Pre Diabetes

[Mike Carter]

Hi not sure if this is a forum for me but just had a gloucose test and came out appraoching Type 2 and so as I dont have diabetes as such Iam loking for advice on how to keep it that way. Many thanks Mike

 

[Amigo]

'Approaching type 2' is reason to act like you do have diabetes Mike because it's a fine line and shows your body is struggling with glucose.

You need to cut the carbs significantly so less potatoes, rice, pasta, bread, cakes, pies, crisps, sweets etc. More vegetables, not too much fruit, chicken, meat, seafood, fish, cheese, eggs etc. are all good and more exercise. Lose weight to help the insulin work more efficiently.

It's certainly worth making the effort now to stop full diabetes developing. Many of us which we had! Good luck.

 

[Mike Carter]

@Amigo thanks for the reply in two weeks have not had any bread at all I do have ryvita. I have always eaten greens so I am increasing this. I do not eat meat but have oily fish once a week I have bought some german rye bread and am looking at the best nuts maybe walnuts but then there is a fat content so I am feeling my way but the result was a big wake up call and a spur to do more to prevent onslaught of type 2

 

[Ljc]

Hi Mike Welcome. Imo though you're ( thankfully) pre diabetic imo it's best to look after yourself as though you are diabetic, you won't go far wrong that way ! You've made a good start.
With food , ignore the traffic light labelling on the front , the important bit of info for us diabetics is usually on the back of products, it's the "total of which are carbohydrates" that we need to know, sugar is just another carb, so you can ignore that bit too as it's included in the carb count.
My advise is not to buy anything that is not naturally low fat ie Low fat yogurts, they often have more sugar added to make them taste better.
Fruit juice is packed full of sugar.

Ask all the questions you need to, we'll do our best to help

 

[trophywench]

Tell us Mike - about your thoughts on the fat content of nuts - are you overweight or do you have other health issues bubbling away in the background?

All fat is NOT automatically 'bad' - in fact it's worse to eat too little of it, it turns out, according to a VERY eminent cardiologist addressing a symposium of international eminent cardiologists in Basel recently.

Plus I doubt very much whether anyone could eat sufficient nuts to OD, at the very worse when someone's pre-shelled em, it's a scant handful - not half a ton LOL In shells - you get bored with cracking them and getting them out of the shell a lot quicker than you get bored with the taste! My own main preference is walnuts first (cos I just love the taste) and they do seem to have a few more beneficial properties too - so that's simply a bonus for me to enjoy them even more! OTOH I don't think there are any nuts I don't like ...... none of them are nice when they've dried out too much - so better to buy any in lesser amounts but more frequently really.

 

[Grogg1]

@Amigo thanks for the reply in two weeks have not had any bread at all I do have ryvita. I have always eaten greens so I am increasing this. I do not eat meat but have oily fish once a week I have bought some german rye bread and am looking at the best nuts maybe walnuts but then there is a fat content so I am feeling my way but the result was a big wake up call and a spur to do more to prevent onslaught of type 2

Do you prefer ryvita because if you don't then you can still have bread just look for a lower carb version. Most sliced bread is about 18-22g carb per slice, burgen & Nimble bread 11g and Lidls bakery high protein roll (brown seeded triangle) is about 10g per roll. So you can have some bread if you are missing.

I like many others have severely restricted rice, potatoes, pasta & bread but I have a BG meter and I test to see what food does to my blood glucose. I'm looking for 4-6 before food and on waking and retiring and under 8 two hours after eating so I can judge how much of rice etc. I can tolerate and how what it's eaten with affects my blood sugar. Bread is always with lashings of proper butter or melted full fat cheese - not sure why but fat helps me deal with the carbs better. I had a small jacket potato with lots of butter and a creamy chicken dish washed down with bottle of wine and was 5.4! I think without the wine it would have been higher (wine can reduce BG) but would have probably been under 7.5 which is fine.

I'm not a big meat eater and hate fish and do sometimes struggle with the high protein. I eat Tofu or Veggie mince a lot and have found that many Vegan freshly prepared dishes, including desserts, don't cause me large spikes even though they may have carbs like Quinoa in. Fruit wise berries best and I have with double cream.

As you can see from above I'm not avoiding fat, I'm only avoiding carbs. The result is in 3 months since being diagnosed I'm a stone lighter.