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Hi Everyone,
New to Group today.
HELP!!!!

Been told by GP today that I am borderline Diabetes, I have an impaired Glucose regulation? My reading from having some bloods taken was very high.
I was advised to alter my diet and revisit GP in 3 months. I have no idea what to alter and what foods I need to eat. I wasn't given any information or diet sheets to follow.s
Any help appreciated!

Thanks Elaine
 
Carbohydrates are the problem foods, though as you are not fully diabetic cutting right down on sugary foods and reducing the starchy ones should help a lot.
Don't assume that brown carbohydrates are going to be better than white ones. Wholemeal bread, for instance, works just the same as white for me. You can check how various meals raise your blood glucose using a meter - I use the tee 2 from Spirit healthcare as the costs are low.
Protein and fats are fine - so meat, fish, eggs seafood cheese and other dairy products are the basis of meals, and low carb veges or salad stuff are usually tolerated. It is possible to return to normal numbers by sticking to a low carb diet.
 
thank you for that info. I thought my Diet was reasonably ok! There does seem to be alot of sugar in some foods, I usually eat Granola & low fat yogurt some days for breakfast, had beans on toast for lunch yesterday, GP said not that good!
 
Read around the forum and you will find stuff that might surprise you, like for example, low fat yoghourts have higher carbohydrate content than the straight stuff.

Fundamentally you need to cut your carb intake and if you are borderline then there is no need to be too drastic about it. Next time you buy bread have a read of the nutrition label on what you normally buy - assuming you buy bread that comes in a packet. It will tell you how much carbohydrate there is in a slice. Check out other types of bread and you will find some are lower than others. Same applies to other standard food stuffs. I don't eat beans personally I and have never checked but I bet the carb content of tinned beans varies a lot from brand to brand depending on how much sugar has been put in the sauce to make them palatable. Go for the lowest carb offering. Breakfast cereals vary widely in carb content with one brand of granola being very different to another. Go for the lowest carb version or do as I do and make your own.

Don't worry, you will soon get expert in checking labels. There is a golden rule, ignore the big writing on the front of the packet kidding you about how healthy the product is and go straight to the nutrition label on the back and make your own mind up about whether it is healthy or not for you.
 
Hi Elaine and welcome 🙂

Do you know what your reading was? If you are borderline (prediabetic) it shouldn't have been very high, so hopefully just changing your diet a bit will get you back down into the healthy range.

I did a chart of food/drink suitable/not suitable for prediabetics recently for a friend of my Mum's who's been diagnosed with it - it's here if you want to have a look - https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/board...iabetics-help-please.83272/page-2#post-927289
The only thing I would add is that because she is 90 and has other health conditions I erred a bit on the side of saying foods were "fair" which some people here would cut out of their diets altogether (eg for some people, as Drummer says, brown bread/rice/pasta is just as bad as white, while others find them better, so long as only eaten in small portions). The only way you'll be able to tell whether these foods are suitable for you is to test your blood sugar after eating them and see what they do to you.

A lot of people here have this meter to test their blood sugar - https://homehealth-uk.com/all-products/codefree-blood-glucose-monitoring-system-mmoll-or-mgdl/ (if you get this, you need to choose mmol/L as that's the measurement we use in the UK, and you would need more test strips than the ones which come with it).

You may also find some of the links on this page helpful (scroll down to the type 2 and general ones) - https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/useful-links-for-people-new-to-diabetes.10406/
 
As I am fully diabetic your food choices would be completely wrong for me - grain, beans, low fat anything would push my numbers sky high.
 
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