The idea is that 2 hours after eating your BG (blood glucose reading on the meter) shouldn't have risen by more than 2 -3 on the meter so you can see what that amount of that particular foodstuff did to your BG. 11 is twice as high as it should be but that doesn't mean the food itself or the amount of it was bad - because it depends what the BG was before you stated to eat. We're aiming for +/- 5 then, which means we're aiming for 7-8 after. So - if the meter says 8 before we eat, 11 after says 'that meal was pretty much OK' - so you need to tackle the pre-meal high BG, not the meal. But if the before number was 4.8 (really brilliant reading!) and the after is 11, EEEEEK ! - so yeah - you DO need not to eat that much of that food - only the carby part though so if it's a jam doughnut then never buy one again, but if it's meat spuds and cabbage with gravy - the first thing there that will cause a prob is the spuds and a bit in the gravy if it's eg Bisto. If the meat bit was eg S&K pie - then it's that pastry as well as the spuds. So it's not just sugar - it's spuds, flour, rice, pasta, bread and anything else made with flour.
Your husband must be overweight else the Newcastle diet most likely wouldn't have been mentioned. It does actually work done properly under medical supervision, but it shouldn't be undertaken half heartedly else it doesn't result in reversing the diabetes which is what it's hoping to do for you. It is deigned to reduce the amount of 'brown' fat surrounding your organs, that's making them sluggish and not work as well as they should and as there's less of you to work on as you lose weight - your organs don't have to work so hard to keep you alive anyway. It is rigid and doesn't produce instant results BUT in my way of thinking surely it's better to suffer a bit in the short term (a couple of months) to benefit in the long term - ie the rest of your life?
You need to read up about it - look for Professor Roy Taylor at Newcastle University and 'pukka' reports from trustworthy sources like the BMJ, 'Diabetic Medicine' - if you enter 'Google Scholar' in your search box, then open the Scholar site itself (NB on my browser which uses Bing not Google it also offers a quick link to 'Google Search' under the description - that is NOT what you want) it opens with the Google Scholar heading and it's own Search box - and you'll find shedloads of things on there about it. Also in this forum's 'News' section you'll find quite a bit too.
