Welcome @rasikadeepali - you will find so much valuable information here on how to manage your diabetes. There is always someone to advise you on any problem you encounter. As for me a really valuable aid was a book called Carbs and Calorie Counter. It gives comprehensive information on the carb content of a host of foods. I find this book invaluable ….Good luck
I use Freshwell a lot for recipes and information. Am going to make the pancakes with coconut flour for brunch today….first time for this recipe…..
The whole concept just made sense to me.
I avoid dried fruit because, as @Inka has said, it's very high carb and almost all of it is sugar. A couple of medjool dates, for example, is a whopping 30g carb or thereabouts, more than I aim for in an entire meal. Many of us have berries for breakfast as they are generally recognised as the healthiest fruits, due in part to their plant pigments, as well as being the lowest carb.
All sugar, all carbohydrate is natural - but as a type 2 diabetic, it is something to limit as it is what elevates blood glucose levels.
Unfortunately there's no simple answer to your question as we all differ in how our T2 bodies handle carbs. Many of us follow a low carb diet, which is generally considered to be less than 130g per day. Many go lower than that and some much lower. As your HbA1c is in the pre-diabetic range you should be able to bring that down by simply reducing your portions of things like bread, pasta, rice and potatoes whilst cutting back (or out) sugary things like cakes, biscuits, sweets and most breakfast cereals. Whether that would reduce your weight as well I can't say, but I lost weight on low carb although my primary aim was to get my HbA1c down. Members who have gone for weight-reduction strategies would be better able to advise.
Those two approaches seem very similar, I looked at the Harcombe Diet and as described very much follows Jason Fung's theory in his book The Diabetes Code which I found made complete sense.
