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[catbec1210]

im still getting my head around all this food buisness so please bare with me just got a couple of questions to ask

Can i eat chicken?
can i drink smoothies?
Can i eat rice cakes?
and do i need 2 to drink milk evey day

 

[Mark T]

Does this help?

Can i eat chicken? Yep
can i drink smoothies? Mmm, concentrated fruit - possibly not to much of this I think
Can i eat rice cakes? It's high carb, so best avoided really, something I used to eat but now I avoid
and do i need 2 to drink milk evey day? Probably not if you don't want to

 

[catbec1210]

Does this help?

Can i eat chicken? Yep
can i drink smoothies? Mmm, concentrated fruit - possibly not to much of this I think
Can i eat rice cakes? It's high carb, so best avoided really, something I used to eat but now I avoid
and do i need 2 to drink milk evey day? Probably not if you don't want to

thank you. oops been eating a lot of rice cakes lately better stop that one lol wats the rough guide for peices of bread a day had one today so far but now fancying sum toast

 

[Klocky]

thank you. oops been eating a lot of rice cakes lately better stop that one lol wats the rough guide for peices of bread a day had one today so far but now fancying sum toast

Have you got a test meter so you can check what foods cause your blood sugar to go up?

 

[caffeine_demon]

questions 1-3 - only a test meter will tell you, chicken is likely to be good, other 2 will probably need limiting
q4 - not really.

 

[shiv]

Rice cakes are actually pretty low carb - the Kalo Organic ones I have are 6g per cake.

 

[catbec1210]

have no meter as im type 2 docs dont like to give them out as they say i wood panick if levels went up. at the moment trying to do it all on my own. doctors surgery is waiting for a diabetic nurse as last one left day i got diagnosed and there was no appointments. docs just told me the health complications and to quit smoking but didnt tell em anything about food.

 

[Northerner]

Unfortunately, this is a common excuse given by doctors to avoid prescribing strips and it assumes that everyone will react the same i.e. be shocked/upset/depressed at seeing high levels. They don't seem to consider that a lot of motivated people would actually prefer to know what foods are producing high levels, by testing, and therefore be in a position to reduce or cut those foods out of the diet. If you don't test you have no way of knowing this - a periodic HbA1c might show that your levels have been high, but you won't know why

Read this link: http://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/Our_Views/Position_statements/Self-monitoring_of_blood_glucose/

Some people find that they have to buy the strips themselves for a while, recording their results and then being in a position to go back to their doctor and explain how you are using the results to modify your diet and improve your blood sugar control. They may then be persuaded that you aren't going to fall into a deep depression every time you test and see that you are using testing as a useful and meaningful tool.

 

[Copepod]

Chicken - one of the lowest fat meats, particularly if you don't eat the skin.
Smoothies - like any fruit juice, relatively high in sugar, but depends on portion size; personally, I make lots of smoothies through the summer when we get lots of raspberries & strawberries from garden, mixed with banana, milk and / or plain yogurt.
Rice cakes - relatively light, low in carbohydrate and bulky / slow to eat, so can be good.
Milk - good source of calcium, and skimmed or 1% milk are pretty low in fat / calories.

Others have mentioned testing blood glucose before and after eating, which can work well; I'd also mention the importance of reading nutritional labels carefully - look at both total carbohydrate and sugar per portion; and compare per 100g between similar items.

 

[Mark T]

...Rice cakes - relatively light, low in carbohydrate and bulky / slow to eat, so can be good...

I'm guessing it depends on how you are with rice cakes, moderation is everything.

Looking at "Snack a Jacks" Salt and Vinegar, a single biscuit is 7. 9g of Carb, an entire pack of the large ones is 95g of Carb in total. Taken individually, they are not too bad and much better (from the saturated fat standpoint) then your average pack of crisps.

Given that I did eat entire packs in the course of a morning... (some of the flavours are definitely more-ish)