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Hello EMILY08 and welcome to the forum!
Very briefly, Type 2 diabetes ( often abbreviated to T2D on this forum) is the inability of the body to process carbohydrates properly, which means that glucose is unable to get into the cells, and accumulates in the blood instead, and it is this accumulation of glucose that causes the problems we call diabetes
All carbohydrates are made up from chains of glucose molecules, and as they are digested the glucose eventually builds up in the blood, as described
Thus to control diabetes you should reduce the amount of carbohydrate and sugars that you consume
This might sound terrible and difficult at first, but you soon adapt by substituting more salads, vegetables, and various other tricks & combinations.
I suggest you look at a few Sections -
The Home Page of Diabetes UK has a section 'Living With Diabetes'; click on that, and there is loads of information
Learning Zone - the red/orange box at the top of this page
Read previous Posts & Threads under Newbie; Food & Carbs; and if necessary, Weight Loss. Most of your questions will have been asked & answered before, and you will pick up more information and understanding
Finally, why not tell us a bit about yourself, like how you came to be diagnosed, any test results, your likes & dislikes on food, and if you wish, your weight, medication, and age, which will help us with advice and comments
Alright, here's another Final, with some reassurance -
No-one is happy about having D, and it may be a shock and a worry, but it's not a complete disaster
You can live well with D if you take steps to control & manage it, in fact some people say they feel better with D than they did before, but it does mean being careful, and accepting and sticking to any changes
Very briefly, Type 2 diabetes ( often abbreviated to T2D on this forum) is the inability of the body to process carbohydrates properly, which means that glucose is unable to get into the cells, and accumulates in the blood instead, and it is this accumulation of glucose that causes the problems we call diabetes
All carbohydrates are made up from chains of glucose molecules, and as they are digested the glucose eventually builds up in the blood, as described
Thus to control diabetes you should reduce the amount of carbohydrate and sugars that you consume
This might sound terrible and difficult at first, but you soon adapt by substituting more salads, vegetables, and various other tricks & combinations.
I suggest you look at a few Sections -
The Home Page of Diabetes UK has a section 'Living With Diabetes'; click on that, and there is loads of information
Learning Zone - the red/orange box at the top of this page
Read previous Posts & Threads under Newbie; Food & Carbs; and if necessary, Weight Loss. Most of your questions will have been asked & answered before, and you will pick up more information and understanding
Finally, why not tell us a bit about yourself, like how you came to be diagnosed, any test results, your likes & dislikes on food, and if you wish, your weight, medication, and age, which will help us with advice and comments
Alright, here's another Final, with some reassurance -
No-one is happy about having D, and it may be a shock and a worry, but it's not a complete disaster
You can live well with D if you take steps to control & manage it, in fact some people say they feel better with D than they did before, but it does mean being careful, and accepting and sticking to any changes
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Hello @emily08 I make a wicked cauliflower cheese, I have bubble and squeak made from swede but I am not sure if I like it better with egg and veges mixed or with grated cheese.
I grew courgettes in the greenhouse this year, as they are a handy low carb vege, and my freezer is full of various mixtures of veges and berries.
The easiest way to make decisions over the next few weeks is to get hold of a blood glucose tester, and some pots of the strips which go in them, then after taking a look at your carb intake as it is now, look at the sorts of numbers you are reaching after meals, and decide where there might need to be improvement.
I found that peas and beans push up my levels as though they have about 180 percent of the listed carbs, so I only eat small amounts of them, a half serving, so as to stay in normal numbers.
There is a fairly long list of things which most diabetics can eat, so there is no danger of starvation, and after a while I saw my levels after eating reduce down as my metabolism recovered without making any further changes. The level of 8mmol/l after meals seemed to do the trick. Once I was seeing that fairly regularly I went on eating the same way and they sank down to under 7 and then to under 6.
I grew courgettes in the greenhouse this year, as they are a handy low carb vege, and my freezer is full of various mixtures of veges and berries.
The easiest way to make decisions over the next few weeks is to get hold of a blood glucose tester, and some pots of the strips which go in them, then after taking a look at your carb intake as it is now, look at the sorts of numbers you are reaching after meals, and decide where there might need to be improvement.
I found that peas and beans push up my levels as though they have about 180 percent of the listed carbs, so I only eat small amounts of them, a half serving, so as to stay in normal numbers.
There is a fairly long list of things which most diabetics can eat, so there is no danger of starvation, and after a while I saw my levels after eating reduce down as my metabolism recovered without making any further changes. The level of 8mmol/l after meals seemed to do the trick. Once I was seeing that fairly regularly I went on eating the same way and they sank down to under 7 and then to under 6.
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Welcome to the forum
Everything depends on you.
Do you know any of your test results that led to your diagnosis, and are you looking to lose weight, of make any other lifestyle changes?
Have you been prescribed any meds?
As to the advice to suddenly jump into a low carb diet, there are many other ways to deal with diabetes, we have a lot of different people on this forum.
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