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[Pacino]

Hi Heath & welcome to the forum.🙂 Please tell us more about yourself & particularly your diet. Most on here (particularly the Type 2's) follow a low carb diet. All carbs raise our blood sugars, not just sweet things. So things like bread, rice, pasta & potatoes should be cut down.

 

[Heath o]

If you pick out the things which are low carb - meat fish shellfish eggs cheese, and keep those on the list, then select things like the banana to remove - being high carb - along with bread, rice pasta potatoes porridge etc you can thin add in the low carb veges, salad stuff and lowest carb fruits to make up the difference. You can have cream with your coffee and berries - it really is not a bad diet at all and normally a type two, with luck, can drop their blood glucose right down, and I found that after a few weeks of it leaping around like crazy my BG stabilized and then went down - presumably my metabolism has recovered a bit.
Now I am over a year from diagnosis I could eat more carbs - but they really are the most boring bits of the so called healthy diet and I would not want to go back to eating them. Perhaps when I am a bit further on, and have lost more weight, I might bake some bread if I can find some nutritious ingredients, but white flour is not going to be looming large.

Hi drummer that does make some sense my readings have been all over the place while I have been eating like this

 

[Heath o]

Hi pacino I am 49 with type 2 for about 4/5 year but I am only just realising how serious it is up until now I have just ate what I want
I:e chocolate sweets cakes and whatever else it's only last 4 weeks that I have cut the sweets and chocolate out and hate more healthy I have been living off 2 brown seeded toast for breakfast ham or cheese sandwich for dinner and boiled potatoes and fish or chicken breast and rice for tea snacks have been tangerines or banana I also drink about 30 cups of coffee a day but now with sweetner instead of sugar I am just starting a food diary beginning with low carb foods and there points and realised was already half way there so that is the way to go for me my readings are up and down I am on 1000 mg of metformin and 25 mg of anaglyptol my fasting reading is about 10.5 and evening can be about 13 or so I also suffer from hbp and high cholesterol last reading I remember for cholesterol was 12.5

 

[Grannylorraine]

Welcome

 

[Heath o]

Was that a HbA1c test (blood taken from the arm and taken away), or finger prick test (drop of blood on a test strip in a machine there and then).
HbA1c is an average over about 10-12 weeks.

I take it you're self testing. 🙂
Have you kept a food diary along with a record of your BG?

No it was taken from the leg Ralph can get blood out of my arms that was 10.5 but on the finger prices it gone up to 11.5 fasting and normally about 13 or so last thing at night

 

[Heath o]

Welcome

Hi lorraine same here 1000 mg of metformin and 25 mg of anaglyptol