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Colin1976

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Hi all, I'm new here. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes back on the 1st March this year. I currently take 1000mg metformin twice a day along with 4mg gliclazide once a day. At the moment my sugar levels are going up and down like a yo yo, over the past two days the lowest has been 5.4mmol and the highest 15.9mmol after dinner (all I had was a skinless chicken fillet with some boiled rice as my appetite has not been too great recently). I have an appointment with the diabetic nurse next Wednesday for a review.
 
Welcome Colin, sorry about the DX, but you are in great company.

The rice is probably what is doing a number on your numbers..... I'd suggest adding the skin back on your chicken & ditching the rice....

Many of us don't tolerate starchy food at all well, I'd cut (or reduce) the rice, pasta, potatoes bread in favor of leafy vegetables grown above ground..... In time (once your BG is under control then you can experiment with the effect of different foods.

I also found that while I was on Glyburide my BG levels could be all over the place (I was in the same position as you in learning about what I could or could not eat).... In the end I took myself off this drug (Dr. was totally OK with that move, understanding that I knew my body better than he did)
 
Hi Martin canty. I never realised rice could send your levels up so much. I very seldom eat potatoes apart from the odd baked one, only have pasta when I'm in the mood which is not very often.
 
Hi Colin and welcome to the forum.
 
There was an interesting thread yesterday about the different types of rice & who could tolerate which.... If you enter "Jasmine" in the search box (top right of the screen).......
 
Welcome to the forum Colin. When you go to see the nurse take a list(diary) of all your blood tests/times etc. Good luck
 
Hi Hobie, I have been recording my blood levels for the past week to show the nurse in a diary. I've been checking the levels around 3 - 4 times a day.
 
Colin - it is ALL carbohydrates which diabetics have to watch - anything with flour in it, so bread and also cake because that has sugar too as well as flour, spuds and other root veg if you were to eat a lot of em, rice, pasta (again, flour!)

Martin was serious about the chicken skin by the way, especially if you say had a couple of pieces of spud or a spoonful of rice, because the fat (under the chicken skin - what makes it go brown and crispy) will slow the speed at which the carbs in the rice, spuds, hits your bloodstream. If you need to lose weight then cutting the carbs will most likely do a better job than carrying on eating em and cutting the fat! But obviously, no need to coat everything in half a pound of butter - just eat normal amounts of any fat.
 
trophywench said:
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Ehm.... I stick to less processed fats, avoid plant basted polyunsaturated like the plague...... Extra Virgin or animal based fats (particularly pasture raised).
 
Everything in moderation, I prefer my fish with the skin on, but it's taste.... Sautéed in Extra Virgin Olive Oil sounds just wonderful.

You may note (fairly quickly) that many members of this forum do not subscribe to the Low Fat notion forced town our throats by the establishment over that last 40 years, we T2's are living proof that it just doesn't work, hence the current pandemic of T2 diabetes; we have had carbs forced on us so long that our bodies have developed Insulin Resistance as a consequence.
One of the pieces of advice many of us give is avoid pre packaged food labels as "Diet", "Diabetic", "Heart Healthy" or any other marketing hype..... These foods are likely to be Low Fat & (to make them palatable) have added carbs (whether blatant or hidden).... All Carbs are bad for us, some worse than others, simple carbs (such as sugar) have a hi glycemic Index (i.e. they peak our blood sugars earlier & higher, other, complex carbs (like those in cabbage) have a low GI, therefore peak is not so high & longer in duration.

Sorry, a lot to take in, but you will probably read this in new posts every few days.

Some of us take our diets to new levels by practicing LCHF (Low Carb High Fat), a good place to start with LCHF is the Paleo Diet, as a gentle introductions to LCHF, though I'd be careful as you are taking gliclazide which works by stimulating the pancreas to dump insulin into the bloodstream in an uncontrolled manner.
 
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