Need your supports!

[Baran]

Hello everyone
I was told by my GP to use this site for support and learning new diet to prevent me to cross the line! Today I was told that my blood sugar is 48 and I need to make serious changes in my diet and start exceeding every day!
Any advice in starting new diets are welcome! Thank you very much!

 

[Ljc]

Hello @Baran welcome to the forum. It’s carbohydrates our bodies can no longer handle too well so we need to reduce them especially the starchy carbs, potatoes, rice, pasta and bread, we often need to be careful with fruit , berries are often tolerated better, breakfast cereals though often though of as healthy tend to be high carb. Now I know that sounds awful but their are substitutes you may like.
Many supermarkets do a low carb bread , cauli rice for instance. Till you find substitutes that you like fill up on veg

I totally ignore those traffic lights that are on the front of packs and tins instead I check the nutritional label on the back and only look at the carbohydrate content.
We normally have no problems with protein or and this is probably going to shock you, good fats.
Exercise if able walking is good and losing weight if needed will help a lot.

With a Hb1ac of 48 you stand a very good chance of turning this around.

We have some very informative threads and blogs on here, some are quite long so make yourself a cuppa or coffee and have a read of these
maggie-daveys-letter-to-newly-diagnosed-type-2s

test-review-adjust by Alan S

Many find this book by Gretchen Becker very helpful
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...fm-21&linkId=0fe91e54d4071470ef950412cbbd7e95.

We recommend self testing to find out how the various carbohydrates affect us so that we can make informed choices of what carbohydrates we can and can’t tolerate as we are all very different in this respect
If you Gp practice like the majority will not provide a glucose meter and test strips unless a person is on medication that can cause hypo’s (low loud glucose) many here use the SD Codefree meter as it has the cheapest tests trips that we know of , a pot of 50 are around £8 where other brands are over £15
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Codefree-Glucose-Monitor-Monitoring-Testing/dp/B0068JAJFS/ref=as_li_ss_tl?s=drugstore&ie=UTF8&qid=1506485682&sr=1-1&keywords=sd+codefree+meter+mmol/l&linkCode=sl1&tag=xfm-21&linkId=f39210144fdc26c27738e45b6d957003&th=1
You will need to buy more test strips and a box of lancets as they only provide 10 oe in starter packs .

The most important thing is to ask all the questions you need to about diabetes, we’ll do our best to help

 

[CathyB]

Hi, as @Ljc has said, lowering your carbohydrates will certainly help you back on the right track

 

[rebrascora]

I was stumped when I first contemplated cutting out carbs. They are such an integral part of our diet these days. Breakfast was the hardest meal to figure out until I realised that a mushroom omelette or any other low carb filling like cheese or ham or onion or aubergine or a combination of all of them fit the bill. Also a fry up breakfast as long as you steer clear of bread/toast hash browns etc. I have a green salad and avocado with my omelette or cooked brekky and it works surprisingly well. Or for a light breakfast, I have creamy full fat Greek yoghurt with raspberries or stewed rhubarb at the moment from the garden (stewed with artificial sweetener).

 

[Drummer]

Excuse my being blasé, please - but I started off with a Hba1c of 91.
I suggest that you tot up the amount of carbs you had been eating, and half it, replace high carb foods with less dense ones, take a little more exercise, drink more water.
If your Hba1c is not back in the normal range at your next test, then maybe adjust your carbs down a bit more - carbohydrates, by the way, include sugars and starches - so changing to brown and whole meal might not be the thing...
Watch out for those traffic light indicators on packaging - they are utterly useless for a diabetic.

 

[HOBIE]

Good luck & do your best 😉