Hi everyone type 2 diagnosed September this year had some advice already still nervous about this as was a bit of a shock . Always had a good healthy diet but having to adjust it slightly now. I am 60 years old and my form of exercise is walking during my lunch and swimming very slowly 3 times a week.
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Judy
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Amigo
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I don’t understand what you mean Judy. Members don’t have your email address to send you messages.
Robin
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Do you mean that you are getting an email notification every time someone replies to your threads? If so, if you go to your account by clicking on your name at the top right of this page, and click on 'preferences' you can then choose not to receive email notifications.
Martin Canty
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Ahhhhh...... Robin, you just beat me to it!!!
Northerner
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Just what I was going to say! Thank you Robin 🙂 Don't worry about the duplicate threads, I'll tidy up 🙂
Hi spoke to doctor says don't need monitor but to go see her. She doesn't think problems are related to diabetes and is making an appointment with dietician so will wait and see what happens as I feel that after speaking to you all the monitor May help me .
Amigo
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You should be aiming for under 7 waking/before eating and preferably no more than 8.5 two hours after eating Judy.
Make a note of what you are eating and if the rise is too high after meals, adjust the carb content of your meals and the portion size. You want no more than a 2.5 to 3 point rise two hours after eating.
Ally beetle
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You are doing nothing wrong Ajudy it is the way your body reacts with the carbohydrates you are eating like amigo said one you get the hang of it you can adjust the amount of carbs you eat to help lower your blood glucose level. As a quick point eating only a little carbs in the afternoon may help lower your reading.
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Hi Becks thank you
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Thank you Ally bread is my nightmare love it and changed to Burgen I have about 3 slices a day so obviously have to cut down
Drummer
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I'm afraid that bread, potatoes, rice, oats, many fruits and other things high in sugars and starches are the things which push up blood glucose levels - many things we are told are healthy are in fact sure fire blood spiking agents.
When I started out low carbing many years ago I used to carry around lists of what I could eat freely, cautiously, sparingly - that is under 5 percent, ten percent and fifteen percent carbohydrate - that is the net carbs, not including the fibre which many websites using the US system do. In the UK the packet shows the net carbs. My doctors have never supported the idea.
I have not needed to see a doctor since diagnosis as eating foods which kept my BG readings under 8 have dropped my test results to normal. My meter now shows even lower numbers, but I kept to the routine which worked, which is exactly the same as when I was losing weight on Atkins years ago - and the foods which stopped weightloss are exactly those which spike my blood glucose.
When I started out low carbing many years ago I used to carry around lists of what I could eat freely, cautiously, sparingly - that is under 5 percent, ten percent and fifteen percent carbohydrate - that is the net carbs, not including the fibre which many websites using the US system do. In the UK the packet shows the net carbs. My doctors have never supported the idea.
I have not needed to see a doctor since diagnosis as eating foods which kept my BG readings under 8 have dropped my test results to normal. My meter now shows even lower numbers, but I kept to the routine which worked, which is exactly the same as when I was losing weight on Atkins years ago - and the foods which stopped weightloss are exactly those which spike my blood glucose.
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