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Hi ChaRitch, welcome to the forum 🙂 You will get all the information and support you need here, especially to get those carbs under control 😱 it’s not as hard as you might think so have a good read and then ask any questions you might have 😛
SB2015
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Hi ChaRitch, and welcome to the forum.
Many of the people on here with T2 choose to self test their BG. This, alongside a food diary, can give them a lot of information about how different foods impact their BG. You may find that your Oractice will not fund the test strips, so it is worth looking for a test kit that uses the cheaper strips. I think the best is CareSense which is available online. Some useful info about testing is here.
Test,Review, Adjust by Alan S
Also, because if you have to self-fund you want to make those test strips count:
Testing on a budget
Also a highly recommended book: Type 2 Diabetes: The First Year by Gretchen Becker
I hope that these help
Many of the people on here with T2 choose to self test their BG. This, alongside a food diary, can give them a lot of information about how different foods impact their BG. You may find that your Oractice will not fund the test strips, so it is worth looking for a test kit that uses the cheaper strips. I think the best is CareSense which is available online. Some useful info about testing is here.
Test,Review, Adjust by Alan S
Also, because if you have to self-fund you want to make those test strips count:
Testing on a budget
Also a highly recommended book: Type 2 Diabetes: The First Year by Gretchen Becker
I hope that these help
Drummer
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Handing out prescriptions is the usual response on diagnosis - but a lucky type two such as myself can find that normality is just about restored by stopping the inflow of high carb foods.
For decades I was perfectly happy to eat just 50 gm of carbs a day - in fact I was glad to as it made me feel a lot better than the high carb cholesterol lowering diet pushed by my doctors.
I am now over 2 years from diagnosis and consider myself back to what was always normal for me.
Diabetes is all about being unable to deal with carbs - a low carb diet seems a pretty obvious response.
For decades I was perfectly happy to eat just 50 gm of carbs a day - in fact I was glad to as it made me feel a lot better than the high carb cholesterol lowering diet pushed by my doctors.
I am now over 2 years from diagnosis and consider myself back to what was always normal for me.
Diabetes is all about being unable to deal with carbs - a low carb diet seems a pretty obvious response.
Thank you! I am over whelmed with it all at the moment, the hard thing is I have never eaten veg or salad so finding it hard and feel like I am starving myself especially now worrying about high cholesterol, I know I have to get my head around it and i corporate some veg, but feeling hungry and need things that fill.me up!
Drummer
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I find all the 'facts' about cholesterol seem to be untrue when tested.
There are people who have familial hyper cholesterol - yet they do not seem to die prematurely from what we are told will happen to those with high cholesterol.
The people who reach 100 years of age do not seem to have low cholesterol. Quite the reverse from the small amounts of information revealed about studies of the older people in the population.
Eating a high fat diet seems to lower my cholesterol better than the high carb diet prescribed - but I kept going back to the low carb diet and was told that the 'benefits' of the high carb diet only kicked in once I have stopped eating it. Yeah right - but I always felt really miserable eating carbs, and put on loads of weight - something to do with undiagnosed pre diabetes I suspect.
There is no need to feel starved - you can eat meat, fish, shellfish, eggs or cheese - and for many diabetics 40 to 50 gm of carbs per day is fine and allows them to have normal levels of blood glucose.
There are people who have familial hyper cholesterol - yet they do not seem to die prematurely from what we are told will happen to those with high cholesterol.
The people who reach 100 years of age do not seem to have low cholesterol. Quite the reverse from the small amounts of information revealed about studies of the older people in the population.
Eating a high fat diet seems to lower my cholesterol better than the high carb diet prescribed - but I kept going back to the low carb diet and was told that the 'benefits' of the high carb diet only kicked in once I have stopped eating it. Yeah right - but I always felt really miserable eating carbs, and put on loads of weight - something to do with undiagnosed pre diabetes I suspect.
There is no need to feel starved - you can eat meat, fish, shellfish, eggs or cheese - and for many diabetics 40 to 50 gm of carbs per day is fine and allows them to have normal levels of blood glucose.
Drummer
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If you have a sandwich it is rather likely to be wrong - unless you make it out of low carb foods of course.
It has taken two years of low carbing to reach a situation where I can eat small amounts of bread with lots of low carb ingredients, 'normal' breads are far too high carb for me and I often eat lettuce roll ups rather than bread sandwiches - a couple of lettuce leaves interlocked, ham or corned beef, sometimes tuna laid on them, usually sliced tomato, maybe pickle or coleslaw, sometimes grated cheese, roll and eat. That is just a list of choices, I don't put all those into one sandwich.
It has taken two years of low carbing to reach a situation where I can eat small amounts of bread with lots of low carb ingredients, 'normal' breads are far too high carb for me and I often eat lettuce roll ups rather than bread sandwiches - a couple of lettuce leaves interlocked, ham or corned beef, sometimes tuna laid on them, usually sliced tomato, maybe pickle or coleslaw, sometimes grated cheese, roll and eat. That is just a list of choices, I don't put all those into one sandwich.
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