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AdeleTurner72

AdeleTurner72

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Type 2
Just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes this week, as a result of NHS health check. In complete shock as I've had no symptoms at all. Feel a bit overwhelmed. Prescribed metformin and a statin, and healthy eating. Trying to stay positive. Any advice gratefully received!
Weight 89kg
Hba1c 101
Blood sugar 17.2
Cholesterol 8.8
 
Hi Adele and welcome to the forum. I’m recently diagnosed too but did have some symptoms which at the time I didn’t connect the dots and realise what it was! But yes, a bit of a shock too! I’m just getting my head round all the ins and outs of the eating and the testing and so on but have found this forum invaluable. Ask any question and someone will be along to give advice and support.
 
Thanks. Glad I'm not alone. Think I'm doing OK. Struggling a bit with milk. Worried about the lactose (sugar) content, but want the calcium. Have you any thoughts or seen any threads about this???
 
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I must admit I haven’t worried about milk but then I only have it in my morning cuppa now that I can’t have cornflakes any more! I have been eating more cheese so I guess that takes care of the calcium but I buy the lighter version so hopefully that’s not too bad! I’ve struggled with breakfast as I was so used to white toast or cereal which I can’t have any more. I discovered, through the forum, that Hovis do a lower carb bread and the seeded one is lovely, so I have a couple of slices each morning toasted with butter, though again I do miss my marmalade. It’s all a learning curve at the moment. Have you thought about testing? I bought the kit and test several times a day, particularly when I’ve had a new food, just to check if it has affected my blood sugar. It’s early days for you and you will get used to it. Life’s a challenge isn’t it?
 
Thanks. It's breakfast that I'm least confident about. Like you, my typical breakfast used to be cereal, porridge or toast. I drink 5 or 6 cups of tea and coffee per day all with semi skimmed milk. Wondered if that was OK. Will look into testing kit.
 
The testing kit most people seem to se here is the CodeFree one from Homehealth. Someone can perhaps provide the link. The testing strips are the cheapest around as they can be very expensive. You would need to get the one that measures in mmol as there are two versions. I find it very easy to us.
 
AdeleTurner72 said:
Thanks. It's breakfast that I'm least confident about. Like you, my typical breakfast used to be cereal, porridge or toast. I drink 5 or 6 cups of tea and coffee per day all with semi skimmed milk. Wondered if that was OK. Will look into testing kit.
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Hi Adele
I don’t think you need to worry about the small amount of milk in a hot drink. I certainly don’t count those carbs as someone with type1.
 
Radders said:
Hi Adele
I don’t think you need to worry about the small amount of milk in a hot drink. I certainly don’t count those carbs as someone with type1.
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Thanks. You've put my mind at ease. I can cope with cutting out or substituting most high carb stuff, but the thought of drinking black tea and coffee was bringing me out in a cold sweat!!!
 
Hi, I'm new too, just diagnosed a week ago. I've been using Myfitness Pal to track what I'm eating as it has the stats for most foods in the database. What I'm struggling with most is eating enough calories from other sources than carbs. We did eat a lot of bread and pasta before. And also working out the max amount of carbs we are supposed to have. GP didn't help much, just gave me a link to the nhs website.
Baby steps as they say, good luck.
 
Chrissiem said:
Hi, I'm new too, just diagnosed a week ago. I've been using Myfitness Pal to track what I'm eating as it has the stats for most foods in the database. What I'm struggling with most is eating enough calories from other sources than carbs. We did eat a lot of bread and pasta before. And also working out the max amount of carbs we are supposed to have. GP didn't help much, just gave me a link to the nhs website.
Baby steps as they say, good luck.
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Hi Chrissiem, if you like nuts this shouldn’t be a problem!
 
Welcome to the forum.🙂 Milk has no effect on my BG at all. This is why testing is so important. It's alright the GP's & nurses saying not to eat this & that or oh, that's fine to eat, only testing will tell you what you can eat or not. We are all different.🙂
 
Chrissiem said:
Hi, I'm new too, just diagnosed a week ago. I've been using Myfitness Pal to track what I'm eating as it has the stats for most foods in the database. What I'm struggling with most is eating enough calories from other sources than carbs. We did eat a lot of bread and pasta before. And also working out the max amount of carbs we are supposed to have. GP didn't help much, just gave me a link to the nhs website.
Baby steps as they say, good luck.
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Thanks. Yes. I ate a lot of wholemeal pasta, brown rice and granary bread and fruit before diagnosis, thinking it was healthy. Now trying to use salad and veg to replace most of that, as recommended by my nurse practitioner. Hoping I'm doing the right thing!
 
grovesy said:
You have to find what works for you and you can maintain that way of eating most of the time.
Also sometimes it is not what you eat it is the portion.
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Yes. I think I can understand that. Everything in moderation, but some things in extreme moderation!
 
AdeleTurner72 said:
Yes. I think I can understand that. Everything in moderation, but some things in extreme moderation!
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Yes when I was first diagnosed I went too drastic for me, cutting things out and though it controlled my blood sugar levels and lost a lot of weight. I could not maintain it long term . The more moderate way has worked and I have maintained keeping weight off and reducing my medication over a number of years.
 
Mark Parrott said:
Welcome to the forum.🙂 Milk has no effect on my BG at all. This is why testing is so important. It's alright the GP's & nurses saying not to eat this & that or oh, that's fine to eat, only testing will tell you what you can eat or not. We are all different.🙂
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Thanks. Yes I agree. Everyone is different and I need to find what works for me. I was surprised not to be given a testing kit, as my mum was type 2 for many years and used to test daily. I guess ideas have changed in the last 10 years....
 
grovesy said:
Yes when I was first diagnosed I went too drastic for me, cutting things out and though it controlled my blood sugar levels and lost a lot of weight. I could not maintain it long term . The more moderate way has worked and I have maintained keeping weight off and reducing my medication over a number of years.
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I totally get that. I feel like I'm trying to run before I can walk. Determined to get on top of this, get everything under control and live a full life, but no point cutting out everything and then feeling miserable and unable to maintain.
 
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