Hello (at risk newbie just joined)

[Tommy_50]

Would love to know if drinking coffee over 2-3 hours in the morning is something I need to shorten, or even stop all together. Its filter coffee with semi-skimmed milk.
If anyone knows for sure, please let me know. With great thanks.

 

[tinytheclown]

I tend to only have 1-2 cups in the morning usually any more than that pushes my hba1c up too much

 

[ianf0ster]

If no sugar in the coffee, then with cream or black would be lower carb than semi-skimmed.
Have you reduced all the carbohydrates you eat - starches as well as sugars?

I was actually a T2 diabetic rather than just 'at risk', here is a link to the blog post which first set me on the path to reverse it (been in remission and 'normal BG numbers for over 3yrs now):

The Nutritional Thingy

There’s a few things you should know. 1. Practically all carbs turn to glucose once ingested , so not just straight sugars, but starches...

josekalsbeek.blogspot.com

 

[Drummer]

Would love to know if drinking coffee over 2-3 hours in the morning is something I need to shorten, or even stop all together. Its filter coffee with semi-skimmed milk.
If anyone knows for sure, please let me know. With great thanks.

I drink coffee with cream and it doesn't seem to elevate my glucose levels, though some days I drink a litre and some days I drink none at all.
My husband tends the coffee machine which does filter coffee, and then transfers it into a heated jug and makes more so there is always lots of coffee available. I get cream delivered twice a week.
I'd have to have advanced notice of a test and then cut it out to see if coffee did raise my HbA1c - I don't think that the GP surgery could manage to do that as they are not really working to a routine.

 

[Tommy_50]

Very helpful!
… esp re. cream-vs-semi-skimmed milk

 

[Drummer]

Very helpful!
… esp re. cream-vs-semi-skimmed milk

The cream is skimmed off leaving the lactose containing part of the milk behind, mostly.
I do sometimes feel a little guilty at the indulgence.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum @Tommy_50 🙂

Coffee shop coffee, and to a lesser extent ground coffee made at home seem to bump my BG up a bit in a way that instant and things like caffeinated tea don’t. And I usually avoid the milk-heavy options (latte, cappucino, flat white etc) and just have an Americano with milk, so it’s only an equivalent amount of milk.

I’ve heard others having the same reaction to caffeine too.