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Hello Everyone
I an 59 yr female, with Type 2 Diabets from Ireland. My Doctor directed me to this wonderful site, so I have registered. I have Type 2 Diabetes, since 2013. However I was never given much information about eating little and often to level out my sugars, but my new Dr is away better than my old Dr, she has me informed in full about what to do and directed me here for help ,support and any advice. I not got great appetite, I am 3x 850mg Metaformin a day and Forixga in mornings. But because I hadn't been eating little and often snacks, I had been taking them on empty tummy, hence upsetting it. Hope everyone is doing ok with all their Types of Diabetes. Oh and my sugars have been very high, so even though I have lymphodema in left leg due to cancer surgery in 2005. I am doing more exercise, little and often too . No marathons but 30 mins per day.
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Norm1962
 
Hi Norm

Welcome top the site. Like you my Doctor recommended I register here when I was diagnosed in 2019. The site has proved invaluable to me, especially as I was trying to understand ways of controlling my BG at the start. There are so many people here who are willing to help answer your questions.
 
Hello @Norm1962 and welcome to the forum.
It's really good to hear that you now have a more helpful doctor and are getting some more useful advice.

What to eat is one of the most difficult issues that many of us living with Diabetes face.
There is no one size fits all though, and it can take a while to work out what is best for you.
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food gives a few ideas, and you will find much more about food if you browse around the forum.

Has your doctor suggested using a Blood Sugar monitor? Many of us find this to be a good way to find out
which foods cause your blood sugars to rise.
We can point you to more information on this if it is of interest.

Well done on getting some good exercise, I'm sure this will help a lot in many ways.
Best wishes and hope that you can keep posting, and please ask any questions, we will always try to help.
 
Hi @Norm1962 and welcome to the forum.
You seem to be making a big thing about eating little and often. This is exactly the opposite of what many Type2 Diabetics who have achieved remission do. The 30 min moderate exercise per day is good, but so far as food is concerned it is the carbohydrates we eat which raise our Blood Glucose and hence make us produce more insulin than is good for us. Type 1 diabetics produce little to no insulin and thus may be advised to eat little and often in order for them not to inject too much (or too little) insulin since it needs to match the quantity of carbohydrates eaten, but for Type 2 diabetics who tend to overproduce insulin because of insulin resistance and sustained high Blood Glucose it 's generally better to eat as few meals and snacks as possible if they contain carbohydrates because that means a longer gap between bathing our insides with insulin.
Several only eat one meal a day (OMAD) others like me skip breakfast (Restricted Time Eating or Intermittent Fasting), but what almost all in remission do is to eat much fewer carbohydrates than the average person does. So we either cut down on or cut out things like Tropical Fruit and Fruit Juice, Potatoes, Bread and Cakes, Pasta, Rice and most breakfast cereals. Instead we eat meat, fish, eggs, cheese, full-fat dairy products, nuts, above ground vegetables and berries (rasp, straw, black, goose or blue) rather than bananas etc.

If you have a Blood Glucose meter then you can test before eating and then 2hrs after to find out which carbs in which quantities are OK for your body (we are all different). What you want is for the 2hr rise in Blood Glucose from a meal or a snack to only be around 2.0 mmol.
 
Yes, my understanding is that it is continual 'snacking' that is more likely to cause increase in insulin resistance and higher blood glucose levels, rather than 2 or 3 meals a day with nothing in between, for somebody who is a 'standard' Type 2.
Dr Jason Fung in his book The Diabetes Code gives a plausible explanation of the cyclic nature of eating and insulin release and increased blood glucose levels.
 
I had the advantage of a meter - and settled on eating at 12 hour intervals as that is what got me to normal numbers and kept me there - over 4 years ago now.
I'd probably see steady numbers eating little and often - but rather higher ones than I'd like.
Eating two meals a day and working out a low carb menu has also got me working in my craft room remaking my clothes or knitting and sewing new ones.
 
Welcome to the forum @Norm1962

Hopefully your tummy troubles with metformin will be shortlived. Many members do find it helps to take them with a reasonable-sized meal.

Forxiga / dapagliflozin works by encouraging the body to excrete more glucose in urine. How are you finding that? Have you been on it for long?

Hopefully by exchanging notes with other members here you will get some tips and ideas for balancing your meds and your menu so that the two can work together to give you lower glucose levels. If your blood glucose is running very high, it does sound like things may be a little out of balance just at the moment.

Sometimes it can help to keep a really honest food diary for a week or two, totalling up the total carbohydrate (not just of-which-sugars) in your meals and snacks. That way you will get an idea of the general distribution of carbs in your menu, and any meals with a particularly high carb load.

Good luck, and keep asking questions 🙂
 
Hello all, to everydayupsanddowns thank you for your great advice, this is a great site, the Forixga seems to work ok by me I have been on it since about 2017, was diagnosed with the diabetes in 2013. Yes I am starting to keep my food diary. My HbA1c this time was 64, but a great doctor told me the numbers which are normal to get to. I sure will do my best to get this sorted and so much appreciate all of your help. Many thanks, stay safe
 
Drummer said:
I had the advantage of a meter - and settled on eating at 12 hour intervals as that is what got me to normal numbers and kept me there - over 4 years ago now.
I'd probably see steady numbers eating little and often - but rather higher ones than I'd like.
Eating two meals a day and working out a low carb menu has also got me working in my craft room remaking my clothes or knitting and sewing new ones.
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Thank you Drummer for your help, great to hear your are working in your craft room and enjoying it
Leadinglights said:
Yes, my understanding is that it is continual 'snacking' that is more likely to cause increase in insulin resistance and higher blood glucose levels, rather than 2 or 3 meals a day with nothing in between, for somebody who is a 'standard' Type 2.
Dr Jason Fung in his book The Diabetes Code gives a plausible explanation of the cyclic nature of eating and insulin release and increased blood glucose levels.
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Thank you Leading lights
 
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