Good Evening my name is Ant and last week I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and still trying to get my head around it. If anyone has any good recipes which are easy to make please let me know as live on my own and literally just having salads as don’t know what else is good for me to eat.
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Leadinglights
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Although unlikely you will get a monitor and strips on prescription as Type 2 on no medication many regard them as such a useful tool to find what foods they can't have and just as important what they can have. Testing before you eat and after 2 hours will give you a good guide as to what is OK if the increase is no more than 2-3mmol/l. A couple of inexpensive monitors are the GlucoNavii or TEE which can be bought on line.
There is no need to eat just salads and vegetables though they do form a great part of what people have to accompany meals based on meat, fish, eggs, cheese, dairy, nuts and fruit like berries with only small portions of high carb foods such as potatoes, rice, pasta, bread, breakfast cereals and cutting out the obvious cakes, biscuits, unless home made low carb ones, and sugary drinks including fruit juice. Small portions are probably what most people would regard as a quarter portion, portion control is important.
Many do find that they make more than for one meal and freeze portions for a home made ready meal.
If low carb is something that appeals then this link has some ideas that may help you find a way forward. https://lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk/
Making changes slowly to the amount of carbs you have is kinder on your nerves and eyes and low carb does not mean NO carbs and a good starting point is no more than 130g per day total carbs not just sugar.
Keeping a food diary of everything you eat and drink with an estimate of the carbs can help you see where your starting point is and you can see where some savings can be made
I would recommend the book or app Carbs and Cals for good info on carb value of various portions of a whole range of foods so it helps make better choices.
There is no need to eat just salads and vegetables though they do form a great part of what people have to accompany meals based on meat, fish, eggs, cheese, dairy, nuts and fruit like berries with only small portions of high carb foods such as potatoes, rice, pasta, bread, breakfast cereals and cutting out the obvious cakes, biscuits, unless home made low carb ones, and sugary drinks including fruit juice. Small portions are probably what most people would regard as a quarter portion, portion control is important.
Many do find that they make more than for one meal and freeze portions for a home made ready meal.
If low carb is something that appeals then this link has some ideas that may help you find a way forward. https://lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk/
Making changes slowly to the amount of carbs you have is kinder on your nerves and eyes and low carb does not mean NO carbs and a good starting point is no more than 130g per day total carbs not just sugar.
Keeping a food diary of everything you eat and drink with an estimate of the carbs can help you see where your starting point is and you can see where some savings can be made
I would recommend the book or app Carbs and Cals for good info on carb value of various portions of a whole range of foods so it helps make better choices.
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Just take it a day at a time and read through all the information at your own pace. Your blood glucose will have gone up over a period of time and although the inclination is to panic and want to get it down quickly it is actually kinder on your body, nerves and eyes to do it gradually.
Finding out what your HbA1C is, the actual number not just high, a bit high will indicate how much work you will need to do. It will be a number above 47mmol/mol but hopefully not too much above that.
One of the things you can do immediately is cutting out cakes, biscuits, sugary drinks including fruit juice and high carb snacks like crisps and high carb fruit like bananas and tropical fruits
Starting that food diary would also be a good step.
Hi thank you for your messages. Cuttting out cakes, biscuits, crisps and the most favourite one I absolutely love is Chocolate and that’s so hard to give up especially when I live on my own. Can anyone recommend any good books I mean cookery books which would be good to use to cook also any good recipes.
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If you enjoy cooking then the recipes both sweet and savoury on sugarfreelondoner web site are low carb.
The Diabetes weight loss cook book by Caldesi, Low Carb revolution by Annie Bell, Keto Kitchen by Monya Palmer are all good or just look on the internet for low carb or keto recipes.
There are recipes in the food forum (drop down menu on the top left) but you can probably adapt some of your favourites by substituting the higher carb ingredients so butternut squash, celeriac, swede instead of potatoes.
Dark chocolate is usually ok for people in small quantities, Aldi Moser Roth are good.
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