mighty marg
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Hi everyone just saying Hello Havnt found my way around yet.So useless at this dont even know how to send this message.
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rebrascora
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Hi mighty marg and welcome.
Would you like to share some more details about yourself and your diabetes? ie How long have you been diagnosed? How are you managing? What medication, if any, are you on? What is your Hba1c (the reading from a blood test which diagnoses you as diabetic)?
If you need any help, advice or support, or even if you just want to rant about the frustration of it all, please feel free to do so. We are all here because we have been through it and want to help each other. This is a really great community and we are all in it together, so we really understand the ups and downs.
Would you like to share some more details about yourself and your diabetes? ie How long have you been diagnosed? How are you managing? What medication, if any, are you on? What is your Hba1c (the reading from a blood test which diagnoses you as diabetic)?
If you need any help, advice or support, or even if you just want to rant about the frustration of it all, please feel free to do so. We are all here because we have been through it and want to help each other. This is a really great community and we are all in it together, so we really understand the ups and downs.
KARNAK
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Hello @mighty marg welcome to the forum.🙂
Martin9
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Hello @mighty marg, ..
mighty marg
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Hi ,I am taking Metformin,Gliclazide,Ramipril,Simvastatin, and 2 types of insulin. I dont have very good control of my diabetes and desperatly need to loose weight. I thought of trying a very low carb diet.Does anyone know where I can download a diet sheet from the internet.Thankyou.
Docb
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Hi mighty marg, doubt if there is a worthwhile diet sheet out there. Whatever there is will be biased by the opinions of whoever wrote it and may or may not be relevant to you. Lots on here have lost weight and got control of blood glucose by changing their diet but my impression is that most have done it by looking at what they eat and their eating patterns and making adjustments rather than starting afresh. Its easier making lasting changes that way.
What sort of things do you eat now?
What sort of things do you eat now?
Hannah.amelia
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Hello and welcome! With the diet I think that can help but it might also be important to monitor your medication while making drastic diet changes especially to a very low carbohydrate one.
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Low carb is the way to go as it will help you lose weight as well as help you lower your BG but you will probably need to reduce your insulin usage along with the carbs. I am not sure of a diet sheet that is available for low carb but most of us just simply remove or dramatically reduce the carb heavy foods from our diet. Obviously the sweet stuff like cakes and biscuits and sweets and sugary drinks but also grain products like bread and pasta and rice and breakfast cereals including porridge and potatoes and limit the amount of fruit we eat as well as no fruit juice. Exotic fruits like bananas and pineapple and mangos and oranges are quite high in sugars whereas raspberries, blackberries and strawberries are lower sugar, so those are the better ones to chose.
Things you can have are eggs, meat, fish, nuts (go careful with peanuts as they are legumes and do contain more carbs than other nuts) mushrooms, Mediterranean veg like tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines and peppers are good and green veg cabbage, kale, spinach, broccoli and cauliflower and leeks are great. Cauli is particularly useful as a carb replacement as it can be mashed and sprinkled with cheese to top a cottage pie or grated/chopped as a substitute for rice as well as good old cauliflower cheese.... made by boiling or steaming and then coating with cream cheese and then grated cheese and put under the grill to melt and brown off. That goes particularly well with good quality high meat content sausages or gammon. I almost always sweat my cabbage, leeks or spinach in a little butter or add a dollop of cream cheese after cooking. Salmon fillets are nice with broccoli and green beans although the latter are medium carb content or sautéed courgette and aubergine. Sweet potatoes are controversial as they contain more sugars but less starch than potatoes. I often have a couple of small pieces, or I will occasionally have a couple of small pieces of regular potato, but then I don't eat any bread, so that will be my main carb input for the day. We are all different in what we like and what we can manage without..... I was a huge wholemeal bread eater before diagnosis but I hardly miss it now.
For breakfast I often have a mushroom omelette with a variety of other fillings including onion, courgette, peppers, cheese and ham/bacon and I have it with salad leaves and avocado. Or bacon and eggs and mushrooms... I also have this with big plate of salad. That is very filling so I generally just have a snack of nuts or cheese or olives of veggie sticks and sour cream and chive dip for lunch and then a proper meal with meat or fish and lots of veg in the evening. There are Naked Noodles available in the likes of Tesco and Sainsbury's which are almost carb free if you fancy making a stir fry/chow mein type dish with chicken and Chinese veg. If I need an on the go breakfast, Nature Valley protein bars only have about 10g of carbs per bar and are really tasty.
It is probably best if you allocate yourself a daily allowance of carbohydrates (usually somewhere between 50g and 150g) and don't worry about calories or fat or anything else. Check the labels of everything you buy by looking at the nutritional info on the back of the packs and really the only thing you need to focus on is how many carbs per 100g or per portion and work out how many you will be getting from the amount you eat. Drinking plenty of water is also important
I hope that gives you some idea of a way forward and realise that low carb eating does not have to be a hardship.
Things you can have are eggs, meat, fish, nuts (go careful with peanuts as they are legumes and do contain more carbs than other nuts) mushrooms, Mediterranean veg like tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines and peppers are good and green veg cabbage, kale, spinach, broccoli and cauliflower and leeks are great. Cauli is particularly useful as a carb replacement as it can be mashed and sprinkled with cheese to top a cottage pie or grated/chopped as a substitute for rice as well as good old cauliflower cheese.... made by boiling or steaming and then coating with cream cheese and then grated cheese and put under the grill to melt and brown off. That goes particularly well with good quality high meat content sausages or gammon. I almost always sweat my cabbage, leeks or spinach in a little butter or add a dollop of cream cheese after cooking. Salmon fillets are nice with broccoli and green beans although the latter are medium carb content or sautéed courgette and aubergine. Sweet potatoes are controversial as they contain more sugars but less starch than potatoes. I often have a couple of small pieces, or I will occasionally have a couple of small pieces of regular potato, but then I don't eat any bread, so that will be my main carb input for the day. We are all different in what we like and what we can manage without..... I was a huge wholemeal bread eater before diagnosis but I hardly miss it now.
For breakfast I often have a mushroom omelette with a variety of other fillings including onion, courgette, peppers, cheese and ham/bacon and I have it with salad leaves and avocado. Or bacon and eggs and mushrooms... I also have this with big plate of salad. That is very filling so I generally just have a snack of nuts or cheese or olives of veggie sticks and sour cream and chive dip for lunch and then a proper meal with meat or fish and lots of veg in the evening. There are Naked Noodles available in the likes of Tesco and Sainsbury's which are almost carb free if you fancy making a stir fry/chow mein type dish with chicken and Chinese veg. If I need an on the go breakfast, Nature Valley protein bars only have about 10g of carbs per bar and are really tasty.
It is probably best if you allocate yourself a daily allowance of carbohydrates (usually somewhere between 50g and 150g) and don't worry about calories or fat or anything else. Check the labels of everything you buy by looking at the nutritional info on the back of the packs and really the only thing you need to focus on is how many carbs per 100g or per portion and work out how many you will be getting from the amount you eat. Drinking plenty of water is also important
I hope that gives you some idea of a way forward and realise that low carb eating does not have to be a hardship.
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