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Yvie
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Thankyou ditto x
Toucan
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Hello @Yvie, welcome to the forum
A pre-diabetes diagnosis, is just a warning and moving to Diabetes is by no means a certainty, and it is good that you are looking for advice on what to eat, as adjusting your diet will be a big help.
As well as cutting out all the sugary things, it help to cut down on the carbs particularly the ‘white’ ones (white bread and flour,rice,pasta,etc ) and mainly eat fresh fish and poultry, vegetables yoghurts nuts and seeds. Also try to avoid too much processed food, and to include plenty of fibre some from the veg, plus seeds and pulses. There are many good recipes to make these things really tasty.
If you have a look around the forum particularly the Food/carb queries + recipes there are some useful ideas.
If you don't do much exercise then increasing this in some way will also help.
Best wishes and please keep posting and let us know how it goes, and we will always try to answer any questions you may have.
A pre-diabetes diagnosis, is just a warning and moving to Diabetes is by no means a certainty, and it is good that you are looking for advice on what to eat, as adjusting your diet will be a big help.
As well as cutting out all the sugary things, it help to cut down on the carbs particularly the ‘white’ ones (white bread and flour,rice,pasta,etc ) and mainly eat fresh fish and poultry, vegetables yoghurts nuts and seeds. Also try to avoid too much processed food, and to include plenty of fibre some from the veg, plus seeds and pulses. There are many good recipes to make these things really tasty.
If you have a look around the forum particularly the Food/carb queries + recipes there are some useful ideas.
If you don't do much exercise then increasing this in some way will also help.
Best wishes and please keep posting and let us know how it goes, and we will always try to answer any questions you may have.
Yvie
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Thankyou x
Drummer
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Snack a jacks are 17 gm of carbs a pack - so not really OK at all. That is about twice what I eat at breakfast.
It is the carbohydrate, not just the sugar which should be considered - the fats are unimportant really - though many people avoid the processed seed oils as they are thought unhealthy.
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Hi Yvie and welcome from me too
I didn't know what Snack a Jacks were but a google search turns up that they are made from rice and corn, quite highly processed and 77g/100g carbohydrate (ie 77% carbohydrate) so definitely something that I would avoid as a diabetic.
What is important to understand with diabetes is that it is an inability to remove glucose from the blood stream. All forms of carbohydrate break down into glucose in the digestive tract and are absorbed into the blood stream, so limiting the amount of carbohydrates you eat will significantly help to bring down your blood glucose levels. Carbohydrates are sugars and starches, so anything which contains grains like bread, pastry, pasta, couscous, breakfast cereals including porridge, cakes, biscuits and yes, Snack a Jacks as well as the grains themselves like rice and other wholegrains are high in carbs. and will increase your BG. Reducing your intake of these starchy foods as well as cutting out sugary foods will help to lower your levels. My thoughts are that if I am going to eat some carbs I want them to provide more than just carbs, so I would rather have a small piece of fruit like an apple which also contains vitamins and fibre and micronutrients than something like a couple of Snack a Jacks which are mostly just carbs.
I didn't know what Snack a Jacks were but a google search turns up that they are made from rice and corn, quite highly processed and 77g/100g carbohydrate (ie 77% carbohydrate) so definitely something that I would avoid as a diabetic.
What is important to understand with diabetes is that it is an inability to remove glucose from the blood stream. All forms of carbohydrate break down into glucose in the digestive tract and are absorbed into the blood stream, so limiting the amount of carbohydrates you eat will significantly help to bring down your blood glucose levels. Carbohydrates are sugars and starches, so anything which contains grains like bread, pastry, pasta, couscous, breakfast cereals including porridge, cakes, biscuits and yes, Snack a Jacks as well as the grains themselves like rice and other wholegrains are high in carbs. and will increase your BG. Reducing your intake of these starchy foods as well as cutting out sugary foods will help to lower your levels. My thoughts are that if I am going to eat some carbs I want them to provide more than just carbs, so I would rather have a small piece of fruit like an apple which also contains vitamins and fibre and micronutrients than something like a couple of Snack a Jacks which are mostly just carbs.
SB2015
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Hi Yvie
It is not so much that certain foods are not allowed, it is working out the amount of carbs that your body can manage. With T2 Diabetes your body is not able to produce or use enough insulin to deal with the carbs that you are eating. The glucose in your blood is coming from absolutely ANY carbs that you eat. These are not just sugars, but pasta potatoes, veg, as well as the more obvious biscuits and cakes.
As others have said it helps if you track the amount of carbs you are eating. If you are able to also test your BG both before and perhaps two hours after a meal you can start to get a picture of how well you body deals with different amounts of carbs, and also different foods. Then you can start to make adjustments to enable your u to get the levels down.
It is not so much that certain foods are not allowed, it is working out the amount of carbs that your body can manage. With T2 Diabetes your body is not able to produce or use enough insulin to deal with the carbs that you are eating. The glucose in your blood is coming from absolutely ANY carbs that you eat. These are not just sugars, but pasta potatoes, veg, as well as the more obvious biscuits and cakes.
As others have said it helps if you track the amount of carbs you are eating. If you are able to also test your BG both before and perhaps two hours after a meal you can start to get a picture of how well you body deals with different amounts of carbs, and also different foods. Then you can start to make adjustments to enable your u to get the levels down.
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Absolutely agree @SB2015
Hope you find your way through the carbohydrate maze @Yvie . A BG meter can really help you find out what’s what.
Different people’s reaction to foods varies wildly, so there are no ‘good’ or ’bad’ foods... just ones your body can cope well with... and others that cause you big BG fluctuations. The secret is to eat more of the former, and fewer of the latter... and then to make sure that you are also getting enough vitamins, minerals and trace elements too.
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