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Newbie seeks guidance.
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Dragon queen
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Hi and a warm welcome to this lovely group.
Your bloods are usually checked every 12 months. If found to be diabetic they are checked every 3 months first year until your stable. Practice nurse will be your support your feet are checked yearly as are your eyes.
Your bloods are usually checked every 12 months. If found to be diabetic they are checked every 3 months first year until your stable. Practice nurse will be your support your feet are checked yearly as are your eyes.
Lucyr
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Once every 12 months, it may be more often sometimes eg if had a very high a1c and started a new treatment.
Thank you. That is very helpful. I am trying to understand my blood sugar readings from my doctor. Some below reference points and some above. All taken late January 2024.
Thank you. I am presently pre diabetic and new to the journey ahead. Trying to comprehend the various blood sugar readings from my doctor.
Leadinglights
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The ones which will be related to diabetes will be the results of the HbA1C test where normal is below 42mmol/mol, at risk 42-47mmol/mol, diabetic anything over that.
You may have had other tests like cholesterol, full blood count to check for anaemia or infection and kidney and liver checks.
What was you HbA1C result? The closer to the top of the at risk zone the more work you will need to do to get it back to normal but even so modest changes may be all that is needed, It does depend on how high a carbohydrate diet you have.
Some ideas for making changes in this link. https://lowcarbfreshwell.com/
Leadinglights
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That is mid range, so some modest changes should do the trick.
I followed those principals and reduced my HbA1C from 50 to 42 mmol/mol in 3 months and then to below 40 where I have been for the last 2 years as I find that is a sustainable new way of eating.
Leadinglights
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I didn't follow the menu plans as such but reduced my carb intake to about 70g per day, probably too quickly as I had problems with my eyes as blood glucose dropped quickly.
I don't have potatoes, rice, normal pasta, pastry, cakes or anything like that. I used the book Carbs and Cals (there is an app) to look at what portion of various veg were best and only had one carby veg in any meal.
I can manage 1 slice of bread without problem.
I suppose the main thing was using a home blood glucose monitor to check out meals, testing before eating and after 2 hours where I aimed at no more than a 2-3mmol/l increase and no more than 8mmol/l once levels had come down. I was then able to see which foods were not too good but which were fine and I could tolerate safely.
Breakfast is either full fat Greek yoghurt and berries with 20g of a keto granola or eggs with bacon or tomatoes or mushrooms or a variation of those.
Lunch cooked meat, cheese, cracker, salad, half and apple, pear.
Sorry will finish later as I have to go out, Indian meal with friends.
Felinia
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Leadinglights always gives excellent advice. I would just add every person's body is different, so you might find you react differently to foods. I too can take a small slice of bread or 2 new potatoes, but can't touch rice, pasta or strangely, apples. I keep a daily food diary on my app, and have done since being diagnosed. It keeps me on the straight and narrow. Also I don't get paranoid - "can't eat this, can't eat that" - but eat in moderation, within my carb limit of 75-90 gm a day.
Typical breakfast: eggs in some form with mushrooms, tomatoes and occasional bacon; Slim shake when I have a morning exercise class
Typical lunch: home made soup or salad
Typical dinner: 2/3 plate of vegetables, 1/3 portion of protein. I have a lot of cauliflower instead of potato
Hopefully a few tweaks will soon have you back in the normal range
Typical breakfast: eggs in some form with mushrooms, tomatoes and occasional bacon; Slim shake when I have a morning exercise class
Typical lunch: home made soup or salad
Typical dinner: 2/3 plate of vegetables, 1/3 portion of protein. I have a lot of cauliflower instead of potato
Hopefully a few tweaks will soon have you back in the normal range
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Many new members find it can be really helpful to keep a brutally honest food diary for a week or two. Note down everything you eat and drink, along with a reasonable estimate of the total carbohydrate content (not just ‘of which sugars’) in your meals and snacks - it doesn’t have to be gram-perfect, the nearest 5-10g is fine.
It might sound like a bit of a faff, and will involve weighing portions, squinting at the fine print on packaging, and possibly looking up things on the internet, but it will give you a really good idea of which foods are the main sources of carbs in your menu. Once you can see which meals or snacks are your ‘big hitters’, and where carbs might be unexpectedly lurking, your diary might also suggest some likely candidates for swaps, portion reductions, or using lower carb alternatives (eg celeriac or swede mash, or cauli ‘rice’).
Good luck in finding a menu that helps steer your levels back away from a diabetes diagnosis 🙂
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