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I have recently been diagnosed with type2 diabetes. Do you know how many grams of carbs is best a day?
 
Hi @Kirsty79 and welcome. I'd personally say as few as possible! I think anything less than 150 is considered low carb but I stand to be corrected. I'm one of the very low carb brigade who eats less than 50 a day.
 
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Hi Kirsty and welcome to the forum. I don't low carb so I can't suggest but you will find lots of different answers from different people.
 
Hi Kirsty and welcome to the forum

I'm afraid nobody can give a straight answer to your question and it's something you'll personally need to find out yourself, everyone is different in the amount of carbs they can tolerate and in what form too, best thing for you to do would be to test what you are consuming by testing before eating and then again 2 hours later, the post meal test should ideally be no more than 2-3mmol higher than pre meal
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Following on from your question in a different thread: for breakfast, neither cereals of porridge is really recommended due to the high carb content. However, everyone is different and your best way of finding out what suits you is, as @Kaylz says, is by monitoring.

I switched from bagel for breakfast to a 2 egg omelette as eggs are carb free. I add cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms or ham just to ring the changes!
 
I don't know. I know breakfast ceriels are a big problem. Not just the ones with sugar in either.
I'd suggest self testing so you can see the affect food has, along with any changes you make.
Vonny said:
I think anything less than 150 is considered low carb ... I'm one of the very low carb brigade who eats less than 50 a day.
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Somewhere around there. There are those who go a lot lower than that.
 
The best way to find your particular level is testing with a blood glucose meter.
People find they can tolerate different foods.
I am unlucky in that I can't tolerate anything much and eat 40 gm of carbs a day all from foods with a low percentage of carbs. I can have salads and stirfries, roast veges, on cold evenings I do mashed swede or cauliflower - or when roasting a chicken I put it on a rack and cook slices of swede, a carrot, maybe a green sweet pepper, aubergine or courgette in the tray underneath.
 
I’m around 50g carbs a day but this is because I want to reduce my HbA1c further and also lose another stone. I am finding a low carb diet is working well for me at the moment and have already lost just over a stone since August. I will then start to reintroduce more carbs to see what I can tolerate.
 
Initially I tested the BG rise for every meal. I was surprised how low carb I had to go in order to keep the BG rise to 2.0 mmol/L or lower. I eventually found that the range of between 20gms to 40gms per day of carbs was right for me. I do like my above ground veg (as I do all my food), but the saddest part was having to give up apples (we have 2 apple trees) and carrots ( even a raw carrot spikes my blood glucose).

Most other T2Ds find they can at least eat a little of one or even both of those!
 
Well some things you can and some you can't. Olives still make me shudder they taste so repulsive to me, whereas I first tasted one when I was 19 and assumed it would be a flavour I might grow into. 51 years later I no longer bother to see if anything's changed with them!

OTOH I now like tonic in my gin, quite a lot of shellfish and also mussels.

I've never had to retrain anything to give up eating stodge - so many other things whether animal vegetable or mineral, simply taste nicer to me.
 
Hello and welcome to the forum @Kirsty79 🙂
 
Welcome to the forum @Kirsty79

Good luck with finding your new way of eating. Let us know how you are getting on, and keep asking questions. Lots of friendly, experienced folks here who have found their own swaps, changes and workarounds 🙂
 
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