise that could be fitted in to your day here and there.
 
Do you work if so then you could park a bit further away or get off the bus a stop earlier or if close enough walk to work.
Otherwise there are some sitting exercises the NHS have which could be a start.
 
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