Help please !

[Lisa glass]

Hi I'm new to all this have high sugar levels trying all new foods any tips would be appreciated on 50 units of abasglar a day and 24 units of humalog when I have my meals (-:

 

[Grannylorraine]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[grovesy]

Welcome.

 

[Lilian]

Welcome. In what way do you need help? What problems are you having?

 

[Lisa glass]

I need to get my sugars down my nurse has tryed so many things and it won't come down just started a new tablet sitagliptin to see if this helps

 

[Ljc]

Hello Lisa, Welcome. It might be a good idea to keep a food diary and record your before and after BG (blood glucose) results, for future reference this will be especially useful when you learn to adjust yours bolus (mealtime) insulin to carbs eaten.
We have some good cooks on here who put their recipes on the food/carbs queries +recipe forum

 

[Ljc]

I need to get my sugars down my nurse has tryed so many things and it won't come down just started a new tablet sitagliptin to see if this helps

Have you cut down on the starchy carbs like potatoes, rice, bread and pasta

 

[Lisa glass]

Hello , I have done this and have cut out so many foods but it just doesn't want to go down ,

 

[Lisa glass]

Have you cut down on the starchy carbs like potatoes, rice, bread and pasta

I don't really eat a lot of these foods and with bread I eat granary (-:

 

[Ljc]

Hello , I have done this and have cut out so many foods but it just doesn't want to go down ,

Can you give us an idea of your typical meals and snacks including fruit

 

[Lisa glass]

I have special k for breakfast with blueberries or granary bread with scramble egg Lunch salad or small jacket potatoe with tuna or prawn salad. Tea..fish veggies mayb few new potatoes or mash special k bar tea with semi skimmed milk or juice with no added sugar

 

[Lisa glass]

Welcome to the forum.

Thank u

 

[Lilian]

Look on the packet of special K and see what the total carb content is for the amount you are eating. How many slices of granary bread? Fresh fruit juice, even without added sugar, is very high in carbs. Look on the label and see how many carbs you are having for the portion you are taking. There is no need to not eat any carbs, but they really should be the most nutritional type of carbs. All breads, rice, pasta, potatoes are high in carbs. How many carbs in the special K bar. Any food you eat that has a label on it, read the label first and work out the carbs for the portion you are having.

When you work out what carbs you would normally be having for that meal, reduce them slightly and then after a while reduce them a bit more. Do not do it drastically do it gradually. For example if you would have two slices of bread and one egg, have one slice of bread and two eggs and add a little butter to the scrambled eggs. At some later stage you could cut out the bread entirely and have some scrambled eggs with some cheese over it and some mushrooms for example.

Take into consideration the whole amount of carbs of that particular meal.

 

[Lisa glass]

Look on the packet of special K and see what the total carb content is for the amount you are eating. How many slices of granary bread? Fresh fruit juice, even without added sugar, is very high in carbs. Look on the label and see how many carbs you are having for the portion you are taking. There is no need to not eat any carbs, but they really should be the most nutritional type of carbs. All breads, rice, pasta, potatoes are high in carbs. How many carbs in the special K bar. Any food you eat that has a label on it, read the label first and work out the carbs for the portion you are having.

When you work out what carbs you would normally be having for that meal, reduce them slightly and then after a while reduce them a bit more. Do not do it drastically do it gradually. For example if you would have two slices of bread and one egg, have one slice of bread and two eggs and add a little butter to the scrambled eggs. At some later stage you could cut out the bread entirely and have some scrambled eggs with some cheese over it and some mushrooms for example.

Take into consideration the whole amount of carbs of that particular meal.

Thank u so much for your help

 

[Ljc]

I see @Lilian has beat me to it
@Lisa glass , the trouble with today's foods is they are often marketed as healthy when in reality at least for us diabetics they are not. For those of us on meds that can cause hypo's, a swig of fruit juice is a great hypo treatment.
However we do have lots of good stuff we can eat and thoroughly enjoy , plus we all need the occasional naughty treat.

 

[john pardo]

Hi and welcome