Hello , newbie , taking control of my diabetes again

[shabba]

Hello there I’ve had type 2 for many years and have been silly with food , but got a huge telling off from my doc in January where my hb1c was 111. I found out today I got it down to 73 , the dietician today gave me advice on what more to eat than what I’m doing already . I just initially wanted to know , can I eat nuts as a snack , and what type . Nice to meet you all x

 

[goodybags]

Yes Nuts should be ok @shabba
I’m eating Walnuts, Pecans, Macadamia Nuts, and Seeds
as a snack / lunch
I’m currently into pickled eggs & Stilton Also

well done on bring down the HbA1c

 

[shabba]

Are cashews or Brazil nuts ok ? To be honest till my dietician talk yesterday , I was scared to eat different things .

 

[SB2015]

Welcome to the forum @shabba and congratulations on the success that you are already seeing in your HbA1c from the initial changes that you have made.

In the mean time have a read through some of the threads on her, where people post their meals. The hard thing with D is that we each react in different ways to different foods, so we gradually have to find out what works for us. Many find that testing before and after meals help them to do this.


Let us know how you get on with the dietitian

 

[shabba]

I saw the dietitian yesterday , and told him that I have been eating breakfast , Cheerios, then porridge pot for lunch then normal dinner of potatoes fish or burger and peas then crisp bread with hommas for snack . Since jan was a bit worried to deviate . But that had brought down from 111 to 73 . He told me of variations on what I can eat and doc said take gliazide in morning not at night. Yesterday that seemed to have worked as my levels last couple days have been around 10 before breakfast but yesterday morning took gliazide and this morning reading was 7 .3 .

 

[Leadinglights]

Looking at those food you are having, you are having a diet quite high in carbohydrates, all right you are not having cakes and biscuits but all those other things apart from the fish and burger if high meat content are very carb heavy. Cereal, porridge, potatoes, peas, hommas are all considered high carb and would be foods that many people would not be able to tolerate. The only way you will know if you as an individual can tolerate those food would be to test before eating and after 2 hours with a blood glucose monitor at home.
It is better to look at your diet rather than just take medication to counteract foods which you really can't cope with. The aim should be to try to adjust your diet to minimise medication. Many people (with Type 2 ) are able to do that.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Well done on your HbA1c reduction @shabba

If you’d like some suggestions and possibilities for meals which may be a little kinder on the BGs, there is an enormous long-running thread here called ‘what did you eat yesterday’ where all sorts of different members share and swap ideas

What did you eat yesterday?

Chicken with tomato and mascarpone from Tom Kerridge's book "Loose Weight for Good". Served with steamed green beans - very tasty.

forum.diabetes.org.uk